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After going back up to almost pre iDave weight, after next weekend I will have three weeks til my holiday. What do you reckon I will be able to lose in three weeks?


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 11:52 am
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*pulls up chair*


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 11:55 am
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Actual loss of body fat, about 6 pounds sensibly if you're very diligent

Much more possible through dehydration but that's not sensible


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 11:56 am
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3kgs


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 11:57 am
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after next weekend I will have three weeks til my holiday. What do you reckon I will be able to lose in three weeks?

Are you going as hold luggage or something and paying by the kg?


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 12:00 pm
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*pulls up chair*

*pulls up chainsaw*
How much does a leg weigh?


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 12:07 pm
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6-8 lbs.


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 12:12 pm
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Stone a week by eating green salmon


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 12:24 pm
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15kg in 2 weeks.

I did have dysentery and was knocking on the gates at one point.

Not a sensible diet plan.


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 12:45 pm
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Are you going as hold luggage or something and paying by the kg?

No we are going to America where I can get jeans I like for really cheap. I just don't want to have to buy fat sizes 🙂


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 12:51 pm
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3-4kg last week due to a milder version of what bigblackshed had. I had an intolerance to food...


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 12:52 pm
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Gastroenteritis for the last week has helped me shift some weight, not recommended.


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 12:54 pm
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either catch a disease or stop eating


 
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So that'll be the iDave diet added to the list of fad diets that dont work. Meanwhile my exercise loads and eat a sensible normal diet has seen me got from 15 stone to 11 stone and keep it off. Surprising that.


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 1:07 pm
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How many limbs can you afford to lose?

What jeans?


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 1:25 pm
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So that'll be the iDave diet added to the list of fad diets that dont work. Meanwhile my exercise loads and eat a sensible normal diet has seen me got from 15 stone to 11 stone and keep it off. Surprising that.

You seem kinda awesome.


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 1:29 pm
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For jeans?

Any way multichoice answer:

A You are propellerly committed to long term change and you can start loosing weight at a sensible rate now. Buy the jeans in a suitable size and they should fit s in a month or so

B Start starving yourself now. Arrive America and squeeze into jeans on first day and buy loads. Generally trough out in America as the portions are huge, your on holiday and your body has just left a famine. Return from holiday and place jeans in draw and never have to worry about them wearing out...


 
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So that'll be the iDave diet added to the list of fad diets that dont work

It worked within the parameters that iDave presented it, which was rapid weight loss as a short term aim - such as in preparation for a sporting event. It was a fairly draconian short term eating plan that you could only really sustain for a finite time because it basically condemns you to only eating food you've prepared yourself (it was surprising how many people on the first idave threads couldn't cook but hadn't really realised). It was also a diet which took for granted the fact that you exercise already because his clients are sportspeople. So if Mols is back to his pre-diet weight that may be because he's not dieting, not the diet not working.


 
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You keep telling yourself that. 😀


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 1:44 pm
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You keep telling yourself that.

I can if I like. I've never been on a diet though. I found the threads interesting because of the recipes that cropped up and the culinary challenge it creates - it set some interesting parameters to cook within, some of which have become a bit of household staple now.


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 1:46 pm
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6lbs


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 2:07 pm
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I've recently lost 32lbs of pizza & cake in 10weeks. Go me. 😀


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 2:30 pm
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A top tip for this would be to eat less and move more, probably.


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 2:50 pm
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it basically condemns you to only eating food you've prepared yourself
you say that like it's a bad thing!!


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 2:53 pm
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You could lose 3kg, then buy jeans which will be too small for you by the end of August.

So that'll be the iDave diet added to the list of fad diets that dont work

It didn't work, long term, for molgrips, but that's because he's a precious flower or something 😉


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 4:05 pm
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It's because it's a diet not a lifestyle change.

Eat (insert fad food item) and nothing else = drop a load of weight. Return to "normal" and put it all back on.

Eat sensibly and exercise moderately and you will drop some weight and become fitter. To drop more weight, either eat less or move more.

There is a whole load of anomollies surrounding eat less / move more, that will give differing results for different people. Some are sustainable, some aren't.

I can offer shed based liposuction with a rust knife and an industrial vacuum if you're desparate. PayPal Gift and no questions. 😉


 
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It didn't work, long term, for molgrips, but that's because he's a precious flower or something

I thought he was a unique snowflake?


 
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How many limbs can you afford to lose?

What jeans?

Only two think he might need his legs


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 4:38 pm
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I thought he was a unique snowflake?

I always had him down as a 'delicate sunflower'


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 4:57 pm
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Sunflowers are hard as nails.

Precious Passat?


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 5:06 pm
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Fasted rides

Re teach your body to eat fat. I.e remove carbs from diet


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 5:09 pm
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6lb in 3 week is a good figure.


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 5:13 pm
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Re teach your body to eat fat. I.e remove carbs from diet

TBF your body knows how to metabolise fat, it doesn't need taught lol


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 6:09 pm
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Forget the weight loss, be yourself....
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Posted : 22/06/2014 6:25 pm
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Have you considered the Class A Drugs Diet? Not only effective, but bloody good fun too!

The only downside is the expense.


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 6:29 pm
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Have you considered the Class A Drugs

The only downside is the expense.

🙄


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 6:51 pm
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😀


 
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It's ok, he means the inevitable hookers. We all know the drugs are cheap.


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 6:54 pm
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TBF your body knows how to metabolise fat, it doesn't need taught lol

It can get better at it though, like most things it can be trained and improved.

It didn't work, long term, for molgrips, but that's because he's a precious flower or something

Aww, thanks 🙂

It works unless you end up using more carb than you can eat in low-carb form. Which for me was quite easy.

We ain't all the same inside.


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 7:18 pm
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TBF your body knows how to metabolise fat, it doesn't need taught lol

I'm not sure mine can

Well its at a much lower rate than many. We had a few cycle touring holidays when we couldn't quite get the righy. That split the 4 of us into 2 pairs. The fat metabolisers were out of site...


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 7:31 pm
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A work colleague just dropped two stone in eight weeks, which is 12kg and 1.5kg a week. It doesn't look like he did it in a linear fashion though; seeing him a few times a week it looked like he's dropped quite a bit more in the last three weeks than he did in the first five.

A kilo a week seems to be reasonable.


 
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Seeing as you're a space cadet, build yourself a space ship and lose all your weight. 😉


 
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So that'll be the iDave diet added to the list of fad diets that dont work. Meanwhile my exercise loads and eat a sensible normal diet has seen me got from 15 stone to 11 stone and keep it off. Surprising that.

So if you stopped exercising loads, and eating a sensible diet (like molgrips stopped doing iDave) would yours continue to work ?


 
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It works unless you end up using more carb than you can eat in low-carb form. Which for me was quite easy.
the iDiet definitely isn't lo-carb though. If anything, it's hi-carb. Which makes sense, because it's for people who are training or doing a lot of exercise. Perhaps that's where you went wrong!


 
Posted : 22/06/2014 8:26 pm
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the iDiet definitely isn't lo-carb though

Not in theory, but in practice it is lower than a traditional diet simply because you can only eat so much, and replacing starchy high carb foods with veg and legumes doesn't give as much carbs in total.

Well its at a much lower rate than many

Not only does our ability to burn fat vary, but the way we ride varies too. If you get two people of the same weight riding the same hill they might be using different amounts of fat due to maybe physiology, or maybe why they've eaten that day. Not only that, but there are a few feedback mechanisms that govern how the fat gets replaced from your food, which will be different in different people too.

Perhaps that's where you went wrong!

I know exactly where I go wrong.. Too inconsistent, periods of not much riding, periods of short intense riding and periods of sppradic long rides. Very hard to adjust diet for that..


 
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