I know everyone is different, BUT was wondering how ppl with the lapband do with eating popcorn? Should I get rid of my air popper or hang on to it for later down the road?

I have not had any issues with popcorn, the only time i actually eat it is at the movies and that is a once a month thing. i am so glad that i can eat it, cause going to the movies is not the same without getting some popcorn. I just don't eat the whole bag anymore LOL

I did wait to try for 2 months post op though. I can also eat corn and rice with no issues.

popcorn is just fine, i love popcorn i eat it like a snacks daily

I have a new handout from Cedars-Sinai Center for weight loss that recommends popcorn on their "Healthy Foods Shopping List" as a healthy snack.

Actually it calls for Fat Free Microwave Popcorn, but if I cut back somewhere else on fat, the 1/2 TBS canola oil my popcorn maker takes should

be good. But then I only have eight days to worry about it 'till I go under the knife .At least for a few months.: > )

Popcorn is one of the few things I can get down in the first week or so after a fill. I know it's bad but I get the movie theater butter b/c I'm getting so few calories during that time period.

Pop corn is not a bad snack its what you put on it. Light butter its fine you just cant over do the butter and oil. Air popped its hardly no calories

I used to be able to eat popcorn. Your mileage may vary, obviously, but god, I wish popcorn were a slider for me still. I've had problems with it three times since I hit restriction, so I have unwillingly learnt to cut it out entirely. First time was bad, spent an hour drooling over a toilet in a public bathroom before it came up, and the texture was not fun. Second time was movie popcorn, and I was up all night working that back up. The last time... I had it on a Friday night, and went to bed feeling off. I woke up at five in the morning feeling like I was going to die. My chest hurt so badly, but it didn't want to come up, so I fell asleep on the bathroom floor. Woke up again a few hours later, puked up stomach acid and a few popcorn hulls, through my nose. Lather, rinse, repeat over the next fifteen hours. I got down a few sips of Water late that night, woke up Sunday morning with a sinus infection, because funny thing, chronic allergies plus stomach acid in the sinuses, that's great.

I didn't get down anything solid until that Wednesday.

It was a total systems cascade failure all in a row of total crap. I'm unlucky, you might not be. But I seriously recommend avoiding popcorn.

I go by the idea that there is no bad food. Just count it into your calorie count for the day.

I'm in bed as I type, I haven't ate popcorn in a long time, not the way i did today, usually i would have about six and thats it, but i ate the whole bag because I was hungry at work, I had my band done July 12,2010..anyway i broke out into sweats and I was shaking awful. I was at work and I had to be wheeled out, my friend took me to urgent care (i was embarrassed that ppl at work seen me being wheeled in a wheel chair) and I only told a few of my co workers about my lap band. Now I have to lie and tell them ingestion and gas pains is what I had.

I used to be able to eat popcorn. Your mileage may vary, obviously, but god, I wish popcorn were a slider for me still. I've had problems with it three times since I hit restriction, so I have unwillingly learnt to cut it out entirely. First time was bad, spent an hour drooling over a toilet in a public bathroom before it came up, and the texture was not fun. Second time was movie popcorn, and I was up all night working that back up. The last time... I had it on a Friday night, and went to bed feeling off. I woke up at five in the morning feeling like I was going to die. My chest hurt so badly, but it didn't want to come up, so I fell asleep on the bathroom floor. Woke up again a few hours later, puked up stomach acid and a few popcorn hulls, through my nose. Lather, rinse, repeat over the next fifteen hours. I got down a few sips of Water late that night, woke up Sunday morning with a sinus infection, because funny thing, chronic allergies plus stomach acid in the sinuses, that's great.

I didn't get down anything solid until that Wednesday.

It was a total systems cascade failure all in a row of total crap. I'm unlucky, you might not be. But I seriously recommend avoiding popcorn.