Time to potato riff

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The pattern of cravings for anything else now on the potato diet is becoming too frequent. Which is not surprising considering what is missing nutritionally. The cravings don't feel super strong although, and I'm also not 'hungry' at the same time, but they are becoming more frequent and distracting.

I'm still losing a good amount of weight on it the potato diet and the CGM patterns are pretty fascinating, so I want to stay as close to the diet as possible. Part of the guess as to why the potato diet works is it being low protein, so I also want to stick to that principle.

Blueberries seem to cancel fat loss

The last time I went off the potato diet, I was eating blueberries and a bunch of other frozen fruits. When I ate too many blueberries, the weight loss effect stopped, so it seems like blueberries and fruit have something in them that stops the weight loss effect.  

Blueberries are very high in manganese and high in vitamin K, with me going 4x over the RDA on manganese specifically with the ~800-1000g I was eating those few days.

Some fat might accelerate fat loss?

When I had a tres leches cake and some berries, on another day, I did lose a couple of pounds, so there might be potential there with adding some sort of fat to the diet.    I also lost some weight today adding some chocolate and ice cream with some fruit at the end of the night.

Egg yolks also have a lot of nutrient density in them compared to an equivalent amount of butter or coconut oil and I really, really like egg yolks, especially runny yolks and Eggs Benedict in general, hinting that it's providing something I need.

So today, I will experiment with adding some fat to the diet to see the effects. I will add a few grams of butter per meal, and in some meals, I will make some soft-boiled eggs and just eat the yolk with my potatoes (which sounds delicious) and not eat the egg white.

Other outliers

One outlier on slimemold’s blog seemed to accelerate their fat loss by adding a chocolate milk drink, along with potassium supplementation.

The Mysterious Case of Outlier 17

Experimental Fat Loss

outlier 17 article outlines adding fat and a small amount of protein and collagen to where it adds up to 30-70g of protein per day. At 1700 calories of potatoes a day, you already get 34g of protein from the potatoes alone, so I don't know if that is 30-70g of additional protein or including the potato protein.   If it's including potato protein, then it's a very small amount of protein extras added as a garnish almost at this point.   She also adds egg yolks, 4oz beef servings, beef liver, cottage & other cheeses, and a stearic acid fat supplement.

I don't want to ruin my experimentation with too many variables at once, so for now I will do my butter and egg yolk plan, and try out the other things successful outliers did later on as necessary on a piecemeal basis.