Mr. Potatohead — If you are what you eat .....
“and around an hour each day spent cycling”.....Uh, I suspect this had as much to do with it as the diet.
It all comes down to calorie intake versus calories burned, you could eat only chocolate cake every meal for a year and lose weight as long as you were eating reasonable portions and burning more calories than you were consuming, (at the end of that year you might be suffering from Type II diabetes and several nutritional deficiencies, but still you would have lost weight).
The Scurvy diet. Let’s see his teeth.
Penn Gillette jump-started his 100+ lb weight loss by eating only potatoes for a month or two, I think.
Can’t be good for diabetics, though, right? Those potatoes will turn into sugar in the system, right?
Potatoes were a main staple of the Irish diet for many years. It was lack of them that brought many of them over here.
Recipe book in the works?
3 kilograms is 6.67 pounds.
That seems like plenty.
Was he Irish?
I think the true effectiveness of the “eat only one thing” diet is boredom. I mean there’s a lot you can do with potatoes, but even something that versatile you’re running out of stuff inside a week. In pretty short order you’re hating mealtime and eating a lot less.
https://potatohack.com/2016/03/13/potato-hacking-for-weight-loss-or-maintenance/
Weight Loss
The potato hack can be used whether you need to lose 200 pounds or 2 pounds. Many people like to do a round or two of the potato hack in preparation for a class reunion, wedding, or photo-shoot. The fast acting potato hack is absolutely incomparable for losing a few pounds in short order.
If you have considerably more weight to lose, you will want to do subsequent rounds of the potato hack until your goal weight is reached. Here we’ll explore several different ways to pull off these repeated hacks. If your diet is horrendous, ie. you constantly overeat and traditionally make poor food choices, the potato hack can help get these cravings under control. However, no amount of potato hacking in the world will overcome bad eating habits, but it may help you see the folly in your ways.
This man's commitment to lose weight is what should be praised.
The reason he lost weight was because he consumed fewer calories than he expended in energy, the food is somewhat irrelevant.
how much “just seasoning and low fat sauce” is just 1% of what he consumed?
tomato sauce can be low fat, lots of veggies made into sauce can be low fat.
This seems misleading to say he only ate potatoes but also had seasoning and low fat sauce.
And it’s not new news. I have many times had a potato craving and cooked up potatoes, onion and red bell peppers, sprinkled with romano cheese and cooked in olive oil for 2-3 big meals a few days in a row and yes lose weight in the process.
Potatoes are very low in fat. The fat is in the butter and sour cream, which, unfortunately, I love.
At least he didn’t have to worry about his potassium levels!
Carol Deppe wrote about her nearly-all-potato diet, but in her case it was for financial reasons: http://www.caroldeppe.com/The%2020%20Potato%20a%20Day%20Diet.html
Irish?
CC
“‘My health just continues to improve,’ he told news.com.au. ‘I had high cholesterol but now it’s low, my blood pressure has dropped and my sugar level has dropped.
‘Every time I get a new blood test, it just gets better.”
uh, yeah. I don’t believe any of this.