How much do you lose with this diet?

It is said that one can lose between two and five kilograms of weight in one week with the potato diet. The weight loss depends strongly on the initial situation, the calorie content of the meals and possibly additional physical activity. The enormous weight loss in the first few days consists largely of water washed out by the dehydrating effect of the potato.

How can you avoid the yoyo effect?

Like most mono diets, the potato diet has a high risk of a yo-yo effect. The extent depends on the design of the food, possibly additional vegetables, salad, egg or curd. If one eats for a few days or weeks strictly according to the radical form with quark and egg and suddenly falls back into old patterns, one can weigh more after the diet than before the diet due to the yoyo effect.

In order to avoid this, one should make a slow transition to a permanently healthy, balanced diet. One should gradually increase the side dishes and slowly reduce the potatoes. Regular exercise during and after the diet helps to maintain the desired weight.

Side effect of the diet

In the first days of the potato diet, you lose pounds particularly quickly because potatoes contain a lot of potassium, which has a dehydrating effect. This means that mainly water is excreted. Due to the calorie reduction, the pounds also drop at first.

However, the diet contains far too few calories so that the body’s own muscles are also reduced. If one falls again into old patterns after the Diät and nourishes themselves with clearly more fats, sugar and altogether more calories, the danger of a Jojo effect is very high. One can even gain so much that one weighs more after the diet than before.

In the long term, the one-sided potato diet leads to a lack of minerals, vitamins, fats and above all iron. This can lead to severe deficiency symptoms and dangerous anaemia. In this case you should definitely visit your family doctor.