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Breastfeeding your little one makes you need more nutrition and calories to enter your body. This is of course to support breast milk production and the quality of the breast milk produced.
However, quite a few mothers want to go on a diet immediately after giving birth or while breastfeeding their little one. One diet that can be done is an intermittent diet, but can breastfeeding mothers actually do this diet?
Nursing mothers can diet intermittently
Intermittent diet is a way to regulate eating patterns that is quite common for many people. The intermittent diet requires the perpetrator to fast for 16 hours.
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Not a few people have succeeded in doing this diet, including Nagita Slavina, Beyonce and Bae Suzy. They managed to lose weight in a short time. However, not everyone can do this diet, Mother, especially pregnant and breastfeeding women.
This long fasting period means that an intermittent diet is not recommended for pregnant women and those who are still breastfeeding in the early stages. The reason is, if you follow an intermittent diet, you will lack nutritional intake and this could have a negative impact on breast milk production and quality.
“Usually for women who are breastfeeding, I don’t recommend intermittent fasting,” said certified dietitian, Julia Zumpano, RD, quoted from the Cleveland Clinic.
Can be done at the end of breastfeeding
Losing weight like before pregnancy and breastfeeding is certainly the dream of many mothers. However, remember, don’t rush to do it because the most important thing is the health of the mother and little one.
If you want to do an intermittent diet, you can start doing it in the final stages of breastfeeding. The final period referred to here is when breast milk is no longer a staple food for your little one.
“However, in the later stages of breastfeeding, for example if breastfeeding is morning and evening and breast milk is no longer the baby’s main source of nutrition, you may be able to incorporate some fasting into the schedule,” adds Julia.
Another alternative that mothers can do if they want to lose weight while breastfeeding is to do light exercise. Apart from being beneficial for losing weight, light exercise during breastfeeding can also increase breast milk production, Mother.
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