What kind of lettuce are you using?

regular iceburg lettace
i did not know that mattered wow....

It actually does! Iceberg is the least healthy of the lettuces and actually not as good for you as you think. If I were you, I'd go for Spring Mix or Spinach. I have a Spinach salad almost every night and the health benefits from it are amazing! Also, it depends what dressing you use and how much cheese you put on, too!

Just remember, you are not limited to salad. Infact, I have only eaten 2 salads since I change how I eat in November and I have dropped 31 lbs. Look for a variety of stuff.

The danger for me in eating salads is I get sick of dieting faster. For me it is better to mix it up with fish, chicken or turkey for more variety.

What is the rest of your diet like?
While salad may not be bad for you, if it's all you are eating, then it's bad for you.

Also, just eating healthy foods can be bad if you are eating too much of those foods.
Portion size matters.

When it comes to vegetables, you really do NOT have to watch how much you eat. It's what you put on it (like cheese, meat ect..). I decided to eat a salad a day for one of my meals, and it's working great. I try to put something different on it everyday. I also have my other favorite toppings (although sparingly on the nuts and croutons). That's what so great about eating healthy, you can eat more than just a small amount as you would with something like icecream, ect.. I really like the organic baby lettuces in the bag. They are very healthy too, because of the dark green and some red colors too.

Eating salad every once in a while, or a few times a week is not bad for you, but more often than that is actually not good, which is something that people don't realize. Eating too much salad can be very irritant, especially for your intestines. It's always better to vary, eat different veggies, and like LindseyH423 said, maybe replace it with Spinach once in a while...

I'm in college so I eat at the dining hall a lot. Therefore I used to find that I went straight to the salad bar. For 2 and a half years I went to the salad bar almost every meal (besides breakfast) Earlier this year I made a pact with myself to start mixing it up and not have a salad with every meal. What I found was that I was actually saving a lot of weight watchers points on salad dressing (even the low cal kind) and other salad toppings. Salad is good but make sure you don't get into a rut and eat it everyday.

Salad is a great source of fiber, you should branch off the iceburg but as long as you use healthy topping and add other types of fiber such as whole wheat bread I dont see why it would be a problem. The ideal thing would be to add a elan protein as well and thats covers all the food groups

Also, I read that in Eurpoe they eat salad after the meal its better for digestion which I find is true with my irritable bowel syndrome

Hi Lorri I was reading a magazine and found a diet that might help us. The no s diet. No sugar, no snacks and no seconds. You are permited to eat some sugar on days that start with S. like the weekends. I just started, I will let you know if it works.

salads can sometimes be dangerous. Dressings are VERY fattening. I use concentrated lemon juice or vinegar and oil rather than italtion or ranch, etc. Also, a lot of cheese in salads are also fattening. Fried/crispy chicken is too. Turkey is good though.

Use fresh spinache or romaine lettuce and cut out the cheese.

boy, is that a big IT DEPENDS question. First off, if you are using dressing with all that you are defeating yourself. Second, unless you are using lots of dark leafy greens like spinach and kale in your salads, you are getting very little nutritional value.