Is Popcorn Ok?

[Queen of Crop 1,103]

I don't have a nutritionist like many of you; had my surgery done in Frankfurt Germany and I now live in Hawaii. (self-pay). I eat a lot of popcorn because it goes down easily.....have any of you NUTS said no to this?

[AKSleever 57]

It's a slider food, so should be limited to occasion! And depends on how far out you are, you need to be careful of the kernels

[notime 340]

Mine says no. She particularly warned us not to eat theater popcorn. I don't really know why though. Perhaps because if I am eating popcorn, I am not eating Protein or vegetables.

[circa 333]

Theater popcorn has bout 2000 calories in butter alone - that's probably why.

I eat popcorn maybe once every year so if I eat it at the theater, I think I'm ok

If its a common thing, make sure you're limiting your serving size and what you put on it -

My husband loves popcorn so I get him the 100 calorie serving size bags - that way he has enough, but doesn't gorge on it.

[fluffylibra30 323]

I eat the 100 calorie bags as well. I get the plain ones then and a little white cheddar sprinkling. The powder has almost no calories and just a little sodium.

[MinaT 669]

I know a lot of people do eat it, some will say in moderation and some doctor's and nutritionists will say NO..never eat it. I am sure some day, I will have a little bit, but I don't imagine doing it for a while. I'm at 8 weeks and struggling with Protein. I just got pleurisy again (Lupus related) and it's hard to breath let alone eat or dink. I had my first real salad today, ate less than 1/2 of it (mostly picked out some of the meat). The lettuce was rough going down.

I guess it depends on how far out you are. It is a slider food, you eat it and you can eat so much of it (pre-surgery for my "forespecial" day out I ate the Largest Jumbo bag of popcorn at the movies...all by myself, yeah I put butter on it too. That equals 910-1220 calories and 71-97 grams of fat. I lucked out and didn't gain weight because I was careful for 2 weeks prior to this and was on a stall and it kicked me out of a stall.

Good luck, popcorn is something I love, but I don't think it's a good idea just out from surgery because the kernels could be harmful to your stomach and there's not much of a nutritional value to them, if you are going to try some make sure you are healed.