where to begin

I have been living with pancreatitis for almost a year now. I have only had two flare ups since being diagnosed and one of those flare ups is happening now. The doctors were not very helpful when they diagnosed me. they literally said "lose weight, exercise, and watch what you eat." It is very hard to deal with when I have no one who can remotely understand what I go through with this. My husband does all that he can but I know sometimes he feels super helpless when there are things he cannot do to help me. My doctor currently doesn't have me on any medications for this so I am pretty much winging it so to speak. Hopefully I will get in to see here soon to hopefully discuss further options but right now the hardest part is knowing what I can and cannot eat. I know I have to be on a low fat diet but there are so many different controversies over what is good low fat and what isn't good at all and so on and so forth. It is enough to make a person want to cry... which i have done a lot of lately.