Hi Sharon, nice to hear from you again. I was surprised that I could eat pineapple and papayas, dairy and who knows how many other things that made life virtually impossible and the running to the bathroom etc... Yesterday my wife prepared a beef "goulash"-like stew with leeks... I haven't had problems with them... Almost nothing I put in my mouth irritates me... not even dried chiles or fermented products. I swore that I couldn't ingest vinegars... But after reading so frequently on the Chris Kresser Paleo site about fermented vegetables and beans, for improved gut health (he's actually writing to the IBDs and those with SIBO), I decided to prepare my very own Kimchi and was surprised that I experience neither good nor bad, as if it was just an innocuous food to enjoy...
As for falling off the wagon... fortunately I'm not planning a return to New York City where you find baked goods from every country in the world that bakes with wheat flour at hand's reach... Here in Mexico the best wheat flour products are flour tortillas, a very European sourdough or non sourdough bread called Birote only found here in Guadalajara, a Cornish English inspired pastry called Pastes (pronounced Pasties), some wonderful Mexican Cookies and pastries uniquely Mexican and wonderful with a few cups of dark roasted black coffee and nothing else... I used to recreate gourmet pizzas and Mediterranean pastas or Hot Italian sandwiches etc in my kitchen. But, feeling nothing stressful within is worth the restraint. Walking on the streets of NYC would be trial by fire and would rather not go there...
On a slightly different note, my wife and I went to the Kitchen Aid store here inquiring about their meat grinding accessory, since we decided to refrain from buying grain fed/finished beef and began venturing into the vast farmland outside of Guadalajara for pasture grazed beef, which is high in Vitamin A and Omega 3, yet is much tougher than grain fed beef... We have a high-quality Kitchen Aid mixer that we don't use now that we don't bake, but can use it for its accessories. In the store I noticed a dry grinder accessory and learned that a diabetic woman here in Guadalajara is grinding dry garbanzo beans for flour she uses instead of wheat... The attachment is a bit expensive, but I believe it could be an interesting experiment... like creating bean flour too... Since it is a dry grinder, you can't grind nuts or seeds in it due to their oils...
Ross