The Potato Hack
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The Potato Hack
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#3I notice that a microwaved potato is not listed as an option, is there something about water immersion cooking that effects satiety?
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#4I think science has given people with bodies that don't tolerate restriction an out in the form of Ozempic. I've seen a few of my friends go through it and it's scary effective. It's not a forever solution and you do eventually have to form better eating habits to maintain your new weight but being overweight is so damaging to your body that it's not worth the fight if you've been trying and failing to lose weight via the usual channels. Just cheat and then work on not putting it back, your knees will thank you in 40 years.
Source: Two family members in their mid-50s who have had double knee replacements due to them being overweight their whole lives.
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#5I notice that a microwaved potato is not listed as an option, is there something about water immersion cooking that effects satiety?
The purpose of water cooking is to avoid using fats/oils, so microwave could be fine too
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#6Potatoes are definitely not a low calorie food. According to the USDA, potatoes are .77 kcal/g, while apples are .58 kcal/g, oranges are .47 kcal/g and tomatoes are only .18 kcal/g. Sorry, but potatoes are too good to be low-calorie.
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#7Potatoes are definitely not a low calorie food. According to the USDA, potatoes are .77 kcal/g, while apples are .58 kcal/g, oranges are .47 kcal/g and tomatoes are only .18 kcal/g. Sorry, but potatoes are too good to be low-calorie.
Yeah this hack really would be more effective with protein rich foods.
Like boiled chicken or something.
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#8What is going on here!?
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#9Potatoes are definitely not a low calorie food. According to the USDA, potatoes are .77 kcal/g, while apples are .58 kcal/g, oranges are .47 kcal/g and tomatoes are only .18 kcal/g. Sorry, but potatoes are too good to be low-calorie.
"Potatoes get a bad reputation as a fattening food when in reality they have the highest satiety rating of any food on the planet"
The author doesn't claim potatoes are low calorie, he says calorie for calorie, potatoes make you feel more full.
I can see it, eating one large potato will make me feel full longer than eating twice as many apples.
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#10Not bad for the wallet either. My local shop sells potatoes for USD$1.61 for 8.8 lb (that's AUD$2.50 for a 4-kilo bag) which provides bang on 3000 kcal.
Looking at a 4 kg bag it would be so hard to eat anywhere near one bag every day, I just could not imagine getting through that volume.
IIRC from last time this was posted, the hypothesis for why most people felt really good on this diet was a nutrient deficiency in most diets that's addressed by potatoes