well i just went cold turkey.. frist week was fine then second week was really bad... dreamt about cake and slice dancing infront of me... i almost cracked... but managed to push through to my 21 day goal (and after that it has been *heaps* easier) with only a few lapses (a bite of cake here, a small scone there). i just felt so guilty about them afterwards that decided it really wasn't worth it. it didn't add anything to my life other than make me feel like i'd failed myself.
it's going to be tough hun, there's no easy way to say it, it's just going to be tough so you're going to have to be strong. and your calorie intake really depends on your size and how active you are. i'm tallish (170-171cm) so i aim for between 1300 and 1800 calories a day. i also am still BF so that burns a few calories in itself. i think for mum's who have babies only eating/drinking breast milk that burns around 200-300 calories a day alone, so you have to remember that bub is still needing you to be sensible with your eating. leesa said she went for 1200 a day but she's quite petite so needs less energy per day. it is all relative your height really...
my suggestion would be to maybe put into a calorie counter (like CK, i use BabyFit which is a SparkPeople site) to work out what you usually eat, then look up a calorie calculator that tells you how many to lose weight like the freedieting one, and start just cutting down slowly. don't try to reduce your portion sizes too quickly otherwise you body might go into starvation mode (storing fat) which we don't want!
anyway. that's my thought.. that's what i did, and i think it helped me slowly bring down the portion sizes (am rather a hungus) without feeling like i was depriving myself and being absolutely starving in the middle of the night!
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