Potatoes?

There is no food that is good or bad for weight loss. Eat what you like within your calorie limit.

I love potatoes and eat them regularly. My favorite way to eat them is baked and topped with shredded beef, cheese, and broccoli.

Edited to add: Some foods are more satiating than others. When losing, I tended to focus on the foods that kept me full longer. Potatoes fit the bill well.

sweetangelkitten wrote: »

VioletRojo wrote: »

There is no food that is good or bad for weight loss. Eat what you like within your calorie limit.

I love potatoes and eat them regularly. My favorite way to eat them is baked and topped with shredded beef, cheese, and broccoli.

Some foods are better than others, like oreos are not very good for weight loss, but apples are. There's much more nutrition and they are a lot more filling than oreos. Do you eat potatoes often?

You didn't say anything about nutrition, you specified weight loss. Weight loss is all about calories. But even if we're talking nutrition, there's nothing wrong with eating Oreos if they fit your goals.

And yes, I eat potatoes often. I also eat Oreos.

sweetangelkitten wrote: »

VioletRojo wrote: »

There is no food that is good or bad for weight loss. Eat what you like within your calorie limit.

I love potatoes and eat them regularly. My favorite way to eat them is baked and topped with shredded beef, cheese, and broccoli.

Some foods are better than others, like oreos are not very good for weight loss, but apples are. There's much more nutrition and they are a lot more filling than oreos. Do you eat potatoes often?

Oreos are great for weight loss if that is what you are craving and you can moderate them enough to fit them into your day/week.

No food is “good” or “bad” for weight loss as long as you’re in a calorie deficit. You could lose weight eating only buttered donuts as long as you burn more calories than you consume. Unfortunately, because buttered donuts are very calorie-dense (a lot of calories for a small amount of food), you’d be pretty hungry often. Eating foods lower in calories allows you to eat more, so you stay fuller for longer. Eating only buttered donuts would also adversely affect your overall health after a while (not getting enough vitamins, minerals, fiber, etc.), but weight loss is all about calories – Eat fewer than you burn, in whatever form suits you, and you’ll lose weight.

sweetangelkitten wrote: »

dtelsah wrote: »

I am a "volume eater", meaning it just takes a lot of mass to fill me up. I have lost ~90 lbs and eat potatoes regularly because of the low calorie count. Bonus - I am diabetic and the carbs do not spike my blood sugar because of the fiber.

Thank you for sharing your experience! I do find potatoes to be very satisfying I have been reading Dr. Mcdougall's "Starch Solution" book. It's all about thriving off of starches. There's so much conflicting nutrition info out there that it is hard to decide what to do ! lol

Keep in mind, it's hard to sell books or lure people to your website by telling them "Eat the foods you like while staying at a calorie deficit. The End." So they have to make it sound complicated or give you a new rule to follow.

All you need to lose weight is a calorie deficit. Different people find different foods filling, so some people do better low carb, some high carb, some eating lots of beans, others eating lots of chicken. None of that affects the actual weight loss though, just how you feel while you are trying to eat in that deficit. I found it fairly easy to set aside a couple hundred calories for Oreos or ice cream or a big pretzel or a beer while I was losing weight. It would have hindered my weight loss if I didn't eat them, because I would've been miserable and quit.

For health, you want to get enough protein, fat, and fiber, plus plenty of nutritious foods so you get all your vitamins and minerals. But you don't have to eat all nutritious food to be healthy, eating a treat can't wipe out the good stuff you've already gotten.

So no foods are universally bad for weight loss. Some people can't moderate specific foods, so might need to cut them out for awhile, but 150 cals of Oreos at the end of the day with my tea was never a problem for me. Like wise an occasional burger and fries at Wendy's. I just logged it and kept going.

I love potatoes and find them very filling. I need a couple of starches every day to feel satiated. I eat potatoes, pasta, rice, bread etc every day.