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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