5 months of mostly potatoes results

[u/feebeeglee]

BMI 5/8 24.9

10/9 21.9

Cholesterol 1/6 218

10/7 198

I eat 75% potatoes 25% other whole vegetables and fruit, olive oil, and seasoning. Celebration food is less strict, I don't sweat small portions of other stuff about once a month. And you will pry my half and half for coffee from my cold dead hands.

So even non-rigorous potato diet has pretty impressive results! No added exercise. Another note, I'm just not very hungry anymore and the food noise is gone. I wasn't expecting that but it's really nice.

[u/Nablus666]

Do you eat salt?

[u/feebeeglee → u/Nablus666]

Yes, salt and other seasoning too.

[u/Nablus666 → u/feebeeglee]

And how are you feeling overall?

[u/feebeeglee → u/Nablus666]

Fine, which was how I felt before I changed my diet. Certainly I don't feel worse :-)

[u/Rare-Poet-4747]

Would you mind sharing how you are preparing the potatoes? I feel like I have googled this diet 15 ways and I'm coming back with regular potato recipes. Maybe I am overthinking this and I know this diet would work for me.

[u/feebeeglee → u/Rare-Poet-4747]

I am very boring and 95% of the time they are microwaved whole, halved, and eaten with salt and infrequently a small amount of olive oil. I don't usually add any other seasoning. I want my daily food to be utterly unmemorable, not great or terrible, just fuel. When it tastes delicious I want more than I'm actually hungry for, you know? I actively avoid variety. 

I eat any whole plant that's around, too. Fresh fruit, cooked veggies, beans, lentils, cooked whole grain. As long as it's not refined or has added sugar/fat, I'll eat it.

Once every few weeks or so I'll have some standard American diet kind of food eaten in community with my family or at church after liturgy. 

[u/glowcubr → u/Rare-Poet-4747]

My preparation method:

• Add water to a pot

• Wash potatoes

• Remove any bad spots. Leave the skin on.

• Cut each potato in half and then slice into slices about 1/2 inch wide. (I slice mine hasselback style, but I doubt that matters much)

• Add potatoes to pot

• Make sure there is enough water in the pot to completely or almost completely cover the potatoes.

• Boil on medium heat for about 45 minutes

• Drain, reserving a bit of liquid so that the potatoes don't end up too dry.

• Add salt to taste. I generally avoid adding black pepper, becuse it seems to mess up my stomach when I'm on the potato diet.

• Mash

[u/veganalienwithadog]

Potatoes are amazing

[u/Kooljazzed]

Potatoes are the real deal!!! I've lost about 30lbs last year eating mostly Potatoes. Although I no longer eat as many as I used to eat, I'm still maintaining my weight.

[u/glowcubr → u/Kooljazzed]

That's awesome! :D

[u/WallflowersAreCool2]

That's a marked improvement. Great job.

[u/AhimsaofthePrairie]

Congratulations and thanks for the inspiration.

[u/PopularExercise3]

Prepped without oil I guess?

[u/Quelene → u/PopularExercise3]

Olive oil mentioned

[u/glowcubr]

Very nice! :)

I've noticed less food noise while on potatoes, too. In fact, I'd say that I've noticed less noise about addictive things in general, which has been very nice. In that way, I think potatoes and GLP-1 may share some similarity.