Trying to lose weight while bfing? Low carb diet

[DanceDisaster]

I have an 11 wo, who is almost exclusively fed on bm from a bottle, with occasional breastfeeds and formula feeds.

I am a bit chubby atm and am considering doing a low(ish) carb diet to help me lose some weight.

Has anyone done this and if so, would you recommend?

I don’t know if here or in the low carb diet section is the best place for this, so apologies if this is in the wrong section.

Cheekily bumping, just in case, before I abandon this one and check on the low carb diet board.

I started a simple "Don't eat until you are genuinely hungry diet" (as simple as it sounds) when DS was about a month old and ebf. It worked v well. I have low carbed a few times and hated it.

Thanks @villainous. Hmmm yes, I do have a nasty habit of stuffing my face when I have the opportunity. I think it’s just because I don’t know when I’ll next get the chance to eat. Though, that’s a bit silly as I can always make time to eat... hence the excess chub!

I love low carb. I found it hard when breast feeding. I'm not sure if that difficulty was caused by low carb or because I was massively sleep deprived all the damn time so anything creating extra mental load was difficuly.

Yeah... I think that’s true re mental load, but I’m so bored of being chubs that it is adding to my mental load itself. Sigh sigh.

Try it for a couple of weeks, see how you go.

I think I am quite carb-addicted and felt almost tearful (though unhungry) on low-carb. Wouldn't have been manageable on little sleep for me. I really had to make a thing of not punctuating my day with endless consoling snacks while on mat leave.