Breastfeeding and Diet Indulgences - please make me feel better

[DefNotYummyMummy]

My baby is close to 6 months old. This week so far my diet has been shocking.

Yesterday I had a packet of chocolate digestives and fish and chips for dinner. I had a pint of ribena before bedtime. (I was busy working around the house and didn't have time to do a proper dinner/lunch etc).

Then today I am exhausted after yesterday, but have managed some crisps, a full fat coke, a twix, a crunchie, 2 pieces of cheese on toast and some fizzy fruit juice.

I'm too ashamed to tell the health visitor this one - but also sick of being told to follow a healthy diet. By the way, usually I am pretty healthy with at least one of meals of the day !

Baby still EBF by the way. She's not interested in solids yet (must curb this diet by then as otherwise may gain back pregnancy weight !)

Just thought I would confess my sins. Please tell me I am not the only one with this guilty secret !

Agree with Confuddled on the alcohol. Unless there's some good reason to avoid something (and "how do you know it's not doing your baby any harm? is not a good reason), I'm strongly of the opinion that people should eat and drink as they would normally while BFing. Otherwise it all becomes too difficult and guilt-inducing and women conclude that they'd be better off just FFing.

Definitely eat whatever seems a good idea and ignore your HV. A cautionary tale: I've eaten healthily (apart from my nightly glass of wine) all the way through BFing, partly because I don't actually like chocolate much, and partly because I did worry to begin with about making sure DS was only getting good stuff. DS is 6 months old and I'm trying to think of ways of getting more calories down, because I'm half a stone underweight and not feeling all that great.