Hi I’m new here...looking for potato diet followers

PaperDoll_

norasuntich wrote: »

Diets tried. WW Atkins calorie counting in general which really involved food diary like we do here.
I do intend to incorporate the food groups in the future. And Exercise. And know that I’m not perfect and will fall off the wagon.

Why didn't those other diets work for you in the past? That's probably the reason most people are against an all potato diet. Things really don't need to be this difficult or restrictive. I'm assuming you're wanting to lose weight fast and this is working for you, but whether it's healthy or not is debatable. Your health is the main thing, not your weight loss. So I hope your doctor is aware of this and you're taking care of yourself overall.

norasuntich

Thanks Maureen. I too have tried WW multiple times. I had to chuckle at your mono diets. I don’t think I could do them. Tell me. Is starch that bad for you? Every one seems against it. I think you need some in your daily intake. Anyway if I quit I will concede defeat. But right now I’m happy doing it.

serindipte

At the very least, add some butter, cheese, sour cream, maybe even some bacon or other proteins and fats to your potato. Carbs are the macros you can most easily do without and not have any ill health effects. You need protein and fats.

norasuntich

Paperdoll, I just wanted to do a program that was easy. Its not only regular potatoes but sweet potatoes. Atkins made me sick and constipated. wW was too hard and involved label reading. I appreciate everyone’s comments. I think I needed a quick validation that I could lose weight.

PaperDoll_

norasuntich wrote: »

Paperdoll, I just wanted to do a program that was easy. Its not only regular potatoes but sweet potatoes. Atkins made me sick and constipated. wW was too hard and involved label reading. I appreciate everyone’s comments. I think I needed a quick validation that I could lose weight.

I know you won't be doing this potato diet forever. I hope you succeed long term with your goals! Best of luck.

rheddmobile

Potatoes are terrible for diabetics.

If you want to lose 100 pounds, eventually you're going to have to do something that's sustainable long-term. If you want to waste two weeks before you start your real diet, it probably won't hurt you all that much. But it's a waste of two weeks. When you feel like doing something realistic to actually lose the weight let us know.

CharlieBeansmomTracey

norasuntich wrote: »

I’m not worried about muscles. I’m worried about diabetes and heart disease. I don’t want a gastric bypass. So I’m doing a crazy fad diet. It’s just for a little while lol. I was hoping someone else on here had tried it. I guess not.

if you worried about those things then eat a sensible diet and make sure you are in a deficit to lose weight and those things can improve. and to not worry about muscle loss? you dont want to lose muscle as its very hard to get back. muscle loss is not a good thing and should be worried about. and why only 2 weeks? why not just eat your veggies and protein and whatever else now and just keep going in your journey. what difference will 2 weeks make in the long term? you can eat stuff you like starting now and lose weight. weight loss is about your calories and how much you eat. if you eat too much of anything you will gain weight.

norasuntich

Guess we agree to disagree..... if anyone out there is currently doing this I’d love to hear from you.

kimny72

Sorry OP, I know you were just looking for support

Do what you feel like you need to do. But while you're doing it, why not read the Most Helpful Posts threads pinned to the top of each forum. And check out the Success Stories forum, lots of inspiration there!

norasuntich

Thanks kimny72. I’ll do that. The easy part is losing. The really hard part is maintaining.

jgnatca

You are determined and as long as you aren’t diabetic yet it should not have lasting harm. I’d be interested in a report after the two weeks are over.

I was once on a ten day medically supervised VLCD diet. It was so many bottles of Ensure daily. After a couple days my poor body gave up any appetite. Unless I got triggered by an advertisement. It was a simple endurance test and I just marked the days until it was over.

I was quite weak and I had to give up my waking.

norasuntich

Ok, I’ll report back on day 15th. I hope you’re feeling better theses days. I don’t think I could ever do a liquid diet unless doctor ordered

jennifer_417

What's your plan for when you hit your goal weight?

MichelleSilverleaf

norasuntich wrote: »

Thanks kimny72. I’ll do that. The easy part is losing. The really hard part is maintaining.

So why not set yourself up for success now, by eating in a way that you'll enjoy sticking to long-term?

L1zardQueen

The Great Famine. Okie dokie

SueSueDio

norasuntich wrote: »

I’m not worried about muscles. I’m worried about diabetes and heart disease.

Your heart is a muscle.

I hope that you do read the Most Helpful Posts, as others have advised, and find a sustainable way to lose your excess weight and keep it off. And please do some strength training to preserve the muscle you do have! (I didn't and I regret it.)

Diatonic12

Technically, what you're doing is the Potato Hack.
https://potatohack.com/2016/03/13/potato-hacking-for-weight-loss-or-maintenance/

It's also called a Mono-Meal hack. I can tell that you have your heart really set on this. I am a former dieting refugee. When someone or something comes along and encourages you to immediately try a compensatory measure like a Potato Hack - to dial your food down to one item - at what point do you come back from the temporary fix and find your natural balance.

When we make the switch from eating all the things to dialed down, it works temporarily. Go back to normal portions with all of the food groups and the body can become confused. After a cycle of super restriction there will be rebound weight gain when you start eating normally again.

Any food hack takes gutting it out and white knuckling it with sheer willpower. When you return to your normal way of eating there will be more insulin excursions. Eventually the pancreas becomes less receptive to everything we do like a Potato Hack until everything you do no longer works.

Wild swings up and down with the blood sugar will not prevent T2. Type 2 Diabetes.

I respect your boundaries. If you've tried hacking your food before, did it change everything for you then?

kommodevaran

A healthy diet is balanced and varied. Supplements will never be as good as real food. Healthy eating is easy when you aim to get in some food from each food group every day, and different foods from day to day, in the form of appealing, normal looking meals. Sure it’s boring but I season my potatoes using many different spices. For a healthy diet, you're looking to add as many different species as possible, not spices. This is exactly what you're looking for when you want to satisfy my hunger and give me a boost of energy. The faux energy you get from starting something new and exciting, like [insert fad diet name here], doesn't last.

What would be a good source of information? Start here: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-plate/

I don’t think it’s that unhealthy, to be honest. Potatoes have most of the nutrition we need. People have survived on them. People have subsisted on potatoes, yes. But you're not so poor that you can't afford a healthy diet?

A healthy attitude towards food means abandoning either - or. You need dietary fat, for hormones, skin, vitamin absorbsion, satiety, digestion, and taste and mouthfeel. This doesn't mean that starch is bad, it's a good and normal way to get carbs, and starchy foods often come with other nutrients as well as fiber, and they balance meals. I don’t particularly think eating hi protein is that great either for you but some folks swear by it. I agree with you there, but that doesn't mean you don't have to get enough protein.

You can plan to add veggies and limited fruit and perhaps beans lean protein almond milk nuts as much as you like, but I guarantee you, after two weeks, if you last that long, you'll be so fed up that the only thing you're inspired to do, is to eat anything, indiscriminately, and in bigger amounts than ever.

I had to chuckle at your mono diets. I don’t think I could do them. Then what do you call the potato diet?

Your body weight isn't static. It goes up and down, a couple of pounds, from day to day, depending on how much food is in your system, and how much water is bound up in your muscles. What you want, is a steady trend downwards, which takes months of eating a little less.

Every weigthloss diet seems to be working, initially, until it doesn't. If you don't get in proper nutrition, you will feel hungry. It's not hard to cook up a insane diet to give you a calorie deficit. The hard thing is to stick to it.

You just need to stay on this path if your goal is to prove that you "can't lose weight".

But it’s a choice. Yes, and an informed choice is a good choice. The benefit of this plan is freedom from making food choices. But it's not. You always have to make choices. That's your responsibility, and your privilege, as an adult in a society where an abundance of safe, nutritious, delicious foods, any food you can imagine, is available and accessible, and socially acceptable to eat, anywhere, 24/7. This is simple and easy to do, but then you acknowledge that you have to take your potatoes everywhere and that life gets in the way and you have parties, holidays etc. which makes it difficult.

As a side note. Plant based usually means, despite what it sounds like, "nothing but plant foods". You can have a healthy plant based diet, but it takes a lot of education and planning and commitment. Usually, you'd have to have a strong motivation, like animals' welfare, and then you're actually looking at veganism.

jenilla1

What's the point of doing something that's not sustainable?

ceiswyn

kommodevaran wrote: »

But it’s a choice. Yes, and an informed choice is a good choice. The benefit of this plan is freedom from making food choices. But it's not. You always have to make choices. That's your responsibility, and your privilege, as an adult in a society where an abundance of safe, nutritious, delicious foods, any food you can imagine, is available and accessible, and socially acceptable to eat, anywhere, 24/7. This is simple and easy to do, but then you acknowledge that you have to take your potatoes everywhere and that life gets in the way and you have parties, holidays etc. which makes it difficult.

Bolded for YES.

snickerscharlie

norasuntich wrote: »

I’m not worried about muscles. I’m worried about diabetes and heart disease.

You do realize your heart is a muscular organ, right? You should be worried about losing muscle.

chrissietiny

I wish you the best. I am not sure this diet is good for you

hoffman2300

My husband did this. Potatoes for two weeks - no seasoning, just potatoes, but he included white, sweet, red, etc. A mono-diet for a short amount of time isn't a problem nutritionally. For the last 5 months he's been eating vegetables, rice and beans and has lost close to 80 pounds. He hasn't felt deprived. AND - he also did a lot of research, read everything available from the researchers (not just the celebrities who wrote about their success).

If you added a hard-boiled egg and tuna, or seasoning to your potatoes, you aren't doing the potato diet. But if you're seeing success - go for it!

norasuntich

Thanks for sharing about your hubby,hoffman2300. Good for him and his weight loss. I know I’m not following the true potato diet/ hack. I’m just throwing in eggs and the occasional tuna packet and seasonings. I even found sugar free ketchup. So far I’ve lost 7 pounds in six days. This upcoming week should be a challenge. I’m going to a training course and luckily they have a microwave. Cold potatoes are the worst.

jgnatca

norasuntich wrote: »

Ok, I’ll report back on day 15th. I hope you’re feeling better theses days. I don’t think I could ever do a liquid diet unless doctor ordered

Oh, the discomfort was short lived. It was a few years ago. I would never do a liquid diet again either unless doctor ordered.

norasuntich

I forgot to mentioned I tried Slimfast with the shakes and snacks and a sensible meal. That made me feel sick. I also tried the ten day special k chaljenge which I lost six pounds in ten days. I just don’t think I’m cut out for those. I like solids lol.

serindipte

norasuntich wrote: »

I forgot to mentioned I tried Slimfast with the shakes and snacks and a sensible meal. That made me feel sick. I also tried the ten day special k chaljenge which I lost six pounds in ten days. I just don’t think I’m cut out for those. I like solids lol.

Instead of trying all these unsustainable diets, what is your reasoning for not just using MFP as it's created? Enter stats, set goals, log food, eat what you enjoy?

norasuntich

Well I’m here. I am logging food. And I need to get more familiar with it. I do see myself transitioning to something sustainable. I want to succeed. And I do enjoy the tatoes for now. Like I said they are very filling. Eating a salad always left me empty. Reading labels was a chore. I just need to figure out the right combinations of food.

estherdragonbat

Have you tried... combining foods, then?

I'll let you in on a little secret: I don't eat a lot of salads. I do eat a varied balanced diet with some staples, some treats, and plenty of veggies.

singingflutelady

Why waste your time and energy when you could start a more sustainable diet today?

The choice isn't only eating salads or only eating potatoes. All or nothing thinking hasn't helped you in the past so why do you believe it will help now?