The Super Secret Potato Project page 19

[Leida]

Unless you grind it properly, soak it in kefir and take in with coconut oil.

EDIT: Sorry about whining, but I am very-very hungry right now. (Sigh) Sticking to it, still have a cache of potatoes in my gym bag (in an hour) and 4 potatoes left for supper. I feel a bit lightheaded right now. Gods, I hope it's being under-slept not blood sugar going crazy. WTF is wrong with me, I just don't know.

[gopintos]

I'm sure someone would tell us that the collagen in the hoof is not a complete protein and therefore is bad for us.

What about the rest of it? Is it primal?

[Leida]

There is nothing more primal than a good hoof. But we better ask Mark. Unless he had already posted about it 3 years back? Anyone has a reference?

[j3nn]

When I was eating my pile of baked baby potatoes with lean turkey breast burgers and green beans with vinegar last night, it occurred to me that this modified potato hack that I'm eating is actually Chocotaco's HCLF protocol! If you go to the recipes forum and find his personal food thread, it's exactly what I am doing. I would say this version of the potato hack, the credit goes to him!

So... My sinuses have cleared up more than they have in a year! I'd say maybe the reduced dairy is the reason, but I've gone without dairy for weeks in the past and didn't have this much improvement.

I'm on hour 14.5 fasting and still content from last night's Choco style meal. He was on to something long ago and many dismissed him as young and male and lean, but I'm a short, extra-chunky, insulin-resistant female in my 30s and have been experiencing success eating his way, minimal movement this week, too.

[Finnegans Wake]

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude.

I finally scored some of those super secret potatoes.

Was I supposed to smoke them?

[gopintos]

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude.

I finally scored some of those super secret potatoes.

Was I supposed to smoke them?

roflmao

[gopintos]

Chocotaco's HCLF protocol!

He knows his stuff. I wish I had listened Mooooooooonths ago to what he was trying to say. I read it, didn't think it pertained to me so much, but man I wish it had sunk in. I was persistent with what I was doing though. I didnt want to switch gears without giving it a fair shake, but my numbers and tracking shows it all to me. I wish I would have listened.

But then I wouldnt be here with you fine folks. I might already be too lean (a LMFM ) and in the land of maintenance But alas, that seems like just another mythical fairy tale place.

[InSearchOfAbs]

I learned from Choco that carbs weren't the devil, that's for sure, but I also learned
that I can't eat a shit ton of them either., like, to my heart's content.

I can definitely eat ALL CARBS - ALL THE TIME, but my calories still have to
be in check to lose anything.

WAH!

But, it *was* good to re-learn that carbs are my friend.

[serenity]

EDIT: Sorry about whining, but I am very-very hungry right now. (Sigh)

I was often very hungry on the potato hack too. What's worse is that I often didn't bring enough potatoes to work with me. (I work 10-hour days.) Tuesday I went home early just so I could eat. Wednesday I managed to wait till I got home before eating a bunch. Yesterday, I figured it out and bought some potatoes at this super expensive grocery store near work and then cooked them in the microwave.

SO, I don't think the whole "never hungry" thing happens to everyone. I think you should eat if you're hungry because this hack would be pretty lame if it only worked because of the caloric restriction. Obviously, if you ate very few calories, you'd lose weight...up until the point your body thinks that it's starving, metabolism slows down, and then as soon as you eat normally again, you gain like crazy. Pretty sure that's what happened to me after I started doing 24-hour fasts twice a week over the summer. Those fasts actually caused my weight set point to go up, which is why I'm struggling around 135, even though for years my weight was at/below 132.

[j3nn]

Yes. Calories do matter, no matter what your formula is. But it seems that our metabolisms can be greatly manipulated depending on the macronutrients in the diet, and fasting, to create or eliminate a deficit where one didn't exist on equal calories of a HF diet. 1800 calories of a high fat diet is typically more metabolically fattening than 1800 calories of LFHCHP diet. Many other hormonal and digestive variables influence results as well.

Carbs and protein still contain half the calories of fat, and use much more energy to process. So reducing fat can give us a metabolic advantage. Ultimately, I think changing things up is beneficial to weight loss when plateaus emerge.

I don't think long-term LF is good, but I don't think it's particularly bad either when in the context of whole foods and not artificially LF foods. Many cultures seem to do well on LFHC. I think the natural food element makes all the difference. Avoiding rancid oils and high omega 6 factory eggs and meats in favor of apples, potatoes, and lean fish is not necessarily an unhealthy diet. Context matters.