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Welcome Winnie,
I'm relatively new to this, too. I am also a D. I suggest staying away from milk products. Take your SFS (i'm still on Benefiber - slowly increasing) with peppermint and Fennel Tea and lots of water - it's really helped my D and my gurgly stomach. My favorite breakfast has become organic brown rice cakes topped with applesauce. My husband thinks I'm out of my mind, but I use that as a snack a lot also and just give him a loving smile. I buy organic berry applesauce and it's really good.

As for the weight, I suggest getting out there and walking as far and as fast as you can, every day. Lift weights, too. Muscle burns calories more than fat. I had a problem before because exercise would make me want to run for the bathroom, but I do only 1 Immodium a bit before if I'm feeling like it's not a stable day, and then I'm good to go. If it's a really bad day, then I would take 2. I'm now at a point where I haven't done Immodium at all for a week. It's great.

At first, my lunch was boiled white rice and baked sweet potatoes. Now I'm doing turkey, tuna, crab meat salad, berry smoothies, boiled potatoes, cooked cold asparagus, avocados.
Dinner is chicken, fish, cooked vegies, bread, even a very lean grilled steak once in awhile. Hang in there. It's not that bad, once you get into it. And once you get stabilized, cheating a little doesn't hurt so bad.

S.

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