I eat 6-8meals/snacks a day normally, but when on the type of holiday I usually go on happens, it's usually a bigger breakfast and a big dinner with maybe a tiny little snack in-between. By the time of dinner my stomach is churning and I'm really starving and I always have a lot more bloating then and frequently pain and spasms. I never had this problem before IBS although often had the same kind of holidays back then too. I don't think you can fast your way out of IBS just as you can't paleo-diet your way out of it Mark-Sisson-esque style.
Follow the four EFI rules (no alcohol, no caffeine, less IF than SF per meals, limited fat per meals) and the FODMAP guidelines simultaneously, did you give it enough time? Safest foods to eat would be: porridge (cooked in water), boiled/baked potatoes, cooled rice, grilled chicken breast, shrimp, white fish, boiled carrots, peeled baked peppers, peeled cooked courgette (ie zucchini), tomato paste, orange juice, no-pulp-berry juice and a bit of fat with each meal (salmon/olive oil to mention two of the healthiest options) (kcal coming from fat max 25% per meals: 1g fat has 9kcal, 1g carb has 4kcal, 1g protein also has 4 kcal). Incredibly restricted I know but I think you are v unlikely to have trouble from these foods and once your gut has calmed down after a week or so, you may experiment with adding different foods back into your diet one by one to see whether you can tolerate them.
Heather doesn't recommend that you eat dairy btw and I am severely lactose intolerant, with which lactase tablets help, but I still have spasms from the casein and whey in milk products so I don't eat any dairy, you should perhaps cut it out too.
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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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