Hi Haley,
I'm sorry that you're struggling with the diet. I think (and I'm sorry if I'm wrong) that your main problem is that you look at your diet with this all-or-nothing approach. You used to eat minimum amounts of carbs so now it seems that all white carbs are unhealthy and constipating. The truth is somewhere inbetween. We all need to find the right ration of SF:IF that works for out bodies. So yes, you do need to have IF in order to have BMs, especially since you're a C. You can still have wild rice but maybe mix it 1:1 with white rice.
I found that the recommendations on this website are rather broad and it doesn't mean that I can necessarily eat all those foods. I believe that especially now that I'm trying to get stable I should not eat too much of rice ice cream, baked chips, crackers... I mean, some of these things still have tons of ingredients that I can't even pronounce  and they just don't sound like something I would want to put into my healing body. I'm not saying I don't slip sometimes but I try to base my diet around the least processes products possible. That means cooking my oatmeal from oats instead of instant, buying cereal without colorings, buying bread from the bakery at my local grocery store as opposed to the bagged items. If I want a treat I either make my own cookies/brownies or have a piece of quality chocolate (and yeah, sometimes I have more then a little piece and then I may suffer later but I LOVE chocolate ).
I would also stay away from gluten free/wheat free products unless you truly suspect that you can't tolerate wheat. Gluten free flours don't bake as well as wheat flour and thus the breads usually have more additives than you may want to have in your diet.
I understand that you're worried about your weight but at the end of the day it's the amount of calories we consume that affects our weight, not how many carbs we eat. I think you're too worried about gaining weight which puts additional stress on you. How about just not weighting yourself for a while and focusing on healing your tummy instead? I never weight myself when I constipated even if it means that I don't step on the scale for a couple of weeks. As long as you keep watching your portions you should be fine on this diet. There are people here who even managed to lost weight.
Good luck and I hope your C gets better
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