Last weekend, I went to a baby shower and gave the mommy to be a breastfeeding care package. I even found a breastfeeding card! It said, "I know breastfeeding can be exhausting, but think of the extra 500 calories you get a day...I recommend chocolate." This made me contemplate calories burned while breastfeeding and inspired me to calculate how many calories I have burned. I have been breastfeeding for almost 8 months. That is about 240 days. Breastfeeding burns between 500 and 600 calories a day, so we'll estimate 550. That's 132,000 calories. Divide that by 3600 (there are 3600 calories in a pound) and you get about 37. That means I am 37 pounds lighter than I would have been eating this way without breastfeeding. Needless to say, I (and my waistline) am very happy with my decision.
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