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Well, If your stressed, when do you think IBS kicks in? During or after the stress has passed.
This varies widely depending on the source, intensity, duration, etc of the stress. For me, it usually takes at least two days of constant but moderate to high stress before the trouble starts. One day or less if it's short-duration but extremely intense stress. The point being that the wheat toast may have had little or nothing to do with your attack if there were any significant non-food triggers present.
For example, back in August I had an attack despite having been doing well on the diet for well over a month, and despite having not cheated. The trigger? Getting my period at the height of a major heat/humidity wave. I could have been eating nothing but white rice all week, and I would have still had that attack. However, that doesn't mean that the diet is useless because things like that can still happen. I am 100% positive that the attack would have been at least twice as bad (like what I experienced when I first got IBS) if I had not been following the diet, taking SFS, probiotics, etc. And the longer I'm on the diet and supplements, the less severe my attacks become, whether they are triggered by food or something else.
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