Finally finished breastfeeding!!!

My son is 16 months old and im finally done breastfeeding!!!!!!!! Soooo happy!  :)  And now it just seems sooooo much easier to lose weight!  It seems that the bf'ing made it so hard to calorie count.   I was always hungry even when I was eating 1800 calories per day.  Since I stopped bf'ing Ive lost weight so easily !!!!  Im back down to my pre preg weight finally!  Anyone else stop breastfeeding recently noticed the change?

Hi Anoxa

Im just lowering down breastfeeding, and my daughter is only 2 months, I don't have enough milk for her and Im switching to formula. I had a lot of milk for my son (now 13 years old) but with the baby I don't, and I don' know why....I think I am not eating enough because Im trying to loose weight too. So, I haven't notice any rapid weight loss yet, but I will let you know eventually if it works for me.

Good luck ticalinda :)

I was told that you lose weight faster when breastfeeding but you usually keep the last 10 to 15 lbs of weight for "backup" incase your body needs to dip into its reserves to make the milk.  After I stopped breastfeeding at 13 months I was able to easily loose the last 10 lbs and more. 

I agree that is is very hard to lose while breastfeeding because you are always starving!!

I thought I was unable to lose weight while breastfeeding. Turns out, I just wasn't eating enough. I have to eat over 2,000 calories to lose weight while breastfeeding. Since upping my caloric intake to this level, I'm averaging a 3 pound weekly weight loss. I'm just 4 pounds over my pre-pregnancy weight and 14 pounds over my goal weight after a weight loss total of 38 pounds so far.

lap21, I have read the same thing about women's bodies holding onto that last bit of fat for reserves.

the weight dropped right off of me when I was BF, and I started to maintain when my youngest was 8 months or so (just had to get rid of the jiggly belly then!) I think it's because I was drinking sooooo much water.