Best weight loss plan for BF vegetarian?

[Loobyloo1902]

I've never tried slimming world, weight watchers or any of the others but with three stone of cake post baby weight to lose I ought to give it a whirl.

Can anyone recommend a plan that will take into consideration a vege diet and I'm still breast feeding? If it's a plan that lets me eat unlimited chocolate as well, that would be a bonus but I'm not holding my breath

Cheers

[foreverondiet]

South beach diet. Great for veggies. No chocolate though.

[ppeatfruit]

Have you read our Paul Mckenna thread? we are not speaking with forked tongues; there's no weird diet foods, or calorie counting or expensive humiliating meetings, I've lost 2 stone and you can eat WHAT YOU WANT!!! It re- educates your attitude to food and it works!!!! see you there??

[foreverondiet]

ppeatfruit I wonder if it would work when breastfeeding - I was constantly starving when I was (pregnant and) BFing, and fancied eating magnums.... I put on a stone in 6 months. I really did try to focus on only eating when hungry. As soon as I stopped feeding the excess hunger disappeared and dieting was easy.

I do use it (PM) now though from time to time, and I agree it re-educates your attitude to food. But I was overweight after pregnancy and breastfeeding but not before I got pregnant, so don't think my attitude to food was so bad. Honestly I'd eat a decent dinner, and a bedtime snack and still wake up in the night so hungry I couldn't sleep (both when pregnant and when breastfeeding). I ended up 3 stone heavier at end of BFing than I was when I got pregnant.

[Mentile]

I'm a Bf veggie and have lost 1.5 stone in 6 weeks on my own version of the Atkins. Hasn't affected bf at all. Part of the problem for me was that as a veggie carbs formed about 99% of my diet I still eat lots of chocolate but gradually ate darker and darker versions and now enjoy 90% cocoa solids - the lindt version has only 14g carbs in 100g so I figure I can eat 2 bars a day
General consensus was that 30g carbs is what veggies should aim for, and 10g in top of that if BF.

[Madreamer]

I'm bf veggie as well and find that bfing past 12 months does the trick. I lost 2 sizes in last 3 months of bf. DS is 16 months. I'm not much of a chocolate or processed food eater though! Hths