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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You may also be eating too few calories for your breastfeeding + workout routine. Our bodies can hold onto weight if we have too high of a caloric deficit. It may be worth talking to a nutritionist to find out what your caloric needs actually are.[/quote]

This. And if it goes on too long, it can permanently wreck your metabolism and your body becomes convinced that another starvation cycle is just around the corner and will hold on to every single calorie. I had awful HG, could barely eat and what I did eat I threw up. Lost 20 pounds by 20 weeks, and barely got back to pre-pregnancy weight 3 days before I gave birth. Six week postpartum I was 20 pounds [i]under[/i] my pre-pregnancy weight. Throw in exclusive breastfeeding a ravenous infant, and I hadn't been that skinny since my 20s. And then the bill came due. Around 8 months PP, my metabolism crashed and the weight began piling on. And on and on and on. (throw in a bout of depression for good measure). It's sucked. I just started on thyroid meds, since that bloodwork has shown a slow but noticeable decrease in function over the last 3 years. Hopefully that will help.[/quote]

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