Eggs and waffles for breakfast, potato chips for lunch and then rice and chicken for dinner? Plus ice cream? All I can say is that I would be doubled over in agony if I followed this meal plan.
I belong to a subset of C-ers who do much better with vegetable rather than grain sources of soluble fiber. If I ate all that processed food, particularly all that grain, over the course of two days, it would cause a dreadful attack. Waffles, potato chips, rice, rice ice cream, corn pops, rice milk, oatmeal, more rice, cornbread....It may be wheat free, but WOW---that's an awful lot of grain and processed food.
I use soluble fiber from vegetables as my base. For me that means mostly baked and boiled sweet potatoes, baked and steamed squash etc, mashed potatoes/turnips etc. with no fat added(I use a little soy milk on potatoes). You can see Heather's list for other soluble-fiber rich veggies. To that I add other steamed veggies, salads and veggie- or bean-based soups. I have rice with lunch, maybe a little fish with dinner and plain fruit for breakfast (with a little ground flaxseed). That's it (plus healthy quantities of Heather's fiber and water). I don't use dairy, ever.
Granted, everyone's digestive tract is different, and your gut may not be as sensitive to grains as mine is but I get the feeling from what you've said that you may be overdoing it with the grain and the other processed foods.
The violent reactions you had before (when your gut was moving but unpredictably) were probably not to the vegetables themselves but rather to the combination of insoluble fiber in vegetables with allergenic foods (like the cheese you mentioned, wheat etc.) If you cut the allergens out COMPLETELY, eliminate junk food and reduce the grains, you would probably be able to tolerate the veggies. If you're like me, only the veggies will normalize your gut.
Note: even if they're dairy-free, wheat-free, fat-free, calorie-free and taste-free, ice cream and potato chips are still junk food. Ice cream is particularly bad because the refined sugars promote the growth of the bad flora in the gut: the opposite action of a probiotic. Once you're stable you might be able to tolerate a little at the end of a very healthful meal, but on an empty stomach it will quite likely always cause symptoms. And even if it doesn't cause an apparent immediate reaction it will worsen your condition over time.
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