Hello again--
Well, just thought I'd report how the day went. Despite all the good advice here, I went a messed it all up. I started out trying to be subtly virtuous, ordering a soft pretzel with mustard when everyone else was having double fudge chocolate chip cookies. I thought that was a pretty good trade of me! But alas, I was being shy and didn't ask about the pretzels ingredients, took a bite, and it became apparent that it was slathered in butter. With who knows what inside. But I ate it anyway thinking--"Hey, its soluable fiber right?...and surely I'm different this little bit of butter won't hurt me." 
Yeah, that definately wasn't a good choice. Quite gassy and bloated, althought thankfully no D.
Then for dinner, we were at an Italian restruant, so I took the option of "create your own pasta" and I created linguine with tomato basil sauce (no meat) and cooked spinach and mushrooms and roasted red peppers. I couldn't remember (and now can't find) the list of vegetables to watch out for, some I'm not sure how well I did with that. I did remember broccoli might cause gas, so I avoided that. However, I did eat a bit of shrimp and artichoke dip, and was quite creamy and cheesy.  Not alot, just a few bites, but it was on some sort of spicy toast with seeds and melted parmesean. Oh, and some bread (somehow I doubt that it was whole grain and dairy free, but I got too shy at the last minute to ask.) Dipped in a good quantity of olive oil. Yeah...well, some part of that combination of dinner set me off. Lots of D, went twice before we left, then *immediately* again when we got home. Managed to make it through the car ride home without having to pull off, but nearly made myself sick to the stomach trying to do that.
All in all, a rousing failure. Maybe I had to learn this lesson though. I think I was still in the "I don't really have IBS like *they* do...I'm better, stronger...I wouldn't let it affect me like that...I can do what I want." frame of mind.
Also a testamony to the minor improvements that this diet has had the past few weeks. I don't think I realized how good I felt. I mean, there was some less D, but the bloating and general pain had really gone down, and I wasn't appreciating that either. I though I was, but...
Ah, well...Lesson learned...
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