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Earlier this year, I posted Cringe, describing how some older posts on this blog have outdated views on nutrition and fitness. Many of those posts covered books that I read and liked at the time, but...
Read more →My last fitness results post was from 2022. I didn't do one last year, because I was recovering from my hernia surgery. Here is my 2024 health and fitness update: Diet and Weight Another year has...
Read more →Most of you know that I have maintained a 40-pound weight loss for almost 5 years now. The first 20 pounds came from different variations of the Potato Hack and Potato Diet. Then I switched to...
Read more →It has been several years since I did a strict Potato Hack. Despite the nonsense you might read on SlimeMoldTimeMold, there is a proper method to performing a potato hack as spelled out in the book...
Read more →In the comment thread of Keto and Starvation Signals, there was a discussion of how I would approach "serious" weight loss. It was too much for a comment, so I put together this post along with...
Read more →There are many ways to do the Potato Diet. A strict Potato Hack involves eating nothing but cooked and cooled potatoes. Nothing else. No fixings or even salt. This hack can be done for 3-5 days. Or...
Read more →I posted Mostly Weight Stable Regardless of Diet Part 2 this weekend. I wanted to show others that I was able to drop 40 pounds and keep it off for 4 years using both the Potato Hack and my own...
Read more →In August 2017, I posted Mostly Weight Stable Regardless of Diet where I did a deep analysis of how much I weighed going back to the start of the century. And I shared a quote from an earlier blog: >...
Read more →Earlier this month, I posted In Defense of Low Fat Dieting. Low-Fat diets have been slandered too much in recent years by the low-carb crowd. They can absolutely work, but the vast majority of...
Read more →Food prices are spiking and people are complaining. I'm not. The Peasant Diet that I designed back in 2016 not only will lean you out, you'll also save a lot of money on food. I wanted to post this...
Read more →Low carb diets can work. When you reduce the number of carbs you eat, you can absolutely lose weight. There are a few reasons. Most processed foods are higher in carbs and foods lower in carbs are...
Read more →A few weekends ago, I completed Net Ninja's tutorial of Bootstrap 5 on YouTube. I learned just enough to make a website that isn't hideous. After I had a decent-looking potato portal, I hired an...
Read more →Unlike most bloggers, I run a broken link checker to alert me if any of my links break. Then I can repair the link, so if you as a reader click on a link here, you won't get an error. A week ago, I...
Read more →Because I use the 3rd party search tool by Algolia, I get a report on what the readers of this blog are searching for. The top 3 topics consistently have been Pavel Tsatsouline, the Ray Peat Diet,...
Read more →FireInABottle recently put out another outstanding post about the metabolic destruction that industrialized seed oil has inflicted upon the world. Humans and Hibernating Mammals React to The Same...
Read more →Long-time readers of this site know that I used the Potato Hack Diet to lose weight. There are many ways to lose weight, but few succeed in permanent fat loss. Somewhere between 70% and 95% of...
Read more →I wanted to do an updated post on getting lean and keeping the weight off. I stress the second goal as much as the first. The reason is that somewhere between 70% and 95% of people that lose weight...
Read more →Spring is just starting here in Seattle, so I thought I would share my winter experience with the Potatoes and Protein Diet. For background on that diet, see: Potatoes and Protein – A No Hunger...
Read more →A few years ago, I read something Precision Nutrition posted about how the people with the best and the worst physiques tend to eat the same meals over and over. It is an interesting concept to...
Read more →I have an observation that I want to share about my Potatoes and Protein Diet. This may just be my experience, so I'd like your feedback if you are experiencing the same thing. There are two waves of...
Read more →In September, I posted Less Peasant, More Bodybuilder, which described how I was finally making progress in increasing my protein intake. I had shifted from eating lots of potatoes through the Potato...
Read more →Recently, I got an alarming comment on an older post informing me that potatoes are high in cadmium. As someone who has been preaching the benefits of the Potato Hack for a while, I wanted to dig...
Read more →I have received some variation of this question so many times now, that I thought I would make a post directly responding to it. That question goes something like this: > Can I add \\\\ to the...
Read more →Every so often in a conversation, I'll mention how one can get lean without feeling hunger by eating boiled potatoes. I'll get challenged on this point as most people are clueless to the fact that...
Read more →This is a follow up to the post Stomach Woes Have Snuck Up On Me, which I put up almost 2 months ago. Rather than just tell you my story, I want to cover how I approached the problem, so if there is...
Read more →I adopted the Peasant Diet in 2016 after Richard Nikoley and Karl Denninger got into a feud on Twitter. You can read about that story in the post Designing a Modern Peasant Diet. The short version...
Read more →It was just over a year ago that I decided I needed to lose 20-25 pounds. But before I started on my diet, I knew the challenge wasn't losing the weight, but keeping it off. That is where many people...
Read more →I'm sure a few of you saw some stories last week that actor Kevin Smith is using an all-potato diet to lose some weight and improve his health. Kevin suffered a heart-health earlier this year and...
Read more →Tim Steele shared a blog post by one of my readers today on his experience with the Potato Diet. Read The Potato Hack (link down Aug 2019) on brownstudy.info. From the post: > I've tried the hack...
Read more →Last week I completed my second Fasting Mimicking Diet. Well kind of. It was my own variation of the diet inspired by Marc's comment on this blog. Background info here: - The Longevity Diet Book...
Read more →Now that I have enough experience with gaining and losing a few pounds over the years, I wanted to assemble all the ideas that have worked and those that haven't. This list is my experience, which...
Read more →I've done several posts on how to use potatoes to get lean. Head over to my Potato Hack Diet page to see those posts in the proper order. This post will be me reaching for an explanation on why some...
Read more →One of the criticisms I got regarding The Potato Hack was that once the hack ended and normal eating resumed that I'd regain the weight I lost. My critic claimed it was a lot of effort for...
Read more →As I explained in my previous post, I have yet to inspire a single person outside of this blog to try the Potato Hack diet. Not even for a single day. Not even for a single meal. The people that...
Read more →I ended up doing a 4-day hack instead of 5-day. The reason was unexpected. I received a 3-day pass to a gym with a lot of nice equipment, a sauna, and a steam room. So although I was planning to hold...
Read more →I briefly touched on the calorie math of the Potato Hack in a 2015 post. In this post, I will head to the chalkboard to show you my work and teach you how to figure out your numbers. Before we begin,...
Read more →Yesterday I was thinking about all my conversations with people in the past two years about the Potato Hack and it struck me how those talks often mirrored the Five Stages of Grief - just like how...
Read more →During my blogging hiatus, an online feud erupted between two bloggers that I have been reading for years. It was glorious to watch. My readers probably already know Richard Nikoley from...
Read more →Many people have asked me in the last year if I'm still on The Potato Diet and how it is working for me. Before I bring readers up to date, I would like everyone interested in The Potato Diet to get...
Read more →> UPDATE: The Potato Hack Diet by Tim Steele is now for sale on Amazon. It will answer all your questions. I highly recommend this book if you are interested in learning more about the Potato Diet....
Read more →Be sure to check out my Potato Hack Diet Best of Page. I had no plans to post my Week 1 results, but I wanted to share how things are going on the Potato Diet. For a background to this post see The...
Read more →Be sure to check out my Potato Hack Diet Best of Page. Earlier this month I posted No Hunger Games - A Day of Just Boiled Potatoes. It was a trial run of two days of eating just cold boiled potatoes....
Read more →Back in 2012 when FreeTheAnimal was discussing the Potato Diet, I didn't pay too much attention. I was doing my own experiment to gain weight using ice cream and dairy kefir. But this year I've been...
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