The second leg day should be lighter than the first—use less weight and perform more sets of higher reps for example, 12 and above. Maybe I had a problem and it was being solved by ugh…potatoes. Work out four days per week, splitting up your routine as follows: legs, chest and shoulders, back, arms. Karisssa Getty Images. Option 2: Nitrate-free deli meat, cheese, baby arugula, a little mayo, and a squirt of lemon on thin dark rye bread together with fresh coleslaw mix and slaw dressing add dill to taste. But here’s the thing: Potatoes aren’t bad for you—in fact, when prepared and consumed the right way, potatoes are healthy—and they can actually fast-track your weight-loss goals. So then by the end of this day, I was thinking about what I would do to break my potato-only fast.
Prepping potatoes the right way can help you toward your weight-loss goals. Deep-fried potatoes may topple your recommended calorie intake. I felt like I had more headspace though, because I was no longer thinking about my next meal. They’re not refined carbs, to begin with. Do not do cardio on your heavy leg day, your heavy chest and shoulder day, or your heavy back day. Later, I went to the fridge and took out a container of boiled potatoes for a snack, and my husband asked if I was giving up already. Use left arrow key to move back to the parent list. Plus, a study found that when overweight or obese women ate less-energy-dense foods—including potatoes—early in the day, they dropped weight and kept it off.
There are few veggies more versatile than potatoes: You can bake them, mash them, fry them or even better, air-fry them, boil them, roast them, scallop them, gnocchi? That said, compared with its extended vegetable family spinach, broccoli, carrots, the ever-popular cauliflower —and even its pseudo sister, the sweet potato —the white potato gets a bad rap. But here’s the thing: Potatoes aren’t bad for you—in fact, when prepared and consumed the right way, potatoes are healthy—and they can actually fast-track your weight-loss goals. You might hear “potato” or “pa-TAHT-oh” and think empty carbs. But it’s time to let that ish go. Potatoes actually top the satiety index a measure of how full people feel after eating specific foods as the number-one filling food. In fact, per the index, it would take seven croissants to fill up your tummy as much as a single potato. That might explain why, in one Journal of the American College of Nutrition study, researchers found that when people followed healthy potato recipes, they lost weight eating five to seven servings of spuds per week. Do the math: That’s a serving of spuds almost every day! So, what makes them filling?