Potato Diet: Lose Weight with The Wonder Tuber

The potato diet promises quick weight loss without starving, because we can eat as many potatoes as we like. But is that healthy? And how does it work?

How the potato diet works

There are different variations of the potato diet. What they all have in common, as the name suggests, is that we mainly eat potatoes during the diet. Depending on the variant, we eat about 600 – 1000 grams of potatoes per day, with each portion about 100 g low-fat curd cheese or three eggs.

In its original form, this diet provides potatoes at every meal, but those who have absolutely no appetite for the wonder tuber in the morning have breakfast wholemeal oat flakes with some lean yoghurt and fresh fruit or two slices of wholemeal bread with cottage cheese.

Another diet plan allows fresh vegetables, lean meat or steamed fish as a side dish – which makes the diet look less monotonous. How we prepare the potatoes is up to us – cooked in the classic way or as baked potatoes or potato wedges. It is important that the preparation is low-fat.

Drink a lot during the potato diet! Still water or herbal and fruit tea are ideal.

That’s why potatoes help us lose weight

• Potatoes belong to the group of alkaline foods and are therefore often used in alkaline fasting. The potassium makes them so valuable for our acid-base balance. Potassium also ensures that we dehydrate – so the first few pounds are quickly lost.
• Potatoes are full of fibre and valuable carbohydrates. This together ensures a long feeling of satiety and the danger of ravenous appetite attacks is very low.
• Our blood sugar level drops very slowly when we eat potatoes, which has a positive effect on our fat burning and also helps us lose weight.
• Just as good for our fat metabolism: vitamin C. Who would have thought that potatoes are so full of vitamin C? A whole 20 mg for every 100 grams.
• Potatoes are wonderful sources of protein – this is important for our muscle building and stimulates our metabolism.

The potato diet in everyday life

The good thing about the potato diet is that it is easy to prepare and integrate into everyday life. The potato portions are quickly cooked and packed for the office even faster. You can find inspiration for this in our potato recipes.

When choosing potatoes during the potato diet, it’s best to use waxy potatoes.

Is the potato diet healthy?

The potato diet in its simplest form belongs to the so-called mono-diets, i.e. we eat, similar to the cabbage soup diet, very one-sided. In combination with eggs and curd cheese, we are supplied with protein, potassium and carbohydrates during the potato diet, but we are completely lacking other important nutrients such as iron.

As it is the case of every mono-diet, the yo-yo effect threatens to start as soon as one gets back to old eating habits. The “good” carbohydrates protect against ravenous appetite attacks and keep you full for a long time – but if you eat only potatoes day in, day out, you will probably soon get over this one-sided diet plan.