Even ad libitum, the low palatibility and high satiety of potatoes makes you reach a point where you simply do not want to eat any more. For most people that yields a significant caloric deficit.
I did this experiment and it was boring more than anything. Plenty full/satisfied/not hungry, though.
did you feel like you maintained a decent energy level or spiral into a permanent malnourished slump? that's what i'm curious about, to me that's the biggest downside of calorie restrictions
I'd like somebody to write a browser extension that, a la Sponsorblock, lets a group of likeminded individuals flag and filter out for each other HN submissions for a wider variety of reasons than are permitted under the official guidelines. Reasons like "bullshit headline" or "article is a total lie" or "wild conflict of interest".
Any discussion system that allows users to hide comments by downvoting them inherently trends toward being an echo chamber. I invite you to voice an unpopular opinion about one of HN's sacred cows and observe how fast it hits -4.
>For two weeks. Which is effectively nothing when you are talking about long-term issues like nutrition, health, weight, etc.
Yes, for two weeks, that's what the author is talking about. You are talking about something different. Can you point to the part of the article where this person recommends eating 500 calories of potatoes, as you say, "long-term"?
I find it hilarious that some innocuous article like this appears and people want long-term, double blind studies or it's trash. Meanwhile, any time air quality articles come up, half the same audience claims they can detect 100ppm changes in room CO2, it makes them sick, etc etc.
Famously, lots of people have successfully lived healthy lives with long periods where they ate mostly or exclusively potato, including multiple cases where people voluntarily ate only potatoes for a year. The safety of this diet is difficult to dispute, and I highly recommend potatoes much more than any other mono diet that can really mess you up due to nutrient imbalances
While this doesn't specifically say to only eat 500 calories, this is an explicit recommendation for eating only potatoes as a diet in an article proclaiming that eating 500 calories a day of only potatoes was an effective way to lose weight.
But at the end of day, I just don't see value in "I did some diet thing for 2 weeks!". Just like someone writing an article about trying out a new programming language for a couple weeks and labeling it amazing or terrible wouldn't be super interesting to me either.
it is not that CI/CO is made up, it is that your metabolism is a dynamic system. You can't beat CI/CO, but the value of CO changes based on CI and other factors such as activity level. You can't keep CO steady if you adjust CI because your body adjusts. The one that blows people's minds is you _can_ increase CI and maintain your activities and _lose_ weight. The cause is increased metabolism based on the kinds and frequency of foods you eat. Body builders have been doing exactly that for years.
