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If its the potassium, you could test the idea with something else like bananas. I remember hearing years ago that Weight Watchers had reformulated their diet a
by trashface 4y ago
If its the potassium, you could test the idea with something else like bananas. I remember hearing years ago that Weight Watchers had reformulated their diet and one of the changes was that you could eat "unlimited" bananas.
My personal anecdote is I eat a lot of bananas (at least one a day almost every day) and a few potatoes and I'm actually having a bit of trouble keeping my weight _high_ enough (150lbs for 5'10" guy). And I have some issues with keeping muscle mass, though partially that's related to no strength training due to an injury for most of this past year, which hopefully I'm now starting to put behind me.
- NoPicklez 4y agoI’m 5,10, 69.5kg, workout actively including cardio and I eat almost no Bananas. Let’s not all go Bananas over Bananas.
- loeg 4y agoBananas have low caloric density, which is useful if you're trying to consume fewer calories. Apples are another good low-density snack.
- dplgk 4y agoI'm similar. Do you get low blood sugar easily? It seems like people who's bodily readily release insulin (maybe too much) have a hard time gaining weight. Explains why prediabetics gain weight?
- trashface 4y agoI'm not sure if I get low blood sugar. I'm sure if I ate ice cream every day I could gain weight, as I was overweight most of last decade. But now I generally don't eat a lot, little bits throughout the day. I lost my weight with diet and dedicated exercise over a year ago. Then I mostly stopped exercising except for walking, but still kept losing weight. I mostly stabilized around 150, but I have dropped below it a few times (when I do, I sort of binge at my families house). Pretty sure my diet is protein deficient as well (little meat) explaining my muscle issues but then I've always had an extremely hard time putting on muscle, low testosterone probably. Was just thinking that, if potassium is implicated as some kind of weight-loss amplifier, and I am already not eating a lot, then it might push my weight down further than I want.
- chupchap 4y agoBased on personal experience this depends on the ripeness of banana. As the banana ripens all the starch gets converted into sugar
- fbdab103 4y agoA quick search is showing bananas have ~400 mg potassium. The study goal was to consume 2600 mg daily potassium, or the equivalent of 6.5 bananas. Bananas also have ~100 kCals, so that would require consuming 600 kCals daily to try and hit the potassium target. It is worth remembering that potassium was identified as a potential target from their potato diet experiment. Potatoes have ~900 mg potassium.
- matthewdgreen 4y agoBehold Japan’s Morning Banana Diet. Not a recommendation! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_banana_diet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_banana_diet
- srcreigh 4y agoThe article describes an initial test where people ate 2000 calories of potatoes every day and lost weight. The potassium experiment was a follow-up.