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2 salmon fillets for dinner, with lots of veg. Moving onto pumpkin seeds now. Num num num.
cheers idave
i dont get on with veg-emince and im not keen on sweet potatoes, so i might match the missus diet rest day with vanishing for a long day on the bike
so thanks, twice i guess.
[i]It's a lolcat-ism.[/i]
it's an annoying-ism. 😆
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Just paying homage to nomage
Ooh, very sharp.
I'm going to bed now.
i want to do this but i can see it being hella expensive. an expense to which student loans cannot stretch to 🙁
It's not at all expensive float, not the way I do it???
I'm a student! On student loan, with no other suppport. As said above it's costing me and my gf £60 ish a week, so £30 a person per week. Normal food spend for me has always been £25 to £30.
Try to maximise the cheap filling things such as lentils/dried beans to replace the previous cheap filling things (pasta etc), and cost shouldn't be much different. Would definitely suggest giving it a try. 10 days in now and enjoying it. The wii suggests I've lost a tiny bit, and the gf has lost some too. No side effects apart from rabbit droppings 🙂 😕
I reckon it can be done on the cheap. Send me a tenner and I'll tell you how.
GRRR! 3rd week of doing this now.
Started at 88kg
Week 1 - lost 3kg
Week 2 - lost nothing
Week 3 - lost nothing.
I could cope with nothing lost during week 2 as I did have a 2-day break (we went to friends for the Easter weekend) but nothing during week 3 despite sticking to the diet is a little de-motivating. Especially as I feel I've lost a fair amount of 'snap' when on my bike (was able to up the power up hills quite easily, but now find myself grinding up in a lower gear.)
Maybe it's because I have been eating a gluten free diet for several years so I'm used to avaoiding large 'white carb' intake (mainly through avoiding bread and pasta), but so far I've seen nothing that I wouldn't have achieved from simpy cutting out the crisps and GF cakes that I was scoffing in the weeks before I started.
I'll give it another week since I have the food in the cupboard and see what happens.....
Ben
Ben, drink plenty of water, don't forget it's not a low carb plan so plenty of beans, keep at it - and don't try and eat less, keep eating normal amounts.
Thanks iDave - I upped the water quantity this week after seeing your advice to others and Mrs BOAS reckons i'll never lose any weight given the portion sizes I eat!
I'm grateful for the 3kg lost so far and the fact that the diet isn't restrictive in terms of calories or portions is what attracted me to starting a 'diet' in the first place, so my thanks to you for that!
Ben
Just had a nice brekkie from Pod, scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, nori and wasabi powder. Yum
Hoping to touch 84kg by the end of the week. This is a major milestone for me.
Hoping to get under 90kg with this weeks wiegh-in (tomorrow), lost 2.5kg in the first week (and wasn't that strict on it) so have been very strict this week!
I'll echo the advice re water. Even when not strictly on the diet I make a point of drinking 1/2 pint+ of water before I eat anything and as much as I can reasonably drink at other times.
Apart from the obvious hydration benefits to skin etc. it suppresses the appetite (for me anyway) and makes the whole digestive system more efficient.
Dave, can't remember if we've covered this before - what's your take on fruit? I can understand how the sugars etc can mess with the diet's vibe, but surely eating fruit only once per week isn't 'good'.
surely eating fruit only once per week isn't 'good'.
If you weren't eating lots of veg every day I might agree.
Most veg are surely more nutritious than most fruit..?
What evidence do you have to support eating a lot of veg is a healthy way to 'avoid' eating fruit?
Doesn't seem right in my book - and I'm sure plenty of scientists/nutritionists etc would also disagree. Hence interested in how you substantiate that. After all, your idea is that the iDave diet is a 'way of eating' as opposed to a fad/short-term plan.
I'm not dissing your diet BTW, it's just that loads of us eat fruit because it's just part of our diet. Yet if we have to drop this (and risk losing out on vital vitamins etc that can't be picked up elsewhere), then surely this isn't the healthiest option possible.
Look at the feedback for various high-protein/low-carb diets: no fruit = plenty of people struggle to accept it.
and risk losing out on vital vitamins etc that can't be picked up elsewhere
Like what? (honest question - I don't know)
I'm not dissing your diet BTW, it's just that loads of us eat fruit because it's just part of our diet. Yet if we have to drop this (and risk losing out on vital vitamins etc that can't be picked up elsewhere), then surely this isn't the healthiest option possible.Look at the feedback for various high-protein/low-carb diets: no fruit = plenty of people struggle to accept it.
Why not just adopt the iDave diet, but eat fruit aswell? Thus creating your own diet. Best of both worlds and you get to eat how you want to.
Like what? (honest question - I don't know)
I don't know either. A Google seems to throw fruit AND veg into the same equation, as opposed to document why one is in any way 'better' than the other.
Why not just adopt the iDave diet, but eat fruit aswell? Thus creating your own diet. Best of both worlds and you get to eat how you want to.
Because avoiding fruit is said to be a key factor in managing insulin levels etc, hence end result being better weight management blah blah.
Therefore if one was to follow the diet but also eat fruit, then initial weight loss and subsequent management may well go out the window. Ergo, what's the point in that?
Doing some of the iDave diet gives some of the effect. So even if you ate fruit you'd still get benefit.
I read somewhere that the really nutritious stuff is stuff that is seeds (ie legumes in this case) and brassicacae ie cabbage, broccoli. I suppose I'd add onions and garlic to that list too - those things are all packed with nutrients. Not much in oranges and apples beyond vitamin C is there? And despite all the fuss that's easy as anything to get enough of.
Ben, drink plenty of water, don't forget it's not a low carb plan so plenty of beans
Wow! what a difference! I drank a huge amount of water yesterday (well over the top, so I thought) but what a difference to last night's ride! 3 hours of full-on bean power! Brilliant!
Also, the rabbity droppings I've been producing have stopped. I've just had to contact the coastguard and inform them of the danger to shipping that I've just produced 😳
Arghhh! My iDave diet has now totaly fallen apart. I just absentmindedly ate half of the complementary coffee biscuit that came with my double espresso at the local tea rooms 😉
I'm not upset slugwash, I'm disappointed....
Lol 🙂
I had a cake yesterday as my pre-ride carb snack 😯
Actually in all fairness I'm finding it hard to carb up enough on beans and legumes alone. Last few weeks I've been really very weak on my commute by the end of the week. This week I've had more carbs around and during my rides and I feel ok now. Plus I've done more workouts this week too.
But are you still losing weight molly?
I need a plan that'll help me drop a little bit more bodyfat but will allow me to train a bit harder.
How's the experimental phase going Mr iDave?
Umm.. hard to tell as I had a blowout over easter weekend. I touched 85 before Easter, went up to 87 and am now reliably 85. A few weeks ago my face was looking quite hollow and drawn, a sign I'm under-hydrated and/or under-fuelled and/or exhausted, from experience. Now I am still 85 and I look fine. So I suspect I am still losing fat.
Seems to be a balancing act...
EDIT Thanks to DD for pointing out that typo. Now your post makes no sense 🙂
58? 😯
so can i snack on carrot sticks or what ?
Umm.. yes.
Molly... weigh in this morning... down to almost 75kg!
Good lad 🙂
58 pre-ride cakes is insania
Arghhh! My iDave diet has now totaly fallen apart. I just absentmindedly ate half of the complementary coffee biscuit that came with my double espresso at the local tea rooms
You'll need to display a steelier resolve than that to ride Lustleigh Cleave at the weekend 😉
Been on the diet for about 3 weeks now. Dropped from about 75kg to about 71 - very happy!
However, I really struggled on my ride to work this morning and had to break open some haribos and biscuits at my desk - not ideal, but I've decided to call it a 'Friday morning off'. Back to normal in time for lunch...
Nick
Molly is 2.9 kg today.
Oh, not that Molly.
Is marmalade allowed?
yes, you can have pots of marmalade, one day a week
molly can have it anytime
Mmmm...dreaming of marmalade 🙂
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