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You bet, I eat all day long. But, what the body is most interested in is CALORIES plain and simple. It doesn't care where they come from it just wants so many for energy and building and repair, and anything more will merely turn into excess pounds. So the simple solution is to count them. If you have cut out fats, and it sounds like you have then be carefull about the amount of high protein you are consuming daily. Even chicken and fish can be a high calorie food, and well, I don't have to tell you about the empty calories sugar has in it. Compare safe foods. For example I bought plain old rice cakes in the grocery store. Calories? 35 per cake. In the health food store it was 80 calories per cake. A baked potato with nothing on it, if SMALL is only 90 calories, but a big one can be double or more that amount. Breads are another story in and of themselves. Compare, compare, compare. I've found eating the safe foods more frequently, and just forgeting about the word "meals" has helped me keep the weight off I needed to get off in the first place (but by the hard and very unfortunate way---getting IBS). I say I have 8 meals a day...yikes, that's eating nearly every hour, but if I add it all up it keeps me in my own safe calorie range for not gaining weight.

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