Butter lettuce contains 5 calories for a cup of butter lettuce.
Butter lettuce itself is pretty low in calories and make for a great low calorie salad that can help aid you in weight loss and just like other types of lettuce the butter lettuce is a healthy and nutritious lettuce that makes great salads.
An average salad contains 200 to 1000 calories and 1 to 2 grams of carbs.
The average calories in an average salad without any meats or cheese is between 200 to 400 calories per average size of salad and the average carbs is between 1 gram to 2 grams of carbs.
When you add additional ingredients to the salad such as bacon, bacon bits, chicken, cheese and salad dressing the salads calories then go up to around 500 to 1000 calories per serving of salad.
The less you put on the salad the less calories the salad will contain.
Salads are good for weight loss as long as you don't add a lot of high calorie ingredients such as meat, bacon bits etc.
If you eat a plain old salad then you can still keep your stomach full and lose weight in the process.
Eating salad alone is not enough to quickly lose weight though but salad is a good food to eat when on a weight loss diet.
When on a weight loss diet you need to eat low calorie foods and get exercise by walking, running, jogging, swimming etc.
A regular salad is pretty low in calories when compared to other foods and if you eat strictly salads and get exercise then you can lose weight doing so.
I ate only salads on my weight loss diet and by eating only salads for 6 months and exercising I lost 50 lbs of weight in the 6 months.
The key to losing weight is to exercise and eat low calorie foods and burn off more calories than you consume.