So hear me out first....
My baby is 8 months old, and I have never made enough milk for him (despite lactation consultant etc), so he only has a bit of milk from me in the day, but I feed him myself at night and in the morning. This includes a night feed, and it's great to be able to nurse him at night and not have to get up and mess about with a bottle. I do enjoy breastfeeding, and it has taken a lot of effort to be able to even mix feed him.
HOWEVER, having had two babies in the last two and a half years, I have gone from a tall and slim 11 stone, to over 16.5 stone (too scared now to look at scales, may be well over that). I'm not bothered about how I look, but basically feel unwell. As in, I feel a lot of inflammation in my body, my joints hurt, I have acne and get out of breath easily.
I know the best thing to do would be to calorie count and still eat a balanced diet, but basically I hate being hungry, and don't have the time or the inclination to write it all down / weigh everything out, whilst looking after two children under the age of three. There is also zero time to go to the gym or anything like that (although I am active in terms of taking them out to the park, doing housework etc). Plus, I think I must be quite carb sensitive, because if I eat even a smallish amount of carbs it seems to make me really hungry (being tired a lot of the time doesn't help either).
I did the keto diet years ago and got on really well with it. I felt all round healthier, as well as losing a lot of weight. But it started to interfere with my ovulation, so I stopped it as was trying for a baby at the time. I ate quite well on it - seem to remember eating a lot of avacado and olives, as well as meat and cheese. I also take a multivitamin.
I worry if I do keto, that the ketones in the breastmilk will hurt my baby? Or that if I lose a lot of weight, there'll be toxins in my milk? But then I don't know how much he even still has from me, so maybe it won't matter. I feel like it might be quite a selfish thing for me to do, but my body is a wreck...
So AIBU to want to do keto now?