Okay, watch it with the cakes!  I piled on quite a bit of weight after I got settled on this diet as I was so delighted to find "fun" food like brownies that actually made me feel better, not worse. But if you're already thinking about weight gain, try and avoid them. If you have to have some cake, try and make sure it's one of Heather's breads so that you're at least getting some fruit or veg!
Are you D? Sorry - bad memory!  If so, I really wouldn't worry about incorporating more IF into your diet until you see the good effects of the diet. Now I do NOT mean only eat pasta...there are so many SF fruits and veggies, or ways of eating them totally safely (peeling and cooking for example). But I really feel it's important to give your body enough of a breather to help it get back on track. For some people, that can be just a few days. With me, I was on a no-trigger diet for about a month. I ate loads of applesauce, bananas, avocadoes, mangoes, cooked carrots, etc. so it wasn't that unhealthy. And for me, at that stage, adding IF only meant I had bad D so all the nutrients were going straight through me! You do need to get some protein though...make sure any meat you do try is lean, chicken, cooked with no fat. And eat lots of fish and soy as well!
I found that following a really strict diet helped me almost at once. But it was at least a month before I would have said that I was feeling noticeably better. And then there were setbacks as I reintroduced stuff - when I wasn't careful or did too much too fast . That's why it took me the estimated 6 months to feel that I was stabilizing - when my symptoms wre no longer a regular part of my life! 
Good luck. And perservere!!!  It's worth it. Unfortunately there is no "quick-fix" for IBS. It doesn't exist. Anyone considering surgery for IBS is crazy IMHO...there are soooo many cases of IBS developing or getting alot worse BECAUSE of surgery and no scientific reason for the surgery. As most of us know, IBS somehow affects the entire digestive tract - how would removing pat of the colon help that? Don't go there!
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