I want a salad so bad!

Finally at the point in my life where a salad would taste better to me than any other food right now, which should be "healthy" and it's still a little too harsh..frustrating! Any experience with baby greens? My cousin did a great recipe last night..baby greens, blue cheese crumbles, toasted pecans, strawberries, blueberries, and poppy seed dressing...tasted wonderful..I'm hardly ever able to pinpoint certain foods. Seeds never bother me, I know that for sure...an Outback blue cheese wedge would be so good right now!

I think I need a break from the fiber by the way I felt this morning..I'm just wondering if lettuce is "bad" or if it's just the fiber!

Oh for the love of Pete, I miss salads. There's a dressing they have at some Chick-Fil-As called house dressing, and it is the yummiest and most fattening excuse for salad dressing ever. I crave it like nobody's business. Salads hate me. Salads really hate me. Salads look the same when they exit my body as they did when they entered my body, only slightly more wilted and leaving behind a trail of pain, cramps, and gas. How do nuts not bother me, but salad turns me into a cement mixer with no off button?

It's normal to see some salad/lettuce/nuts, whatever in the stool or toilet.

Firstly, it proves we don't chew as well as we should.
Secondly, our digestive tracts don't completely breakdown every food.

Note the fact you see it....but if it's in loose stool, you'll basically be seeing deconstructed poop with all the stuff that makes it up.

Not all lettuces are easy to chew and break down as easily. So you see lettuce...why should that stop you from eating it?

If you have unbearable discomfort...maybe not the best choice.

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I went six years without eating a salad, and it was the hardest thing in the world to give up. Every time I ate salad, I had terrible pain and increased bleeding, plus it would up my bathroom trips from their usual 20-30 a day.

Even now in remission I still have to limit my fiber. I can eat salad about once a week without problems. More than that, and I'm having loose stools. But I cherish my salad every week.

And I know what you mean about that Outback blue cheese wedge. I could make that my dinner every day for a month and not get tired of it.

I've never had that problem, but it seems like if the colon has to work overtime to digest it, it's problematic. My inflammation is better after my cortisone shot, but I can tell the ulcers are still there by the pain..so if I can go with less fiber for a day or two I should be okay.