[daenney]

I love how the author calls this a study, when:

* Sample size of 2, no controls whatsoever

* No actual scientific analysis or understanding of anything that's going on here, just a bunch of potato-adjacent studies and a few personal hypotheses

* Nothing got measured beyond weight, so who knows what this does to your health during those 2 weeks or what would happen longer-term if you'd stick to it

Please don't follow any kind of advice like this. The conclusion in the implications section that they've collected enough data to confirm the main hypothesis is equally nonsense.

They lost weight because they limited their caloric intake. That's part of what you need to do to lose weight.

[tsgagnon]

My favorite part is where they eat 500 calories of food each day but still state "Neither of us were looking to lose weight".

Or the comment on "So the fact that we ate exclusively one type of food most likely contributed to weight loss, but it's unlikely to be the whole story."

[kevviiinn]

Not to mention they thought they would gain weight while eating 500kcal/day