...iceberg lettuce!

I'll be eight weeks out tomorrow, which means I'm tiptoeing toward "regular" food textures. And Like many of us, I've been missing crunch.

I'd made some chicken taco meat in the pressure cooker, so I got a bag of shredded iceberg leffuce. I put a pinch of lettuce on my mini-taco bowl.

It was delicious. It crunched. And it didn't fill me up! I've cautiously gotten to where I can put nearly 1/4 cup of lettuce shreds on my taco meat and still get all the meat portion in. And I get to crunch. Bliss!

Something that really made me hesitate over getting my sleeve is my love for salads. Now I have hope that I can adapt my love for salads in a way my sleeve can live with.

It's the little things.

Try a different type of lettuce. Maybe romaine. I really can't tolerate lettuce after surgery. It makes me feel really bloated so I try to avoid it.

I was surprised at how filling I found salads post op. I can only eat a couple bites

Try a different type of lettuce. Maybe romaine. I really can't tolerate lettuce after surgery. It makes me feel really bloated so I try to avoid it.

I did try a few bites or romaine a few days previously when at a work lunch. Worked fine and I loved the crunch. Mind you, the iceberg is completely for texture, not for nutrition. For Mexican food, shredded iceberg has the right texture for me. I love romaine, but it isn't for taco bowls, even taco bowls that fit in a custard cup.

I love romaine lettuce hearts! Took me a long while to be able to tolerate lettuces / salads. But they're back on my play list now.

Nice!!! Good for you. I found that since lettuce is mostly Water I can eat almost double what I can of "solid" foods. I too like the crunch ... really missed that part at the beginning! Now however, lettuce has recently begun to irritate my tummy and make me very gassy so I tend to save it for when I really want to crunch something.

Enjoy it!

I'm highly amused that I've found a slider that isn't also kryptonite. I don't care for sweets but I do love cunchy/salty. My cubicle is adjacent to the cart we have at the office that always has Snacks on it. Knowing that something like goldfish crackers are my kryptonite, I've stayed ten paces from the snack cart. I just don't want to go there.

My worst slider food is movie theater popcorn. I went to a movie with my brother and he had a coupon for a free large soda and free large popcorn. So I figured I'd just grab a handful and nibble on it.

then I grabbed a second handful....and a third...and fourth......and we killed that whole bucket

I can't eat lettuce at all post-op. Any raw veggies cause me to be very burpy. So count yourself lucky!

salad is the exception to my NUT's rule about how much food to eat. I'm at the 1/3-1/4 cup stage (at 9 months). In addition to that portion, I can also have up to half a cup of salad if I want.