>>>>>>depends how much exercise you get. I'd rather be able to eat relatively freely and exercise than eat lettuce all day.
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>>>>>I love lettuce and salads! I just don't eat them all day... :o)
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>>>>That explains it.
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>>>>If you had to eat them all day, you wouldn't love them :).
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>>>I don't eat them all day, but I do eat a salad every day. :o)
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>>My hat is off to you. I have enjoyed some salads, but most of the time I have to force myself.
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>Maybe it's how you eat them? I've noticed that the salad is served as a separate dish before the main course. Which I tried about twice and just couldn't take it - and I love salads (my best lunch mate was a guy who doesn't eat anything vegetable but rice and potatos... so he'd just take one extra salad for me). To me, salad is a side-dish. That's probably how we eat, bit of this then bit of that then bit of this again, and get the tastes mix up. Eating them separately doesn't let them interact much and gives you too much of one thing while excluding everything else. IOW, I love salads and I'd eat them with almost any main dish - but as a standalone dish... a bit here and there, but not regularly.

As I understand it, the reason for serving the salad first is to get the digestive juices flowing so that the harder to digest foods (the proteins) will digest more easily.