• DarkThoughts
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    2011 days ago

    So, could you lose weight by pumping breasts if you did not change your diet?

    • @Windex007
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      11 days ago

      Any time you’re in caloric deficit your body will start burning fat (and muscle) stores, so yeah.

      I don’t know enough about lactation, but I suspect if you stay in a deficit too long you’ll just stop lactating.

      • DarkThoughts
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        411 days ago

        In form of a lack of additional fresh nutrients, or old fat to burn?

        • @proudblond
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          2311 days ago

          Windex007 is right; breastfeeding is how many new moms lose the excess pregnancy weight. But it is a delicate dance trying to keep your milk production up. Also, personally I was starving all the time while I was nursing, plus sleep deprivation, so for some of us the whole “losing the baby weight” doesn’t really work as well as we’d like.

    • @[email protected]
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      511 days ago

      Men have the glands as well, I believe just need a hormone treatment. That and maybe a tit shave to not deliver hairy milk.