I find that a salad (veggies only) has a binding effect on me. Does this happen to anyone else?

It occurred to me that some of the participants of the recent Cookies & Milk...vs...Vegetables post stated that consuming a salad causes them problems with increased frequency. It has an opposite effect on me. It slows me down and results in an incomplete evacuation, unless I want to spend many consecutive hours in the hopper. It will also cause me to strain to move things along. Therefore, I only eat a salad if it is part of a larger meal or will only eat it if it is something like a grilled chicken salad or tuna salad. Even then, after evacuation, the lettuce pretty much looks undigested.

I routinely eat lightly steamed veggies (e.g. broccoli, cauliflower, green beans) without issue. Granted the veggies are almost always consumed as part of a meal with chicken, fish, or beef. Occasionally I make a stir fry with nothing but veggies (cooking the veggies very lightly) and tofu and never have any issue. I don't have issues when I eat these veggies raw either. Lettuce, when consumed by itself or only with other veggies, proves problematic.

Any thoughts as to why lettuce produces these results (no pun intended)? Thanks.

My tranist time with raw vegetables is much slower than with steamed vegetables by about 6-8 hours. Raw fruits and vegetables give me a lot of bulk.


Sue

I don't seem to digest greens well. They come out looking like they did when they went in. I once found a perfect spinach leaf in the toilet.

For me eating lettuce results in the most horrendous painful butt burn.

I don't have any problems now but before takedown while I had the temp-ileo - I believe lettuce is what landed me in the hospital for a week with an obstruction.