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I know but you won't be as active.

With low GI you won't feel full, you just won't feel hungry. For example you take a chocolate bar and a low fat egg sandwich. You decide to eat the chocolate but in a couple of hours or less you feel hungry again. If you chose the egg sandwich you will be filled up for longer because if releases energy slower.

Rice I don't know but rice cakes are carbs but I don't know about really high. Carbs are important, you can't cut them our completly. As I said before eating them for breakfast will raise your energy levels and you will be less likely to snack in the morning. There is a thing called complex cards which is rice, pasta, bread which is good carbs. They will keep you healthy, they are just not good to eat for all three meals. I think carbs get a bad name from the bad carbs such as cakes and biscuits because they are fatty and don't fill you for as long as complex carbs.

Keep with it, it will help. The first couple of weeks can feel like a b***h but then you should be seeing a change. Remember sit ups focus more on toning, you need to be doing another exercise you help lose weight as well as toning. Running is the best but if you don't like running you could go to a gym and they will give you an exercise program.

This one is hard. When your stomach rumbles? Nah not really. Well if your stomach goes into cramps and you can barley stand up then you are very hungry, which is bad. I don't know sorry, I think it's different for different people. You just get a weird feeling in your stomach. But you know your satisfied when your stomach feels comfortable, not sore from hungry or feeling full.

Again I know how you feel. It can be annoying but think how bad it would be if you don't stick with it. Be careful you don't develope and eating disorder or become obsessed with exercise, it sounds to me like that could happen. Humans need food to function so if you eat healthy don't feel fat and we can't exercise everyday. Take one day off a week to rest, that way you will get better quality sessions of exercise the rest of the week. Even Olympic people take a rest day. They end to take one every 8th or 9th day.

The few things I would like to say:

1: Happy belated Birthday!!

2: I admire your want to help many people.

3: I hope you will be ok, i mean with your arms and all.

and finally.. I think that perhaps you actually need advice more now then ever... I mean you seem to be so devoted to everyone.. That's a great thing. However, dont' forget about yourself. I know that may seem selfish, but you need to sort out your own life, usually your own life is harder, and people find that it's easier to help others to just not think about your own life and your own problems. That's how i see it though because usually that's how I am. I care about sooo many people myself, that I disregard my own life. I usually just want to forget about it. I mean like with my still recent break up and all.. it hurts and i want to forget.. and all the things that have hurt me in the past, I try to make others feel better just because i know what it feels like and I don't like to see others get hurt, but think of it this way.. if you keep helping others... what is left of yourself.. to help yourself when you are in time of need?

I think you know what it's all about now 3nodding

That's right on the high energy and low energy foods you were describing. That's why people say you don't need to cut out chocolate, just eat it in moderation.

Rice is good for you so I say keep eating it but wholemeal rice and brown rice is much healther so go for that. (Tastes nicer too.)

I'm trying to lose some weight to and hearing how much exercise you do daily is good insperation to me so thanks 3nodding

I think you should keep doing what your doing and you will see results. Just make sure your whatever dinner is a healthy one.