Trying to figure out bloating is like trying to decode the most intricate cyphers in history! The diet hasn't really helped me with it, but if I go off I get D and C, so I feel it does work. Being it is bloating you are troubled by, things will be much more confusing. I don't think it is a case of here where the originator of the diet doesn't have bloating we don't know what to do about it. EVERYWHERE you go has no solution to bloating. My doctor has nothing to help me with bloating at all and neither does medicine in general or special diets (none that work or are healthy anyway). That is the bad news and there is no good news I'm afraid.
-------------------- IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!