Losing Weight and Breastfeeding: Everything You Need to Know About Losing the Baby Weight (While Making Milk for Your Baby)

Do you want to lose the baby weight, but are breastfeeding and worried that it will impact your milk supply? Are you doubtful that you will be able to cut calories when breastfeeding makes you starving? Are you concerned about the effect that exercising might have on your breast milk?

In Losing Weight and Breastfeeding, Amanda Glenn provides the answers to all of the questions that new lactating mothers have about weight loss in one place. Eager to lose her own baby weight after gaining 55 pounds with her first child, Amanda read everything she could about losing weight while breastfeeding, from scientific studies to advice from lactation consultants to others’ personal experiences. Additionally, she performed her own original research by conducting a survey of 427 breastfeeding mothers about how their post-partum weight loss went. In this book, using this data, she provides you with the essential, practical information – in an easy-to-read format, even for the sleep deprived! - that you need to drop the baby weight while nursing and/or pumping.

In this book, you’ll learn:

• How does weight loss affect milk supply?


• What are some strategies to deal with breastfeeding hunger?


• How does what I eat affect the breast milk that I produce? Do I need to eat healthy foods to produce “good” breast milk?


• What is typical/normal for weight loss while breastfeeding?


• What formal plans are out there to help breastfeeding mothers lose weight? How well do they work?


• What are the best ways to exercise when you’re breastfeeding?

Using the information in this book, Amanda was able to lose the baby weight (over 50 pounds each time) for her three children in less than six months post-partum. Read Losing Weight and Breastfeeding and join her!