• Windex007@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Any time you’re in caloric deficit your body will start burning fat (and muscle) stores, so yeah.

      I don’t know enough about lactation, but I suspect if you stay in a deficit too long you’ll just stop lactating.

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          Windex007 is right; breastfeeding is how many new moms lose the excess pregnancy weight. But it is a delicate dance trying to keep your milk production up. Also, personally I was starving all the time while I was nursing, plus sleep deprivation, so for some of us the whole “losing the baby weight” doesn’t really work as well as we’d like.

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      Men have the glands as well, I believe just need a hormone treatment. That and maybe a tit shave to not deliver hairy milk.