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Yar, +1 for giving iDave your money. Very much worth it.
By all means email me directly if you're thinking of some kind of official programme - you'll get better results as the plan here isn't the high octane version and doesn't include any training input.
I get the whiff of new business 🙂
I get the whiff of new business
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I'm in Geneva now deadly, can you release the gold reserves so I can buy lunch?
Any news on the Bentley?
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I've reauthorised your card iDave. I had to have it blocked after your adventures last night. I thought we were going for pink ferraris, no?
I must be doing something wrong, I have felt better whilst doing the diet, I've long had an idea that I over do pasta, rice, spuds type stuff after putting on 2 lbs whilst doing both the E2E 982 miles in 12 days in 2009 and TransWales last year.
I do have a potential problem looming, 1st earlies are due for digging soon, followed by 2nd earlies, salads and 2 types of maincrop! (That's spuds to you townies)
Have averaged 8hrs a week on various bikes for the last 2 years now and don't seem to be improving, but always thought training plans were for athlete's and I've never been mistaken for one of those, just a portly chap that enjoy's all types or cycling.
Training plans are for anyone who wants to get faster at anything...
What's the address for Mr iDave's site?
lso going to totally stop snacking on cashews, carrots and humous and reduce my general in take of fat
I heard this week that raw carrots are good (as one might suspect), but cooked carrots release a whole load of sugars. If so, does that mean cooked carrots are of the menu?
So this thread is officially fantastic ... class meandering and still the flat bread lives! 😀 Anyhow, I think I may have to join in at some point in the very near future. Have been veggie for years - so pulses and variations on all things pulse and non-wheat grain are my staple diet but I do love all things carb so I've effectively been kinda trying to do iDave lite for a while by eating lots less pasta/rice/bread etc. FYI - for compliant recipes it's worth looking up the 'Cooking without' books by Barbara Cousins.
Anyhow couple of Qs for the iDave tribe:
- am assuming unsweetened soya milk is Ok being non dairy and wheat free?
- Breakfast 😕 ? yes i know, but apart from boiled eggs am not a fan of really savoury stuff first thing and quinoa porridge is rubbish (plus the poor Peruvian peasants are suffering cause their staple food got all popular in the isles of Waitrose)
- I don't wanna shed loads and loads, probably around 4kgs to get me from 64 to 60 ish, but I need it to be all fat that goes 😀 what I've found in the past is that I do 3-4lbs ish and then I get stuck/ disheartedned and give up. Motivate me!
My top tip for the day...
Don't practice manuals on tarmac whilst wearing SPDs.
The Southern YetiMy top tip for the day...
Don't practice manuals on tarmac whilst wearing SPDs.
😀 don't practice manuals wearing SPDs period! 😀
Don't practice manuals on tarmac whilst wearing SPDs.
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Did Dave actually confirm (from a few pages back) that Donuts were OK? Being nuts and that.
I can neither confirm nor deny anything donut related
Gram flour donuts are in...they can be rolled in ground dried sweetbeans.
Haggis is in.
Tofu is in.
Quorn is in.
Right, I tried making those roasted chickpea snacks.
Are they meant to come out crunchy? Mine didn't. They are chewy on the outside and soft in the middle.. taste ok but not particulary snacky.
Dunno about snacky things but it's ****ing impossible getting gram flour in Geneva
Good job they have wine instead
Impossible to get it here either. I asked my parents to import it, failing that I'll take up Solo's offer 🙂
Are you there for work then or what dave?
Looks like I'll be here 2 weeks per month with work which is brilliant. Fantastic place, lots of opportunities, great roads, great trails, big hills to ride up, bars and very nice people and a lake to swim in - just need to overcome the cost of living being extortionate.
Jammy git!
Not to mention skiing in the winter...
Tried to make some gram flour last week as I can't get it here either. Epic fail.
Hours wasted, big mess made, nothing to eat at the end of it.
Spotted an Asian supermarket this morning, going to try there later for Gram flour
*jealous of idave*
I've had the bestest long weekend of road riding, climbing, running, good coffee and cooking up enough quorn chilli to feed me for ages :-). And I'm off again today...sitting outside a cafe with coffee listening to ladyhawke *content.* 8)
Thanks solo for the recipe, reckon I need to put in another tin of toms though as it wasn't quite saucy enough.
sitting outside
Pissing it down in murky East Anglia/Midlands 😐
Another gorgeous day here in Genevashire
Sitting in an office though - for at least another 20 minutes...
Sitting in an office further along the Alps, also a lovely day. Have bike tho.
Think I might have to man up and go for a run in the rain.....
After the weekend of cake eating I have done, it is probably vital. 8)
A run sounds good. None of my kit bar my trainers fits anymore 🙁
A run sounds good. None of my kit bar my trainers fits anymore
Given the last few weeks, I am glad my shorts are elasticated.
/procrastinates on youtube
Anyhow couple of Qs for the iDave tribe:
- am assuming unsweetened soya milk is Ok being non dairy and wheat free?- Breakfast ? yes i know, but apart from boiled eggs am not a fan of really savoury stuff first thing and quinoa porridge is rubbish (plus the poor Peruvian peasants are suffering cause their staple food got all popular in the isles of Waitrose)
http://thehealthyskeptic.org/9-steps-to-perfect-health-1-dont-eat-toxins
Near bottom of that article there's some information on soy and some links to research on it. I avoid it as best I can.
For breakfast I generally knock up a three egg omelette, it takes some time but you will get used to savoury in the morning just got to try it really.
Good clip Jamie.
That workout would destroy me after about 5 minutes. Impressive stuff.
I hopefully would be ok on the workout.....and while I would die trying, would love to do the goal of the workout.
http://toughmudder.com/ ....or the UK equivalent [url= http://www.toughguy.co.uk/Tough_Guy_THE_Event.php ]Tough Guy[/url] events.
Polenta?
Day 3 and all going well, haven't been on the scales, but have been out on my bike!
What are you guys having for snacks, in the past it would be fruit or something like low fat yoghurt, so I'm a bit stumped?
Matt
Polenta?
Bless you.
Just don't snack.
If can't manage that it's nuts, but eating too many of those stalled my weight loss very effectively...
IME you should be eating enough and drinking enough water not to feel a need for snacks.
Fantastic place, lots of opportunities, great roads, great trails, big hills to ride up, [b]bars[/b]...
Ah yes, the famous red wines of Switzerland 😕
the red wines are actually great - it is the rhone valley here - just too expensive for the rest of the world. spent saturday on a vineyard crawl. hic. great merlot and cabernet for a start.
polenta is out, i asked that a few days ago and also found out sweetcorn is out. still smarting on that latter point.
My top tip for the day...Don't practice manuals on tarmac whilst wearing SPDs.
i could've told you that, even worse don't try to pop a manual over a speed cusion. i did last winter one night. the impact destroyed the back of my saddle, bent a thomson seat post and put the largest blackest bruise on my rump i have ever had.
idave... in case its of use article in local paper yesterday reckons 2009 beujolais are stunning, best vintage for 30years apparently, and can be bought very cheap. they said best value was one from morrisons at 4quid.