Hello everyone! This is my first time posting on this site. I'm 5 weeks post-op doing great. I would like to know if anyone at this stage think salad a good choice to try?

I'm not quite 4 weeks and I had a salad.

One of those things I think surgeon's/nutritionists differ on. My nutritionist said no salad or crunchy veggies/fruits until 4 months post op. I'm dying for a nice salad!!

On another board a girl just posted how she ate lettuce for the first time in 8 weeks and thought she was gonna die... The replies were agreeing that lettuce is considered a stringy food? That is more difficult and commonly painful to digest...... Scared me away from salads.... But I guess it's one of those "try it and see" things...

My Bariatric center moves us along in stages and lets us know what foods we can eat at each one. We literally get a list of foods. Did you bariatric center/surgeon give you a listing of each stage?

We were also told we shouldn't move to the next stage of eating until they gave us the go. They want to make sure we're doing well with the stage we are on before we move to the next one. My friend is 3 months out from her surgery and still cannot eat salad. Proteins always need to be first.

Thank-you for your responses. I did try it with chicken. It went down with no problem.

Cinta70

I'm almost 4 mo out and I'm still very careful with salad. Mainly because I want to not waist the room in my tummy with non nutritious food but also because I try to chew my food really well, and well lettuce does not taste well all chewed up

I heard that lettuce is very hard to digest. My surgeons office told me to always eat protein first and that lettuce has no nutritional value so don't waste the stomach space. I love salads so I am bummed!

I was told no salad until 6-8 weeks post op! I have ate lettuce and it went down perfect!!!

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Salads are all I crave! I have no issues eating it- but I also add cheese, chicken, eggs, etc. so I make sure I get in my protein.

That sounds good sunflower

It's delicious!!