I’ve had renewed interest in “The Potato Hack“ lately, emerging here just over three years ago, producing a bunch of posts and comments once Tim “Tatertot” Steele brought it to my attention. He’ll soon have a book out, specifically on The Potato Diet, or “Hack,” as we like to call it. I’ve skimmed through his draft and offered a few suggestions. You’re going to love it. There’s actually nothing particularly new about it, as you’ll see.

Lots of folks gave the intervention a shot to various degrees way back then, and so far as I recollect, lots of people dropped a lot of pounds and those who’d been having blood-sugar issues from chronic, low-carbohydrate induced insulin resistance saw improvement there as well. Some ketogenic dieters even remained in a ketogenic state, owing to the chronic caloric deficit (what ketones are really for, physiologically…starvation). For myself, I had become pretty disillusioned with seeing fasting BG at 115-130 day after day for a long time, kinda just becoming an LC eater by default, I suppose. A few days of mostly potatoes and no more problems. But I really hate going more than a couple days eating bland potatoes only. Is there a better way?

Maybe. I recall very well one commenter, Marie, who had excellent results even including a little protein and fat. See this post (meal pic included). She wrote: