Question:
When can I eat popcorn?
I am 7 weeks out from my lap RNY. I have been doing well and I've lost 39 lbs. My question is when can I eat popcorn?? I'm not talking about the microwave stuff that's high in fat and calories, I'm talking about air popped that I can do myself at home with a popcorn popper. Any ideas? — iowamom (posted on March 4, 2009)
March 4, 2009
You can most likely eat it now. It is a space waster. So most doctors say
to avoid it. Be sure to eat each piece in a couple bites. I have no problem
with it.
— trible
March 4, 2009
My nut said no fiberous food like popcorn for 3 months...As sensitive as my
pouch was...I trusted her...You cannot chew popcorn to liquid if you soak
it first! LOL There are all kinds of sharp and rough pieces-parts that can
irriate a bare (no acid), healing pouch and stoma...Plus popcorn is a
filler, and barely nutritious at all. Just trying to figure out how to get
in all my vitamins (which were like HUGE snacks to me the first 2 years)
and my water and my protein and my nutrition in other food groups besides
protein.....I can't even imagine where or when I would have even had time,
let alone, room, for popcorn! If you gotta have popcorn, sprinkle some
grated cheese on it for some protein at least! :) At 5 years I still
can't eat more than a handful of popcorn...My pouch doesn't like it at
all...I know many PO grads (a year or more out) that do eat it...I lump
popcorn into the old junk food pile, personally...I'm more afraid it is a
trigger food for me...If I get addicted to snacking on popcorn and one
night I run out, what will I substitute it with? That's a bad thing for
me! I am always thinking of nutrition...even when making bad choices...I'll
choose a peanut snack (even if they are covered in chocolate before I eat
JUST sugar...) We're all still humanly flawed...so just think ahead to what
problems eating filler foods might do to you...such as trigger other bad
habits or foods...Just a suggestion!
— .Anita R.
March 4, 2009
I was SERIOUSLY addicted to popcorn before my surgery in 2006. Afterwards,
I avoided it for an entire year while I was in rapid weight loss. I made
some and thought I would be able to control it after losing 135# and I was
wrong. It was like an alcoholic avoiding alcohol for a year and then
thinking I could just have a little. Nope, didn't work that way. I am one
of those people that has to completely avoid what I'm addicted to, can't
just have a little. I would strongly urge you to avoid it altogether if
you can. No nutritional value and high in carbs. It might trigger you to
want other carbs that can only lead to bad things. Just my 2 cents.
Dawn Vickers, RN, BLC, CLC
— DawnVic
March 4, 2009
You should have healthier snacks high in protein. Avoid carbs at all cost.
— maria09elena
March 5, 2009
I had some at the movies.Ate one piece at a time.Be careful.
— Virginia H.
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