Tamara's Diary

If you get a chance, go to the library and get _The Nursing Mother's Companion Guide_ by Kathleen Huggins it is a wealth of information.

If you are supplementing and reducing calories so drastically, I'm not surprised you're not producing that much milk. However, the fenugreek can help the supply as well as offering to nurse as much as possible.

I would not go under 2200 calories right now - I would imagine you would still be having a deficit.
 
So far today I've eaten:
B: Honey bunches of oats, 2 c. milk 1/2c.
L: Small orange, string cheese, 1 tortilla wrap w/ lettuce, tomato, smoked turkey, 1 tsp mayo, 1c. milk w/ 1tbsp strawberry syrup.

Calories so far: 855

Exercise so far: Dancing! :) 10 minutes high impact? (vigoursly), 10 minutes low impact? (i got tired, slowed down, but kept moving!).
Calories burned so far: 144

Oh, and as of this morning, I lost a pound! :)
 
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In total yesterday I ate 1911 calories. And I ate a crap load of food...and I had chocolate! Yummy! :D

I burned 371 calories with Dancing and Weeding the garden and I overworked myself a bit...*because of the csection*...

I drank 28 ounces of water... I'm getting closer!! :p Let's see if I can get my 64 ounces tomorrow! :)

Not to mention, I feel like I gained my pound back...lol...
 
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hi there!

I don't know anything about post-pregnancy, very sorry. But I do know that your idea for short goals are perfect! Looking forward to your progress!
 
Crappy crappy day!

My entire body is aching from yesterday and dancing vigoursly for 30 minutes this morning... thighs, calves, abs, arms, butt, everything hurts! And I don't want to move :( I don't want to do anymore... but I know I should at least do an hour more (two seperate times) today... but the days like almost over... I feel like giving up. It just seems too hard.

I mean the food part isn't too hard, but the exercise is so hard for me... it's hard to explain. And dancing, if you want to call it that is the only thing I can think of to do at the moment. Then later on, when my body can do more, I was going to do sit ups, push ups, and go for walks, once I can get a stroller for my baby, and if the weather permits... even bike rides if I can get my parents to watch Michael for a hour or so... but if I can't even do a little dancing and yard work, whats the damn point?

I've eaten 1004 calories today, and I don't want to eat anymore! But at the same time, I want to go eat everything in the fridge with how crappy I'm feeling!! I've already drank 34oz of water today... which is good, except I just am sick of it already... and I don't think I can do it. And I want pizza, I mean, I had "pizza" for lunch, if you want to call it that... I want REAL pizza, and ice cream, donuts, and soda, I want everything! :(

I don't want to eat, but I want to eat everything in the house, what sense does that make?

I want to be able to breastfeed my baby too, and it's not working out very well, he eats for about a half hour on Mom, then eats a 4oz bottle! He's probably not even getting an ounce. I feel like a horrible mother...

And to top it off, my face feels like it's on fire! ...not to mention dry...and rough... stupid clean n clear!

All in all, I'm just having a really really really crappy day!!! :mad: I don't see a point in anything anymore... I'm tired, I'm hungry, I hurt, and everything sucks right now!! I'm just so unmotivated right now, and I just want to sleep!
 
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hi there!

I don't know anything about post-pregnancy, very sorry. But I do know that your idea for short goals are perfect! Looking forward to your progress!
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Thank you......
 
Hang in there Tamara, you're a fine mother and you WILL accomplish things--try to eat something healthy and yummy--1000 calories is really low--maybe you're expeienceing a glycemic crash
 
Wow, I don't have any kids, but I have many friends and relatives that have children. If you want to continue nursing, definitely definitely keep those calories up, I'm not sure the exact amount, because my friend told me 300 more calories per day that what you need to survive, and what the baby doesn't get from what you are eating, it WILL take it from your body. SO if you don't eat a lot of fat, the baby will start depleting your stored fat. (Again, don't know how true it is, but my friend SWORE by it and she's so thin now). My cousin stopped eating, and she stopped producing milk very early on and had to bottle feed her baby, so try to keep the calories up to that mark M2M mentioned above. FORCE yourself!

As far as your face, try using that clean n clear stuff every other day or every 2 days, and make sure you are using a face cream to prohibit dryness. If it's too dry, you'll break out too.

Any extra movement helps, so if it's walking up and down your stairs a few times a day or walking around your house that will count. And, your body will get used to you using these muscles more often and they won't get so sore, I promise!! Keep it up, and you WILL see results!
 
P.S. I don't know anything about Post Partum either, but do you feel that some of these feelings you are having may be caused by that?
 
Thank you both so much!!

I'm feeling a little better now...after I posted I took a nice hot bath, did some laundry, went shopping, and boy did I want to buy bunches of junkie foods (I'm just so glad I didn't go binge eat...perhaps I have willpower afterall? :p)... I bought fixings for turkey bacon cheese burgers...w/ all sorts of veggies...and french fries... I figured it wouldn't hurt since I didn't have many calories earlier in the day, however, half the burger and half the small amount of fries filled me up, but...I ate the rest :eek: old habits...I'm working on that... anyway I'm not sure how many calories were in dinner... I'll have to do the math later. I also ate a cowtail...which is some sort of candy with powered sugar and caramel...90 calories for the part I ate of it, the whole thing was 110... oh! and I'm looking forward to a fatboy icecream sandwhich later (ok, so I bought one junkie item...), lol...if you eat too many of em' I'm sure you'd become a fatboy/girl! :p

Curvie Girlie: Lol... that's probably why I'm so crabby... I ate breakfast at 2am, and lunch at 1pm...and now dinner at about 8pm...

Photocrazed: Are you talking about post partum depression, or post partum calorie intake? I'll talk to my Doctor to see if its post partum depression or not...as far as I know, with post partum depression, you want nothing to do with the baby? For calorie intake it's either 300 or 500 more... I'm not positive. Either way I should probably take in a little more then 2000...

I have a migrane... perhaps I'm dehydrated? I'll have to drink some more water... still sitting at 34oz, and I drank that around 3am... I've also drank some powerade today... 60cal a serv, 4 serv a container, I drank 2 servings... 120cal...
 
Foods I ate today:

B: Breakfast burrito, egg, sausage, potato, tortilla.
L: 3 meat pizza, salad w/ honey french
S: Sm. orange.
S: Cowtail candy.
D: Turkey bacon cheese burger w/ veggies, and french fries
S: Fatboy icecream sandwhich.
Drinks: 3 servings of powerade, 34oz of water.

Total = about 2237 calories.

Exercise:
Dancing! 30min.
Typing :p 1hr.
Shopping 1hr. 30min.

Calories burnt = 642.

Slowly getting there... and I definately made up for the lack of calories earlier in the day. I think I did pretty good.
 
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Since I was up I thought I'd post that around 11:30p I had a really high cal filled snack... I had another ice cream sandwhich :eek:... which would make yesterday a grand total of 2447... I'm not sure how to feel about it...I'm tired and going back to bed...
 
Tamara, I think 2447 is probably a good amount of calories for you since you are nursing. I wouldn't try to go below 2200 or 2300 very often. But you can do your dancing and stuff around your house until you get that stroller and can get out and you'll be expending more calories than you are consuming still, because the baby is taking some from you too, and your exercising.

I was talking about post partum depression in my earlier post. SOrry for the confusion.
 
Photocrazed: I was pretty sure that's what you were talking about, but didn't want to sound dumb on my end... lol :p

Anyway, I haven't been feeling well since yesterday, and I stayed in bed most of the day... and today I'm running to the bathroom every 10 seconds, I swear...

Yesterday I had practically no fruits and veggies, had a orange, yogurt and string cheese for breakfast, a hamburger for lunch, battered fish, fries and a coke for dinner, and ice cream... calories totaled about 1820...

And so far today I've had a danimals yogurt, 1.5 cokes, and 2 chicken turkey bacon fajitas (really delicious mixture, you'd think it'd taste weird, but it was good) with cheese... you know, with all this dairy I'm having you'd never guess that I'm lactosentolerant (before you suggest it, I don't like soy or lactose-free stuff, I'd rather eat less dairy then none at all)...and dairys a bad idea when your already running to the bathroom every 10 seconds :eek:... total calories so far today are: 955... the point in the faitas was to kick up the calories... but now I'm regretting it (the cheese at least)...

I'm not sure I can eat anything else today with how I'm feeling :( ... but I'm hoping I start feeling better, because I wanted to go for a bikeride...

Oh, and I realized something earlier... for being a fat person, I sure do love to play a lot of sports and outside activites (hockey, baseball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, hiking, bikeriding, swimming)... maybe I should do more of the activities I love... then I wouldn't be "a fat person"... lol :p

My thoughts sure are jumbled today...
 
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I went for my bikeride! And I feel great!! :D 25 minutes, 2 miles.
I was too tired to make another trip :p ... I wanted to though. But it's raining and it's 36 degrees outside...

Fitday says I burned 323 calories.
Other calorie burners say around 525 calories.

Can anybody give me a good calories burned calculator to use?

Either way... I felt like crap when I left, came back on fire and feeling good... and I don't want to sit down much longer, just recoop... and maybe I'll go clean the kitchen and bathroom...(needs to be done)... after I grab something to snack on.
 
Ugh! No dairy! Sorry to be insistent, but lactose intolerance is a serious matter, and can affect your mood and thus, your baby. If something is making you sick, you might want to avoid it. However, I'm one to talk--I ate too much fruit and almost ahd a damn accident! LOL! And I ate another nasty shortbread cookie that sits in my stomach like a rock...nevermind. I hope you feel better!
 
So long as I don't have too much of it, I'm fine... I just went a little overboard in the last couple days. And thanks! :D
 
I hope you're feeling better soon! Were you able to get the fenugreek capsules? How's the supply issue?
 
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