I'm only a little over a week out from surgery - but I am craving salad of all things. I'm curious to find out how long it normally is before our tummies can handle raw greens?

Thanks much!

I tried cooked spinach at 6 weeks and thought I would die. It was WAY too fibrous for my new tummy. I don't think I had a salad until about 3 months post op and it was only a few bites.

Even now I don't have much room for salad after Protein so I rarely eat them. (I used to be a HUGE salad-lover.)

I eat a small salad with a couple ozs of tuna, crab, or chicken etc but never just a salad. I have to add Protein values to it for it to be of any use to me...otherwise, it's really not worth the meal. I was at 8 weeks when i had my first. Might have a little every week, but not much, its no longer a go to meal now, and normally I only eat it when no other WLS friendly options are available.

I wasn't allowed raw veggies until over 3 months post-op, but when I started trying to eat them, they made me HORRIBLY gassy and uncomfortable. I'm 16 months out now and I still can't handle them. I do fine with cooked veggies though! I wouldn't waste room on a salad anyway, even if I *could* eat raw veggies. There's way too much "filler" and not enough protein. I wouldn't want to risk filling up on useless stuff like lettuce and not getting any protein in.

I was having small salads, including some meat and cheese, at a month out. I found that if I cut back my normal serving of about 3 oz meat to only 2, I had room for another 3 oz of salad veg - chopped spinach, tomato, avo, pepper, green onion, etc.

I am 15 months out and I still have trouble with salad. I love it but it is just so filling and no protein. So I generally skip it.

I tried salad three time, I'm a little ver 10 weeks out. Every time, within an hour I was in the bathroom with explosive diarrhea! My salad was grilled chicken, baby spinach, carrots, egg whites, and chick peas with a little dressing chopped up.

I ate a great deal of salad in the pre-op weeks leading up to surgery. Enjoyed them quite a bit.

3+ months post-op, I've ordered them and just ate the toppings and have yet to enjoy lettuces. I prefer to keep things very, very predictable if I'm dining out. I've yet to buy any type of salad for the house, either.

There is just such limited space in the new sleeve that I prefer to stick to high Protein eats.