Potato Diet

[LadyForCamus]

From what I've been told by trusted sources, weight loss is generally about making sure the ratio  of gaining calories to burning them is continually less than 1.

Psychologically speaking, however, how you go about maintaining that ratio is going to depend on the individual, and maybe potato diet will work for one person but not for another in achieving that goal.

The problem is that preservation of lean body mass is crucial for weight-loss maintenance (muscle is more metabolically active than fat tissue) as well as for overall long-term health outcomes, especially in older adults. But it’s extremely difficult to preserve lean body mass while in an energy deficit. I can’t stress enough how important adequate protein intake is during dieting and extended periods of caloric restriction. Older adults in particular need upwards of 1.5g of high biological value protein per kilo of body weight (or goal weight if the patient is obese) per day in order to prevent catabolism of LBM. That’s obviously impossible to achieve when all you’re eating five days a week is potatoes.

Edit:

In addition @Gwaithmir, you’ve got mobility issues to begin with. You can’t afford to lose any of your LBM. The more I think on this, the more I think this is extremely unwise for you, my friend. Have you ever heard of, or been assessed for sarcopenia in obesity? I strongly encourage you to sit down with a registered dietitian if you can. In my professional opinion, it was highly irresponsible of your physician to approve this diet for you based on what of your medical history that you’ve shared here with us.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/med...0mortality.

Sarcopenic obesity is a multifactorial syndrome that is characterized by the co-occurrence of obesity and sarcopenia. The pathogenic mechanisms of sarcopenia and obesity seem to be synergistically connected and increase the risk of all-cause mortality in aging populations.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633408/

Weight gain results from the misbalance between energy intake and expenditure. Older persons tend to obtain too little proteins in their diet [83] which may impair protein muscle turnover, especially during periods of weight loss [84-86] which is often coincident with accelerated sarcopenia.

The imbalance between obesity and muscle impairment, either defined by low muscle mass or poor muscle strength is associated with important, negative health outcomes in older individuals. Recent epidemiological studies suggest that this syndrome is related to accelerated functional decline and high risk of diseases and mortality and, therefore, the identification of affected older patients should be an essential goal for clinicians.