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its eating healthy and making healthy choices... I am now on a maintenance diet and I am still failing to maintain.. I actually lost 8 pounds in the last 3 weeks. I need a certain amount of reserve to make it through the race in July. I am off to bake more sweet treats tomorrow
Amie
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I mean peasants have been eating bread for 6000 years and they always seemed rather slim to me. 
Not me. I see peasants as those eating pastries, carbs like potatoes. and fats with horrible complexions and weight problems. I see the gentry as eating the fruits and veggies with the clear complexions and slim.
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Is it possible that your feeling hungry all the time could have hormonal or medical reasons? Maybe you started a med that is causing it. Of course prednisone makes me eat like crazy! but other things might cause that too.
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"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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I didn't know we still had peasants and gentry. As for today I think obesity is well-balanced throughout society's levels.
My point was that low-carb is a passing trend and eating soluble fiber as a base is not unhealthy by any means. It doesn't mean indulging in treats and baked goods too much even if they are low in fat. But when we look at cultures past and present that have carbs like bread and white rice as the basis for their diet we see that they do not and did not have weight problems from those carbs.
Personally I would love to have a big salad for lunch or dinner instead of a PB&J or stirfry and rice, but I always put so much cheese on it that it wasn't any trimmer anyway.
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"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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Hi Cindy
Actually 20 points works out to only about 1000 calories a day (the WW formula is calories/50 + fat/12 + fiber up to 4g/5 = #points, or more basically just calories/50). 1000 calories a day for a woman of your height and weight (which is just about the same as mine, btw) in my view is INSANELY low. I don't know much about WW and how they do their plans, but honestly, that seems ridiculously low to me.
It's lower than your BMR, which is the number of calories your body would need to FUNCTION even if you just lay in bed all day and did nothing (which for you is about 1400).
NO WONDER you're hungry all the time... 
I'm sorry, I don't mean to offend or anything, it just seems like quite a few people on this board are aiming for really unrealistic (and in my opinion, unhealthy) LOW calories/day goals. Someone mentioned that if you get too few calories your body will actually start going into starvation mode and start storing up fat - this is true, and well-proven scientifically. Extremely low calorie diets will help you lose water and then muscle tissue. Not fat. It's much healthier, safer, and in the long run more effective to lose weight slowly by cutting calories slowly, not starving yourself.
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If i were you i would steer clear of the sweet treats, they won't help your race preparation, all you will get from sugary things is an immediate/short term sugar peak, followed by increased hunger. Try upping the protein input, building blocks for the muscles that will carry you through the race. I like to make smoothies from banana, mixed berries and some rice protein powder thrown in to help with gym work and sport. The rice protein also happens to have fiber in it to boot!
cheers
Ralph
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Also, eating more protein will help with energy and appetite. No need to starve yourself at all!
Plus, more exercise is the way to go when you've got that little to lose!
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my problem is when I up protein I get full to fast- I'm not actually make SUGARY sweets so much as breads and stuff I can eat, so I can get my carbs into me... I can only eat so much pasta and rice and potatos... and the plain what bread I can get at the store is tasteless, and I prefer my own baguettes to the storebought ones... and I need to make soem for some friends and company in advance too... its called if I have time to bake, I take advantage and do a TON in one day.
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A couple of years ago the target for my range was between 18-23 a day. Then they changed it to 20 a day with 35 points to play with during the week. I never used them. So I think if I allow myself maybe 22 pts. a day I'll be a lot happier and still lose those last 5 lbs.
And I DO exercise every day. I weight lift, use the ellip., take extra classes, rowing machine, plus walk at least 1/2 to 1 hour with the dogs daily. My exercise isn't anything new, done it for years. Used to run 5-10 miles daily too but arthritis in my lower back now prevents me from running.
The WW soup is coming out of the freezer and going to be put to good use. If I'm hungry, eat soup!!!
Cindy
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After reading all the posts, I am not sure what the answer is. I have been much slimmer on WW and other plans and always sick-dealing with C and bloating or occasion bouts of D. So I would be miserable because my tummy would look 4mos pregnant.
Now tummy is flat, but I am up five pounds-10 from feeling good weight. I am 5'4" and between 126-130 depending on the day. Lately closer to 130.
I exercise a lot. My sister had a trainer tell her that our bodies get used to the exercise and after a while it doesn't really work to lose weight, just maintain. I am starting to wonder if that's my problem. I spent 90 min running and doing eliptical each day Fri, Sat and sun and did weight training. I can't fit anymore than that into my schedule. I will probaby do an hour tonight.
I am starting to think acceptance might just have to be it for me. 30+ years of IBS is quelled with this eating plan and it beats looking pregnant all the time.
I eat oatmeal for breakfast w/ground flax meal. 1 TBS Benefiber, oatmeal w/ fax meal for lunch with canned fruit (no sugar added), snack on fruit in between, and have 3 vegies, a sweet potato or brown rice and chicken or fish for dinner. Last night i splurged on a wheat free dairy free choco chip cookie. I drink 128 oz water daily.
Mary
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