In 2010, Chris Voigt, the Executive Director of the Washington State Potato Commission, ate nothing but 20 plain potatoes (and a small amount of cooking oil) for 60 days straight, and lost 21 pounds. He described it as being pretty easy.
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Andrew Taylor is an Australian man who did an all-potato diet for a full year. He started at 334 pounds and he lost 117 pounds over the course of his “Spud Fit Challenge.”
“I feel amazing and incredible! ... I'm full of energy, I have better mental clarity and focus.”
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Penn Jillette, of the famous magician duo Penn & Teller, lost over 100 lbs, down from “probably over 340”, on a diet that started with a 2-week period of nothing but potatoes.
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In the spirit of self-experimentation, one of us is currently on day 11 of the all-potato diet. Sure enough, it's been comically easy. No cravings and no willpower required. The hardest part is the logistics of preparing that many potatoes every single day.
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Update from the self-experimentation trenches:
Tried nothing but baked potatoes, no oil, and only a tiny bit of seasoning for the last two days.
Still bizarrely, laughably easy to keep up with the diet. Feeling much more energetic, have lost a bit of weight.
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oh yeah still drinking coffee tho ☕️
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Just spitballing here, but if the mechanism is potassium, "not much salt" might make more of a difference than "no oil"
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potato diet is also consistent with the LA/torpor theory as well btw: reddit.com/r/SaturatedFat
(most interesting idea is that one could potentially deplete excess LA stores in 2-3 months as opposed to the 6+ year timeframe people usually talk about)
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For better and for worse, potato diet working is consistent with a lot of theories. But if it DOES work reliably, that gives us a great starting point and we will have a lot of fun teasing apart the potential explanations
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If it works for some people and not others everyone will have a field day trying to explain why, prepare for things to get very chaotic 😛
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you guys (are you a team?) are doing amazing work here, i'm so excited to see where this all will go!
Thanks! 🥰
Yes team, not a couple / not married!
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