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JP23
on 8/4/12 11:54 am
RNY on 07/10/12 with
 I'm 1 month out & every time I try salad it always get stuck.  I take small bites & chew.  Is this a food that is hard to eat?
        
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Larry Wassmann
on 8/4/12 11:56 am - Lacey, WA
RNY on 05/09/12 with
 I am 3 months out and just started having a small salad. I would make sure it is chopped up pretty fine. It does not bother me know and I have it most dinners in the evenings. At 1 month I could not have done it. 
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kmsbanr
on 8/4/12 12:03 pm - CT
Every MD is different but I just ok for some raw veggies but lettuce was not recomended.  I have been happy with the occ. tomato & coleslaw.If cukes would grow I would have that too.
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Bren0430
on 8/4/12 12:08 pm - Canyon, TX
RNY on 05/11/12 with
 I can eat the baby spinach and romaine lettuce. I couldn't eat ice berg with my Lapland,so I tend to avoid it at all cost. My dr said I could eat the baby spinach at 1 month out. 
    
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BugdocMom
on 8/4/12 1:02 pm - CA
RNY on 05/31/11 with
Salad (like eggs and beef) is notoriously difficult on many pouches. A lot of surgeons don't recommend adding raw veggies, especially greens, for six months or more. My doc cleared me at 6 weeks and I had no problem. BUT, with every new food you add, it just depends on what your pouch likes. If it doesn't go well right now, wait a while to reintroduce it.
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Emmernellie
on 8/4/12 2:18 pm - McKenzie, TN
RNY on 06/11/12 with
I am 8 wks out. My surgeon told me to try anything that was no over 15 grams of sugar or fat per serving. I wanted a salad so badly but my pouchy was very grouchy when I tried to eat it. That was about 4 weeks out. I have tried even last week to eat a salad. NOPE. I will just have to wait a few months I suppose and do some more healing.
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madeformore
on 8/4/12 2:42 pm - MN
RNY on 06/21/12 with
My dietician said that lettuce/greens can be one of the more difficult things to digest. She said that even when people chew and chew and chew it, is just something that's hard to process. Might want to wait a bit and try it again further out.

Amy

HW: 270   SW: 245   CW: 172  GW: 160 then we'll see  

    

    

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wendydettmer
on 8/4/12 2:44 pm - Rochester, NY
RNY on 12/22/11 with
it wasn't recommended for us until regular foods at 3 months. i did do blended salads before then, which went down fine (and i had permission to try). Now i'm 7 months out and i eat salads almost every day and have about 8 cups of spinach a day in my smoothie/protein shake.

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Char143
on 8/4/12 2:51 pm - CT
 I find that the pouch rules when aa is said and done...if you can tolerate it, whatever it is, than go for it.  But if you can't just put it aside for awhile and maybe, eventually, you will be able to.
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_Donna_
on 8/4/12 3:07 pm
I am 15 months post op and I still struggle with lettuce unless I cut it into tiny pieces before, then chew, chew, chew. It almost isn't worth the effort.

     Donna  
                                                                RNY 5-5-2011
                                          HW 260, SW 246, LW 180, CW 193, GW 140

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Mal
on 8/5/12 8:10 am
 Salad and my pouch didn't get along until 3 months out.  I kept trying (salad is one of my favorite things) but it kept disagreeing with me so I would try it (I think I tried it once cleared for regular food at 1.5 months out) once a week to see if it 'was time' for salad LOL.  Save yourself the pain and aggrivation and wait til 3 months postop.

Mallisa
                
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