When you eat out, always eat a piece of bread if you can. Crackers are good too, do it before you leave for the restaurant. If you are going to a steak house and sit down to eat a nice steak, with baked potato with the sour cream and butter you are guaranteed to have diarrhea. It has something to do with the high fat content that will get your stomach rolling. By eating bread or crackers, it soaks up some of the acids in your stomach. Eating crackers or bread prior to my meal helps me and taking Calcium Polycarbophil before I eat also really helps. I take at least 3 tablets before each meal. Also Beano helps me too. You got nothing to lose if you try it.