Potatoes = weight loss superfood?

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  • pierinifitness
    pierinifitness Posts: 2,226 Member
    I’ve viewed several of his videos on his YouTube channel. Don’t know what his current status is. He may have fallen off the potato wagon.
  • zeejane03
    zeejane03 Posts: 993 Member
    pierinifitness wrote: »
    I’ve viewed several of his videos on his YouTube channel. Don’t know what his current status is. He may have fallen off the potato wagon.

    Yeah, don't know what his maintenance plan is/was, after losing all that weight. I imagine it would have been a pretty rough transition though, going from all potatoes for a year, back to a normal diet!
  • suziecue25
    suziecue25 Posts: 289 Member
    I love love love spuds [potatoes]. I have them boiled [new or charlottes] ....... baked in the oven [jackets] ....... as oven chips with a teeny bit of olive oil ..1tsp [fries without the frying lol] ........ mashed with pepper and semi-skimmed milk .......as boulangere [sooooo delicious]

    Will not do without potatoes......they just have to fit in ................ are they a superfood? nah, but quite nutritious, versatile and all round wonderful to me :)
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    suziecue25 wrote: »
    I love love love spuds [potatoes]. I have them boiled [new or charlottes] ....... baked in the oven [jackets] ....... as oven chips with a teeny bit of olive oil ..1tsp [fries without the frying lol] ........ mashed with pepper and semi-skimmed milk .......as boulangere [sooooo delicious]

    Will not do without potatoes......they just have to fit in ................ are they a superfood? nah, but quite nutritious, versatile and all round wonderful to me :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVCaT6FvI_8
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,416 Member
    Much as I love taters, (and SWEET PERTATERS) I'm kind of afraid to read this thread very closely. I see a lot of ideas for deliciousness in here that I probably don't need swimming around in my head.

    I do have one daily, usually. That or squash in some form, which seems really filling and seems to work the same way on me.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    edited January 2019
    zeejane03 wrote: »
    pierinifitness wrote: »
    I’ve viewed several of his videos on his YouTube channel. Don’t know what his current status is. He may have fallen off the potato wagon.

    Yeah, don't know what his maintenance plan is/was, after losing all that weight. I imagine it would have been a pretty rough transition though, going from all potatoes for a year, back to a normal diet!

    If you mean Andrew Taylor, I heard him interviewed on a few podcasts. I believe he was vegan before and he was doing a WFPB diet after (still with lots of potato).
  • oocdc2
    oocdc2 Posts: 1,361 Member
    edited January 2019
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  • workinonit1956
    workinonit1956 Posts: 1,043 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Born and raised in Idaho. All about the potatoes! ;)

    I can make a meal out of a baked potato, with the skin of course, topped with Greek yogurt and freshly ground pepper.

    I had this last night! :smile: Sooo good!

  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtySGSuKZe8
  • Katiebear_81
    Katiebear_81 Posts: 719 Member
    Po-tay-toes! Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew.

    I think that any mono-diet causes people to lose weight because they get tired of eating the same thing.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    Fatty_Nuff wrote: »
    At least two fad diet books based on this premise. I'm sure the authors laughed all the way to the bank. If there was any food with magical weight loss properties, none of us would be here.

    Is this one of them?

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  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    My most filling dinner for the least calories is chicken, broccoli, potatoes, and butter.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    neugebauer52 wrote: »
    So if I DO NOT eat potatoes - would that mean, that "potentially" I might lose weight? Ridiculous! Were our ancestors told a million years ago? How did they survive with or without potatoes?

    Unless your ancestors include indigenous natives of Peru, probably not. Still, the indigenous pre-Colombian natives of Peru built an empire on potatoes.
  • suziecue25
    suziecue25 Posts: 289 Member
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    neugebauer52 wrote: »
    So if I DO NOT eat potatoes - would that mean, that "potentially" I might lose weight? Ridiculous! Were our ancestors told a million years ago? How did they survive with or without potatoes?

    Unless your ancestors include indigenous natives of Peru, probably not. Still, the indigenous pre-Colombian natives of Peru built an empire on potatoes.


    Ah good old Sir Walter Raleigh, us Brits have had spuds since 1554 thanks to him ;)
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,885 Member
    edited January 2019
    suziecue25 wrote: »
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    neugebauer52 wrote: »
    So if I DO NOT eat potatoes - would that mean, that "potentially" I might lose weight? Ridiculous! Were our ancestors told a million years ago? How did they survive with or without potatoes?

    Unless your ancestors include indigenous natives of Peru, probably not. Still, the indigenous pre-Colombian natives of Peru built an empire on potatoes.


    Ah good old Sir Walter Raleigh, us Brits have had spuds since 1554 thanks to him ;)

    People thought they were poisonous for a while.

    The French tried to promote them in the years before the French Revolution when there were recurrent grain failures. If it had worked better, maybe no French Revolution. (Let them eat potatoes!)

    https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/10/02/order-popularize-potatoes-france-parmentier-placed-armed-guards-potatoes-fields-instructed-guards-accept-bribes-let-people-steal-potatoes/

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-potato-changed-the-world-108470605/
    Unlike any previous European crop, potatoes are grown not from seed but from little chunks of tuber—the misnamed “seed potatoes.” Continental farmers regarded this alien food with fascinated suspicion; some believed it an aphrodisiac, others a cause of fever or leprosy. The philosopher-critic Denis Diderot took a middle stance in his Encyclopedia (1751-65), Europe’s first general compendium of Enlightenment thought. “No matter how you prepare it, the root is tasteless and starchy,” he wrote. “It cannot be regarded as an enjoyable food, but it provides abundant, reasonably healthy food for men who want nothing but sustenance.” Diderot viewed the potato as “windy.” (It caused gas.) Still, he gave it the thumbs up. “What is windiness,” he asked, “to the strong bodies of peasants and laborers?”

    With such halfhearted endorsements, the potato spread slowly. When Prussia was hit by famine in 1744, King Frederick the Great, a potato enthusiast, had to order the peasantry to eat the tubers. In England, 18th-century farmers denounced S. tuberosum as an advance scout for hated Roman Catholicism. “No Potatoes, No Popery!” was an election slogan in 1765. France was especially slow to adopt the spud. Into the fray stepped Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, the potato’s Johnny Appleseed.

    Trained as a pharmacist, Parmentier served in the army during the Seven Years’ War and was captured by the Prussians—five times. During his multiple prison stints he ate little but potatoes, a diet that kept him in good health. His surprise at this outcome led Parmentier to become a pioneering nutritional chemist after the war ended, in 1763; he devoted the rest of his life to promulgating S. tuberosum.

    Parmentier’s timing was good. After Louis XVI was crowned in 1775, he lifted price controls on grain. Bread prices shot up, sparking what became known as the Flour War: more than 300 civil disturbances in 82 towns. Parmentier tirelessly proclaimed that France would stop fighting over bread if only her citizens would eat potatoes. Meanwhile, he set up one publicity stunt after another: presenting an all-potato dinner to high-society guests (the story goes that Thomas Jefferson, one of the guests, was so delighted he introduced French fries to America); supposedly persuading the king and queen to wear potato blossoms; and planting 40 acres of potatoes at the edge of Paris, knowing that famished commoners would steal them.

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