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Calorie maths when breastfeeding: milk costs about 500 a day

Calorie maths when breastfeeding: milk costs about 500 a day

Your body works hard to turn food into milk for your baby, and that work burns about 450 to 500 extra calories a day. So your weight-loss maths changes. You eat a little more, you lose slowly, and you never diet hard while you are nursing.

1 Aug 2026 · Burnie Academy
breastfeeding calorie-deficit postpartum lactation

You had a baby. Now you want to lose the pregnancy weight. But you are also feeding a tiny human from your own body. So your maths is different now. This short read is about the numbers when you nurse. You will see how much extra food you need. You will see how slow to go. And why hard dieting is off the table.

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