Another factor for me personally: I never use a microwave (unless drunk).
Brag: I don’t even own one.
194.8 lbs, 1435 calories yesterday. 700 of those were sushi and chicken soup at work lunch. 3 sushi rolls with salmon, avocado, cucumber, rice. And just the chicken broth soup with mushroom and green onion that Japanese steakhouses/sushi places serve.
While the nutritional content may vary with ingredients, a California roll typically contains 255 calories, while an avocado roll gives you 140 calories.
His count seems like it might not be too egregious of an overshot.
Each roll is I think 8 pieces so if anything 210 per roll is a little low. Three rolls is a lot of food. The soup I just logged as chicken broth, which was 50 calories.
192.6 lbs this morning. 991 calories yesterday, all potatoes. Slept 10 hours last night (!). Have felt good and slept well all week on the whole. Still eating to appetite, haven’t gone to bed hungry a single time. Hunger and cravings have been very low and energy has been good.
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Boil till tender, then smash, then bake for a very nice crispy potato. Also, leave the skins on, that’s where a lot of nutrients are, and it helps keep them from falling apart. Look up a recipe for smashed potatoes. They all call for oil, but I suppose if you use parchment it might work.
194.0 lbs this morning. 1214 calories, all potatoes.
195.4 lbs this morning. Yesterday was a semi-cheat day, used 4 tablespoons of olive oil to make 2 batches of hash browns with onions. Also ate a 3.5 oz piece of salmon. 1578 calories. I say semi cheat because I still ran a fairly substantial calorie deficit.
I’m like you, any other sort of calorie restriction diet I’ve tried and my sleep schedule goes haywire. I start dreaming of food and eventually my willpower breaks. With this diet there’s no willpower and no hunger. I mean you do need willpower, but it’s limited to OK I’m just going to eat potatoes. So you need substantial willpower to decide you’re going to just eat potatoes, but none at all once you’re actually eating them. Like you don’t have the willpower to endure hunger at all. And I think the hunger is what disrupts sleep for me on other diets. The couple of times I’ve kind of tossed and turned I realized that I was a little hungry, so I got up and ate a 200 calorie potato. Both times I went right to sleep and slept well.
Then the other thing that might help sleep on a high potato diet is changes in the gut microbiome based on what you’re feeding it. Here’s a recent study that shows that butyrate in the large intestine helps sleep. Butyrate is a fermentation product of soluble fiber and resistant starch, both of which potatoes have in abundance. And there’s definitely been some positive changes in my digestion and bathroom habits, which helps explain my several pound weight gain over the weekend. Potatoes are also high in magnesium which has been linked to improved sleep.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-43502-1
Anyway, I highly recommend the diet and if you or anyone else tries it I’ll go back to strict potatoes out of solidarity for the duration of your attempt. It’s a very eye opening diet, and you learn a lot about your relationship with food just after a few days. I did anyway.
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The main thing I’m getting from this thread is a craving for potatoes. I might have to stop by the grocery store later. Someone needs to extract the recipes and cooking tips.
Quick tips:
- Use oil
- Use butter
- Use sour cream
- Use cheese
- Use salt
Follow those simple steps and it’s hard to go wrong.
192.6 lbs this morning. 1,036 calories yesterday, all from potatoes. Was very busy yesterday, didn’t leave work until 6:45 and only ate 350 calories at lunch until seven o’clock. Was hungry towards the end of the day but not excessively so.
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This thread is amazing. SK has me seriously considering a dramatic increase in my potato intake.
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Walked 5.6 miles yesterday
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Just curious what the end plan is when you’ve lost all the weight?
Certainly keep tracking my weight daily and maybe my calories as well. For a very long time I took a sort of don’t ask don’t tell approach to how much I weighed. Huh, these pants shrunk. Weird. You know people who have body dysmorphia? I basically had the reverse. Just big boned imo. So I think that just keeping track of what I actually weigh will do quite a lot to keep the weight off. And then try to build a way of eating that is sustainable and keeps me at my target weight. I think what I might do is just keep potatoes as a staple and then add other whole foods like meat, other vegetables, eggs, fruit, etc. I think that a sensible diet like that should maintain a healthy weight.
And then if I fall off the wagon and eat like crap for a while, I feel like I could use the potato diet as a tool to quickly rebound and get back to my goal weight. I know crash diets are allegedly bad, but this doesn’t seem like a crash diet, at all. Like shouldn’t you be hungry on a crash diet? Is it a crash diet if you go to bed full every night?
192.6 lbs this morning, 1,260 calories yesterday, all potatoes. Feel good, good energy and mood.
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No but srsly, if it gets down to the wire there’s like 5 lbs of cone you could have surgically removed.
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Wait, all joking aside this time, somebody photoshopped the top of your head.
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