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Do you gain weight when you stop breastfeeding? |
My baby is 8 months and he is exclusively breastfeeding, and I'm planning to stop nursing when he turns one year old but I'm worried that I will gain weight... I exercise about 2-3 times a week... Am I gonna have to exercise a lot more? Weight changes are dependent on a lot of factors," says McCarthy. "Just stopping breastfeeding, by itself, may not affect weight at all. But [a woman] may increase her activity, in which case she'd probably lose weight, or she may continue eating more calories, in which case she may gain weight. I breastfed for 18 months and when I stopped I continued on losing weight until I was back down to where i started. I wasn't doing anything special either. It just happened. |
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