Originally Posted By: Steven_Smiles

I've been eating quite a bit of "safe starch" carbs per PHD. I'm up to about 400 calories (100 g) of carbs from white potatoes per day. But I do get really tired after eating them (so therefore I eat them at night), and I'm still undecided on how they are or are not contributing to my AS. Surely they don't knock my [*bleep*] out like some other starches, but I also don't feel like I do when I go Very Low Carb.


How are white potatoes considered "safer" starch? I would *LOVE* for them to be safe, but I started to get eye irritation (the kind I have learned is early sign of iritis) last time I tried an ordinary serving of potato. Are you doing anything special to prepare them?