For Weight Loss - Meat and Potatoes???

If you can't afford to buy those expensive frozen 'diet' dinners, don't give up on your diet and don't panic. To lose weight, eat Meat and Potatoes -really ??? 

 "Many people still think that because potatoes have a high glycemic index they will induce cravings and weight gain, but research shows this isn’t the case," says Joy Dubost, PhD, RD, spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. In fact, potatoes ranked number one on the famous satiety index, which was published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 1995. During the low-carb years, they fell out of favor, but lately there’s been a renewed interest in studying their effect on diet and weight loss. After all, even though a potato is carb-heavy, it is a vegetable—one medium spud contains 168 calories with 5 grams of protein and 3 grams of fiber. Some experts argue that they are particularly satisfying because of they contain resistant starch—complex starch molecules that we can’t digest."

People in Poland eat meat and potatoes everyday and Poles do not have a national problem with obesity. When I was first back in the US, I told Americans  this and they did not believe me. They still thought that in order to lose weight they had to eat raw veggies and drink smoothies. Wrong.

Now, I am not advocating a diet of just meat and potatoes, there are other simple foods you can add to a 'meat and potato' diet that will give you additional nutrition and fiber. For instance, pears, raspberries, eggs avocados, (.79cents at AlDI) leeks, fish and broth based soup- this is something I have posted over and over as a means to be frugal and now as a way to lose weight.  A bowl of hot oatmeal is also extra 'very' good for you. "When your mom told you to eat your oats, she was right. Just make sure they’re cooked. One recent study published in Nutrition Journal found that calorie-for-calorie, oatmeal cooked with nonfat milk was more satisfying than oat-based cold cereal with nonfat milk. Participants who ate about 220 calories of the hot kind for breakfast reported less hunger and increased fullness compared to the cereal eaters—possibly because satiety is enhanced by the higher viscosity of the beta-glucan in the cooked oatmeal. Another new study suggests that its resistant starch may boost beneficial gut bacteria, which—according to mounting evidence—keep the good mood brain chemicals flowing." I have made this a practice of mine.
 https://www.yahoo.com/health/20-filling-foods-that-help-you-lose-weight-104111362483.html