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This is sad. In so many ways. People, please, do not copy. If your aim is to loose weight you absolutely have to provide a varied, balanced, healthy diet. If
by lmilcin 6y ago
This is sad. In so many ways.
People, please, do not copy.
If your aim is to loose weight you absolutely have to provide a varied, balanced, healthy diet. If nothing else, learning to provide it without calorie restriction is already going to help. Your body has to extract what it needs from less food so the food has to be more rich in quality content.
Also eating only carbs will mean opening a can of other problems. Your body needs to exercise various metabolic pathways every day. Avoiding fats and proteins in your diet is only good if you are fasting.
- jamil7 6y agoAgreed. He’s avoided learning anything about food, cooking and nutrition in favour of treating potatoes like coal. Also why is he cooking an individual meal for every family member? Can’t they all just eat something healthy and he eats a smaller portion of it? Or is this common in the US?
- Teknoman117 6y agoMy mother went fully vegan after reading Forks over Knives, and she started having to cook two meals as the other household members (I became an adult and moved out years ago) refused to eat vegan. A year later, mom is now the healthiest of us. Her blood work is perfect and she feels great. Rest of the family is in the same situation we always have been.
- lmilcin 6y agoProbably she isn't eating just potatoes? I have nothing against vegan diet. You just need to know what you are doing and be committed to be balancing the diet yourself. Meat is an easy choice that gives everything the body needs plus some stuff that it doesn't.
- burnthrow 6y agoWhere are you getting the idea that potatoes are unhealthy?
- jamil7 6y agoThey didn’t say potatoes are unhealthy they made the valid point that eating nothing but potatoes might be. As well as unnecessary, there’s a whole world of vegetables this guy could choose to discover and eat and still lose weight.
- lmilcin 6y agoTo expand on this, vegan diet is more demanding with regards to planning than meat-based diet as there is no single vegetable that contains nutrients that people need and even then you still need to balance your macro (ie. proportion of carbs to proteins to fats). Meat is an easy choice as it roughly contains what you need in roughly right proportions. It is not the best solution to the problem (I don't want to say eating meat exclusively is healthy or better than vegan) but it puts you in roughly safe spot in that you can be extremely lazy with the diet. With vegan diet you can quickly cause a lot of damage to your body if you are not paying attention to what you eat. If you don't want to spend your days with calculators and tables the safest bet is to just vary everything -- eat a little bit of everything every day or different things every day. One tip I would give even if you don't want to pay a lot of attention to details is to still try to manage proteins / carbohydrates / fat content of your food. Just add olive oil when you don't see enough fat in your food, etc.
- Mie 6y agoI know this person and you are dead wrong. He probably knows more about nutrition than most people because of this battle. He has done pretty much everything you can do to help yourself stay well and lose weight. Try being less judgmental of a person you know nothing about. He’s been kind enough to share his journey to help others who have tried everything and lost hope. Crappy remarks like most of you have shared are why people won’t seek help. Try being more kind, people. It makes the world a better place. Would you hammer a vegan like this? I didn’t think so.
- Mashimo 6y agoIt's just for two weeks though.
- throwaway201103 6y agoEating potatoes for two weeks is not going to seriously unbalance him (any more than he already is at 330lbs). For someone who is a habitual overeater, a varied balanced healthy diet may have too many opportunities to cheat. Sometimes you need an extreme change to snap out of old habits.
- lmilcin 6y agoYou haven't read the conclusion: "I’m off to eat more potatoes!" Listen, if you change your diet drastically it is possible that just reducing amount of salt in your diet is going to cause drop in amount of water in your body and reduce your body mass.
- coldtea 6y ago>You haven't read the conclusion: "I’m off to eat more potatoes!" Yes. This is his first day of a 2 week potato-only diet. So? >Listen, if you change your diet drastically it is possible that just reducing amount of salt in your diet is going to cause drop in amount of water in your body and reduce your body mass. If only that wasn't covered already in the book/diet...
- jart 6y agoWho are we to tell him what his body needs? Diets like these are usually more psychology than science. What science teaches us that the human body is remarkably resilient at survival and it doesn't say much about lifestyle. What this guy wants to do doesn't sound all that different from the bread/potato/rice diets most humans subsisted on until the twentieth century. So probably harmless. I believe in encouraging people who want to make positive changes in their life. There's also YouTube videos of others who've apparently had success changing their lifestyle by potato dieting.
- lmilcin 6y agoI have no issue with people doing whatever they want to themselves. I have issue with people advocating uninformed and frequently dangerous practices and spreading that misinformation on the internet. There exists no magical diet. This is just cranking dials on your body and see what effects it has with regards to your weight, without understanding what it actually does. Obesity is a symptom of unhealthy diet. The solution to this is a healthy diet.