I am following the EFI diet- have been for a week or so (no cheating at all). Before that I was following my own diet very strictly (before I knew about this one), still wasn't having a lot of fat, but was having a bit more veggies and less soluble fiber. Was also having a little diary but not much because I don't really eat anything with dairy as a main component anyways (just didn't look to avoid it in ingredients etc). I was a lot more stable on this diet than I was before I knew had IBS but I was still very bloated and sometimes C. Now I am more C. than I was before I started EFI and equally bloated. I also have a bit of stomach pain and occasionally nausea (nothing like before I started watching my eating at all though). It seems like this diet is making me worse or not helping at all ( I have been taking Benefiber for the past month or so, and just switched to Acadia two days ago (on 3 tsps per day), also taking peppermint capsules. Gave up caffeine 3 weeks ago.
Just frustrated. I wish there was just a list of things I definitely could not eat- like with allergies or something. I am frustrated that I could be giving up things for no reason and that I might be eating tons of rice, bread and plain potatoes for no reason! Also I think my body does not like sugar very much...not in fruit but like table sugar. This makes me feel like my diet is limited even more since many of the flavorful, don't worry its not so bad foods have a lot of sugar in them. Maybe sugar doesn't even affect me as much as I think- I don't even know how I'm supposed to know. With bloating and C. I feel like its so hard to tell what is really bothering you- I've been keeping a food diary for over a month now and all I have discovered is that carrots make my bloating worse (and cooked they are fine). Thats it!
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( I have been taking Benefiber for the past month or so, and just switched to Acadia two days ago (on 3 tsps per day), also taking peppermint capsules. Gave up caffeine 3 weeks ago. 
