Best diet whilst breastfeeding, feeling shattered and always hungry?

[Veggy]

I had my baby over 3 months ago and the 'just had a baby excuse' for being 4 stones over weight is wearing a bit thin! However, I'm tired and always hungry. Breastfeeding and tiredness both contribute to feeling hungry so how is it possible to loose weight? Also, I'm convinced breast feeding makes the body grip onto fat.
Does anyone have any diets they'd recommend? I do moderate exercise and also have a 5 year old so I'm pretty active. But the scales don't budge as I eat like a horse! Help me .... How do I curb my hunger and resist the snack drawer?

Agreed Sleepwhenidie. Being tired (and "tired" doesn't even begin to cover it - perhaps "sofuckingexhaustedIcouldlaydownanddie") makes it virtually impossible to "diet" and I would have thought that very low cal eating is probably not wise for milk supply anyway. I am suggesting changing the focus to food as healthy fuel, focusing on really good nutrition, and on those knackered days filling up on , say, an extra baked potato, a snack of a big bowl of hearty veg soup or a bowl of porridge and banana and lots and lots of water - rather than a doughnut or a sausage roll. It is hard to overeat if you are steering away from processed foods and simple carbs and towards wholegrain, high quality proteins, fruit/veg etc This is the basis of WW propoints and quite a few other commercial weight loss plans. Once you get in the habit of healthy choices, and eating less of the less nutritious things, weight loss tends to happen without too much counting/tracking/fussing and it becomes a very positive virtuous cycle. I also think there is an "addictive" element to simple sugars - once you start eating jaffa cakes its hard to stop but if you are snacking on carrot sticks/whole grain pitta/fruit/ratatouille etc hen you stop when you are full, IME anyway. This is not about chasing a dress size - more about being able to run round the garden, whizz down a slide in the park, bend down to do little shoelaces and live to a ripe old age etc.

^^ you are 4 years too late? Good read though