Postpartum Weight Loss

Packed on the Pounds After Weaning Your Wee One?

April 19, 2010

Celebrities love to attribute their rapid postpartum weight loss to nursing their newborn babies. Heidi Klum, Naomi Watts, Jessica Alba, Tori Spelling, and Rebecca Romijn all credit their quick bounce backs to nourishing their lil ones with mother's milk. Others, like Salma Hayek say that the act of breastfeeding did little to help in returning to the pre-baby physiques.

Doctors recommend that breastfeeding mamas eat an extra 400 calories a day to help maintain their milk supply. Following nine months of pregnancy and several months of nursing, it can be difficult for women to cut back to a regular diet, leading many moms to gain weight once they wean their tots.

Did you gain weight when you finished breastfeeding?

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MonkiChriz 3 years 4 weeks

I'm breastfeeding currently AND gaining weight. No sleep, no time to work out, and I'm overeating b/c I'm always starving! I was in such great shape throughout my pregnancy, walking 3-5 miles daily and eating well. Such is the life of a mom! =P

Bettye Wayne 3 years 5 weeks

I definitely gained weight after I stopped breastfeeding. I don't even like to compare my pregnancy to that of celebrity... I would look that good if I had a personal trainer!

3 years 5 weeks

I'm bigger now after 3 pregnancies and breastfeeding than I ever was while pregnant or nursing! I can not loose the weight! I've scaled back my diet from what I had while pregnant and nursing, but the weight just sits there. We walk back and forth to the bus stop everyday to drop off and pick up my oldest for school, and I usually bike back and forth for drop off and pick up at preschool 2 days a week for my middle child, and of course I'm busy chasing after my youngest, plus there's still all the house and yard work that gets done in there, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Not to be bitter, but I'd like to see a few of those skinny celebs pack on the pounds after delivery like some of the rest of us!

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