Well kind of….

The quality of the food you eat rather than how much you consume has the biggest impact on losing weight, a study has found.

Diet also has a greater impact than physical activity, watching TV or sleep duration.

But focusing on calories alone was not the best way to stay slim, according to the scientists. The secret was to focus on the quality of foods, especially carbohydrates.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2007041/Dieters-told-Quality-food-quantity-counts.html

Not quite the same but the principles seem pretty similar to the iDave diet or a regular low GI diet.

for the record, I think the daily mail is a shite fest, no matter what it says about food

I don’t think it even needs saying does it?

Sorry for associating you with it, was just a joke really 🙂

I mainly posted this to hopefully shut up all the people who go ‘here’s a tip for you to lose weight, eat less calories than you burn, simple!’

But focusing on calories alone was not the best way to stay slim, according to the scientists.

it’s still upsetting to be mentioned in the same thread as ‘that’ publication. i have a reputation to uphold.

Ahhhrrrghhh I hate the ninja editors.

I do.

Honest.

it’s still upsetting to be mentioned in the same thread as ‘that’ publication. i have a reputation to uphold.

FIFY to prevent flouncing. 😛

What reputation? Your reputation has been shot to pieces since you had that night in Geneva with the shemale in the pink Bentley. It’s why I resigned as iDave Diet treasurer.

I honestly know nothing about the idave diet having not read any threads on it.
is it really as bad as the dail mail?

It’s not a diet Junkyard, it’s a money spinning lifestyle.

Ahhhrrrghhh I hate the ninja editors.

I do.

Honest.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game. 8)

(iDave dieter for four days and already lost a bit of weight btw – pretty much an XC whippet now 😉 )

it’s still upsetting to be mentioned in the same thread as ‘that’ publication. i have a reputation to uphold.

Still stuck at 83 but my wobbles are getting worse and more violent.

Am I at my limit I wonder?

define worse and violent wobbles?

Like being massively insatiably hungry and all tense.. and insurmountable cravings for carby things. And feeling crappy and tired.

Could be related to some other illness I suppose, or just lack of organisation with respect to always having legumes to eat.

But it was stacks easier in the first 6 weeks or so, cravings weren’t significant back then.

my guess is you’re so focused on losing more weight that you’re not eating enough. big portions remember, plenty of water, big cheat days and you’ll keep losing.

Yeah I should try bigger portions.. and I’ll have to bring beans to work because meat and root veg doesn’t seem to be enough.

My guess is there’s 3 more kg til I get close to the limit.

I am 10kg down now and still fairly happy. I seem to need a huge amount of water with the diet and still suffer from cramps despite taking extra minerals (this is mentioned in the 4 hour body book too)

I guess that if I lose another 6kg I’ll be as skinny as I can be but at the moment I am at about 18% body fat

I have just started me and the missus on this iDave regimen today, having read a load of old threads on it yesterday by way of research. 12 hours on a new diet with no lapses is pretty good going for me. Wish me luck!

So for all you that tried it about a year ago when STW was going mad for it, how many have fallen off the wagon?

Anybody lost weight on it and stayed lighter?

Anybody managed to bring about what I read to be its desired effects – a lasting change for the better in one’s eating habits?

I’ve found it harder as the weeks have gone by – wobbling more, but not gaining any more weight. Still at 8-9kg down from when I started, or 10%.

It’s almost as if the less fat you have, the less inclined your body is to use it – but that’s completely made up by me and not in any way a claim of physiological knowledge 🙂