Comment by sylsau on Potato diet: A post mortem and an answer to SMTM's article · 2022-09-13T09:31:44.007Z · LW · GW

While the "safe" point you/they make is absolutely crucial to the whole endeavor, nobody seems to be discussing the main underlying "promise" that such an experiment holds, and that they have repeatedly stated as being one of the main drivers in their experiment : namely, that the "potato diet" seems to have a profound effect on regulating the sensation of satiety, even after the diet.
This fact is new and unheard of with most, it not all weight-loss diets. This is not something you expect from a monotonous diet with rapid weight loss, much less so from a monotonous diet with rapid weight loss where you also cheat a lot. The section 7 of their report on the diet's results is clear: something is happening with many people's hunger feeling, and we don't know why. Alas, it did not concern OP (although he seems to have had a "dissipation" of hunger at some point) but that's still worth exploring.