Weight watchers breastfeeding plan and night snacking

[Thejoyfulstar]

I followed this plan 4 years ago when I had my last child. I lost all the baby weight on it and never went hungry or lost my supply. Its pretty healthy and nutritious and takes into account the extra calories needed. It works.

I now have a 7 week old and am embarking on it again. I signed up 2 weeks ago and just can't face it. I have been sleeping in the living room with the baby at night. At the start it was because the sofa was easier to get up and down from than the bed (after my c section). The baby's sleep was so erratic that I liked putting the TV on or getting snacks during the night. It felt more fun than being stuck in the bedroom.

However, every time my baby wakes up during the night (of which there are many!), I want to eat something sweet. I'm too tired to care about the calories. I just need sugar! I'm getting through a lot of calories in the night time and when I wake up in the morning I have sugar guilt.

Even when we don't have treats in the house, I still manage to find something unhealthy to eat. Or if I find something reasonably healthy, I'll binge on it.

Obviously this is making the plan impossible! Has anyone any tips or can anyone empathise? I've 7-10kg to lose and am actually starting to gain weight!

Help!

The reason I mentioned that I sleep in the living room is that it's right off the kitchen!

7 weeks is far too soon I think. You are in survival mode following pregnancy, surgery, establishing feeding and very broken sleep.

To try to curb your snacking make sure you eat plenty of filling nutritious food during the day, have a drink on hand and fruit, nuts, oatcakes etc overnight.

Start again when baby is 12 weeks?

I started calorie counting when my baby was 13 weeks (she's now nearly 6m). I just couldn't face it before then. It's been really successful but I had to be in the right place physically and mentally for it. You aren't there yet, with good reason.

@AddictedToVinted you know what, you're right. I am in survival mode totally. I just always hate having extra weight on and always try to start losing it as soon as I can. Maybe I can try to just maintain my weight for now as I definitely don't want to keep gaining! But you're right, it's possibly too soon. Also, and maybe I should have mentioned this in my OP, I was borderline diabetic during the pregnancy and had to follow a strict sugar free diet. I actually felt great on it but at times it was depressing, so maybe I'm rebelling against that!

Definitely sounds like it! You could have yoghurts, dates, apple and peanut butter etc as more nutritious snacks but don't worry too much. Give yourself at least another month to get your head in the game.

I know what you mean about carrying extra weight, it's not nice, but it's for a very short period of your life after a HUGE physical and mental exertion. Remember that.