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I have searched around the forum but did not find any threads pertaining the potato diet, so I decided to make one, where we can discuss all things related to the potato diet.
My first encounter with this diet, was when I read about on Dr Stephan Guyenets blog. He has an undergraduate degree in biochemistry,a phd in neurobiology, and he has specialized in studying how bodyweight is regulated by the brain.
He interviewed Chris Voigt, executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission. On 1 October 2010, he began on two month potato-only diet, in order to show how powerful the potato can be in a nutritional sense. The diet consisted of nothing but potato and small amounts of cooking oil, canola and oliveoil, and he ate them in all kinds of ways, boiled, mashed, roasted and so on, the only common denominator was that he ate them relatively unprocessed, and nothing else added, like salsasauce or salt.
Here is an interview of him about the experiment :
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.no/2010/12/interview-with-chris-voigt-of-20.html
If you do not care to read everything, his health inmproved massively, weight went down 21 pounds, without delibaretly restricting calories, and fasting glucose went down. 104 to 94 mg/dL,triglycerides went down 50% percent, HDL went up slighty, and LDL went down 41%. And all of this happened on a nearly hundred percent carb diet, and the potato as well, one of the most insulin spiking foods known to man.
dr Stephan Guyenet aslo has a blogpost where he explains why Chris Voight managed to lose weightout withouth restricting calories, and feeling no hunger.
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.no/2010/12/potato-diet-interpretation.html
However this experiment, is not unique, inspired by this, thousands of people all around the internet have tried the same recipee, eating nothing but potatos until satiated for several days in a row, and experiencing massive weightless, without being hungry during the process, as a result.
I have myself experienced this several times, and I am going to link to a forum thread discussing their experience with the potato diet, and some youtube videos about people doing the experiment. Their experiencies are remarkably similar. Everyone is fully satiated on a only potato diet, and they experiences a substantial weightloss without going hungry.
Lowcarb forum thread about the potato diet
http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=454745
Another lowcarb forum:
http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=795796
Nutrition student who went on a only potatoe diet for several weeks. Interestingly he calculated his daily energy expenditure, and then eat enough potatoes to match that. He still lost weight. Intro video to the experiment
And here is his update, he lost 5 kgs, without hunger, and he ate more than he needed to
Check out his whole youtube channel, and he will explain why he lost weight, even though he tried to match his potato intake with daily energy expenditure.
If you want more examples of the sucess of the potatoe diet, just google potato diet, and potato hack, and you will find countless more examples of excactly what I have described to you. I will post examples in the tread if people demand more proof.
Not enough of theory, in this thread I am also going to chronicle my latest attempt at the potato diet. I started it on december 1. 2015, and I am going to continue it, until I reach my bodyfat setpoint. I am mostly going to eat plain boiled potatoes, but somedays I may roast some of the older leftover ones in some butter in the pan. I do not add anything extra to the potatoes. I drink only water, and some dietsoda, pepsimax on days when I feel tired.
I aslo do some exercise, HIIT style as shown my Michael Mosley in his excellent documentary the truth about exercise. I go on my local football pitch, and 4 four max all out sprints, of about 20 seconds, with 1 minute of rest, between each sprint. I do the training in the fasted state.
I will weight myself each morning at the same time and post it here. The potato diet kills my hunger so much that I often need not eat until the evening, so I basically fast all day, 24 hours most days. If I get really hungry before the evening, I just my potatoes, and then fast until the next day, so for the most part, I eat one bigass poato meal each day. If I get hungry after this meal, I just make some extra poatoes, but this rarely happens.
I will use this weight journey as an example that you can lose weight fast and easily without feeling hunger. It will also show that it is calories that matter and that bodyweight is regulated by the brain, not if your food is insulin spiking. I have so much respect for the lowcarb diet, I lost over 40 kgs on it combined with intermittent fasting, but it is not the only way, and reason it works, is that it makes you less hungry, more satiated on fewer calories which create a deficit that make you lose fat, it is not because it is low in carbohydrates per say.. It also regulates your bodyfat setpoint downwards. So I will show that you can lose weight on a nearly 100% carb diet.
I will also post yestersdays caloriintake if I have managed to calcuate it correctly, together with my daily energy expenditure, both from acitvity and resting combined. I will also try to describe my mood and feeling of satiation. If people want proof, I can post pictures after some while
So here is the data from the experiment so far:
My height is 188cm , sex is male, and I am in my early twenties.
1. December. 77.7 kg starting bmi of 22.07
2. December. 77.5 kg
3. December. 76.7 kg 500 grams of potatoes
.4 December. 75.7 kg (not eaten yet at time of posting)
So I hope you wish me good luck, and lets start discussing the potato diet!
My first encounter with this diet, was when I read about on Dr Stephan Guyenets blog. He has an undergraduate degree in biochemistry,a phd in neurobiology, and he has specialized in studying how bodyweight is regulated by the brain.
He interviewed Chris Voigt, executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission. On 1 October 2010, he began on two month potato-only diet, in order to show how powerful the potato can be in a nutritional sense. The diet consisted of nothing but potato and small amounts of cooking oil, canola and oliveoil, and he ate them in all kinds of ways, boiled, mashed, roasted and so on, the only common denominator was that he ate them relatively unprocessed, and nothing else added, like salsasauce or salt.
Here is an interview of him about the experiment :
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.no/2010/12/interview-with-chris-voigt-of-20.html
If you do not care to read everything, his health inmproved massively, weight went down 21 pounds, without delibaretly restricting calories, and fasting glucose went down. 104 to 94 mg/dL,triglycerides went down 50% percent, HDL went up slighty, and LDL went down 41%. And all of this happened on a nearly hundred percent carb diet, and the potato as well, one of the most insulin spiking foods known to man.
dr Stephan Guyenet aslo has a blogpost where he explains why Chris Voight managed to lose weightout withouth restricting calories, and feeling no hunger.
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.no/2010/12/potato-diet-interpretation.html
However this experiment, is not unique, inspired by this, thousands of people all around the internet have tried the same recipee, eating nothing but potatos until satiated for several days in a row, and experiencing massive weightless, without being hungry during the process, as a result.
I have myself experienced this several times, and I am going to link to a forum thread discussing their experience with the potato diet, and some youtube videos about people doing the experiment. Their experiencies are remarkably similar. Everyone is fully satiated on a only potato diet, and they experiences a substantial weightloss without going hungry.
Lowcarb forum thread about the potato diet
http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=454745
Another lowcarb forum:
http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=795796
Nutrition student who went on a only potatoe diet for several weeks. Interestingly he calculated his daily energy expenditure, and then eat enough potatoes to match that. He still lost weight. Intro video to the experiment
And here is his update, he lost 5 kgs, without hunger, and he ate more than he needed to
Check out his whole youtube channel, and he will explain why he lost weight, even though he tried to match his potato intake with daily energy expenditure.
If you want more examples of the sucess of the potatoe diet, just google potato diet, and potato hack, and you will find countless more examples of excactly what I have described to you. I will post examples in the tread if people demand more proof.
Not enough of theory, in this thread I am also going to chronicle my latest attempt at the potato diet. I started it on december 1. 2015, and I am going to continue it, until I reach my bodyfat setpoint. I am mostly going to eat plain boiled potatoes, but somedays I may roast some of the older leftover ones in some butter in the pan. I do not add anything extra to the potatoes. I drink only water, and some dietsoda, pepsimax on days when I feel tired.
I aslo do some exercise, HIIT style as shown my Michael Mosley in his excellent documentary the truth about exercise. I go on my local football pitch, and 4 four max all out sprints, of about 20 seconds, with 1 minute of rest, between each sprint. I do the training in the fasted state.
I will weight myself each morning at the same time and post it here. The potato diet kills my hunger so much that I often need not eat until the evening, so I basically fast all day, 24 hours most days. If I get really hungry before the evening, I just my potatoes, and then fast until the next day, so for the most part, I eat one bigass poato meal each day. If I get hungry after this meal, I just make some extra poatoes, but this rarely happens.
I will use this weight journey as an example that you can lose weight fast and easily without feeling hunger. It will also show that it is calories that matter and that bodyweight is regulated by the brain, not if your food is insulin spiking. I have so much respect for the lowcarb diet, I lost over 40 kgs on it combined with intermittent fasting, but it is not the only way, and reason it works, is that it makes you less hungry, more satiated on fewer calories which create a deficit that make you lose fat, it is not because it is low in carbohydrates per say.. It also regulates your bodyfat setpoint downwards. So I will show that you can lose weight on a nearly 100% carb diet.
I will also post yestersdays caloriintake if I have managed to calcuate it correctly, together with my daily energy expenditure, both from acitvity and resting combined. I will also try to describe my mood and feeling of satiation. If people want proof, I can post pictures after some while
So here is the data from the experiment so far:
My height is 188cm , sex is male, and I am in my early twenties.
1. December. 77.7 kg starting bmi of 22.07
2. December. 77.5 kg
3. December. 76.7 kg 500 grams of potatoes
.4 December. 75.7 kg (not eaten yet at time of posting)
So I hope you wish me good luck, and lets start discussing the potato diet!
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