When did you lose weight, breastfeeding

[increasinglyconcerned]

Is it a myth?

I'm 8 weeks in and the scales have barely moved. I'm EB.

In fact. I heard some women put on weight BF and I'm starting to think my body is doing just that.

Or am I being impatient/unreasonable as the weight loss comes later?

It makes no difference to the future of my BF journey but I had heard BF melts your pregnancy fat and I'm thinking I'm not one of those women.

I only lost weight once I stopped! Then it practically fell off so quickly. I too expected to lose weight whilst breastfeeding but it never happened for Me

You will hate me, but the weight dropped off me and I was back in my jeans three weeks later.

It isn't just weight, but the action of breastfeeding results in your uterus going back to prepregnancy size. I could feel it contracting when I was feeding. My midwife told me that it was back to prepregnancy size at 10 days, and it was all down to breastfeeding.

Nope, mine hasn't shifted yet, still EBF at 3 months. I spoke to 2 work colleagues over a coffee recently who were on mat leave last year and they both said the weight didn't shift until they stopped BF...sorry

I fed for years and 16 months was a sudden drop.

I don't think it helped that I was tired and health care staff and forums kept encouraging me to eating loads of extra calories. 🙄 I really didn't need them, whatever the science says, and I was perfectly able to feed my bab and eat normally. Yes, I did "need" extra calories but I also wasn't doing my normal routine so that pretty much cancelled the need out.

For me I have very slow weight loss in the months after birth and then from 9-12 months my weight drops dramatically so that now there's no fat left on me (baby is however on the 75 centile for weight!) hoping when i stop Bf that I put a bit of weight back on. Seems like it's different for everyone

The weight fell off in the second 6 months. In the first 6 months i swear you body hangs onto it.

I went to weight watchers when last baby was 6 weeks old. My weight had crept up a bit more with each baby and by number 5 I was determined to do something about it once he was born! The weight came off steadily while I was feeding and I was eating plenty but cut out a lot of the crap (cake/biscuits/crisps) and definitely upped my intake of vegetables, fruit and legumes.

When I stopped.

I breast fed exclusively for 9 months and the weight fell off me. But I was also moving house and going through a stressful break up so those factors may have contributed.

Don’t put pressure on yourself, you’re a new mother and you’re providing for your newborn first and foremost who couldn’t care less what the scales say!

The weight dropped off pretty quick for me

I think it varies so much by individual. Breast-feeding seemed to suck the weight off me. Within 6 weeks, I was below my pre-pregnancy weight, despite eating everything in sight and mainly lying around all day. I didn't have to try at all. My friend, on the other hand gained some weight after birth and couldn't drop a pound until she weaned her baby entirely.

I lost a lot very fast and then just hung on to some which didn't go until I stopped feeding. I don't think there's a hard and fast rule on weight loss when bf-ing.

Sadly having grown and given birth to a whole person changes your body in ways that you might not perhaps have been expecting. Please be gentle with yourself.

1st birth I lost 70% of pregnancy weight in the first few months but the remaining 30% didn't come off until I stopped bf

Second birth recently 6 months ago, I'm jogging, cycling, using the cross trainer for weeks and watching what I'm eating and I only managed to lose 2 fucking kilos.

I lost ally baby weight in the first 3 months. Was back in my normal clothes in a fortnight.
Before you all hate me - exhaustion and a steady diet of biscuits meant I gained weight.. it's still there 😄

When I stopped

I started losing weight around 5 months and continued to lose it. When I stopped I also dropped more and was lighter than before pregnancy. It says online that it's because the body keeps some fat reserve for milk production.
At 8 weeks in your still swollen inside of not outside, still holding water and your hormones are everywhere- give your body chance to settle.

Good luck

I could only lose weight after I stopped. Every time I wouldn’t eat like a king, milk reduced so I gave up trying and once I stopped the weight drastically fell off.

First time I lost when I stopped breast feeding. Second time I lost nothing. Might have had something to do with the midwife telling me to have a Mars bar at 11:00am to help with the 11/12 pm feed 😂

Edited for appalling typos

Only after I stopped. I was insatiably hungry while I was breastfeeding.

When I stopped.

I weighed less 3 months post partum than pre pregnancy with both of mine.

They both fed constantly, DS hourly, day and night. Dd had dairy/soy allergy so my diet was heavily restricted and the weight just continued to drop off me.

I probably gained some back with both of them from around 9months- when they started sleeping through and I relaxed a bit. Fed both until 18 months.

For me, it changed - with one of them, it was when I stopped feeding.

I was one of those people who piled the weight on bf. Apparently that’s a thing. 2 years later and I’m still slowly losing the weight. I barely gained a stone during pregnancy but piled on another 3 afterwards during that postpartum period - the bf hunger is a thing! I’d also had a section so was delayed getting back into my usual exercise etc which didn’t help.

I stayed the same the entire 21 months I breastfed DD - literally nothing I did shifted it and I ate and ate at times and didn't put anything on either.

At 19 months PP I started to feel a change in myself, like my hormones were back to pre-pregnancy and I felt myself again. Thought that was my chance to make a diet actually stick, but ended up pregnant again on the exact cycle. Whoops 🙈

Can probably hope to start a proper weight loss journey sometime in 2027...

Nope I was soooo hungry and thirsty bf. I had to diet it off once I stopped