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Hmm if your D I would lay off the brown rice and any whole grains. They can be gradually reintroduced. Green veggies can be a problem. Maybe the oat meal with nuts is a little to much IF first thing in the morning. I normally go with a banana smoothie (egg white for protein0 or a bowl of applesauce). Also if your drinking soy you could switch to rice milk - soy gave me (but not everybody) gas. There's also almond mik, oat and hemp milk but they are a bit less common.

If you have the Eating For IBS Book (can be bought here, on amazon and I've seen it in a lot of book stores even in Canada)there are a lot of great drink recipes. There's also tonnes of cakes and main courses. It might be time to start expanding your diet.

If your looking for protein at lunch how about some hard boiled eggs - just take out the yolk before eating.

You mentioned making changes to your plan for tacking IBS. My advice would be to change one thing at a time and go from there. Though quitting the decaf would be my first priority - even in my pre IBS days decaf would have me heading to the bathroom. However I sympathize I have to give up my favorite black tea when IBS entered my life.

Also hang in there - your IBS is improving so it's a question of keeping on going with that.

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