Cant stop eating potatoes

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  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    OMG!! THERE IS ANOTHER ONE OF ME OUT THERE!! lol I love potoatoes, it is my favoirute food and not having them is soo hard for me to stick to my diet! i started about a week ago and I am going strong!! Good luck!

    And that is exactly why you shouldn't cut a food out of your diet entirely. You just end up obsessing over it. Potatoes are a good food, just need to be used in moderation like anything else.
  • Yorkshirelass2
    Yorkshirelass2 Posts: 53
    I love potatoes any which way i can get them ... i am even trying to make my own healthy potatoe chips. but i went through a familiar thing a few weeks ago i had to eat bread.. any kinda bread too i agree though anything in moderation is ok ..
  • RobertaKR
    RobertaKR Posts: 22 Member
    Oh yeah! A fellow potato addict! I know exactly how you feel. I LOVE potatoes and crave them like other people crave sweets.
    I love them anyway you cook them (except for German Potato Salad). Love baked potatoes and can now eat them with salt & pepper. I used to love to put a ton of butter on them, but nixt that. I will use some fat free sour cream too. You have to figure it's better than having a candy bar :happy:

    Potatoes get a bad rap! They are not unhealthy, it's how they're cooked and what they're served with, that boosts them into a less desireable food category. Carbs from potatoes aren't bad, everyone need carbs, it's the carbs from sugar you have to control.

    1 baked potato 110 grms with skin (that's where lots of the nutirents are) contains, 45% of your Vitamin C, 620 mg potassium (used by almost every system in your body), as well as fibre, iron, and protein. Put a scoop of low fat chili on top of your baked potato and you'll feel full for hours plus you fell like you cheated on your diet.
  • cdstadt
    cdstadt Posts: 311 Member
    Potatoes get a bad rap! They are not unhealthy, it's how they're cooked and what they're served with, that boosts them into a less desireable food category. Carbs from potatoes aren't bad, everyone need carbs, it's the carbs from sugar you have to control.

    1 baked potato 110 grms with skin (that's where lots of the nutirents are) contains, 45% of your Vitamin C, 620 mg potassium (used by almost every system in your body), as well as fibre, iron, and protein. Put a scoop of low fat chili on top of your baked potato and you'll feel full for hours plus you fell like you cheated on your diet.

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  • polarduke
    polarduke Posts: 23 Member
    Potatoes suck! Check your blood sugar two hours after eating a bunch and see if they are harmless!
    You don't 'need' that many carbs. We can live on fat and protien w/o carbs.
  • ashheart
    ashheart Posts: 17
    I eat microwaved potatoes almost EVERY night, and since I've started that, I feel fantastic. They're incredibly filling, and awesome with fat free sour cream. I swear by potatoes, and I'm gonna tell you now to ignore the tater haters. Whenever I've hit a point where my weight gets sticky and won't budge, I eat potatoes and I get past it. I was stuck at a certain weight forever, and got on a potato eating kick. Pounds started melting off. I've tested it at enough sticky points to find that potatoes help a lot. So, I make it a habit to eat them almost nightly. Not just 4 oz either, oh heck no. I budget in 12 oz some nights. There's nothing more filling than that. I made a top round steak/french onion/veggie concoction I throw on it last night, omg sooo good. Or top it with chili, beef stew.. possibilities are endless. Potatoes are magic. VIVA LA POTATOES!

    Edit: I also always stay either right at or below my daily carb allowances according to what MFP assigns.
  • Troll
    Troll Posts: 922 Member
    i don't care for potatos (russet, anyway) but i eat a sweet potato almost every day.

    as long as they aren't slathered in butter and cheese, i'd say go for it! Eat them until you don't want to anymore :)
  • RobertaKR
    RobertaKR Posts: 22 Member
    All this talk about potatoes and coincidentally... my daughter asked me to make potatoe soup. It's now simmering on the stove. : D
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