TATERS!!!!

Have you guys heard of this gentleman?  All potatoes (white and sweet), all the time, for A YEAR!

Apparently he did pretty well:  22 pounds lost in the first month without working out.  After that, he added 90 minutes of activity per day and towards the mid-year mark all his numbers were down by quite a bit, like from the danger zone to normal range.

Andrew mentioned in his story, the McDougall plan, as laid out in the good doctor's book "The Starch Solution" which (via a Youtube vid of his lecture on the same subject) resonates with me quite a bit.  I need to do some research on some of the points that he made (e.g. the claim that humans have 6 copies of the "amylase gene" (amylase is the enzyme that digests starch), but all lower primates have only 2 copies with the assumption that we digest starch much easier and better than the monkeys and great apes.  If true, it kind of makes sense, but regardless, you can't argue with Andrew's story.  So starting 2 Dec 2018, my way of eating will be based in various starches: potatoes, whole grains, and legumes with the addition of lots of salad and cruciferi, plus some fruit every day. (Edit 2/5/19:  Due to denture fitting, I had to delay my start to last Monday, Jan 28)

Anyhow, my favorite way to make the spud is mashed, by far!  I used to peel and boil up 3 medium russets and then add a half a stick of butter (EEK!) and a 1/4 to 1/3 cup warm milk.  Now if you're doing plant-based, you can skip the butter and use the potato boiling water or else plant-based instead of the dairy milk.  But if you're just doing cheap eats, then use the milk and butter (or maybe not so much butter, lol).

Besides mashed ,there's chunked and boiled (with lots of dill), and also some ways I've found perusing the 'net:  croquettes, soup, scalloped, and more.

Getting back to the starch-based way of eating, I figure a starchy "main" dish of either potatoes in one or another preparation or else beans or a grain dish.  Along with that, my plan is to have a green salad (this one will be my go-to, I think; at least for a while), and a couple of servings of veggies, keeping in line with my decision to go whole foods, plant based.  Basically, WFPB is essentially a vegan diet only without the processed stuff (fake meats, fake cheese), in other words, no processing other than what I can do at home.