Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: I need help cutting my calories. Here are the last two days foods, etc. LOOONG -- sorry :(

It's horrid when you make an effort and you feel like you are getting nowhere. Here's my comments:

Nuts are very high fat- if you are trying to keep your calories and fat low they are a killer. Get rid I think.

Hate to say it but juice is also bad value I think- very high in sugar and each 8oz serving you have is about 140 calories, drinking water is the best. When you are calorie counting it makes more sense to eat rather than drink your calories I think.

If you eat a more substantial breakfast..ie oatmeal (I take raw pineapple chopped in mine or melon) you genuinely will not feel hungry til lunch. Cutting out one snack a day will really help. The sugar is probably making you snack too, any sugar will mean that as your bloodsugar gets a kick out of pure sugar and then begins to drop it will crave food- its the basis of the GI diet that is getting lots of press (they love oatmeal too!)

Your snacks are what is upping your count- for snacks when I am calorie counting I have: pretzels, honeyricecakes (only 50 cals for two and my tummy loves them). I also pick at fruitsalad based on peeled apples and pears to stop getting empty.

Fruit, while nutritionally excellent is high in sugar and therefore high in calories

All my opinion, others may have more balanced info to give you, but that's my two cents. Good luck with it, keep posting here for support while you count.

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