Asking All You Successful Salad Eaters Out There
#35940 - 01/08/04 01:26 PM
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Bevvy
Reged: 11/04/03
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Loc: Northwest Washington State
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Okay, so I know you're supposed to have the "main meal" first, and the salad (insoluble fiber) last. What if the salad IS your main meal? (In fact, your ONLY meal?)
I can't eat big meals, my tummy just won't tolerate them. I eat about every 2 hours, but only little things -- like, for instance, just now I had one of our ADBs, that's it.
If I have a slice of French bread, that's all I have. So how can I work a salad into one of my little meals? Eat it after the slice of French bread? Oooh, that's too much food at one sitting!
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Bev 
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I honestly have no suggestions when it comes to this...but I worry that you aren't eating enough.
We will have an attack if we don't eat enough or we eat too little. And you are hardly eating anything...mind you you eat hardly anything every two hours but still that's scary.
Hopefully someone will be able to help you, honey!!
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Well, I have pretty small green salads, but I couldn't eat them alone as the whole meal - that would just kill me.
What if you incorporate salad elements into things like sandwiches? A bit of mesclun or lettuce, a thin slice of tomato and peeled cucumber, a bit of avocado smushed onto the bread, that type of thing.
I'd say just downsize your portions of everything so that you can have both soluble fiber and the salad together. This may mean teensy portions of both, but that's okay.
You may also want to make a bread salad - check EFI for a recipe. That will give you the bread and the veggies in one safe dish, and you can have whatever portion size is good for you.
- Heather
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Bev, how big of a salad are we talking here? Personally, I haven't risked having any salad in a long time, even after soluble fiber. The raw lettuce just does a number on me. But maybe if you just have a couple pieces of lettuce it will fulfill your urge for a salad but not be enough to bother you. I certainly wouldn't have too much after just one piece of bread! Sorry I couldn't be more of a help, but I'm not a risk-taker by nature! 
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I have a pretty good size salad(as my main meal) about once a week. Sometimes it does give me some D, but since I'm mostly C, I don't mind! If your prone to D, you probably won't be able to get away with it!
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Sometimes I have a salad without lettuce - meaning I throw some tomatoes, cucumbers, and other fixings in a bowl with some fat-free italian dressing. Always after a meal full of soluble fiber, of course!
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Heather:
#35955 - 01/08/04 01:56 PM
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Lana_Marie
Reged: 01/31/03
Posts: 1968
Loc: Saskatchewan. Canada
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Is it ok that she is eating so little?
I truly don't mean to seem as though I am second guessing you...I am actually just curious because maybe I am being "Elle Pig-O" over here and want to know.
I have cut down my portions quite a bit...but definitely not to these amounts!
Thanks bunches 
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Lana_Marie
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I thought I had to have the soluble BEFORE the insoluble -- but not so? I can have it together? In other words, I should be able to have a salad with pasta (my soluble) in with the salad greens (insoluble), is that right?
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Not Eating Enough
#35964 - 01/08/04 02:10 PM
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Bevvy
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Loc: Northwest Washington State
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Lana Marie, you are a sweetheart! However, I assure you, my problem is definitely NOT an insufficient quantity of food! My doctor wants me to lose weight -- and I want to as well. I have to! When I turned 40, my metabolism came to a screeching halt. Now that I'm -- well, a lot older -- I just don't have any metabolism at all. If I inhale food, I gain the weight from it.
But I crave salads, and I used to make some pretty darn good ones. They were the "main" meal for us -- that's all we had -- salad, every night, salad. Broccoli Salad. Chinese Chicken Salad. Peas & Peanut Slaw. Great Stuff!
I'm determined to somehow find a way to fit even a teeny portion of my favorite salads back into my diet. Somehow.
And thanks again for your concern. 
Bev
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Yes, as long as there's more soluble in there. You want that as your foundation. It's helpful to just have a few bites of soluble fiber before you eat the rest of your meal. But you don't have to separate the fibers out and eat just soluble first, then insoluble. Something like pasta (soluble) with veggie sauce (insoluble) is fine, for example. Or cream of rice cereal (soluble) topped with a bit of fresh fruit (insoluble).
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