Nursing Mamas: I'm going to start Sonoma.
 

I'll let you know how I fare on it. ;) I weigh 186 right now--haven't wanted to update my ticker for that!--and haven't lost a freaking ounce for about a month now. Sonoma's fairly similar to South Beach, which I tried in the past & didn't much like because of the vagueness. This diet spells things out really well. I'm skipping Wave One, though. It's too low-cal for me while I'm breastfeeding.

There's a forum for the diet here on 3FC, but I figured I'd let y'all over here know what I'm up to as well.

good luck! i'm starting ww this week (after i go grocery shopping ;) ) but i'll check out the sonoma plan also. i tried the sb diet before, but my problem is portion control, so i was still over eating.

Good luck! Let us know what you think!

Oh my, that was bad! Just bad. I'm going to guess that there aren't enough calories in the diet. All I know is that by half an hour after lunch I was hungry again already, and my poor hubby got sick he was so hungry (this isn't something that happens with him!). I dunno what it is. I have to run the calories to find out exactly what was involved. I'm certain it's a fine WOE normally.

WOW.

Have you tried Body for Life eating? It's breastfeeding friendly and you eat 6 times a day. I started following that last week - haven't weighed myself yet but my pants are looser...

I've tried it a couple of times, but I just cannot adjust to the whole small meal concept. I am certain that the Sonoma Diet is fine for most people, I do want to make that clear. I think tandem nursing makes things wonkier than even normal nursing.

I pulled out my Weight Watchers stuff. I had problems with it the first time I tried it because I'd undereat at the beginning of the day 'cause of being paranoid about not having enough POINTS at the end of the day. I did a little math, though, so I don't think I'll have that problem this time. Since you get extra POINTS for nursing I've got 34 for the whole day. I've broken that down to 8 at breakfast, 10 each at lunch & dinner, and the rest for snacks. This let me have oatmeal/wheat bran with a little milk & peanut butter and a piece of bacon for breakfast yesterday morning, which was very filling.

I am coming down with something, though, so I'm probably going to spend the next couple of days eating what I think I can keep down. (I've got a scratchy throat and a cough, so I really don't want to eat anything.)

I do seem to be back into my prepregnancy size 16s, though. :) I'll take an NSV any day.