Thoughts on the potato diet

Post by dmix » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 10:52 PM UTC

TrisMcC wrote: post #232

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So it's basically going to spike insulin and do much for weight loss... besides not eating the other bad stuff they planned to eat. So it doesnt really matter they are eating potatoes. Unless they want to do it cheap then it makes sense. Which is good but there's so much more variety in the keto approach then boring potatoes.

Yes, there's not a lot of variety in just eating potatoes. Maybe some people don't need variety. People lose a lot of weight this way. Insulin sensitivity increases. Insulin-lowering medicines can be reduced or stopped. Bad cholesterol drops to the floor. If you go beyond monomeals of potatoes and add in tasty vegetables (like you do in keto) and limit the fat you add to the meal, you will have all the benefits of th…

Post by Gatsky » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 10:57 PM UTC

GordonS wrote: post #125

safety1st wrote: post #30

There's actually some science behind this diet. Potatoes are the highest scoring food on the satiety index. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/15-incredibly-filling-f... Basically they're the most filling food per calorie. So if you subscribe to the idea that losing weight is mainly about how many calories you consume, a potato heavy diet should be effective. And an all potato diet, while monomaniacal, even more ef…

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…

Post by jsiaajdsdaa » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 10:58 PM UTC

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Satiety is a mental construct. I've been underweight, normal weight, and overweight in my life. What your brain tells you to put in your stomach is almost entirely divorced from nutritional requirements for thriving and surviving. The only way to be exceptionally healthy and thin is to ignore the urge to overeat, and this urge is extremely dynamic on a per human basis. As a result, some people out there will eat a ca…

> Satiety is a mental construct. Yeah, just not according to science. E.g. there's ghrelin, cholecystokinin and other "satiety signals". Except if you mean "satiefy is a mental construct" the same way pain is a mental construct. In which case, in a Kantian way, everything is, including space and time. > What your brain tells you to put in your stomach is almost entirely divorced from nutritional requirements for thri…

Post by manmal » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 11:04 PM UTC

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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.

Post by mlcrypto » Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 11:06 PM UTC

orionion wrote: post #294

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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."