I met with my dietician last night and was given the go ahead to start eating salad! This is what I've been craving for 8 weeks. Now I'm a little apprehensive about trying it. But as soon as I can get to the store, I will.

Fez,

I know what you mean. I've always liked salads and I was chatting with my boyfriend last night about food. I told him If someone put a meaty cheesy pizza in front of me and a salad I would punch them out for the salad. It is strange to be craving something so healthy. I read a couple things that say to make sure and cut up some boiled egg, very tiny lean lunch meat or lean chicken if you can tolerate it, and of course cheese for Protein. Enjoy.

GummyTummy,

Ok, so I'm only 4 weeks out and can only eat about two tablespoons, or less, of whatever I'm eating. At two months out you are actually able to eat lettuce, eggs, cold cuts and cheese? Just reaading the post made me fell full.

I'm three months out and I haven't had trouble eating anything (though I haven't tried anything "bad"). I can and do eat salad. I absolutely looove salad, but since I'm looking for nutritional density, I don't often do lettuce based salads. I can eat a fair amount at once, but lettuce just takes up too much room to be worth it nutritionally. So, nice crunchy salads with chopped cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, chickpeas, etc are a great summer choice for me!

I order salads, minus the lettuce. I love salads ( before surgery) but now I would rather "fill up" on the proteins and goodies in a salad not from the lettuce itself. You may get some strange looks but actually I think they add more of the goodies in it than it would normally contain if it had the lettuce included. I am 4 months out and down 75 pounds.