I went to look up some information to share with you guys about something nutritional that was recommended for breastfeeding dietary needs and found the USDA site had something on it that let's you enter your details and it gives you a plan based on your age, height, weight, gender, whether you're pregnant or breastfeeding, how old the child you are breastfeeding is, etc.
I thought this sounded great and proceeded to create an account and enter my details only to be told that because I was overweight they were providing me with a plan based on a healthy weight for my height. So not a plan based on my actual weight, but one based on the weight that they thought I should be, and not even one that would be to healthily get me to that weight. They gave me a 2000 calorie diet plan that i can only assume was based on a weight at least 60 lbs lighter than my current weight. Not to mention the site wouldn't let me enter that I am 61.5 inches, nor a decimal on weight so I was forced to go with 62 and 194. When I went to the goal setting area of the site and entered in a goal weight of 120 lbs it said it would adjust my plan to a 2400 calorie diet and then when i viewed my plan again it still said 2000.
Needless to say I am less than impressed with this website. It's a great IDEA but it doesn't really seem to represent an accurate expected diet for someone of my size who is breastfeeding. Maybe you'll have better luck with it though?
www.supertracker.usda.gov/CreateProfile.aspx
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