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Christine,

There's no way I'm going to go back to rabbit food diets, now that I know what it will do to my tummy. I understand your hesitation.

The beauty of WW is this: you can eat whatever you want. I'm not kidding. If you weren't IBS and wanted to have chocolate cake and a pint of Ben and Jerry's for breakfast you can. HOWEVER: if that uses up your points for the day (and I'm certain it would), then you're up a creek and have to eat zero points food the rest of the day. That's the kicker. So eating everything and anything under the sun is OK on WW, whether it's soy stuff, bowl of rice, banana, chocolate milkshake... whatever!

As for getting the Points values for foods: they have books that have an astonishing array of supermarket foods and restraurant menus in them. They're pretty comprehensive. I looked up Silk Vanilla the other day and it was there. If you're eating something that's NOT in the cheat sheets or books, NO WORRIES! You get a little thing-a-ma-bob slider that's really easy to use that helps you figure out Points based on fiber content, calories, etc... So all you have to do is read packaging, and we're certainly used to that by now.

In fact, I rarely use the books, just the slider. And it fits easily in your purse so you can just take it with you to the store and check out packaging while you're loading up your cart. Easy as pie (8 pts).

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