“Make your meals boring and your life fascinating.” That’s one lesson Andrew Flinders Taylor factors out in a Youtube video he posted in December 2016, the place he detailed the entire issues he realized after consuming potatoes for each meal, each single day, for nearly a yr.

An all-potato food plan sounds loopy, however for Taylor, who weighed in at 334 kilos when his experiment started, it led to noticeable outcomes. The Australian native dropped 117 kilos after one yr of what he calls his “Spud Match Problem.”

At the moment, Taylor not solely eats potatoes, however his tater-only food plan did assist him develop into a more healthy man, he says.

“My Spud Match Problem was solely ever meant as a brief time period intervention to deal with my very own meals habit,” Taylor stated in an interview in November 2019. “My habits with meals mirrored that of an alcoholic with ingesting so I made a decision to get as shut as attainable to treating it with the identical abstinence mannequin: I stop all meals besides potatoes.”

When that yr was over, Taylor says he moved on to a food plan that was extra well-rounded. “I nonetheless embody numerous potatoes, but additionally loads of different unprocessed plant meals resembling fruits, greens, entire grains, and legumes,” Taylor says.