Dear Melissa:

I'm told that "Eat Well, Lose Weight While Breastfeeding" by Eileen
Behan is useful, and available in paperback for $11.00 from the LLL
catalog --  though it might say "eat right and exercise" which this
woman obviously doesn't want to hear.  But at least *you* don't have to
say it to her.

I have heard mothers who are very focused on this issue insist that
while they were breastfeeding at all they couldn't drop that final 10
lbs.  While it's certainly not universal, it might be so in some cases.
In the feast-and-famine scenario that has been standard in most of human
history, it might make evolutionary sense for a lactating mother's
metabolic "set-point" to alter to protect the baby by maintaining a
margin of safe reserves.  Just ruminating...

Margaret Wills
LLLL

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