I have had decent restriction lately tonight after a hard workout I stopped at Wendy's and got a Southwest salad which is Chili and lettuce a little cheese and tortilla strips.....

I was able to eat all of the chili and half of the salad....this is way more than usual

wondering why I was able to eat so much more tonight??

I have had decent restriction lately tonight after a hard workout I stopped at Wendy's and got a Southwest salad which is Chili and lettuce a little cheese and tortilla strips.....

I was able to eat all of the chili and half of the salad....this is way more than usual

wondering why I was able to eat so much more tonight??

I haven't tried salad yet because i thought it could be tricky but I will say that after exercise I am less restricted.

I cant eat for HOURS after exercise. It makes me very very tight.

sorry - new here and learning the terms... what does "slider food" mean?

thinkoflaura: Slider food is foods that slide on thru the pouch w/o staying any time.

salad is not generally a slider food and is one of the best choices you can make, if you choose a "good" salad with a variety of vegetables. To me, chopped lettuce with dressing isn't a salad, although that seems to fit the definition for a lot of takeaway places. A good garden salad with cucumber, carrots, sweet bell peppers, celery, tomatoes, etc, in with the lettuce is usually easy to eat, because you can chew it up really finely, won't glug together in your tummy and get stuck like processed flours/breads, and will keep you feeling full for ages.

I usually find I can eat quite a lot of salad, as it crunches down to be quite small when you chew it, and it is low in calories and fat and high in fibre to help you feel full - go for it! Mind you, a Wendy's chilli, lettuce and cheese dish isn't what I'd call a salad...

Im loveing salads right now. I always put chicken or some kind of meat on them. If ya ever have to go to McDonalds with the kids get a grilled chicken ceaser salad. Its awesome! It has 400 calories but you can make 2 meals out of it.

Oh I'm so happy to hear you can eat salads. I love salads! :scared2:

I start soft solid stage today and hope to get back on eating healthy salads soon.

I have to agree with the previous posters.. Wendy's Chili and cheese isn't a healthy salad:eek:

Actually, I learned the opposite. Salads ARE slider foods. A slider food to my recollection is a food that offers little nutritional value and will slide past the band enabling us to eat more then we should. Lettuce is all Water, nothing more.

There are however better choices we can make salad wise. Mixed greens and spinach offer some nutritional value and actually offer more taste.

I find salad to be a slider food also. I attribute it to the dressing, but I really don't enjoy them without. I can eat so much of it, it messes with my head a little. I actually try to avoid them now because I like creamier dressings and croutons are my kryptonite, I swear. It's really difficult for me to say no to those oily crunchy delicious little buggers. So yeah, slider in my opinion.

Edit: And for the record, my salads usually also have broccoli, carrot, bellpepper, grilled chicken and almond slivers. It still seems like I can eat way more than I should be able to, hence why I consider it a slider.

Edited December 11, 200916 yr by Erin Marie

Even after a year I find that when I eat out I can still eat twice as much as recommended. So I try to avoid it. I don't know why its just a fact.

I guess we can all have different definitions for things. To me, a "slider" food is one that dissolves to liquid and slides through the band, eg chocolate and icecream. Lettuce is composed of mostly water with a little fibre. When chewed, the water is released and will go through but the fibre is left behind and fills the pouch. To me, that means it is not a "slider". It just takes a LOT of lettuce to create enough fibre to get a sensation of fullness - hence why you can eat a lot of it. I would also have a different definition of "salad". Lettuce and dressing simply don't qualify in my mind. If you say "salad", my mental image is of a proper garden salad with a variety of veges, as mentioned previously. Hence, if you ask "is lettuce a slider food", I might say "technically not really, but I can see why people might think so" but if you were to ask "is salad a slider food", I will answer "no, it's not".

Edited December 10, 200916 yr by Fanny Adams

I cant eat for HOURS after exercise. It makes me very very tight.

Jachut what do you do for exercise? Is it weights or cardio? The one where i REALLY feel it is horseback riding (the type I do is a lot of core work and cardio combined). My friend has a theory its because i'm bouncing around so I guess running would fall in that category too? When I did Elliptical I may have felt tighter....who knows all i know after riding i'm starving and can actually eat. I ride on an empty stomach in the AM.

Its a peculiar notion to me this idea of a salad being just lettuce and dressing. To me, its lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, mushrooms, avocado, cucumber, sprouts and such with a dressing like french or italian. That's healthy.

And definitely not a slider for me, in fact very difficult to eat.

hmarko, I do running, boot camp and circuit training, a lot of interval type stuff, makes me very hot, sweaty, very high heart rates, I am tight tight tight after that.

If I just go for a nice slow run, I'm not.

Its a peculiar notion to me this idea of a salad being just lettuce and dressing. To me, its lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, mushrooms, avocado, cucumber, sprouts and such with a dressing like french or italian. That's healthy.

And definitely not a slider for me, in fact very difficult to eat.

hmarko, I do running, boot camp and circuit training, a lot of interval type stuff, makes me very hot, sweaty, very high heart rates, I am tight tight tight after that.

If I just go for a nice slow run, I'm not.

Toh-may-toe, toh-mah-toe, eh Jachut? I never get used to the idea that US people will talk about a "salad" and then you discover they meant "lettuce and dressing". That just doesn't cut the mustard for a salad here! To me, a "real" salad has a heap of veges in it and the dressing is incidental/optional (and mostly I don't bother). "Real" salads, with their carrots, cucumber, celery, capsicum, etc, etc, are really filling and SO good for you! :eek:

I love salads and was told they are one of the worst things once you get banded and was sad about that.

So do y'all eat them? Wonder why I was told they aren't easy to eat once your banded?