I eat salad EVERY day for lunch and I have been GAINING wieght. WTF?

what kind of salad dressing?
creamy stuff? no good...
olive oil and vinegar is best for diets and health

What's on the salad?

A pound of bacon and a quart of Ranch dressing with two lettuce leaves is not a salad...

What is on your salad?


BTW - lettuce makes me ill. So, once a week I pickle a bunch of fresh veggies to munch on instead of eating salad.

i use cabbage instead of lettuce, gives it a nice crunch

I order a taco salad. The Shell is a nice treat when I am done eating whats in the bowl.

Some salads (Caesar for example) are horrible. The Caesar is worse than a dove bar if you can believe that.

Maybe it is not so much the food though as you could be stressed and thus having cortisol issues?

Quit eating twinkies for dessert.

So what are you eating for breakfast and dinner?

taco salad? go figure.
are you being serious?
that's not healthy.

Why? Do you have Gallbladder issues? I serve salad before almost every dinner...Last night was the first salad from the garden this year...

LOL! *The* mjost fattening 'salad' known to man! Deepfried bowl filled with cheese and greasy meat with a side of chips!!

I love them too.

How many sugary beverages do you consume per day?

Well, there ya go... carbs are the enemy.

And try to cut out that large fizzy drink with the taco salad.

Lulz, that is hardly a salad. Even though it has what they call lettuce in it.

A typical taco salad can have 900 plus calories.

The shell is very fattening.

Yup, that's it: half pound of seasoned hamburger,sour cream, dressing,and all the trimmings...and remember alcohol has about 100 calories per serving...15 drinks per day= 1,500 calories!!

The highest fat content of all foods sold by McDonalds is in it's Caesar salad. The dressing is a killer.

Nope. No gallbladder issues. Took me yrs to figure out. (Drs - no help.) I serve the guys organic salads alot.

BTW - the cabbage idea sounds great. Love cabbage.

HAwk -10
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I thought you were coooool, I was wrong!

Pick your own salad outdoors fool, it's free food. You call that a salad THIS is a salad!

Thats how it goes. Don't pretend you don't know.

lol yeah

Good one Brief !! HAHAHA

Try the new Wendy's Apple Pecan Chicken salad...it is yum and around 500 calories.

Chicken Ranch Taco Salad (Taco Bell)
Serving Size (g)420
Calories: 910
Calories from FAT: 490
Saturated Fat (g)10
Total Fat (g)54
Trans Fat 0.5
Cholesterol (mg)70
Sodium (mg)1660
Carbohydrates (g) 71
Dietary Fiber (g)9
Sugar (g) 6
Protein (g)35

Don't eat iceburg lettuce. Hardly any nutrition in it.

The more color the leaves have - the more nutrition is in it.

your metabolism changed. back in highschool i ate fast food and chinese almost every day and never gained a pound but i had high blood pressure from all the sodium. So I went on an all healthy diet, lost 5 pounds, after a while on the healthy diet i gained 10 pounds.

Sure salads are low in calories and high in vitamins, but they are also low in protien and essential fats. Your body recognises this lack of essential nutrients and it starts adding on the pounds for reserves.

Think of back when humans were nomadic, when the herds they were following became stationary, they had bountiful amounts of protiens to fuel their bodys, but when the animals were on the move the nomads had to survive on mostly berrys, nuts and vegitables while keeping up with the traveling animals.

Of course we can look at the people who eat mc'ds and bk everyday and they are complete slobs and fat as a baby whale. Thats from the highfructose corn syrup, sugars, carbs and other artificial ingredients in the the buns and half quart of soda they drink per sitting.

Lets say the meat on their patty weighs 5oz of a total of 2 lbs of food/drink combined they get(fair estimate with a large soda and large fries, american large ofc). of that 32 oz meal, only 5oz is meat. the other 27 oz is sugars, sweeteners, preservatives, man made chemicals as and other things that the human body cannot digest. so even though that you are full, your body is in starvation/conserve mode because it doesnt recognise most of the compunds in that meal.

the problem is probably that big ass breakfast and dinner you wolf down. try excercise that doesn't include your below the waist, wrist jerks.