[Closed] iDave diet, who done it?

[i]let me be your wingman.[/i]

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Now dd really will get jealous.

Can we have a jealous Lolcat please [s]Bruce[/s], er, Phil

Solo, any idea if tzatziki is in or not?

Man...lighten up FFS! You don't get these kinds of offers from TSY every day y'know. Take it while it's on the table...oh hang on, I detect a faint whiff of homophobia here. 🙂

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solo... whats the ruling on oranges?

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Catching up on 4 pages of this has helped me to my best puncture repair ever 😀

😆 philly

Cheers Phil, an excellent choice.
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Hi,

I need some quick advice. Nuts... are they in or out?

Ta.

In.

But go easy on them, they are hugely calorie dense.

I plateaued for a while then realised I was eating loads - cut down, and continued losing.

Cool.

Some recruitment firm is trying to bribe us with some Krispy Cream doughnuts.

*makes a strong black coffee*

Do you know your body fat percentage, Yetster?

Nope... don't know where to get it measured 🙁

pretty lean though now

I bet you don't lose any more weight on this.

Ha... I'm doing my own amended version anyway... I've had sandwiches, milk and donuts for lunch, fruit and nuts for snacks, muesli and fruit for breakfast.

Infact I've not had a single meal that conforms to the plan yet 🙁 I did make an iDave stew but the recipe said serve with crusty bread. So I did.

So you're not doing it at all then?

As you were 🙂

[i]I bet you don't lose any more weight on this[/i]

Good point. Eventually, one has to reach a point where no more weight is lost, while maintaining a low GI diet ?.

Sort of. I drink red wine at night.

Have replaced some of my bread and pasta with lentils etc.

According to our lord and master, this diet will get you down to 10-12% body fat.

Yeti - I think if you are doing to do half measures the best thing to do is have iDave breakfasts.

[i]According to our lord and master, this diet will get you down to 10-12% body fat[/i]

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Errr, praise be, maybe. Like TSY, I've no idea what by [i]body fat[/i] % is.

Ahh... I might be there already.

Thing is... with the times that I exercise I though I might be ok with my current eating.

[i]Thing is... with the times that I exercise I though I might be ok with my current eating[/i]

I wonder, do you think you will execise as much when you are 60 years old, as you do currently.
(genuine curiousity)
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Solo... this is a very good question.

I have been pondering the same. I think there will inevitably be a spell where I have to cut back because of other comittments, but by the time I'm 60 they'll hopefully be behind me, I might even be retired, in which case I'll be exercising to my hearts content.

Alternatively I'll find something new to be addicted to...

I do this thing [post edited. Mod] and after ten minutes I can give you a fairly accurate estimation of bodyfat %age. Yeti, when should I book you in?

deadly... following this diet (or not) is making me pretty hungry...

I just had coleslaw at lunch. I have a feeling that's not in. Looking forward to banana beans later.

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Mmmm...tzatziki and banana bean stew served with lentil flour flatbreads...my favourite.

TSY.

Well, its not so much a specific age, my curiousity is more to do with when people get older versus their very well established eating habits, carried forward from when they were much younger / active.

My thinking is that as people age, they may not be able to exercise to an intensity that will allow them to [i]burn off[/i] the lard they would otherwise store, were they to stick to a more everyday, carby diet from their youth.

So, carrying on from that, I'm thinking, if I develop alternative eating habits [b]now[/b] and take them with me into older life, I hope to be sufficiently equiped on a dietary basis, to be able to avoid later life spread. Maybe ?.

I think that the meals I have come to like, the ones I have discovered here, dsicussing the iDave diet, and on my own, will stay with me and so hopefully assist with keeping my weight under control for the rest of my life. Not forgetting the importance of exercise too. 😉

I also note that I enjoy exercise more when I'm a lighter weight.

I just had coleslaw at lunch. I have a feeling that's not in

I would say it is. Mayonnaise = eggs and oil, no? Both of which are in. And the rest of it is just veg?

[i]Alternatively I'll find something new to be addicted to...[/i]

Another interesting point. I heard the head of WW being interviewed in R4 about a year ago.

He spoke of research in the US that had discovered the same "[i]reward[/i]" receptors in the brain were stimulated when the subject consumed "junk food" as when a person uses drugs.

Their brains rewarded them for eating pizza, burgers, whatever.

Hence why som find it so difficult to change, they are [i]addicted[/i] to the, errr, bad stuff ?.

[i]I would say it is. Mayonnaise = eggs and oil, no? Both of which are in. And the rest of it is just veg?
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I'd be looking at the GI rating for Mayo myself, were I not convinced on the basis of no evidence at all, that mayonaise is an A class artery clogger.

I use to like it, but there is life after Mayo and Salad cream.

Thanks Molly. Feeling better already. I think I just lost 5g with that news. Only 13995 to go to being "stocky".

Good point Solo.

If I was exercising less I'd have more time to make myself an iDave style breakfast for example.
I probably wouldn't need to eat as many carbs as I do.
My diet is pretty low GI. I rarely eat crap (today's doughnut being the exception).
I've also never really had a problem with my weight, even when training far less. I've been bigger, but never tipped over 13 stone.

It sounds that the iDiet isn't completely appropriate for me with my current regime. People that I know who exercise similarly and have tried it seem to have sufferred.

I share your thought process though and it's one of the reasons I come on these threads.

Oh, and junk food has never really done it for me 😉

I share your thought process though and it's one of the reasons I come on these threads.

Same here.

The good thing about this Solo is that it's neither low fat nor low calorie 🙂 So mayo is surely in. Plus eggs do not make your own cholesterol levels go up apparently.

EDIT: Yeti - you are probably right. You seem to be compelled to try everythig going, but be aware some of it is not necessarily appropriate for you 🙂

You would probably struggle to get enough carbs to do all the stuff you want I think. Although I do wonder if you actually burn more calories than me now I am riding to work more regularly?

TSY.

Totaly agree. After reading your training schedule, eating as I do wouldn't be sufficient, I'm guessing.

At the moment my opportinuty to exercise is very restricted on a time and location basis, so sticking to the low gi and just three squares a day, suits me for now.

Molgrips.
As you have posted in upper case letters, its about the GI. But feel free to try Mayo and report back here.
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Furthermore, I was under the impression that the liver produces LDLs and so its an indirect link between what you eat and what your cholestrerol levels may be. Not withstanding the gut's propensity to absorb LDLs out of the blood stream, etc, etc.

How have i also missed this thread at 13pages long?!

TSY's post ^ sums up my thinking. I've been struggling on low GI diet* and i exercise the same amount of hours/days per week as TSY *high 5s exercise addict buddy* and i'm also racing as well. I'm ditching it for a few days as i'm racing on sunday (eeeekkkk!). I've noticed pros and cons - pros being i feel better/consistent mood/energy, cons being i have no power/not enough energy to race or HIIT and my recovery is rubbish compared to usual. And there only is so many beans and lentils i can eat but i'm [i]always[/i] hungry.

TSY knows my thoughts on him doing the idave diet *shakes head crossly* 😛

*not 100% idave though.

See I reckon I only intake 2000 to 3000 calories a day, and I find that difficult enough with traditionally accepted healthy foods.

Not sure how many I burn though. Maybe I should do a diet swap with a true iDieter and see how I get on. Just for a laugh like.

Haha... I was just about to say don't tell her ^^ though 😀

Dgoab.

iDave does advise alterations to his suggestion on low GI, if you are competing, etc.

Get yourself over to RST sport, have a look around there.
Can't hurt to look.
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I've been struggling on low GI diet

Are you having high GI carbs around your riding/racing? You should. If you feel run down have more until you don't feel crappy any more. It's what I did, and I still lost weight.

My experience has been positive. Started training 8-10 hours a week in december and started the idave thing end of January,

I'm now racing every thursday in crit races and training with lots of intervals and rides at the weekend.

I've had 1 low day so far and that was because I took very minimal carbs for the day (no veg the whole day) and went out and destroyed myself in a 2up 10 time trial.

other than that i take on simple carbs in the hour preceding the race and when training I have torq energy drink.. I haven't found any lack of energy for the training I'm doing.

(then again. i have built a fairly good base where i'm much better at burning fats for energy so this might have helped)

DirtyG... you need Jaffa Cakes.

I'll send you some.

Hey molgrips I've not been here much recently, have I missed your after pics?

I'm ditching it for a few days as i'm racing on sunday

cons being i have no power/not enough energy to race

EDIT: Just re-read your post. Maybe you meant a few days off the diet. Not off training.

I have not posted the after pics yet no 🙂

TrickyDisco.

Excellent stuff. Sounds like you've cracked it.
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