Potato Diet

[Gwaithmir]

My houseboy will be coming over to do some housecleaning this afternoon. I'm going to have him clean enough potatoes to fill my 4-gal. stewpot. I'll store the boiled potatoes in the fridge. I expect to start the potato diet tomorrow or Monday. As per a few suggestions here, I'll buy some Yukon Gold Potatoes next time I'm ordering groceries. 

[Fake Messiah]

He ate potatoes for two weeks to retrain his taste buds because when someone is on junk food they can't eat normal food because they find it too bland. Do you have a problem with eating food that does not have extra sugar, salt, and fat?

[Anomalocaris]

I recall reading about a study conducted by several polish researchers before WWII.  They restricted themselves to a pure potato and milk diet for a period of several month, and found that at the end they suffered neither malnutrition, nor vitamin deficiency, nor  any kind of aversion to the eating potatoes, as people would normally develop after excessively length monotonous diet of single staple.

There is also the fact that before the Irish potato famine, Irish peasants were generally considered to be better nourished, healthier and more strapping than peasants from the rest of UK and other parts of Europe despite being poorer than farmers in the rest of UK and Europe.   This was also attributed to Irish peasantry’s heavier reliance on potatoes for food.

[Gwaithmir]

He ate potatoes for two weeks to retrain his taste buds because when someone is on junk food they can't eat normal food because they find it too bland. Do you have a problem with eating food that does not have extra sugar, salt, and fat?

No.

[Fake Messiah]

Then maybe you don't have to go on the potato diet, just don't eat and drink junk. Many people can't stop eating junk. For example, I was just recently watching a documentary about these people and how food companies create these junkies around the world.

[Gwaithmir]

Then maybe you don't have to go on the potato diet, just don't eat and drink junk. Many people can't stop eating junk. For example, I was just recently watching a documentary about these people and how food companies create these junkies around the world.

Part of this diet will be getting used to avoiding junk food as much as possible.

[Gwaithmir]

I weighed myself today. I've lost ten pounds, so far. I'm preparing another batch of potatoes this evening. 

[Gwaithmir]

I'm down to 317 pounds as of this morning. 

[Fake Messiah]

That is nice. What are your plans after the potato diet?

Maybe you could check this book by a former junk food addict. I mean if it helped Bill Clinton then you can't go wrong.

[arewethereyet]

I'm down to 317 pounds as of this morning. 

That's great!  I wonder how long you can keep this up.  I tend to eat a thing for weeks or months at a time; like the same thing for lunch every day.  Eventually I hit my fill of that thing and have to move on to something else that I will then eat for weeks or months.  Eventually I cycle back around.

I love, love, love potatoes but that even that would get old for me after a time.