A DD Hack

[Librarygirl]

I read over there a little bit (seems to be a lot of disagreement, lol), but was mentioned that even doing the potato fast 3-4x a week might be all you need to start losing (more). Love the potato salad idea...how about nonfat greek yogurt instead of mayo...wouldn't need but a tsp or 2, or even light sour cream...has less cals than mayo, I think.

P.S. I've been measuring my fresh food by the cup, tsp, T etc., and only occasionally had to guesstimate. I will be buying a scale this week! Seems easier anyway.

[dipgal]

subscribing... I am just starting my first DD tomorrow and don't want to complicate things.. and haven't read everything about the taters.. Sounds like a blood glucose event through the roof to me at first glance though. Albeit a delicious one!!

[ouizoid]

Here is Tatertot's most recent post over at MDA about his most recent potato experiment.

Quoting:

"Hey, Guys! After reading PKlopp's 'Epic Fail' post, I had to jump in and tell you what I have been up to.

As you may know, I'm a small-time potato farmer. Farmer's market and word-of-mouth kind of operation in my spare time. I haven't eaten potatoes in almost 3 years as they were not on the low-carb plan.

I lost a lot of weight in 3 years on primal, but stabilized around 210lbs (I'm 6'). I tried hard to lose another 10, but it always came right back on.

I did the potato diet from Oct 1-14 and lost 10lbs. Since then, I have stabilized at 198 and had been +/- 3lbs of 198 for 4 full weeks. On Nov 17th, I started another potato diet, more of an experiment, and partly because I didn't want to have to eat my wife's pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving day.

My experiment: 8 people (me included). Each person was given 20lbs of potatoes (variety - Seed Potatoes - German Butterball PotatoesOrganic). Each person had approximately 40 potatoes and was instructed to eat nothing else. Water, coffee, tea to drink; salt, pepper, apple-cider vinegar for spices. Here are the results:

Person 1 (me) - Starting weight 198, end weight 193, -5lbs, 6 days
Person 2 - M - Starting weight 181, end weight 175, -6lbs, 6 days
Person 3 - M - Starting weight 264, end weight 260, -4lbs, 5 days
Person 4 - M - Starting weight 210, end weight 202, -8lbs, 7 days
Person 5 - F - Starting weight 151, end weight 145, -6lbs, 8 days
Person 6 - F - Starting weight 140, end weight 134, -6lbs, 8 days
Person 7 - F - Starting weight 132, end weight 128, -4lbs, 7 days
Person 8 - F - Starting weight 124, end weight 119, -5lbs, 9 days

Pounds per day:
Person 1 - .83
Person 2 - .66
Person 3 - .80
Person 4 - 1.1
Person 5 - .75
Person 6 - .75
Person 7 - .57
Person 8 - .55

Everybody was so happy they didn't gain over Thanksgiving! Some are continuing, all have said they will do it again. Notice the biggest guy of the bunch ate his potatoes faster and lost less than everybody. The smallest of the group ate her potatoes slowly and lost fairly slowly, but as a percentage it was awesome."

so--not a totally randomized experiment or anything, but more info about how it is working for some peeps.

Library Girl--some of those people over at MDA are downright vicious. Makes me very very very happy to be in JUDDD land, lol

[Librarygirl]

So he only ate potatoes on Thanksgiving? No, I guess it ended before then, but not sure how he avoided his wife's pumpkin pie, lol.

I ate exactly all I wanted on Tday, and two days later with family, including all kinds of desserts and still lost weight.

[jem51]

That guy in the potato industry did this a couple years, or so ago.

Just potatoes.
He got bored but lost weight. Quite a bit if I remember correctly.

[junkn]

how are you guys doing this on DD? i just googled calories for a potato and most are over 250 calories for one potato

[ouizoid]

I have a little bitty 50-70 calorie yukon gold on the hour for 10 hours--that is one way!

[mom23kids]

Ok, spent hours and hours reading through the two MDA threads today I'm definitely going to try this on my DDs, though I'm also wondering about calories. I bought three different kinds of potatoes-russet, yellow, and red. All three have 110 calories listed per potato in the nutritional section, though the russet is about double the size of the other two kinds I do not have a food scale-wonder how sensitive my regular scale is

Starting tomorrow

[SoHappy]

Originally Posted by junkn

how are you guys doing this on DD? i just googled calories for a potato and most are over 250 calories for one potato

That a huge half pound potato then. A whole POUND of potatoes are only 470 calories.

[sdjade]

I eat potatoes on DD quite a bit, but usually with some grilled chicken and a laughing cow. Think I will try potatoes only starting Wednesday (and on DD only). I find potatoes very yummy and filling so it should be nbd! Hope to see some scale movement because it has been quite a while.

[Librarygirl]

Sara, you are going to have to purchase a kitchen scale, like me!

[SoHappy]

Originally Posted by Librarygirl

Sara, you are going to have to purchase a kitchen scale, like me!

I could not have been successful without a scale!!!!!!!!!!

I would be driven crazy to have to stuff food into measuring cups and then scrape it back out, etc. I know myself well enough to know that... much of the time I wouldn't actually go to that trouble. I'd just *eyeball* it and guess. And that's a recipe for failure, slowly but surely. Or at least very, very, very slow weight loss. LOL

But with a scale, you just pop a handful of food on it, add a sprinkle more or take a smidge back off, and presto! The exact amount quickly and easily.

Truth be told, the scale I use isn't even a kitchen food scale. It's a postal scale, but I like it tons because it has a larger flat top weighing surface.

[angie1]

so how many calories of potatoes do you eat???

[mom23kids]

Originally Posted by Librarygirl

Sara, you are going to have to purchase a kitchen scale, like me!

It's on my wish list, but we just paid over $800 in dental bills so things are tight right now

[Librarygirl]

I hear you Sara...things are tight here too. I hope to find one cheap! Ebay anyone?

[KeirasMom]

Okay, you guys got me. I picked up russets and malt vinegar on the way home. I've measured out 12 ounces (2 small - medium potatoes) and baked them. This comes to 180 calories. I'll not eat breakfast, have one for lunch at work and a spare in case I get hungry, then either have the second for dinner, or cook a third when I get home. I'll let you know how it goes.

[Librarygirl]

I've got one large and two small/mediums in the crock pot with beef broth. I think that's more than 500 cals, but I went ahead and put it all in.

[C'Marie]

Wow.... sounds interesting. I'd definitely consider it, but with arthritis potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplants (nightshades) are no-nos. I wonder if a certain type of them would be better than others if I wanted to try it?

[Debrat3]

Originally Posted by ouizoid

I had a sweet potato one night. I was down another pound the next day.

Here is the thing about taters. They are SO satiating, that it gets hard to eat more by the end of the day. I am committed to a week of taters only after reading MDA, and I am not bored or craving, but I really really have a hard time eating more, so my UD calories are a bit hard to target. I kind of have to force myself by the end of the day.

I see this as an ongoing hack --like maybe a week or so of taters only once a month, and then seeing about using taters as a DD food. It depends on how it all keeps going.

The original Potato Diet guy lost 22 lbs in 6 weeks of taters only and radically changed all his cholesterol numbers (and stopped snoring!--which started back up after he resumed normal eating).

I'll keep y'all posted

Taters are my #1 comfort food. They would really work well for a down day, thanks for posting.

[ouizoid]

y'know--how interesting. I too am sensitive to nightshades, but somehow potatoes in isolation are not setting me off, at least so far. hmmm. how weird.

[C'Marie]

Oui, I wondered if eating them separate and apart from everything else might work. Do you struggle with joint pain also?

[SoHappy]

Originally Posted by ouizoid

y'know--how interesting. I too am sensitive to nightshades, but somehow potatoes in isolation are not setting me off, at least so far. hmmm. how weird.

I also have arthritis, as my father before me and his mother before him. And I've never noticed a dime's worth of difference whether I ate nightshades or not. Now changes in the barometric pressure as the weather systems move through is another matter.

[Shari4]

Originally Posted by SoHappy

I also have arthritis, as my father before me and his mother before him. And I've never noticed a dime's worth of difference whether I ate nightshades or not. Now changes in the barometric pressure as the weather systems move through is another matter.

Pat, I'm the same way. When the pressures change from the weather systems, I cringe! Like today, we had a cold front move thru & by 10pm, my hips were not happy!! My poor mother is so crippled by arthritus in her hands. But, I haven't noticed any particular food causing me problems. Maybe I need to pay more attention?

This whole potato experiment is fascinating to me. I will watch how it works for others here & maybe try it myself one day. I'm pretty happy with the way I've been eating...........so, I may not want to mess with success, ya know?

[LoCarbGal]

Okay, I'm sold. I'm going to be at Sprouts tomorrow for a produce run, and now potatoes are on my list. Everyone who knows me will think I'm nuts - I haven't had a potato (excepting for Thanksgiving) in almost a year! I even have family in the potato farming business! Maybe now they'll speak to me again.

[C'Marie]

Ok so I've searched that site and can't find that thread. Help? what exactly to put into the search?

[ouizoid]

eat moar taters is the first threads name. There are a couple of others called primal potato diet

[calichris]

I'm in on the experiment! I have four smallish potatoes in the oven right now cooking for my DD tomorrow.

[calichris]

Originally Posted by C'Marie

Ok so I've searched that site and can't find that thread. Help? what exactly to put into the search?

I had the same problem at first ... if you click on forums, you can then search for the "eat moar taters" thread. (moar spelling intentional!)

[C'Marie]

got it, thanks!

[wiiiifit]

Interesting. I wonder if you could make a modified potato soup. I usually make mine with chicken broth and garlic/onion powder. Usually I would I add some sort of fat...cheese, butter, cream or cream cheese. But, maybe it wouldn't be so bad without the fat?? I figure it's worth a try. I looove potato soup.