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I'm also losing weight pretty easily while breastfeeding, but my pre-pregnancy weight was higher than I'd like, so it's welcome.

My husband had a similar problem a few years ago when he was taking a mountaineering class - he would lose weight on each climb and he didn't have any weight to spare! What worked for him was eating things like mac and cheese and guacamole and snacking on nuts and peanut butter.

What worked for me was getting knocked up again and cutting out nursing sessions. Totally not helpful, I know. If your LO is a good eater like mine was, I don't know if there's much you can do to gain weight until closer to the 1 year mark! My butt went from a size 9 to a 3, I looked like a different person and was slightly underweight at the end. But it's coming back, and yours will too- I think it's normal for our bodies to do weird things, I'd just try to take in plenty of calories and remember it won't last forever.

In my experience, those of us who lose a lot of weight while breastfeeding don't easily gain it back, no matter what we eat (until weaning). In the first few months of my baby's life, I was going through a box of cookies ever day or two, (plus a lot of other junk) and still losing weight. You probably will hit a plateau eventually, though. For me, the dramatic weight loss stopped around 6 months PP (but I haven't weaned yet and I'm still ~10 lbs below my pre-pregnancy weight at 13 months pp).

You can try adding good fats and eating things like protein smoothies and see if that will help? At least it will ensure that your body is healthy even as you burn all the calories.

I hope you find a good solution that works for you!

I definitely DO NOT have this problem, in fact I'm starting to gain weight while BFing my son
I worked in the mountains as a guide for a while, where we had to be taking in about 3000-5000 calories a day due to exertion and cold - thats probably a little bit excessive but the way we did it was to stir butter into oatmeal and soups (extra calories without much extra taste), full fat everything, and pumpkin oil capsules (you can get them at health food stores, they are amazing for hair and nails and are high calorie - hence why everyone doesn't take them!!). Some of the more hardcore dudes used to do shots of olive oil I could never bring myself to do it. We also ate at least every 2/3 hrs, and I would eat if I woke up in the night. I still lost about 10lbs over that year, but if I hadn't been supplementing my diet in that way who knows what I would have weighed!