Salad...*cringes*

Don't force yourself to eat it or you'll just be miserable and not want to stick with your new lifestyle. If you want to eat a 'salad' but hate lettuce, make one with a different leafy green (like spinach perhaps) or make it with no leafy greens at all but with other veggies. I make one that is diced up tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, and feta cheese with fat free italian dressing and that's yummy. It's a salad but without lettuce. I use things that I like. Honestly lettuce is not exactly exciting. It's all about what you put in there with it. Try diced up chicken, eggs, various nuts, different cheeses and veggies, etc, and find something you like if you want to have it as an option. But if you just plain hate it, don't make yourself eat it. You will only be miserable and resent the new habits you are trying to form. There are plenty of ways to get in healthy veggies without making yourself eat things you hate. :-)

There are several things that I wouldn't have even CONSIDERED trying before that I've tried now. Some I like, some I don't. I've tried eggplant (eh), spaghetti squash (yum!), cucumbers (never touched them before, now I enjoy them in that 'salad' I mentioned), sweet potatoes (good potential in recipes), etc. Try out some different things and find the ones that you like.

Make a salad without the lettuce...no one said you have to have lettuce. Mix tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli, onions, etc. and add some salad dressing. Maybe you would like that? And is it all lettuce that you hate? Maybe try fresh spinach leaves (that's what I use instead of lettuce) or Romaine instead of basic shredded lettuce. You could also find some really good salad dressings: light honey mustard, fat free caesar, balsamic vinaigrette, raspberry vin., etc. that would change the taste completely.

I tried to make myself eat a salad every day and one day after about a week I put some salad into a bowl, ran over and threw up in the kitchen sink!
I can eat a salad once in a while, but I'll never force myself to eat one every day again. There are plenty of vegetables out there, salads are only one way of preparing them. My favorite way to add vegetables just now is soups. Current favorite: carrot and leek soup.

My husband LOVES my Broccoli-Bacon-Ranch salad!!!

Fresh cut broccoli florets, sun-dried tomato strips, red onion, strips of yellow bell peppers, matchstick carrots, fresh cooked bacon cut into strips, garlic, scallions, and a homemade ranch dressing....

Goes very well with a nice hearty steak or salmon dinner!

Yep you totally do not need lettuce to have a salad. Just google your favorite fruit or veggie and add "salad" to the search and you will find tons of stuff.

Fennel salad
carrot salad
broccoli salad
cucumber salad
spinach salad
apple salad
tomato salad
on and on and on.....

Have fun!

Haha, thanks for posting Karin, now I don't have to type as much

I can eat lettuce, but it's not my favorite. However, I eat a salad almost every night. Mostly it consists of cucumber and onion (always) but the rest varies--tomatoes, radishes, carrots, cilantro, mushroooms. I rarely have lettuce.

So, salad can be whatever you want it to be!!!

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salad can be anything you throw together.

I do figs, hearts of palms, crumbled bacon, crumbled goat cheese. When figs are out of season I use whatever is in.

I usually include lettuce in my salads, but they also include liberal amounts of onions, fresh jalapeño, tomato, zucchini, carrots, mushrooms, croutons, and berries or chopped dates. That's just an example.

try different kinds! skinnytaste.com

Someone already mentioned arugula which I highly recommend too, as it gives salad a peppery tang. (Trader Joe's do inexpensive bags of it.) I usually want to make a quick salad, so I put a bag of arugula, baby (heirloom) tomatoes, baby carrots and some chopped red pepper in a big bowl. Then I toss it in low sodium soy sauce, or sprinkle black pepper or red pepper or paprika on the top with a couple of sprays of olive oil. The freshness is amazing! If I add something different like mushrooms or cucumber or chick peas, I can really taste the difference. Good luck!