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

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.