Well, the good news is that the IBS diet is low-fat to begin with, but CAN be extremely low-fat if that's what your gallbladder requires... and although there's a lot of wheat-based recipes in the index and books, you can definitely follow the diet without eating wheat. 
One of the most important things with this is to be patient, and yes, expect bad days and feeling like you're not making any progress. The body, unfortunately, sometimes takes a while to figure out what to do with all this healthy living.  I know it's cliche, but hang in there. It really does get better.
As someone who's dealt with eating disorders for most of my life, and who deals with the emotional aspects of it almost every day, I can't say enough how important it is to take care of that, too. What that means is kind of an individual thing... for some people, it's as easy as learning how to relax, perhaps with yoga or meditation or something "distracting" like a craft or hobby, or it may mean therapy, or medication, or some combination thereof. All I can really tell you is that it's extremely difficult, if not impossible, to stabilize IBS with any kind of excessive stress, anxiety, or other negatively-perceived emotion happening.
Anyway, I don't know if any of this was encouraging at all, but I do, at least, know how you feel. It took me a long time to feel like I was making any progress at all, but it did happen, and it'll happen for you too. Hang in there!
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