Weight Loss Calculator While Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding moms are generally told that one of the benefits of nursing your baby is that your body will return to its pre pregnancy body much sooner.

Weight loss calculator while breastfeeding. Select i am breastfeeding to increase your intake by 500 calories for optimal milk supply. Expected weight loss postpartum a safe rate of weight loss for mothers beyond the initial 3 month period of giving birth should be set at about half a kilogram per week. Lbs body fat percentage optional.

Research of healthy breastfeeding women has shown that while lactating women have a greater energy output 2718 calories than when lactation has ceased 2528 calories. Choose to reduce your calories by 10 15 or 20 depending on your start weight and weight loss goals. To lose weight you need to reduce your calorie intake.

If gradual weight loss is required a figure of an additional 500 calories per day is recommended. In fact mother s who are breastfeeding typically notice more overall weight loss than those who don t at this point in the post partum period 3. Weight loss calculator switch to metric.

In addition it estimates the amount of calories you need as a result of physical activity breastfeeding and or pregnancy. This weight loss calculator allows you to calculate the number of calories you should eat in a day to reach a specific target weight by a certain date.