Eating bravely and carefully

Happy to report that later on Thursday (when I saw the nutritionist and became very grouchy) I was directed by an online jpouch acquaintance to an online discussion about diet and jpouches that completely improved my thinking about the whole challenge.  

Am bravely trying to conduct slightly more scientifically controlled eating experiments, such as drinking more water/electrolytes when I eat (in addition to the 70+ ounces I drink in between eating), eating bread along with higher-fat-content food, adding tiny amounts of well cooked veggies to my mainly carb/dairy meals, eating certain foods isolated from others and paying attention to any cause/effect I can detect.