I thought I'd add one thing to this thread just in case anyone else was in this situation - I've had a GWF for several months and I'm a nursing mother. Before I bought it I called customer service to see if they knew anything about the calories burned nursing, whether they were tracked or not. I've heard numbers being thrown around between 200-500 calories extra per day for a nursing mom. The rep I spoke with said they hadn't done any specific studies so he wasn't sure but he said he thought it would most likely be able to track them.
I don't think it does, though. I'd been getting consistent weight loss off a higher calorie number (2500+ calories) and I would plateau if I lowered the level. That's when I bought the GWF since it seemed like that was too many calories, so I wanted an accurate number. To my surprise the GWF said I burned on average about 2300 cals per day, which seemed really odd... based on my calorie intake and weight loss levels I would have assumed quite a bit more. The only thing I could think of is that the calories burned through lactation are not able to be tracked by the GWF.
I actually decided today that I'm ready to "mostly" wean so my theories will have to stay theories. I'm about to start NROLFW and I'm going to eat at maintenance as per what the GWF says, even though I am looking for fat loss, and we'll see what happens. So my occasional nursings will not be counted in that maintenance level, so I'm thinking I'll continue a low weight loss. Worst case scenario I build up some fabulous muscles and then go on a separate fat-loss program after NROLFW and reveal those beautiful muscles
