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Hi!

I'm fairly new to this diet myself and dairy has been the trickiest thing for me to give up too. (Apart from that I was pretty much following the diet already.)

When you do the first few days with just soluble fiber foods I guess the point is to really just stick to just soluble fiber foods. I was stable when I started with the diet so I didn't have to do that, though.

As soon as you feel you're stabilized you can start to eat more fun food. I'm sure you'll find the Eating for IBS book really helpful there. You'll find there is absolutely nothing boring or bland about this diet. There are many things you can use to replace the things you normally cook with. Just remember that you might have to try different brands as sometimes there is a big difference and one brand can taste really bad and another one really delicious. For meat there are many vegetarian alternatives and for dairy there are rice, oat, and soy substitutes. Since I live in Sweden the brands I know are probably different from the ones you can find, but I'm sure there are many people on this forum who will be able to suggest brands for you.

Good luck!!!

/Ulrika, IBS-D

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