Thoughts on the potato diet • Hacker News Board

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by joshgroban » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 5:38 PM UTC

adam_arthur wrote: post #7

Intermittent fasting has been the easiest thing for fine tuning control over weight for me. My Dad always says it's too hard, he gets hangry etc, but once you commit to it for ~2 weeks you don't even get hungry in the fast window anymore. The body gets very conditioned to eating patterns. Something to ease into. I'm not sure the average person can succeed on a diet predicated on greatly limiting the variety of foods…

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Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by bejelentkezni » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 5:38 PM UTC

This sounds like a great way to quickly deplete most of your vitamins and minerals.

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by wpietri » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 5:41 PM UTC

adam_arthur wrote: post #7

Intermittent fasting has been the easiest thing for fine tuning control over weight for me. My Dad always says it's too hard, he gets hangry etc, but once you commit to it for ~2 weeks you don't even get hungry in the fast window anymore. The body gets very conditioned to eating patterns. Something to ease into. I'm not sure the average person can succeed on a diet predicated on greatly limiting the variety of foods…

Having done both time-based and food-based restrictions, I would say that both can work for some people but won't work for others. And I think the details matter a ton. E.g., I've happily done months of fasting where my eating window is circa 7a-1p. But I spent a month trying a switch to a 12p-6p so I could eat dinner with people and it was hell. I got mean in the 10a-12p range and that did not improve over the month.

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 5:44 PM UTC

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Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by ramesh31 » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

Eat less food and move more. There's literally nothing to losing weight beyond that. It's incredible to me the amount of mental gymnastics that people will perform to avoid facing this.

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by pengaru » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

Excluding all other fruits and vegetables in favor of potatoes seems obviously misguided.

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by captaincrunch » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

bejelentkezni wrote: post #12

This sounds like a great way to quickly deplete most of your vitamins and minerals.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that potatoes gave you every vitamin and mineral you needed (except b12 which you can get from butter).

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by duffyjp » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

Penn Jillette somewhat famously did this and lost 100+ pounds.

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by moses-palmer » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 5:47 PM UTC

My favourite part of the article, hailing from a part of the world _sans raton laveur_, was the explanation of "Raccoon trouble" for purchasing a lot of potatoes. What's with raccoons and potatoes?

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by BudaDude » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 5:47 PM UTC

duffyjp wrote: post #18

Penn Jillette somewhat famously did this and lost 100+ pounds.

Kevin Smith also did a form of this diet after his heart attack and lost a lot of weight