• @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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        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.