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Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by mtlmtlmtlmtl »

While I love the idea of only eating one food for money and practical reasons... Potatoes are so utterly boring.

Diets only work if you can stay on them without being miserable, and I know if all I could eat was potatoes I would be pretty miserable about that.

Also, any diet that requires supplements(Vitamin B12, probably some other vitamins that are fairly low in potatoes, and whatever essential amino acids are missing from potato protein. That's just off the top of my head) to be complete is a bad diet in my book.

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by autoexec »

csours wrote: post #319
autoexec wrote: post #260

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I'd do it if they had one that didn't involve needles.

I've used them before but I sweat too much and they fall off =(

Do you remember who made it? I didn't think they had one! It might be worth the trouble to keep it on just to get the data.

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by itake »

mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #381

While I love the idea of only eating one food for money and practical reasons... Potatoes are so utterly boring. Diets only work if you can stay on them without being miserable, and I know if all I could eat was potatoes I would be pretty miserable about that. Also, any diet that requires supplements(Vitamin B12, probably some other vitamins that are fairly low in potatoes, and whatever essential amino acids are miss…

> Potatoes are so utterly boring.

That is exactly the point. Dieting should be boring: Figure out what your nutrition your body needs and move on with your life to spend time thinking about other things.

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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com2kid wrote: post #372
mixmastamyk wrote: post #310

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Not that differently. If you eat a thousand calories of peanut butter and don't feel anything there's something profoundly wrong.

A thousand calories of peanut butter is one cup , 8oz, of peanut butter. Maybe 4 or 5 good spoonfuls. I'm willing to bet that almost any healthy adult could down 4 spoons of peanut butter w/o issue, and that most people would end up being way over their calorie limit for the day as their body wouldn't go "yup that was lunch and half of dinner! All good now!"

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Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by mtlmtlmtlmtl »

itake wrote: post #383
mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #381

While I love the idea of only eating one food for money and practical reasons... Potatoes are so utterly boring. Diets only work if you can stay on them without being miserable, and I know if all I could eat was potatoes I would be pretty miserable about that. Also, any diet that requires supplements(Vitamin B12, probably some other vitamins that are fairly low in potatoes, and whatever essential amino acids are miss…

> Potatoes are so utterly boring. That is exactly the point. Dieting should be boring: Figure out what your nutrition your body needs and move on with your life to spend time thinking about other things.

I completely disagree. Boring diets only increase the chance of relapse.

It's perfectly possible to diet on enjoyable food if you do some research. And it will be much easier to stick to it.

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by nvahalik »

TrisMcC wrote: post #251
nvahalik wrote: post #241

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They have about 9x more carbs than fat. If you are eating Yukon gold potatoes, and you ate 5 pounds of them, and according to my calculations you are looking at approximately 2100 kcal of which a little less than 1900 of those calories comes from carbohydrates. We advise people not to go below 50 g of fat per day and according to the macros for Yukon Gold you wouldn’t even be getting a 10th of that amount. Additional…

> We normally coach people to eat 1 g of protein per pound of lean muscle mass. So for 150 pound person that would be 150 g of protein per day or approximately 600 cal from protein. "Lean muscle mass" excludes the fat on the body, right? A 150lb person should have less than 150lb of lean muscle mass. USDA recommends 54g using their calculator. Don't forget the 38 grams of fiber! :)

Sorry, I misspoke. 1 gram per pound of body weight. I was multitasking.

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by mixmastamyk »

com2kid wrote: post #372
mixmastamyk wrote: post #310

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Not that differently. If you eat a thousand calories of peanut butter and don't feel anything there's something profoundly wrong.

A thousand calories of peanut butter is one cup , 8oz, of peanut butter. Maybe 4 or 5 good spoonfuls. I'm willing to bet that almost any healthy adult could down 4 spoons of peanut butter w/o issue, and that most people would end up being way over their calorie limit for the day as their body wouldn't go "yup that was lunch and half of dinner! All good now!"

The quantity given was in calories, about 1/2 of what you need in a day. Yes PB is heavy, yes that amount should register.

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by nvahalik »

stakkur wrote: post #269
nvahalik wrote: post #101

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In the short term? Probably not a lot. You’ll lose “weight” but what are you actually losing? What you eat is very important. Fat stores aren’t the first thing your body will turn to. After the carbs, your body will turn to breaking down muscle tissue which is not what you usually want.

Literally no science behind saying the body turns to muscle before fat.

Do the science yourself!

All you need is an InBody machine. Many gyms and trainers have them.

Re: Thoughts on the potato diet

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Post by ConstantVigil »

chihuahua wrote: post #350
monktastic1 wrote: post #346

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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. I don't understand the motivation to make such a guarantee. It's as though you assume there are many people on HN who have never tried eating two eggs in the same meal. Do you maybe live in a place where eggs are rare (or not commonly eaten)? (For what it's worth, my personal experience matches that…

If "2 eggs for breakfast and you won't think about food again until hours later" were true, it would be the world's easiest and most effective diet: eat 2 eggs (2x75 calories), the next time you feel hungry (afternoon), eat another 2 eggs, then have a MASSIVE 1200 calorie dinner. Total = 1500 calories for the day - substantial weight loss would be guaranteed. In practice, this doesn't work because eggs are not hugely…

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