Potato Fast - Latest Comments

Re: Epic Fail … Glorious Victory

Pablo Klopper — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:14:31 -0000

If we go back far enough we will hit Eastern Europe with a swing through Austria ( on my mother's side)..

Re: Epic Fail … Glorious Victory

SG — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 17:54:02 -0000

What is your ancestry?

Re: Epic Fail … Glorious Victory

Jay — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:20:03 -0000

Very cool results! Love the graphs.

Re: One Week Metrics

Harvard Sloth — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:05:17 -0000

this didn't last very long, did it.

Re: Day 2 – Redux

Jay — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:15:30 -0000

Well some people claim that reintroduction of starchy carbs needs to be done slowly as to let your gut biome acclimate......one day doesn't seem sufficient for that so who knows :)

Re: You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

Pablo Klopper — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 10:58:15 -0000

That weight loss seems absurdly high to me. That would represent an equivalent fat loss to out and out fasting, which would be remarkable if it were true.

In terms of the data I'm collecting, aside from temperature, I also have a body monitor which I wear more or less throughout the day, just to try to make some sense of total daily energy expenditure changes.

My temperature has been a bit all over the map, with a delta of 1 degree Fahrenheit across over a few days. I'm trying to come up with a nice way to present this on an ongoing basis in the results page.

-PK

Re: You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

Jay — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 08:16:55 -0000

Be interesting to see your thoughts on a thermogenic breakdown. Many proponents of the potato diet state that you lose 1/2-1lb per day. That comes out to be like 1750-3500 calorie deficit if we suppose this loss is fat correct? I don't think someone of your size and stature is going to see the upper end of that scale, but still should be interesting. I suppose the body temp will be acting as proxy for metabolic rate as you said.

Re: Day 1 – The Meal

Pablo Klopper — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 06:55:41 -0000

Thanks for the encouragement!

While I actually do like potatoes, I haven't been eating them or other starchy vegetables for years now. I don't know that anyone could make them the centerpiece of a diet.

I recall reading somewhere that even those cultures where subsistence is predicated on tubers and corms, they are among the least preferred of foods, a question of necessity rather than choice.

Hopefully, we'll learn something from this.

-PK

Re: Day 1 – The Meal

Jay — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 23:14:29 -0000

good luck...I can't even include potatoes on a daily basis let alone make them the center piece.

Re: Day 1

AlanCarrOnline — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:14:51 -0000

Yep, black coffee after you're used to a dollop of real cream is... not as nice.