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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.