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Originally Posted by habernac
yep. Had a guy on our pool team a few years ago, he dropped a ton of weight on whatever fad diet he was on (basically starved himself). A year later, he gains it all back and more.
Peanut, one thing I'll tack on if you're nursing your baby: when you stop, you're going to have to change your food intake again as you won't have someone else helping you erase those calories, too.
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I read in my (many, many) baby books that nursing requires about 500 extra calories a day... which I definitely notice because I`m quite hungry. It`s a tricky balance though since decreasing calories too much can negatively impact the nursing. Ugh. That`s why I was thinking maybe Weight Watcher`s (or something similar) would be helpful with keeping the right balance of intake vs expenditure. Maybe a nutritionist is the way to go, now that I think about it some more.
As an aside - I lost 20 lbs in about 4 weeks doing Dr. Bernstien before my wedding. Basically all I ate was chicken and broccoli. I was soooooo crabby and really hungry all.the.time. I think I read somewhere afterwards that the diet is like 900 calories per day. Definitely not recommended!!