Plus, they are no longer burning any calories through breastfeeding, and aren’t exercising either, as they can’t find time to workout with a baby to look after. When I check their food log on the HealthifyMe app’s calorie tracker, I can see they’re eating over 2000 calories, which their bodies do not require. Many of my clients tell me they feel hungry if they don’t have carbs, so they can’t resist an extra serving of rice at meal times. They don’t wean themselves off the extra calories or carbs they had to consume while nursing. The biggest problem is that Indian women continue to consume extra calories, even after they stop breastfeeding. After all, hormones readjust quickly to change – one example of this is how a new mother’s menstrual cycle restarts once she stops nursing – so unless there is some underlying aberration like post-pregnancy thyroid, there is no reason to blame hormones for your inability to get back to your pre-pregnancy size. However, in my opinion, hormonal changes aren’t the main reason women gain weight after they stop breastfeeding. When stored in the body (instead of being expelled while nursing), prolactin reduces fat metabolism, which leads to weight gain as well as depression and grief. While the level of prolactin, a hormone produced by the body during lactation, drops once a new mother stops breastfeeding, this is a gradual process. It’s not unusual for a new mother to see a sudden spike in weight after weaning a baby, partially because of changing hormones. The situation gets trickier once you stop breastfeeding On the contrary, because your calorie intake is high, you may be gaining weight while nursing the baby. If you’re eating 3000 calories daily and hoping to lose weight by burning 500 calories through breastfeeding, without any exercise, you should know it’s not going to happen. But most Indian women are fed a steady supply of ghee, dry fruits and carbohydrates after delivery, and are therefore consuming a much higher amount.
A new mother requires 1600-1800 calories daily, on an average. This is partly because the body works hard to produce a constant supply of breast milk, and also because the body is not storing as many calories as it’s being passed on to the child.īut while nursing can make a new mother’s metabolism more efficient, it facilitates weight loss only if the number of calories consumed is within check. Many new mothers, anxious about the weight they’ve gained over nine months, are happy to learn that simply breastfeeding their baby can help you burn up to 500 calories a day. During pregnancy, the mother’s body is constantly changing and this transformation continues even after birth.
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