Nursing burns 500 cals a day? Are you serious? That just sounds like a lot...

It does seem like a lot...and I wonder if pumping burns the same amount of calories.

I just found an article where someone asked how many calories nursing burns and here's what it said
It's really how much total breast milk the baby takes in over the period of the day. The average mom will make about 24 to 28 ounces of breast milk a day. It takes about 500 calories to make that much milk. Some of those calories come from fat stored during the pregnancy or previously, and some come from the mother's daily nutrition.

Jessica Alba annoys me so much.

...I thought I had more to say about this, but it turns out that was all.

There's not way she only gained 25 lbs with that baby. She blew up when she was pregnant and has probably been starving herself ever since she had it.

hahahaha - tlsgirl, I feel the same way.

It seems like it wouldn't be healthy for the baby for the mother to only gain 25 lbs total. But yeah - the thing about nursing is true. That's why when moms stop breastfeeding early and ween their babies to formula, they don't lose as much of the post-baby weight as moms who nurse for a while.

Umm...I have no children and work out 4-5 days a week and my body doesn't even look like her's after the baby :: Some girl's just have all the luck

I'm with you FoxyJo! I was just thinking I'd love to have her body pre or post baby!!

I think that she looks better now than she did before her pregnancy. Also, gaining 25lbs is a NORMAL amount of weight to gain during pregnancy. It is recommended that you gain about 25lbs if you were a healthy weight before pregnancy.

The couple of extra pounds she has left now compared to her pre-baby body make her figure MUCH sexier. She looks hot! But it's just hard to believe that she got that body back in such short time with that diet and exercise plan. Looking at how Halle Barry looked in those recent red carpet pictures, even for regular exercise and healthy eating, her tiny bump seems much more realistic.

i cant even explain how jealous i am of her. i dont have kids, but i doubt id look like that after i do have them. hell i dont look like that now!

I'm jealous of her too! She looks beautiful. I bet she's going to lose more weight even though she's already thin again.

Sad. I'm contemplating getting that 2 3 4 baby bump be-gone thingy and I haven't even had a kid.

Dang, I was kinda hoping her body would be shot to sh*t after having a kid (I'm not jealous or anything, lol), but she does look fantastic. It kinda makes sense though...she did work out all through the pregnancy and she's a pretty active person. Plus, yeah, breastfeeding burns killer calories. Think about it: You're providing 100% of the nutrition that a little baby needs. Breastfeeding is the time when you actually DO need to eat for two; not during the actual pregnancy.

TinkerbellSF- You took the words right out of my mouth! I mean, good for Alba, but geez I haven't even had a kid, and I don't look nearly that good. Argh, this post is just depressing.

I'm a medical student... and i agree with cfp's comments that jess's weight gain during her pregnancy is healthy... Everyone should gain about 25-30 pounds during pregnancy and if you gain more, that's unhealthy and well... it also means that's how much more you gotta lose post baby isn't it?

Plus it's healthy to have a work out programme in place (which you should have started before you were pregnant) and kept going through pregnancy which is the recommended steps to take by experts. What her trainer is saying is true in that if you involve exercise you bounce back post baby a lot faster, and combined with the fact that she also eat healthy and was a healthy weight prior pregnancy, and that she is also still young... well, worked out well for her didn't it?

It's hard to imagine a baby was growing inside that belly. She's soo tiny!

I heard that you're really only supposed to eat like 300 extra calories a day while pregnant...I don't know if that's true or not. It definitely makes me want to be fit before pregnancy and exercise during it!

My cousins gf had her baby nearly a year ago
She's really too lazy to do anything about the weight gain

WHOA! Those numbers don't add up, or I should say subtract down.

First, a women of her size simply does not burn 550 cal. in an hour workout, even if she's at the top of her aerobic training zone. I'd guess the real number is more like 400 calories.

And remember, that even if the treadmill reads that you've used up 400 calories, it doesn't mean that you've lost that amount in fat. Why? Because you would have burned about 20% of that amount anyway, just being alive and going through your daily activities. Workout numbers on exercise machines are deceptive, don't take them at face value.

Breastfeeding can take up to 500 cal per day, but only if you are breastfeeding exclusively. But here again, the number is deceiving. Taking care of an infant, (who is feeding for 30 minutes every 2 or three hours) an is a fairly sedentary lifestyle and this lowers maternal metabolism. And since stored fat is mobilized anyway, breastfeeding shouldn't be thought of as more that a zero-sum gain (or in this case loss).

And lastly, if you take the largest number that she eats per day, 2,000 and subtract the exercise amount of 550 and breastfeeding 500, you get the shockingly paltry and unhealthy number of 950!

No one, not even the most petite of us should go below 1200 calories per day. Lots of negative health effects occur at this point.

To get the real facts on how to stay fit and healthy during pregnancy and how to properly rehab the abdominal wall afterward, to to http://www.befitmom.com

Right... I have to work out an hour a day five to six days a week to lose weight — I'll try this!

If I had a NANNY and a MAID and a PERSONAL TRAINER and a COOK then I'd freaking look like that too! She makes me sick.