How to Do a Potato Fast for Weight Loss

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"Have you recently read about, how to do a potato fast for losing weight, or weight loss. Personally, I wouldn't recommend it. But I'm going to share some ideas with you today. My name is Jani Roberts, and I'm a graduate of the American Academy of Nutrition, and a certified, nationally certified personal trainer. First of all, whenever you're considering a fast, please, whatever you do, consult your physician. This is not something that you want to take lightly, or do too often. But certainly, it is a great idea to fast periodically. You know, our body uses almost all of its energy to digest food, it takes a lot of work. So every once in a while, when we lighten the load, make it a little bit easier, our body can spend a little bit more time, healing, regenerating, instead of spending all of its energy just on digestion. So, if you are going to consider the potato fast, one of the reason why we recommend that particular vegetable, is, because there is good fiber found, and nutrients as well, found in the skin of the potato. So whatever you do, make sure you don't peel it, you want to eat the whole thing. In addition, always buy organic. If you're going to fast, you don't want to be ingesting a lot of chemicals, herbicides, pesticides, always use organic produce, it's really important. In addition, drink a lot of water. How many potatoes should you eat? It depends on your body weight. Whenever you're fasting, I like to use this philosophy; if you're hungry, eat, but eat in small amounts, take your time, don't rush, and you'll find that you weren't as hungry as you thought you were. Then stop, when you find that urge to eat again, eat a little bit more. Best to do, just slightly boil them, you don't want to boil all the nutrients out, or just eat them raw. Remember, when our food is raw, it's less manipulated. As soon as we start to cook it, we start losing some of that nutritional value. So, how to lose weight on a potato fast, good luck with that. This is Jani Roberts, thanks for joining."