Thoughts on Popcorn...

So I'm just curious as to how you handle popcorn.  Are you able to tolerate it?  I have had conflicting suggestions from my NUT and my Surgeon, so I thought I'd ask here and get some more opinions!  (Yes, I know it isn't protein, and that protein comes first...this is out of curiosity.)

I handle popcorn like I do all easy to overeat on snack foods, with caution.

If I have any at all it is in a small portion controlled bag.  Because if I get a 5 gallon bag of popcorn I will eat a 5 gallon bag of popcorn.

I don't keep it at the house.  I had a period of time, a few years post op, that I would whip up a batch of hot air popcorn a few times a week.  

A month later I was eating a full bowl every night.  And I mean the salad bowl, not the salad bowls for individual servings but the bowl you make the salad in.  

I decided that that had to stop so now I just have it occasionally when I go to the movies or a single serving bag everyone once in awhile.  

Snacky things like chips, crackers and popcorn are things I can eat a great deal of because it is mostly air and takes up little space.  Restriction is useless with those things.  To take advantage of my restriction I stick with dense protein that fills me up and keep the snacky stuff for rare occasions instead of regular, daily intake.

Basically, if you think you may have a problem with it you probably do or will.

I handle it much too well! Popcorn is one of those magic foods that sort of melts in your mouth and disappears before it hits the pouch, so I can eat a freaking giant bucket of it without getting the full feeling I would get from 3 bites of dense chicken. It's an okay occasional treat for me, now that I have hit goal and I'm on maintenance, but I would not recommend it while you are still losing.

First, I think it's too soon for you to start popcorn. I'd wait until six months. I did.

Second, we can eat a billion pieces of popcorn. It looks like it would be filling. It's not. You could eat it pretty much nonstop. That makes it dangerous.

Popcorn also is a delivery vehicle for 20 trillion calories of butter and other toppings. At first we jyst eat plain airpopped popcirn, in small measured amounts. By year three we are eating a bucket with a whole stick of butter on it.

So, popcorn can be a pretty healthy snack if we are smart about it. But it can also open the door to eating way, way too many calories. Only you can figure out which one you are.

At 5 months out, popcorn for me is a no-go. I'm sure I could physically tolerate it, but I'm positive it would be triggering for me to either eat more and more of it, or to start craving other little carby snacks here and there. I thought I'd have a hard time going to the movies because of the smell, but it hasn't bothered me at all! 

Maybe when I'm at goal, it's something I might be able to reintroduce. But maybe not.

I can tolerate it fine. I've had it once when I shared a bucket with my daughter at the theater. I only keep unpopped kernels in the house and we make some in the hot air popper when we watch a family movie. I have not been tempted by it then, probably because it's after dinner and I'm very full. But if I am....the  fact that it's a pain to make and that I have a houseful of kids to share it with will probably force moderation. Lol. 

A lot of people here love it and do okay with it, but like others have cautioned-it can become a problem because you can eat so much of it. 

I have had exactly 3 kernels of popcorn in the 3.5 years since surgery-and none in well over a year. Corn and corn products do not sit well with me at all, so I avoid it. I wasn't a huge popcorn fan before surgery, but I didn't hate it either, so for me-it's no big deal that I can never eat it again. 

Corn and I are not a good friend. Any corn. 

People who raise hogs know what to do to produce as much meat as possible.  To fatten a hog, you feed it skim milk because the fat in whole milk is too filling and keeps the hogs from eating.

Along with the skim milk you give lots of sugar and lots of corn.  Corn is wonderful for adding fat to an animal and to a human.

It also helps to keep the hog confined and out of the sunshine.  Being out and moving around lowers weight.  Popcorn is excellent for fattening people because they can eat so much of it.

I can eat a butt load of it in one sitting so I watch it carefully