Melbourne father plans to eat nothing but potatoes for an entire year
February 3, 20166:09am
Carbed up ... Melbourne’s Andrew Taylor has embarked on a year of eating nothing but potatoes. Picture: Facebook/Spud Fit
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A MELBOURNE dad has vowed to eat nothing but potatoes this year — and he says he’s already lost 10kg.
Self-proclaimed food addict Andrew Taylor embarked on the 366-day “potato only” diet on January 1 in a bid to shed unwanted weight and improve his health.
“I wanted to change the way I thought about food so that it’s not really controlling my life. Food is fuel kinda thing,” he told
9news.com.au.
The 36-year-old is documenting his unusual experiment online, posting to a
YouTube channel and
Facebook page, both called “Spud Fit”.
Potato challenge: Day 1
The father-of-one from Elwood said he was inspired to try the diet after a lifelong struggle with food. He tipped the scales at 151kg at his first weigh-in.
“When you’ve got an addiction, let’s say a drug addiction or an alcohol addiction, the best thing you can do is stop taking drugs or stop taking alcohol,” he said in his first video.
“Unfortunately you can’t do that with food, you gotta eat. So I thought what else can I do? Perhaps I can choose one kind of food and just stick with it ... So I decided on the potato. Lots of people in the past have lived on nothing but potatoes.
“I guess potatoes are a much-maligned food, people tend to think of them as empty calories. I’m hoping to show that potatoes are a health food.”
He has already whipped up potato pancakes using paleo sweet potato flour and spuds with BBQ sauce.
Trying new things ... Andrew Taylor made potato pancakes for the first time. Picture: Facebook/Spud Fit
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Mixing ingredients ... Andrew Taylor used paleo sweet potato flour to bind his potato pancake. Picture: Facebook/Spud Fit
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Epic challenge ... Andrew Taylor prepared potatoes with BBQ sauce for breakfast on day 2. Picture: Facebook/Spud Fit
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Mr Taylor said the “bulk 99 per cent” of his daily calorie count will come from potatoes, with the rest from flavour-enhancing sauces and seasonings.
However he has promised to not use oil in meal preparations and will eat as much as he wants to avoid hunger pains.
“I’ve enjoyed it, much to my surprise,” he said.
“I’m feeling amazing — really, really good. I’ve been exercising more, I’m full of energy.”
Mr Taylor said he shed about 10kgs in the first month and blood tests taken six days into the challenge have been “pretty good”.
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