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The more knowledge you have the more power you have over your situation. 
Not necessarily. There's such a thing as overthinking a situation. There's also such a thing as obsessing, confusing yourself with contradictory information, and making yourself SICKER as a result of all that worrying and stressing.
The people who have been here a while, especially, find that very frustrating, because it's not necessary. The information you need to follow the principles of the diet is all right here, on the site. People who have been here for a long time, like me, continue to point that out - not because we're mindless Heather-followers, but because it's true.
I've been stable for a year and a half (well, almost). I followed the generic advice on this site - soluble before insoluble - and used Heather's lists. I never looked up a single chart, never researched a single food, never read a single scientific report, never even read beyond the fat grams on a single food label. I never bought a single book. The K.I.S.S. method - period. I'm sorry, but you can't argue with success.
Of course I'm aware that a potato - even peeled - does have IF, because pretty much everything does. However, the process of cooking a potato, while it might not change the actual fiber content/makeup, DOES "break down" the IF and make it a hell of a lot easier to digest... so easy, in fact, that what you're left with is, functionally, soluble fiber.
(And I even got on the potato subject in the first place because somewhere in this thread, someone mentioned a potato being IF. As in, primarily IF. Which, I'm sorry, is simply not correct. But I may have misread. *shrug*)
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