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I spent a few weeks eating only potatoes and vegetable oil, several years ago. It wasn't for weight loss, it was because I was breastfeeding, and my baby had so
by ksenzee 4y ago
I spent a few weeks eating only potatoes and vegetable oil, several years ago. It wasn't for weight loss, it was because I was breastfeeding, and my baby had some kind of protein sensitivity we couldn't nail down. Potatoes turned out to be a safe food for him, so that's all I ate for a while. As it happens potatoes are my favorite food, and I had vegetable oil available so I could eat fries/chips/crisps, but even then I can't imagine doing it without a similarly serious motivation. When my choices were "listen to the baby cry in pain every time he eats" or "eat potatoes until the allergist appointment," it was an easy choice. Otherwise I wouldn't last long on the potato diet.
- yelnatz 4y agoDid you lose weight while on it? Any benefits you noticed?
- bbertelsen 4y agoEven if they did lose weight, it would be challenging to differentiate this from the insane calorie pull that happens to your body while breastfeeding.
- orzig 4y agoHaving recently given birth, and breast-feeding, is (Ahem) the mother of all confounding factors
- ksenzee 4y agoI lost 60 pounds of pregnancy weight that year, so it's hard to tell, but I didn't notice any particular change in my weight loss rate during the potato diet.
- csours 4y agoBreastfeeding is the second most calorie intensive (prolonged) experience most people will have, right after pregnancy. Obviously sprinting burns a lot of calories at once, but making milk happens all day, and you don't have to breathe those calories out.
- bergenty 4y agoIt was all deep fried. It wasn’t just potatoes but a lot of fat.
- ksenzee 4y agoIt was certainly not all deep fried. Gross. I'd have been sick the whole time.
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