Today I discovered that I am unable to eat/digest salad. I am very dissapointed. It went thru me like white on rice and was not fun at all....

Anyone else with this problem?:crying:

You mean you've never had a salad before? Or you mean with your band at the current fill you can't eat it?

Sorry but I'm a little confused. If you mean you can't eat it with your fill, give it a while and try again later. Odds are you just didn't chew it well enough etc. I can eat a salad but it takes a while and I feel like a cow with grass..chew chew chew chew chew...

I have not had a whole salad since my surgery 4/2/09. About 2 weeks after being on solid's and testing foods I had a few bites and was fine- Today - Lunch was a salad- with chicken cheese and eggs- I chewed until the lettuce was liquid- within 2 hrs I had terrible pain and poopies (TMI :crying:) most of the afternoon- Once everything "cleared" I felt better-

I was told that might happen when we "test" new foods....

Thanks for clearing that up! LOL

Anyway..may not have been the lettuce, unless it gave you problems before. And my doc said if you find something you can't eat to wait a few months and try again, as our bodies adjust.

Years ago salads would make my stomach burn like the dickens. MY doc told me not to eat it unless I had crackers or something like that because my body would keep trying to digest the lettuce. So I just put some croutons on it now and it goes down great (I never use dressing).

I'd leave them for a while and try again a few months down the road!

GOod luck! :crying:

i was a huge salad fan b4 surgery....give me a salad and a BUCKET of ranch dressing...lol...now it does nothing 4 me...i may eat one every 3 months if that...i dont get sick...but i dont feel full at all...and no more buckets of ranch!!!!!!!lol...i don't think very many bandsters do get satisfied off salad...unless it has some chicken or an egg...its a once inawhile treat 4 me....

Hidden Valley makes Ranch Powder. My Husband is a ranch addict and sprinkles it on EVERYTHING. So you can sneak it in there, though the sodium content is outragious.