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.
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