Potato is a nutritious food, rich in dietary fiber, can enhance satiety, but also delay gastric emptying, is the ideal food for weight loss patients. If you want to achieve the desired weight loss effect, eating potatoes should pay attention to the following points: First, eat potatoes as a staple food, potatoes are high in starch, can not be eaten as a vegetable, it should be used as a substitute for staple food, or at least as a partial substitute for food. Second, choose potatoes with a relatively crispy texture, compared to soft-tasting potatoes with higher starch content and higher calories, which are more likely to lead to weight gain. Third, pay attention to the processing of potatoes, avoid the use of deep-fried, fried, barbecue and other ways to process potatoes, you can eat boiled potatoes or vinegared potatoes, more conducive to weight loss in obese patients. Fourth, potatoes can not eat too much, should be the calories contained in the potato into the total calorie range of the day, to avoid the total calorie overload.