{"product":{"product_id":"B01CD8J2PU","title":"Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales","price":"13.99","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5110yDS8deL._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CD8J2PU"},"comments":[{"body":"Penn Jillette wrote a [book](https://www.amazon.com/Presto-Pounds-Disappear-Other-Magical-ebook/dp/B01CD8J2PU) about his huge weight loss.  He started out with a potato monodiet for two weeks, then transitioned to wfpb.  \r\n\r\nI found it worth reading :)","subreddit_name":"PlantBasedDiet","author":"larkasaur"},{"body":"I have Penn Jillette's [book about losing a lot of weight eating wfpb](https://www.amazon.com/Presto-Pounds-Disappear-Other-Magical-ebook/dp/B01CD8J2PU) and found it inspiring and useful.  \r\n\r\nI have been experimenting with MSG, which gives umami flavor, to see if it will make dishes taste better.  So far, nothing that was definitely better than the spices I already use.  I use a lot of fresh herbs in cooking, and they are very tasty.","subreddit_name":"PlantBasedDiet","author":"larkasaur"},{"body":"I found MSG tastes a lot like red meat, at least when added to some foods.  \r\n\r\nPenn Jillette [lost a lot of weight](https://www.amazon.com/Presto-Pounds-Disappear-Other-Magical-ebook/dp/B01CD8J2PU) eating wfpb.  \r\n\r\nHe does eat the old unhealthy foods still, including meat.  But he made it a rare occasion, with at least two weeks between times of doing this, and just at one meal.  So he doesn't cause himself to feel deprived of his old favorite foods.\r\n\r\nHe said it was neither wonderful nor awful when he ate those foods after two weeks of the healthy plant-based diet.  He didn't throw up or feel sick.","subreddit_name":"PlantBasedDiet","author":"larkasaur"},{"body":"MSG can be used as a flavoring.  It tastes a lot like red meat to me.  \r\n\r\nOtherwise, you could eat meat now and then, but keep it what [Penn Jillette called \"rare and appropriate\"](https://www.amazon.com/Presto-Pounds-Disappear-Other-Magical-ebook/dp/B01CD8J2PU).  He lost a lot of weight eating wfpb, but he leaves room for occasionally eating other food.  He puts at least two weeks between his \"Rare and appropriate\" episodes, and limits them to a 4 hr time window.\r\n\r\nThat should help with cravings - so you aren't completely swearing off meat, never-to-eat-it-again.","subreddit_name":"PlantBasedDiet","author":"larkasaur"},{"body":"Penn Jillette's book [Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales](https://www.amazon.com/Presto-Pounds-Disappear-Other-Magical-ebook/dp/B01CD8J2PU) has a lot of good things in it.\r\n\r\nWhat he said about Fuhrman:\r\n\u0026gt; Fuhrburger may be more than bug-nutty.  He might be kinda sorta an alternative medicine whack job, but I really like him ...  It's possible that if I were still doing *Penn \u0026amp; Teller:  Bullshit!* I'd introduce him with \"Then there's *this* asshole\" and rip him a new one.  ... He seems to believe that everything can be cured with the right magic food, and he's even said some dangerous, weird-ass shit about the flu vaccine, and I'm afraid to dig too deeply into what he's said about other vaccines.  ...\r\n\r\nSo no need to worry about what \"Fuhrburger\" says.","subreddit_name":"PlantBasedDiet","author":"larkasaur"}]}