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Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by akudha »

I totally feel the amount of work comment, though I tried something totally different. I tried juicing - it was a ton of fun (I “cheated” by having more fruit juices than vegetables). I had more energy, thought clearly, slept better etc. Same with eating raw solid food (only fruits and veggies).

The thing that sucked, was the amount of work. Buying, cleaning, juicing, cleaning again… crap ton of work. Ah, it is also expensive.

If only fruits and veggies were as cheap as milk, eggs, chicken… life would be much better

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by omginternets »

GordonS wrote: post #248
jaggederest wrote: post #170

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I also have reactive hypoglycemia and I tried the potato diet out and had zero crashes the entire time. It's just not possible (for me) to eat enough calories, quickly enough, to cause a crash. I was only on it for a few days (~5), precisely for the logistic issues that the article and the original diet post discuss - I couldn't cook and eat enough calories to not be absolutely starving after the first couple days. B…

Strange, potatoes can spike and crash my blood sugar faster than anything else. I haven't eaten mashed potato in a decade or so, but IIRC it only took half an hour or so before I was trembling, sweating, feeling very anxious and fearful, and having a strong desire to eat sugar. Not long after I'd become progressively more confused, and sometimes aggressive. I know 2 T1 diabetics, and both never touch potatoes because…

Do you eat your potatos with either butter or olive oil? My understanding is that lipids flatten the glycemic curve.

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by xeromal »

rootusrootus wrote: post #288
xeromal wrote: post #282

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Wow, really? That is very interesting? Too bad hot potatoes are delicious. I think as long as I air fried mine and let them cool to room temp, I would enjoy them.

It's not really about the heat. They undergo a change as they cool down which changes the GI. Heating them back up does not reverse that, so you can still have hot potatoes with the lower GI effect as long as you cool them down first.

That's incredible. Thanks for sharing. Can you tell me what hte process is called?

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Post by orionion »

leksak wrote: post #235
GordonS wrote: post #125

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This seems highly unlikely to me. I have reactive hypoglycemia, and can say that potatoes spike my blood glucose levels more than table sugar - they have a really high glycemic index, and anyone with blood sugar issues should totally avoid them IMO. And the thing about foods with a high glycemic index is that they cause you to feel hungry when your blood sugar rapidly drops back to baseline. I find protein and fat wa…

I eat six eggs for breakfast, with vegetables and maybe a bowl of kefir with some mango and I'm hungry around 10 — breakfast being at 7-8.

Egg Consumption Increases Risk for Diabetes

https://www.pcrm.org/news/health-nutrition/egg-consumption-i...

"The authors note results from a recent meta-analysis and data from the Physicians' Health Study and Women’s Health Study showed an increased risk for diabetes of up to 77% with seven or more eggs consumed per week."

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by jiggywiggy »

Patotoes have a very round nutrients profile and relatively high complete proteins. Not the worst pick.

But to eat 2500kcals of potatoes a day is so hard. No wonder they loose weight. That's so much potatoes!

With 70-80 kcals per 100 grams an adult would need between 3-4 kilos. Every day

That's a mountain of potatoes twice the size of your stomach.

Some bake it with fat or oils I've read which makes it somewhat more manageable volume wise.

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Post by rootusrootus »

autoexec wrote: post #256
goodpoint wrote: post #212

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> personal belief is that the human body processes different carbohydrates in very different ways This is nutritional science 101. Slow-digesting carbohydrates like big-flake oats are really good. Fast-digesting things like sugars, processed foods, fast food and meat products are bad as they create spikes in the glycemic index.

> Slow-digesting carbohydrates like big-flake oats are really good. if only they tasted that way!

With enough brown sugar and butter they sure do. But I suppose that defeats the point...

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Post by robotburrito »

mikkergp wrote: post #4

Is weight loss the only reason behind "Dieting"? Isn't the "carnivore diet" around mental fitness? That's why I choose a low carb diet, mental and physical fitness(when I'm not actively exercising, I try to limit my carb/sugar intake to mornings before I run)

Ironically I eat a high carb diet for the same reasons. I think that is illustrative of the current state of dietary science haha :)

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Post by ufo »

stu2b50 wrote: post #34
55555 wrote: post #26

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It’s a diet for autoimmune disorders.

Genuinely I’m not quite sure I get the connection. Would spices in general cause issues with autoimmune diseases? Specific spices?

Deep down, AIP is one of those fad diets that prohibit more things than there's evidence for. It's justified based on some pseudoscientific ideas about certain foods causing autoimmune issues. People might say things about intestinal permeability, but the scientific connection can be a bit sketchy.

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Post by stevage »

rockostrich wrote: post #203
ghostly_s wrote: post #159

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> eat 2 eggs for breakfast and I guarantee you won't even think a out food again until lunch time, if not dinner time. What a patently absurd claim. Your anecdata is not evidence.

While anecdotal, it entirely depends on habits and context. If your usual breakfast is pretty big and you tried to switch then you'd definitely start to get pangs of hunger earlier than you usually would. But after a while, your body would adjust and you'd be fine for longer and longer (really until whenever you usually ate your next meal). It's the reason why intermittent fasting or "one-meal-a-day" sucks the first…

How would you get through the initial pains? Hunger is absolutely intolerable for me.

When I go out for breakfast I will often have two eggs...and a couple of big pieces of toast, mushrooms, hash browns, spinach etc. I have great difficulty believing that two eggs alone would be sufficient.

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

manmal wrote: post #92
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #60

The point about prep being time-consuming is no joke. I recently (maybe 4 months ago) started a fairly strict whole food diet, and the prep is insane. Whole vegetables take real time to wash, clean up, store, and prep for cooking. Then you need to cook it. But like the potato diet, it's extremely easy to stay full and lose weight. Unlike the potato diet, there's a ton of variety. It also seems to have completely reve…

Where I live there’s lots of pre-washed, frozen vegetables at supermarkets. We have an automated pressure cooker where we can just throw the vegs in and let them steam for 7-8 minutes. We have a huge freezer and can quickly prepare brokkoli, spinach, carrots, peas, mushrooms, etc. You can also pressure cook potatoes with the peel on, takes ca 20m including warmup time.

> We have a huge freezer

Ah, yeah – I have a very small one. I've been thinking about upgrading for years to a chest freezer. It's probably time to just do it.

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