[CaptainLuk]

My DW is constantly talking about a strict diet after she'll have our baby.
From what I read breastfeeding & diet does not always go hand in hand, and can deprive our baby from getting the essentials nutritious he needs.

A friend of my DW recommended her Atkins or south beach diet, which I think are radical.

What should I do?

[Samual]

I know alot of breast feeding advisers and lactation specialists advise the south beach diet.

[twinzplus3]

Put her on here and I'll straighten her out. She needs an additional 500 calories per day in order to breastfeed. With that said, it's not like she will deprive the baby--she will suffer first. Not a wise idea to mix dieting and breastfeeding and you are absolutely one hundred percent right on this. Seriously--she can PM me.

[ruthann8]

Valorie, I have no idea how you did it with twins. The amount of food I have to eat is unreal. I am the human garbage disposal and still have lost all the baby weight and a few extra pounds. If fact I am currently eating pumpkin pie, with more cool whip than pie, plus caramel drizzled over it! At first I had to get up and eat in the middle of the night. I am not a skinny person and LOVE food, and I still had a hard time consuming enough calories.

[twinzplus3]

I ate and ate and ate and ate and ate and used a galactagogue. Then I went back for seconds, thirds and fourths.

[Samual]

My sister is a bit like a rubbish bin at the moment too she breast feeds her daughter used to Pippa and donates breast milk, if it weren't for that with the amount she eats, she would probably Britains fattest woman. Shes a competitive horse rider too, so she shovels it in as we say.

[twinzplus3]

Yeah--breastfeeding rocks. Hey, how did this get in the debate section? Not too much to debate about here.

[mcmama]

No not really. I guess we can move it if you like, Val, or you can.

Sam, you have a point about exercise. I really enjoyed the bonus calorie burn with breastfeeding, but after weaning I was still a couch potato and I packed it on. Our bodies get used to things, and for me it doesn't take much to pack on the weight. Now that I am older and my metabolism is slowing, I find that the running helps, but I keep having to run harder and faster to keep weight off.

I'm seeing a lot of healthy young moms out there running, with the babies in the strollers. Keep it up! Just keep hydrated, and eating.

[ruthann8]

I'm not looking forward to having to eat normally again.

[purelegance]

i already have a super fast metabolism (i eat about 2 - 3 times as much as DH), but mannn oh mann when i breastfed, it was really bad. i'd have some sort of snack at 4, go out to dinner at 6, then DH would have to have ANOTHER dinner ready by 10 or i'd be stuffing myself with anything i could get my hands on.

sam, if your sister should've been britain's fattest woman, then i should've been USA's fattest woman. instead i'm ridiculously thin. (down to 105 lbs)