How Do You All Do With Salads?

I try to eat salad at least once a week because I love them but unfortunately they don't always love me. Actually had one yesterday and it wasn't too bad. We have a great salad bar at work so I did minimal lettuce, some different veggies (no tomatoes but love beets), tons of protein (hard boiled eggs, shredded cheese, ham & chicken), and lots of yummy regular salad dressing - yesterday was 1000 Island.

This tread just proves that we're all so different.

Hi Sandy.

I was able to eat salads (all types) within a month after my revision.

I have a salad daily at lunchtime - add my protein to the top of the salad and mix with dressing.

I love blue cheese too. I always add raw onion to my salads.

A relative of mine had the gastric sleeve only in February and still has a hard time with salads. And she is a salad lover.

Hope you are well.

Lucy

Ditto loving salads especially protein-loaded with full-fat dressing.  For me it is pretty much salad in, salad out (sometimes within the hour) so whether or not I have a large salad depends on my schedule. 

I am convinced my gut has its own time-space continuum complete with an HOV lane for veggies.  My intestinal tract is certainly not linear.  Salad doesn't "push" everything in front of it out like a plunger.  It skirts by unscathed and collects its $200 for passing go at the end.  Now there's a thought!  Monopoly DS Edition!  Anyone? 

Most of the time I do fine now. It took quite some time to get here, a fair amount of trial and error. The errors were/are pretty gross.

IMHO, I prefer to take up valuable real estate (my stomach) with something that offers SOMETHING in return...and lettuce does not seem to do that.

So, I order a salad, tell the server that I *KNOW* they will think I'm crazy and they might be right...but I'd like the lettuce in one bowl/on one plate/whatever and all the other parts of the salad in another bowl/on another plate. 

And I tend toward cobb salads because those, I think, give the most protein and variety.  Chef's salads are my next favorite.

salads used to make me run to the bathroom, but now i can tolerate greens and they keep things moving, it also helps when you order and they give me a strange look and order only meat and no sides! i love greek salad and i order extra cheese and extra chicken, with oil and vinegar dressing, cobb and antipasta salad are great also.

My body tolerates salads just the same as it did before. I try to eat them atleast once a week when I get a craving. I'll add deli ham or turkey into mine for protein, along with cheese and other random things. The lettuce sits perfectly.

I can't handle most salads. I can't have spinach at all. Most lettuce goes right through me. If I coat everything with a lot of dressing it seems to help slightly, but I generally stay away from salads.

i eat salads but i do not use lettuce normally, i do things like cukes, red peppers, tomatoes, dill, parsley, evoo , salt pepper lemon, feta+olives, Sort of like a greek /turkish shepard type of salad. Or i make really chunky pico de gallo, and I usually include this with most of my proteins b/c it is so refreshing and it makes it easier to eat the protein.