Has anyone tried the corn and potato diet? (1 Viewer)

[wazoo11]

Im reading penn jillettes new book and he claims to have lost 100 lbs only eating corn and potatoes for two straight weeks. It sounds really great for lowering cholesterol.

 

[zander_s]

Sugar and starch? How can that work??

 

[-fish-]

Sugar and starch? How can that work??

magic.

 

[zander_s]

magic.

I see what you did there!!

 

[Mr. Ected]

Sugar and starch? How can that work??

Worked for Mark Watney!! But he was eating Fully-organic, Martian-grown potatoes.

 

[Scoresman]

We already have a thread for this diet.

https://forums.footballguys.com/forum/topic/455195-when-you-have-to-go-messy-2/

 

[BoltBacker]

Sugar and starch? How can that work??

He eats all his meals for the day in a 20min window. Intermittent cornholing. 

 

[Otis]

A few of us have tried the Potato Hack (eating only potatoes) and it works.  Coincidentally, I'm back on it now, in the middle of Day 3.  It's kind of miserable.  But it works.

Good luck.

 

[wazoo11]

A few of us have tried the Potato Hack (eating only potatoes) and it works.  Coincidentally, I'm back on it now, in the middle of Day 3.  It's kind of miserable.  But it works.

Good luck.

I tried searching for the thread but the search function seems to be broken.

 

[The General]

100 lbs in two weeks seems reasonable.

 

[RUSF18]

100 lbs in two weeks seems reasonable.

Hell if you're Ginny Sack it doesn't even take that long.

 

[Otis]

We’re assuming “100” was a typo for “10”, right?

 

[Otis]

Day 3 and this is miserable. Actually the only part of the day that’s difficult is 7-10pm. That’s when I usually crack some wine or scotch and hit the snack cabinet.  That’s when I’m in my natural habitat. All this having to our potato slices in the oven, heat them up, and eat them is, well, pretty terrible. 

On the bright side I think I’m down like 5lbs already this week. 

 

[prosopis]

Yes but I did it with popcorn and potato chips.

 

[ProstheticRGK]

A few of us have tried the Potato Hack (eating only potatoes) and it works.  Coincidentally, I'm back on it now, in the middle of Day 3.  It's kind of miserable.  But it works.

Good luck.

Oh, no you don't. Trying to go all stealth, huh? 

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Im reading penn jillettes new book and he claims to have lost 100 lbs only eating corn and potatoes for two straight weeks. It sounds really great for lowering cholesterol.

almost any diet that is exclusively plants can dramatically lower cholesterol in a short period of time.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

https://nypost.com/2016/07/27/penn-jillettes-magic-weight-loss-secret-potatoes/

This was the first step of a longer plant-based diet.

He wasn’t sure what that crazy thing would be until running into Ray Cronise, a former NASA scientist who is writing a book called “Our Broken Plate.” Cronise, who visited Jillette backstage in Vegas, had been on an eating plan bereft of animal products, sugar, oil and flour. Cronise also told him about a water fast he had been on, a potato plan he experimented with, and a glucose monitor inserted under his skin. Jillette, who had lost only 15 pounds until that point on a conventional diet, wanted in.

“I asked Penn to make a major lifestyle transformation and to interrupt his current relationship with food,” Cronise tells The Post. He put Jillette on a whole-food, plant-based regimen that would have him eating nothing but potatoes for the first two weeks.

After 14 days of eating nothing but potatoes in December 2014, Jillette dropped 18 pounds. At that point, he was allowed to enjoy corn. “It tasted like candy,” he recalls, adding that, over time, Cronise worked in other vegetables, fruits and unrefined grains.

Jillette thrived on the diet’s rigidity, dropping another 72 pounds by March 2015. 

 

[wazoo11]

We’re assuming “100” was a typo for “10”, right?

Yes.

 

[JB Breakfast Club]

Sugar and starch? How can that work??

The aristocrats! 

 

[gianmarco]

Who turned on the Otis batsignal?

 

[eoMMan]

Corn chips and potato chips all day?

 

[JaxBill]

What about corn squeezins and potato vodka?

 

[Otis]

Delishious shoestring potatoes for breakfast.  Down like 7lbs this week.     

Every night I come close to saying #### it and jumping off the wagon, either with booze or food, but so far have managed to avoid.

The weekend will be another matter, we have houseguests coming to stay over, and usually that leads to booze, which leads to pizza.  May allow myself a cheat that day, but really would prefer to just bear down and push through.

Anyway, yes, this works.  Read The Potato Hack. 

 

[Juxtatarot]

A few of us have tried the Potato Hack (eating only potatoes) and it works.  Coincidentally, I'm back on it now, in the middle of Day 3.  It's kind of miserable.  But it works.

Good luck.

Does it really work if you have to keep going back on it? You would be better off if you figured out a diet and lifestyle that you could sustain. But I’m sure you already know this.