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I remember trying this. It's a miserable diet that didn't give me the results advertised. I did drop some weight and then stalled out. The only thing I gained f

by iteria 3y ago

I remember trying this. It's a miserable diet that didn't give me the results advertised. I did drop some weight and then stalled out. The only thing I gained from the diet was a restrict in my perceived hunger which allowed me to lose significant weight after I left the diet and moved to intermittent fasting. My friend had about the same results. I always wonder If this has a bias towards helping people who are very overweight and/or have an unbalanced diet. As far as I can tell, I've lost all the weight I can lose via a sustainable diet and I just need to find some time to do this whole exercise thing.

BugsJustFindMe 3y ago
There's a saying in fitness circles: "You can't outrun your fork." Exercise is great, and you should do it, but reducing calories and changing their composition is far more impactful when the goal is losing weight. Even extremely vigorous and prolonged exercise burns only small amounts of calories.
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- iteria 3y ago
  That's a pithy saying and I think pretty accurate, but there is only so much I can manage my diet. The fact that I've maintained my weight for weeks and I'm extremely sedimentary says that the last 15 lbs is gonna involve a run. Good job diet in getting me back to my previous weight before I exercised. I think I'll get back to my goal weight by doing what I did before when I was at my goal wait: taking a 30mins run every day. That's just all that's left when you don't drink alcohol or soda or eat a lot of sweets or carbs.
wavemode 3y ago
How long did you and your friend stay on the diet? And was it 100% potato? (e.g. did you just boil a potato and eat it, or was it salted/buttered etc.) I tend to read accounts of people trying a "potato hack" where they adhere to the diet for only a few days, or a week, then go back to regular food. They often lose a small amount of weight but don't move the needle much. Then I read accounts of people who do it for months, very strictly, and they usually lose dozens (sometimes upwards of a hundred) pounds, and keep the weight off with little effort. If the potato diet actually needs to be accompanied by a significant amount of exercise, it's probably mostly just another fad diet that is tricking people into losing weight themselves. But, Penn Jillette famously ate only potatoes for 4 months, never exercising at all, and lost over a hundred pounds. Those are the specific kind of claims that need to be verified (or falsified) here, if a large-scale study is ever done on this.
- iteria 3y ago
  I did it for 2 weeks. I lost zero weight after 3 days. You might need to be on it for weeks, but I couldn't do it for a diet that miserable. I lost weight using intermittent fasting and I got to enjoy food in thr process

by iteria 3y ago

BugsJustFindMe 3y ago

There's a saying in fitness circles: "You can't outrun your fork." Exercise is great, and you should do it, but reducing calories and changing their composition is far more impactful when the goal is losing weight. Even extremely vigorous and prolonged exercise burns only small amounts of calories.

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iteria 3y ago
That's a pithy saying and I think pretty accurate, but there is only so much I can manage my diet. The fact that I've maintained my weight for weeks and I'm extremely sedimentary says that the last 15 lbs is gonna involve a run. Good job diet in getting me back to my previous weight before I exercised. I think I'll get back to my goal weight by doing what I did before when I was at my goal wait: taking a 30mins run every day. That's just all that's left when you don't drink alcohol or soda or eat a lot of sweets or carbs.

wavemode 3y ago

How long did you and your friend stay on the diet? And was it 100% potato? (e.g. did you just boil a potato and eat it, or was it salted/buttered etc.) I tend to read accounts of people trying a "potato hack" where they adhere to the diet for only a few days, or a week, then go back to regular food. They often lose a small amount of weight but don't move the needle much. Then I read accounts of people who do it for months, very strictly, and they usually lose dozens (sometimes upwards of a hundred) pounds, and keep the weight off with little effort. If the potato diet actually needs to be accompanied by a significant amount of exercise, it's probably mostly just another fad diet that is tricking people into losing weight themselves. But, Penn Jillette famously ate only potatoes for 4 months, never exercising at all, and lost over a hundred pounds. Those are the specific kind of claims that need to be verified (or falsified) here, if a large-scale study is ever done on this.

iteria 3y ago
I did it for 2 weeks. I lost zero weight after 3 days. You might need to be on it for weeks, but I couldn't do it for a diet that miserable. I lost weight using intermittent fasting and I got to enjoy food in thr process