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Hmmm...

well for me it's different in that with my diet, I still get bloating if no other symptoms. Over the course of me doing this hypno bloating was sometimes better so that is when I felt that it does work. Otherwise I am now often eating a bit of my mum's cooking cos I'm living with my family for a couple of months during the summer now. She cooks with a lot more fat than is permissible for me, and I can see how the hypno has not worked for that really in that I experience the fat induced symptoms now that I eat her food.

I have used hypno for pain relief before and I use it for insomnia successfully, that's why my faith in it is still maintained.

Btw I used to observe all FODMAP rules. I now only don't eat lactose and fructose column foods and restrict fructans in that I don't eat onions/leeks/garlic/artichokes/ Brussels sprouts and I only eat a restricted amount of bread/pasta. I eat black beans, broccoli, cauliflower (all well- cooked), peaches, cherries, apricots, plums, which are other warning foods, yet I have no real trouble. Maybe you'd find the same, do you limit all your FODMAP foods?

How else would you ideally tweak your diet? Or in what other ways do you find it really restricted?
IF-wise there is probably a case for too much IF per meal, Syl for instance really restricts his diet this way. Majority of us don't have to. Find the right SFS and make sure you eat more SF than IF, in accordance with: http://huhs.harvard.edu/assets/File/OurServices/Service_Nutrition_Fiber.pdf
Bananas, beans, chickpeas, barley and cooled white rice/pasta/potatoes have more SF-like stuff in that they have resistant starch.

Fat-wise, apart from nuts, healthy eating requires us not to go over the 25 per cent limit per meal anyhow. For cooking with oil, there's these low-kcal sprays that save you calories. (but even for nuts, one banana has say 100kcal, and with it you may eat 3-4 teaspoonfuls of ground almonds/nuts and be OK with the fat, and believe me I know, fat is the bane of my life, suffered enough because of it.)

Anything else I could perhaps try to give tips on?

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now: stable through EFI+FODMAP dieting (no lactose/no fructose/some fructans and some polyols)

before: IBS-D(pseudo-diarrhoea), bloating, often unbearable pain esp from too much fat: Apr 2007- Dec 2010

FODMAPs: http://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/072710p30.shtml

[I've tried VSL#3 -> I could tolerate v good amounts of IF (even with less SF), it worked great (but overall I find it too expensive)]

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