I was just talking to my sister who had a baby last week.  She was very excited about the changes that she is seeing in her body, even though it has only been a week since she gave birth.  As we all know, being pregnant and having a baby will do a number on anyone’s body.  Even the most healthy of people deal with these changes.  If nothing else skin that gets extremely stretched out in the belly.  But in most cases, people will have an increase in their weight, even beyond the weight of the baby. 

So for anyone dealing with that will be very excited to see their body going back down in size to what they were before they became pregnant.  So my sister is breast feeding her baby.  She has found that by breast feeding, she is burning a lot more calories than she would be without breast feeding.  That is always a plus!  She feels like her stomach is getting flatter too.  Apparently your stomach will continue to contract back to size as you breast feed too.  Sounds to me like she has found a great way to lose weight, and reap the benefits of saving money as well in feeding her baby.