You can do potato wedges for sure... Lost 30lbs in 3 months eating home made potato wedges every night. Ketchup too , but conservative. I also had banan ice cream most nights. Crazy stuff. It makes ZERO sense and shouldn't work but it does!
Yeah, but no. This is exactly like people who cook a dish swearing that they followed the recipe, but claiming it didn't come out right... then they add on, "It called for a teaspoon of salt, but I thought that was too much, so I put less. Then I substituted butter for the margarine...." You get the idea. Kinda like trying to go keto while still drinking sugary drinks. Do the diet or don't. There is no in between.
Potatoes aren't magic. Weight loss on a potato-only diet is down to lower calories - same with keto btw. This person got the same result as others on the potato diet, they just didn't hype it and calculated what weight, whether muscle or fat, was lost.
@@jeangove01 Well I think there is something to be said about the resistant starch aspect of potatoes and how it affects your gut biome. You could fast all day and be in a caloric deficit but not change anything about your gut Flora. I think one of the reason this works is because you reset your body's digestive system
@@Radioghost717 exactly. but it is not only the resistant starch - which is low, if the potato is still hot. it is a certain very well balanced mixture of different fiber. there is fiber in it that results in a release of satiety feeling within minutes because of the volume. this is CCK. and there are other fibers that is food for the gut microbiome that results in a long term release in incretin hormones coming from the L cells in the gut like GLP-1 and PYY up to 48 hours!!. GLP-1 also does lower blood sugar production in the liver which results in lower insulin levels which drives the release of fat from your fat cells (lipase enzymes). the perfect mixture of short term and long term satiety hormones drives the success of eating less calories. however, this video is also talking about what weight loss can be - lean mass loss and body fat loss. looking more closely at this is super important. many people don't distinguish between loss of lean body mass and loss of body fat mass which is very stupid. loss of lean body mass is not only muscle mass but also organ mass or important collagen in different tissues. in some cases the look very old when losing lean body mass because the skin gets very saggy when collagen got wasted. this is something that many youtube people completely ignore when reporting about "magic weight loss" on the potato diet. this is why i want to cycle between a potato diet and beef&eggs carnivore every two days. two days on the suboptimal protein from a potato diet is not doing any harm. filling up the amino acid pool by doing ground beef and eggs for one or two days prevents lean body mass loss and gets you ready for the next two potato diet days. this might be the perfect combination for body fat loss without any nutrient deficiencies.
@@erastvandoren works the same as rice and fruit diet with lean protein which is better than the keto diet. Because you'll feel just the same as the keto diet
Correct. She would have lost more muscle, meaning when she resumed her normal eating patterns she would gain weight easier as her body would burn fewer calories each day. As it is she's already heavier than she was when she started this diet, which is how the whole yo-yo dieting problem comes about.
@@9to5strength I lost Five pounds in the first two days just sticking to potatoes, sometimes a bit of mustard or ketchup. Have to see how it goes. First day off the potatoes today. Planning on going back to it next week. I hope it fat coming off not muscle.
@@havana2banana I think he's inaccurate because there are plenty of people who lost fat not muscle on this diet and ate all potatoes. Meat isn't good for weight loss either.
@@shelbybettencourt4758 Yes. When I did it I could tell I lost fat because my scales show body fat percentage. I can still eat potatoes but I couldn't do the diet again.
I start my potato only 'diet' on monday (pay day and I want to buy some new scales and a new larger saucepan). I am going to supplement with nothing more than 2 teaspoons of moringa powder each day in my mashed spuds.
thats a cool plan and set up but if im honest i feel like you sabotaged your wifes progress by putting the extra rules up. 28 days of strickly potatoes would have been fine because its relatively short term. a lb a week although is progress its less than half of a dieters goal of 2.5. idk you guys situation but it just seemed like she had an idea and you wanted to put your own spin and control it. *disclaimer: i didnt make it past the the **2:30** mark*
ok, then you might not understood the essence of the video. maybe it also was not explained well enough. the reason about that modification was to minimize loss of lean body mass which is an issue on a pure potato diet. however i would cycle between a potato diet and carnivore every two days but not mix it. carbs + protein is ok. fats + protein is ok but fats and carbs is a no no. which also means fat + carbs + protein is a no no.
If she's eating fat for "health reasons" then you need to be FAR more particular about the TYPE of fat she is eating. Mayonnaise and Keifer fat doesn't cut it.
no, the conclusion is to think what body weight loss actually means and bringing the nuance in that lean body mass loss is not a good idea - never!!!!!
Yeah, maybe she was sneaking food in. Because I started all potato diet was at 200 pounds and in two months I was at 165 I was losing about 14 pounds per month. There’s no way she just ate potatoes.
@@honkeyness9427 I ate them plain baked. No ketchup, no salt no butter no sour cream no mustard no barbecue sauce no nothing. The weird thing is after about three weeks you start to crave potatoes. It’s really weird.
as long as you stay below 2.5g/kg and do not have high blood sugar, you are safe. what is the real damage for the kidneys are the so called advanced glycation end products AGEs. these are protein and lipids that get glycated by high blood sugar. this happened in bodybuilders who added a ton of fast digestible carbs to induce high insulin as a potential growth factor. bodybuilders in the old days like arnold schwarzenegger did not get damaged kidneys because they where not on a high carb diet. the where on a moderate carb diet or even on a low carb diet like from vince gironda's steak and eggs diet. they ate a huge amount of protein and did not get any kidney damage.
Misleading video so she didn't really do the potato diet since she ate other things
So it’s not the Potato Diet. Misleading.
You can do potato wedges for sure... Lost 30lbs in 3 months eating home made potato wedges every night. Ketchup too , but conservative. I also had banan ice cream most nights. Crazy stuff. It makes ZERO sense and shouldn't work but it does!
Did u fry your potato wedges or did u bake them? What else did u eat apart from the potatoes
Both is possible, but dont evereat
Hey did you deep fry the potato wedges or like air fry them
@@tweedledummie I cooked them in the oven just baked potato wedges I even used ketchup and I still lost a ton of weight
4 lbs lost in a month? waste of time..
do you think it is better to lose 4lb body fat + 4lb lean mass and celebrate 8lb of body weight loss?
Not really the potato diet if you eat other things too, may as well call it a diet.
Very misleading title. Wasting people’s time.
Yeah, but no. This is exactly like people who cook a dish swearing that they followed the recipe, but claiming it didn't come out right... then they add on, "It called for a teaspoon of salt, but I thought that was too much, so I put less. Then I substituted butter for the margarine...." You get the idea. Kinda like trying to go keto while still drinking sugary drinks. Do the diet or don't. There is no in between.
Potatoes aren't magic. Weight loss on a potato-only diet is down to lower calories - same with keto btw. This person got the same result as others on the potato diet, they just didn't hype it and calculated what weight, whether muscle or fat, was lost.
@@jeangove01 Well I think there is something to be said about the resistant starch aspect of potatoes and how it affects your gut biome. You could fast all day and be in a caloric deficit but not change anything about your gut Flora. I think one of the reason this works is because you reset your body's digestive system
@@Radioghost717 exactly. but it is not only the resistant starch - which is low, if the potato is still hot. it is a certain very well balanced mixture of different fiber. there is fiber in it that results in a release of satiety feeling within minutes because of the volume. this is CCK. and there are other fibers that is food for the gut microbiome that results in a long term release in incretin hormones coming from the L cells in the gut like GLP-1 and PYY up to 48 hours!!. GLP-1 also does lower blood sugar production in the liver which results in lower insulin levels which drives the release of fat from your fat cells (lipase enzymes). the perfect mixture of short term and long term satiety hormones drives the success of eating less calories.
however, this video is also talking about what weight loss can be - lean mass loss and body fat loss. looking more closely at this is super important. many people don't distinguish between loss of lean body mass and loss of body fat mass which is very stupid. loss of lean body mass is not only muscle mass but also organ mass or important collagen in different tissues. in some cases the look very old when losing lean body mass because the skin gets very saggy when collagen got wasted.
this is something that many youtube people completely ignore when reporting about "magic weight loss" on the potato diet. this is why i want to cycle between a potato diet and beef&eggs carnivore every two days. two days on the suboptimal protein from a potato diet is not doing any harm. filling up the amino acid pool by doing ground beef and eggs for one or two days prevents lean body mass loss and gets you ready for the next two potato diet days. this might be the perfect combination for body fat loss without any nutrient deficiencies.
Potatoes have enough protein, and 30g of fat is already too much. Optimal for vitamin absorption are 10g. For health too.
Btw, potato diet works exactly because it's so low in fat, and if you are losing weight then you eat your own fat, no dietary fat required.
@@erastvandoren works the same as rice and fruit diet with lean protein which is better than the keto diet. Because you'll feel just the same as the keto diet
@leighleigh8725 cell rejuvenation, hydration... you are still talking about fat, are you?
@leighleigh8725 And why do you think that you need more fat? Fat can actually be synthesized. And almost all of us have too much fat.
the ketogenic diet and carnivore shows the opposite.
If she did it properly without the tuna and fat she would have lost more.
Correct. She would have lost more muscle, meaning when she resumed her normal eating patterns she would gain weight easier as her body would burn fewer calories each day. As it is she's already heavier than she was when she started this diet, which is how the whole yo-yo dieting problem comes about.
@@9to5strength I lost Five pounds in the first two days just sticking to potatoes, sometimes a bit of mustard or ketchup.
Have to see how it goes. First day off the potatoes today. Planning on going back to it next week.
I hope it fat coming off not muscle.
@@havana2banana I think he's inaccurate because there are plenty of people who lost fat not muscle on this diet and ate all potatoes. Meat isn't good for weight loss either.
@@shelbybettencourt4758 Yes. When I did it I could tell I lost fat because my scales show body fat percentage.
I can still eat potatoes but I couldn't do the diet again.
These people want to do this diet with modifications instead of doing it with potatoes only nothing else. Bull shittt
This is complete bro science, this diet actually came out in 1849. The fat you eat is the fat you wear, do it right next time...
the ketogenic diet shows the opposite. which means that you are wrong.
....4.5 lbs after 28 days............that's pointless
That's over almost 50lbs a year. Can you imagine loosing 45-50lbs in just 12 months??
I start my potato only 'diet' on monday (pay day and I want to buy some new scales and a new larger saucepan). I am going to supplement with nothing more than 2 teaspoons of moringa powder each day in my mashed spuds.
Hey..how was it?
Howd it go?
How’s it working?
YO did it work and have you maintained weight and health?
thats a cool plan and set up but if im honest i feel like you sabotaged your wifes progress by putting the extra rules up. 28 days of strickly potatoes would have been fine because its relatively short term. a lb a week although is progress its less than half of a dieters goal of 2.5. idk you guys situation but it just seemed like she had an idea and you wanted to put your own spin and control it. *disclaimer: i didnt make it past the the **2:30** mark*
ok, then you might not understood the essence of the video. maybe it also was not explained well enough. the reason about that modification was to minimize loss of lean body mass which is an issue on a pure potato diet.
however i would cycle between a potato diet and carnivore every two days but not mix it. carbs + protein is ok. fats + protein is ok but fats and carbs is a no no. which also means fat + carbs + protein is a no no.
If she's eating fat for "health reasons" then you need to be FAR more particular about the TYPE of fat she is eating. Mayonnaise and Keifer fat doesn't cut it.
Kinda cringe. big deal about nothing. you didnt even follow the diet Lol.
In conclusion the potato diet is good for you as many people have lost weight with it.
no, the conclusion is to think what body weight loss actually means and bringing the nuance in that lean body mass loss is not a good idea - never!!!!!
Yeah, maybe she was sneaking food in. Because I started all potato diet was at 200 pounds and in two months I was at 165 I was losing about 14 pounds per month. There’s no way she just ate potatoes.
And that just with salt? No butter I assume. That would be tough
@@honkeyness9427 I ate them plain baked. No ketchup, no salt no butter no sour cream no mustard no barbecue sauce no nothing. The weird thing is after about three weeks you start to crave potatoes. It’s really weird.
Don't forget the impact of protein on the kidneys. I wouldn't consume too much of it.
as long as you stay below 2.5g/kg and do not have high blood sugar, you are safe. what is the real damage for the kidneys are the so called advanced glycation end products AGEs. these are protein and lipids that get glycated by high blood sugar. this happened in bodybuilders who added a ton of fast digestible carbs to induce high insulin as a potential growth factor.
bodybuilders in the old days like arnold schwarzenegger did not get damaged kidneys because they where not on a high carb diet. the where on a moderate carb diet or even on a low carb diet like from vince gironda's steak and eggs diet. they ate a huge amount of protein and did not get any kidney damage.
This is NOT a success.
minimizing lean mass loss is a success in my book and cannot be mentioned enough.
This is NOT a success. Who are you to impose rules on your wife??
Someone she trusts for nutritional advice..
@@9to5strength biggot
how is minimizing lean mass loss not a success?
can u eat them raw
No, these were often boiled the day before, cooled in the fridge overnight, and reheated before eating