when did you add salads back in

I think I was at about 3.5 months out when I tried one. I got the okay from my surgeon. Even though I have eaten them a few times I have learned that my sleeve does not like salad as much as I do. So I am just going to avoid them for now. It just makes me feel yucky even after a few bites. 

As is often the case, this is a big YMMV thing - some will have tolerance problems with some of the classic salad components for an extended period of time while others have no problem at all.

I started playing with small salads at around a month out. Protein, of course, is our first priority, but as I was already routinely hitting my protein goals by day ten (and the doc was adding some veg to my diet) I had some margin to play with. I found that, at least for me and the way that I make them, salads are a fairly reasonable slider, so that while my normal capacity for firm proteins was about 3 oz, if I cut that back to around 2 oz, I could comfortably move an additional 3-ish oz of salad veg through the system along with the meat. I typically use chopped spinach instead of lettuce owing to its somewhat better nutritional profile and added 10-20gm each of a few other salad veg - tomato, avo, scallion, pepper, carrot, peas, etc. One variant or another of this has been a staple of mine ever since (though since hitting goal I could afford to boost the calories some by adding more avo and cheeses to the mix. These days the salads contribute roughly half of the 6-8 nominal daily servings of fruit/veg that I get.

Consistent with whatever your doc's program progression allows, play around with them - start simple and test each component for tolerance first before getting overly complex on them - and have some healthy fun.

I agree about YMMV. I feel SO much better after adding salad foods back at 4 months post-op. I still make sure I get my 3 oz of dense protein in, but enjoy very much having a few bites of fresh veggies with it. :-)

My dietician said I could have salad at the 3-month mark, but my sleeve did not agree.  At that point, I could eat a couple bites of sliced cucumbers.  I wasn't able to tolerate leafy greens until 9 months post op.  Now, almost 2 years out, I can eat salads like a champ :)

I wasn't allowed any raw veggies for six months, plus I could only have a bite or two of veggies anyway (not enough protein) so it really wouldn't have been worth it to even try a salad.

My own person bias against salads aside, I see a lot of people getting in trouble with "delivery" foods. For most people, it's not the lettuce and whatnot they crave. It's the dressing and other things they slather on top. Check out the nutrition information at any chain restaurant, and there will be three or four salads on the menu with 1500 calories. If that was the ONLY thing you ate, all day, you could be gaining weight. That's more calories than two quarter pounders with cheese and bacon.

Just like lettuce becomes a delivery system for dressing, an innocent looking piece of toast becomes a base for a few hundred calories of peanut butter, jam, etc. A couple of crackers get piled high with a wide variety of things. Innocent looking "delivery" foods become gateway drugs.

Lettuce is almost literally nothing. If you like tomatoes or peppers or whatever other vile emanations of the ground go into a salad, eat those. Just be careful when you swirl them all together in a salad bowl, because then it becomes tempting to layer on the toppings.

I too really missed my salads so I added them back at about 2 months.  I just make sure it has some type of protein in it, like turkey.

Protein FIRST. Always. Even many months post-op. MAYBE one or two bites of salad when you're a year out.

Salads (assuming you forego the cheese and dressing and other high-calorie stuff) are mostly water. They take up room in your sleeve that SHOULD be filled with dense protein.

Let's face it, none of us got MO by eating salad.

I really miss my raw spinach (the only leaf veggie I ate) so I figured I'd try it pulverized in my protein shake like I used to do after the gym.......well my stomach even though it was totally liquefied no pieces (love my Ninja lol) didn't agree, I didn't vomit but just felt a little nauseous so no spinach for a while longer lol.

I do miss a good spinach salad with balsamic vinegar.....

I was told I could start eating salads at 6 months. I really didn't start enjoying spinach salads until recently, I'm now 8 months post op.