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I'm eating mostly white rice, lean chicken, green peas and romaine lettuce, eggs and flax oil. The stools are very very large and solid / which is great for me (formerly IBS-D) but now have C! Am I not getting enough soluble fiber or insoluble? Must be a lack of soluble...green peas are mostly insoluble/though they do contain soluble, lettuce is insoluble but romaine is kind of 1/2 and 1/2 and the rice is supposed to be soluble, but I rinse it/actually very little fiber in that at all. I run my diet through fitday.com and because I eat a cup or more of peas a day (love em) it says I have 15-22grms of fiber a day! I eat 2 large salads also and several cups of rice. I'm just now adding Benefiber - hoping that will get things "moving" again. If I were to add pears / would I need to eat the skin or would that just be more insoluble (bulk) fiber - which I do not need! I am confused...insoluble moves things through - no problem there - but the difficulty in evacuating what needs to go...not dry, but very large stool (sorry for the description)...remember I'm formerly IBS -D and lowered the fat and insoluble fiber in my diet...afraid to add back too much fat and insoluble. Any thoughts? Seems like heather's diet is working way too well...now I'm C! Thought I'd add some soluble fiber to soften/smooth things easier evac in the am/make sense?

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