Dr McDougall potato diet talk at the Advanced Study Weekend 

I heard Dr McDougall speak in Santa Rosa about 30 + years ago. I went on a vegetarian diet that day and have not looked back.I took off a lot of weight but could not take off the last 40 pounds. Then watched Andrew Taylor's story and went on a potato diet about 3 years ago and took off that last 40 pounds and I use potatoes when ever I put on any wight and have kept it from coming back. 81 years old with a BMI of 23 and have great blood work. My Doctor told me I and physically younger than 65. I am now Vegan.

I am following Macdougall’s diet for the last six years from a place thousands of miles away- Pakistan. And hardly a day passes when I don’t think of Dr. Macdougall with a great sense of gratitude.

Dr Macdougal spirit will live on and live on. Thank you so much.🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔

My grandmother always said just eat potatoes, carrots and parsley for three days and you will feel so great filled with energy

Dr McDougall has been my doctor for years and still have a relationship with him. Andrew is currently working with me on food addiction and the results have been amazing...I’m on the ALL: POTATO DIET and have been for over three months now. Andrew is my food addiction coach and the right man for the job 🤓🥔💪

My son struggled with addition to drugs for years. Thankfully he stayed alive. Then just last year I became VEGAN and I started on John and Mary McDougall’s Potato diet. Then I learned more and started to watch documentaries. I learned about Cardiovascular health from Dr. Esselstyn and Rip Esselstyn’s Engine 2. So I ordered all these books. My son happened to be at my house and saw the Engine 2 book and cookbook. So I put the documentary on RU-vid and he watched only half of it and asked me if he could keep the books. He is using the Plant Based Diet and it has helped him to beat his addiction to drugs- along with therapy! This is the most amazing journey I have ever been on in my life!!!💖🥬🥒🥝🍌🍎🍐🍆🥦🥕🍓🍋🍅🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔

I have watched this talk several times and am moved by it every time. Your courage, honesty and generosity in sharing your story are just beautiful. Thank you for your stellar example of the power of a spud-heavy diet.

I ate potatoes only for few days! Never felt hungry and never desired anything else! Easiest diet challenge ever! Thank you!

Dr Macdougal spirit will live on and live on. Thank you so much.

This speech is LIFE CHANGING. The meditation and everything I felt in those moments was so real. Wow wow wow. I can’t thank you enough

I agree 100% with the bit about the cooking shows/emotional connection. I've been saying this lately. The cooking shows make it seem like an emotion needs to be attached to everything they make. Why does food have to be emotional!? I love not being emotionally attached to my food. I like how it makes me feel healthy and light. Physical things. Not emotional connection. Lead on yo! Love it!

Love it I lost 19 pounds was 211 to 193 I started on February 16 Close to 20 pounds in one month my cholesterol was 300 now it’s 240 my blood sugar was 200 no it’s 140 and then it goes down to 110 I went on just potatoes for three weeks then now I’m heading back to vegetable and some nice cream with fruit and still losing a pound a day this diet saved my life thank you so much I love you Stud 🤪 fit and Dr. McDougall

The honesty & vulnerability you shared touched my heart. Thank you for showing your son, & the rest of us, what a real man can be.

I love how you were able to get McDougall on The Doctors. Great story.

I did the same thing. I'd go 2 weeks eat great and lose weight and then one thing Pizza and the next two weeks I would regain the weight plus more. The next thing I knew I was 377 lbs on a 6ft frame at 58 years old. I know eat a 100% whole food plant-based diet with plenty of starchy foods and the weight is coming off again. I am 7 weeks in so I broke the two-week pattern and feel better every day

Thank you so much for taking me back to reality! I did this years ago, went vegan afterwards, mostly potatoes and then beans. I was at my healthiest. I lost my Starch Solution Book, so am ordering one now. Bless you! I suffer from extreme depression and even isolating myself. ❤️ Again, Thank you so much!

Thank you for your courage in making this presentation. You are such a model of healthy masculinity. :)

Really like this amazing man who only wants to help people!

Thank you Andrew and Dr. McDougall. Together, following both men's leads I am healthy and slender.

I feel like I waste my time when I'm reading and feel bored when I'm walking. You just blew my mind when you brought up listening to an audio book while walking.. how have I not thought of that?!

Thanks so much for sharing this, Andrew. I especially appreciated the guided meditation. I found myself crying loudly during that portion as I could deeply experience how pleasure seeking and extremely sensations ultimately lead to thoughts of suicide, bouts of anger and lack of control. I would like to keep this mediation in mind and conquer depression and anxiety forever.

I’m on Day 1 of Mary’s Mini. I’ve had 10 stubborn pounds that I’ve been trying to take off for a year and half. This was inspirational!

I love potatoes. This is the only diet l can actually do and could never get bored of potatoes. With all the other diets you can't have potatoes and if you do , only a small one. I am losing a pound a day eating only potatoes. It is also very cheap $25 a week . I feel great no hunger no cravings and don't care for sugar anymore. My goal is to lose 40 lb. So far 7lbs are gone in a week which I never experienced with any other diet because I always wanted something else.

I bought an air fryer. I eat boiled spuds mostly maybe 85% of the time. But when I feel like i'm about to lose it, I cut my spuds and throw them in the air fryer plain. They come out light brown and kinda crunchy. Not as good as the salty goodness from McDonalds. But it's enough to help me fight that urge to quit.

What a fabulous talk Andrew. This is why you a re so essenital to our community!!! Thank you. And thank to the wee boy too.

What a sweet humble guy and I agree with the gentleman in the video you do a beautiful job turning a motivational phrase. You have inspired me, and I’m going to give this a go, a week at a time. Much continued success and so glad to hear your depression has lifted. I’m familiar with that as well and know the struggle it can be. Great talk👍🏻

This video came up as a suggestion after I’d watched some RU-vid videos recommended in the Spudfit DIY challenge book and having my first meal of mashed potato. My god did I need to watch it! Your story with your child hit home so hard, as my little one is almost 18 months old and everything you went through, I’ve been struggling with. Thank you for sharing your all your stories, creating all your content and creating the spudfit community. I’ve been subscribed for more than a year but not been engaged. And now I’m finally feeling that motivation to take care of myself.

Every now and again I come back to this video. Andrew did such a good job with turning his life around and it’s amazing to see the man he is now, it gives me hope

Hey way to go man! What an honor that is. Congratulations!

Spud fit! What an inspiring talk. Thank you so much.

When I read the title, Potato Diet, I was intrigued because my favorite food is potatoes. My mother told me once that I would become a potato because I eat them so much. I really resonated with what you said. Also, I buy potato wheat bread. Thank you for saying things that I do naturally which isn’t the norm and that is okay.

FBG, A1c, cholesterol, TG, and BP improved while eating as many potatoes as my heart desired. Thanks Dr McDougall.

Great and fantastic life changing information. And also thank you very much for the help you gave people from all over the world. I am from South Africa.

Your story is so well explained here mate! Congratulations on this presentation and sharing the stage with Dr McDougal 🤗🌟 I love potatoes. Started from watching his video on potatoes too. Looking forward to eating more potatoes on a daily basis 💪

The Spud Fit guy is just a lovely man. I so appreciate this narrative.

I’d heard about this guy but so GREAT to hear him tell his thoughts, motives, actions - from the horse’s mouth. I am 5 lbs. from goal and that, for me, is often where I have screwed up. Looks like the way to sink my last hole. Most of my diet is potatoes, it is my favorite starch. Had a sick tummy last week and did the BRATT diet (bananas, rice, tea and toast). Over the sore tummy, back to exercise and to walking. I’ve been torn between working off the last 5 at the gym or just going all spuds, think I’ll up my exercise and do the potatoes too. I want my BMi to be below 20, I am almost there. Into size 4 jeans. Feeling good, but never been good at sleeping. It’s just my life. I get less than other people, so what, I am still healthy. Mostly always get 4 or 5. Just going to stop worrying about it, just do it!!!

This was fantastic, great presentation! Congratulations Andrew.

No one can quite say it like you Andrew! Thank you for paving the way and spreading this important message

You said some truly inspiring, helpful things. Thank you so much for sharing your story

Soooo relatable! Thank you for your honesty and vulnerability. You are so inspiring.

Thank you for this great presentation.Good work Andrew! You have a fantastic family too.

Fantastic Andrew well done. Your story moved me , thank you

You rock Andrew! You have been such a mentor to many. Blessings to you and yours 👍🤗

I have SO done the whole "I need to eat all of this junk food to get it out of the house" thing. This is a great talk.

Amazing story Andrew. Thanks for sharing.

Glad to see Dr Mc Dougall looking so well again. He would love my mother she cooks potatoes potatoes potatoes.

Fantastic lecture! Thank you so much for this informative video! I got so much out of it. Thank you so much!

Way to go. Hard core. Starting tomorrow I’m going to lounge the same diet. My body is aching. I need to be healthy and loose weight. Blessings. 🌱💚🙏🏻

so wholesome, loved it :) thank you guys

Nice talk man. This was very helpful.

29:52 You ARE perfect. Thank you for such an eloquent inspiring talk.

I come back and watch this video every now and then to remind myself of myself. Thanks for posting.

Perfect timing for me to watch this video...spudpower! 😀

Awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome so proud of him thank you Dr McDougall for bringing him on

So proud of you for sharing your story.

I loved your story, thank you so much for sharing. God bless you & your family. Potatoes, oats & barley used to be solid staples in Scotland sadly processed foods and factory farming is everywhere now. Now we have fried Mars Bars 🙄

What a great speech. Potatoes are like this magical food. They are so amazing for weight loss and they just plain make you feel good. I eat oatmeal with blueberries and toast with hummus for breakfast, then potatoes the rest of the day. That's it. Occasionally I'll substitute sweet potatoes for breakfast.

This is so inspiring, well done 👍🏻 you are so thin now! thank you for sharing.

Great talk! Keep up the good work! 🙂👍 Btw, that doughnut tree part was really funny, haha! 😄

Beautiful story!! ❤️❤️❤️🌻🌻🌻

Great talk Andrew, thank you.

I had to laugh out loud when you said Dr. McDougall agreed to join you on the tv show. I know. I've emailed him a few times and he emailed me right back. His brother was my doctor for a few years. I was surprised to find a plant based doc in small town, USA, let alone a McDougall... I've heard of you for some time, and am so glad to have found you. So grateful that someone like you are willing to share your experience. Thank you.

You look great potatoe man!!!😀 I'm so glad you're not another failed vegan! You're still going strong 👊

Wow ! Thanks for yr honestly and last but not least WELL DONE !

Can’t wait to watch this, already thumbed up

This diet works good for people who are overweight because they are addicted to food. It calms down that desire to constantly taste delicious things. I lived on potatoes carrots and onions for a couple months because I was very low on money. I was thin and stayed thin. It wasn't good for my hair which became very dry.

Really awesome video. Potatoes are changing my life.

I love this way of eating..what I love most is that I'm full for hours and it's so simple and manageable..I don't have any cravings..which to me is amazing..thank you Dr. McDougall.

👍 Spud up!!!♥️ You're awesome Andrew. Thanks for sharing.

This was such a pleasure to listen to Andrew, just finished it. You spoke really well! Could not agree more with your stances on food and food addiction. I used to think I could only be full if my meals were primarily meat based, but that’s far from the truth. I eat almost only potato most weeks, some I will have the odd meal with a bit of fish, beans, spinach etc and feel totally fine. Had my first meal at 2:30pm today as I literally forgot to eat as I wasn’t even hungry lol. Been doing fasting alongside starch based meals and felt the same as you - felt like I had to exercise. Now I walk 6-12km per day too. Down 8.5-9kg in last 5 weeks, and all up I’m down 17kg. Feels good to fit some shirts I bought that were too small that I’ve had sitting on my dresser for a while. 2 out of 3 fit so far :) Thanks for all the content on your channel it’s been so helpful and has been a great motivator!

Well done Andrew.

Great stuff Andrew!

Twelve pounds lost in four days, this is amazing to me!

Just, “Wow!” Great talk.

I bought a tractor last year,and a 50 lb bag of seed potatoes, Karisma, a low carb breed, I eat spuds alot and eat meat and potatoes mostly, I may try this, in today's hyperinflation potatoes could save us thousands in grocery costs, Glad I found this video, and a few of his videos, amazing his results , I will be a new sub and give it a go , I'm 63 diabetic, and see if this works , SPUDS AHOY

Thank you for this video! I appreciate it very much! The crowd was dry SMH at your accomplishments. But thank you again for sharing

awesome video!!

Champion presentation Andrew! McDougall is an inspiration. Congrats and keep it up! It's great to hear a fellow Aussie preach on rational simplicity. The starch solution's definitely changed my view of food. I still eat unhealthy here and there, but it's 'conscious' mindful eating now with informed boundaries and I've given up a lot of unhealthy 'manufactured' plant-based-oil and preservative-filled foods. I totally agree on exercise, it's good mentally and for body-toning, but not for losing weight. I cycle 80+kms / week and can safely say there's minimal effect if any on body mass, but feels great when you're in the zone :D Viva la spud!!

So inspiring! 🙏🏽💓

Started eating different recipes from the McDougall book , wasn’t seeing any weight loss. So I reached out to a guy from RU-vid and he was very helpful and told me to start eating only potatoes and some non starch veggies. So I bought a big bag of potatoes and broccoli and cauliflower. I hope this works

Great talk Andrew 😱🤗

Absolutely brilliant.

I love your story. Potatoes are awesome! ✌🏼

Lovely motivational talk.

Wow! What an inspiration!

Well Said Brother! Plant Strong💪🏽💚🌱

Wonderful ❤️

Love this man.

You are the man buddy!! I saw Dr. McDougal in the early 90's with my dad, who had kidney disease. I have been on n off the program for those almost 30 years. You, the Chins and dr McDougall have really helped me stay on track this last few years so thank you!! I am in your debt! This was a great talk!! PS. I looked past the crack about lawyers!!

You’re awesome!

This is the only diet that is working for me, I am just a week on it.

Dude great channel, I'm getting my dad to try eating more potatoes.

Excellent story 👍

Day one complete!

Great talk and very inspiring story thanks mate! I'm going to start 2 weeks spud fit challenge tomorrow Do you advise not drinking fruit juice etc as lots of sugar ?

A Japanese soldier hid in the jungle for 29y after the war. He lived off of Bananas and coconuts and stolen rice.

I've been taking in A LOT more potatoes this past week, like 10-15 per day, on top of other whole foods. So I am maxing up on the carbs daily. Are there any fatigue problems that I should be concerned about with taking in so many carbs? Thanks!

Awesome talk, Andrew. Lots of insights. "If you don't sacrifice for what you want, then what you want becomes the sacrifice". Wow, that hit me hard. I am thinking of doing this with potatoes and bananas (instead of sweet potatoes, which I don't like). Do you think it will work?

Hello..great work!!! How many times did you have a plate of potatoes and can one eat them late at night, for example, 11pm when he's hungry.

❤❤❤thanks alot