See, IBS is a gift. (You buy that?)
Back in 1996 or so, when I first started eating IBS-diet-esque (it was for gallstones, actually, but I had IBS then too), that's EXACTLY what I used to think, and in a lot of ways, it really helped me out.
At the time, I weighed, oh, 260. Maybe 270. I really don't know. I lived on ice cream and fried things. Of course, you can't eat that sort of stuff with gallstones, and once I got past the initial pain and started wanting to eat again, I spent a lot of time feeling sorry for myself because I couldn't eat all the junk food I used to eat.
Until I started losing weight. And then it kind of dawned on me that my health problems are an offhand blessing in disguise, because they keep me eating the way we're SUPPOSED to be eating... and when I have flareups, I know I'm being bad. 
Right now I'm in the middle of a flareup, and am a little too thin for my liking, but I'll just say that I've lost over 100lbs and have kept it off pretty consistently for 8 years now, because eating right really does stabilize you in more ways than one. And I guess I owe that partly to IBS! LOL
Anyway, now that I've rambled all over the darn place...
Mitch! That's fantastic that you've stabilized a bit... I'm still struggling with that myself, and you give me hope.  Thanks for the post!
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