[Closed] My iDave experience

my stomach has strunk

Been on a loose iDave [s]diet[/s] lifestyle thingummy

good work 🙂

have you emailed him to say thanks? not enough people contact him to say thanks considering he's probably emailed out hundreds of copies out for free despite it being his way of earning a living dishing out such advice

Good point - I will.

The big thing for me - above the classic Atkins diet (which I never actually tried) is the inclusion of beans/lentils etc.. Turns out I really like them and I assume it keeps the carb craving away as I am genuinely satisfied with eating small portion of rice/spuds/pasta in my off days.

don is right - it really is a lifestyle thingummy more than a diet.

Cant see myself dropping more than maybe another 2/3kg in the long run but at least it will help me prevent blowing up as I continue down my middle age journey

I think his email is broken as I emailed him with no reply, plus he said on here it got hacked.

Glad it works for you. It stopped working for me after about 2 weeks and about the loss you found, and it was very hard to do with my lifestyle so it slipped.

From what I can gather hes not having a goodtime at the moment?

wanna hear my experience?

2 stone lost in 10 weeks of iDave light. I say light as I have one piece of granary toast every day for breaky with my scrambled eggs (gotta have toast) Refried beans with either curry marinated chicken legs or pork chops for tea on weekdays, monkey nuts and dark chocolate for snacks in the day. Weekends I eat the same as the family, so roast dinner, curry, spag bol, chilli etc but keep the starchy carbs to a minimum and use brown basmati, wholemeal pasta and if it's spuds then just one or two. I feel great and look sooooo much better. Thankyou iDave!

3 and a bit stone gone here.
4'' off the waist 5'' off the chest
lower bmi reading by 6.

idave is awesome.......which he already knows. 8)

1stone = 14lb = 6.3kg

So....
2 stone = 28lb = xc bike
3 stone = 42lb = dh bike

nice!

going for a 5 stone weight loss if i can manage it.

Well done ton!

I'm not doing the iDave diet but I'm eating low GI (which is similar but less strict) at the moment and losing weight and feeling great - really enjoying the food I'm cooking too.

im still £250 worse off.

no refund, no reply.

continuing the praise I have lost 1/2 stone in 3 weeks. TBH I haven`t been sticking to it religiously just trying to eat pulses, meat and veg mainly. Plenty of soups and salad included. Also loads of flatbreads made with gram flour.
I still have a cup of coffe in the morning with milk and sugar. the odd beer now and then etc.
Cheers Dave.

sorry to hear that slimjim78, hope you get that sorted.

im still £250 worse off.

no refund, no reply.

Ouch. Under ordinary circumstances STW would be getting the pitchforks out but iDave is like god round here. 🙂

Grum

What does a low GI day look like for you??

I know I could google it but interested in how it works in the real world.

surfer - yesterday:

Breakfast - Two bits of wholemeal toast with butter, marmite and two poached eggs
Half a grapefruit
Lunch - wholemeal pita with hummus, carrot, cucumber and cherry tomatoes
Dinner - Mumtaz Lamb Karahi with another wholemeal pita

The day before:

Breakfast - Wholegrain Mini-wheats and a mango yoghurt (not strictly low Gi because of the sugar)
Lunch - Falafels (some breadcrumbs in so not strictly low GI) and Hummus and a bit of salad
Dinner - Delicious spicy bean burgers with salad, homemade salsa and tsatsiki and a wholemeal pita
Snack - about 50g of dry roasted peanuts

Tuesday was similar but with a really nice big marinated beef and vegetable stir-fry for dinner (no rice or noodles but brown rice would be fine), and oat cakes for snacks. There was a Toulouse sausage and butterbean casserole recipe on the BBC website which is fantastic too and fully low GI and even iDave friendly I think.

Bacon and scrambled egg either with no toast or wholemeal toast would be fine for breakfast too. Or smoked salmon and scrambled egg?

I want to try and get it so I eat a bit less carbs/bread and more veg - but I've felt great and the weight is disappearing reasonably rapidly (I don't have scales but my belt is a lot tighter and I look thinner after about 2 weeks). I also generally feel less hungry than when I was eating much more food which included lots of pasta, bread, white rice, drinking squash etc.

iDave is like god round here

not in my household.

If a refund ever appears, demi-god perhaps

I need to say thanks to Ton for his baked beans 'recipe'. I make it with added chorizo and lentils. It's lovely.

Have you checked your junk e-mail?

I've lost around 20kg in the last 4 months.

I'm back down to below the weight that climbing hills on the road bike is enjoyable rather than just plain hard work. So much so that I'm off to the alps soon to ride some of the classics. This is something I really couldn't have contemplated previously.

My (rock) climbing has also seriously improved.

So thanks iDave. I'm owe you one.

Anybody got a non-biffer idiet?

What's tons baked beans recipe?

What's tons baked beans recipe?

It's even been on twitter (last night I think).

Sign in, check out @miketually, it's there (in around 7 or 8 tweets). Immagonna try it this weekend.

Anybody got a non-biffer idiet?

I'm a non biffer and follow a diet...

is that a diet or a lifestyle yeti? be honest now.

Hmmm... it's kind of about move more and eat less. So maybe it is lifestyle related.

TSY 8.7% BF.

You don't eat less though.

Wait till you're in your thirties. 😀

TSY 8.7% BF.

Hmmm... it's kind of about move more and eat less. So maybe it is lifestyle related.

TSY 8.7% BF.

It doesn't work and your current BF% means nothing, particularly if you're not even 30 yet.

91.3% BS.

😆

la, la, la...

you're not even 30 yet.

He's only just hit his twenties for fleck's sake.

yeah Slim - hope it gets sorted.

I'm with Slim.

Good diet though

I am in my 30s having... I just haven't hit puberty that hard.

And wrecker... I'll let the Doc's and Research Scientists decide that I think. 😛

TSY .- Do you get your body fat checked with caliper type thingys by someone who knows what they are doing ? Or one of those electrical resistance machines ?
Just wondered what mine is and where to get it checked properly.

singletrackmind - I had it measured this morning on a DEXA scanner at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford. They want more volunteers... do you live in Oxfordshire?

TSY, I live in Grove.

How can i volunteer for it?

You got an e-mail address?

It's with these guys... http://www.ocdem.ox.ac.uk/about-ocdem

Yep, email in profile.

I'll drop you an e-mail later... if I forget. Give me a nudge on whichever thread.

Bugger - Portsmouth .
I look abit , hmmm 'skinny' with all my ribs showing and lat's sticking out, abs and obliques clearly there. No 6 pack though as carry a few kg round my waist.

See if your local hospital does anything similar?

The inital tests were for Diabetes and Heart Diseases but it has put has in the 'Biobank' which may result in me being asked to take part in other clincial research.

Frepster - here's a better link that provides all you need to know http://www.oxfordbiobank.org.uk/researchers.html

These are my bean recipe tweets:

By request, 'baked' bean recipe to follow:
Cook 100g red lentils.
Chop an onion, stick of celery, garlic and chorizo and fry until soft, with sprinkle of chilli flakes.
Add a splash of balsamic vinegar and a glug of red wine to the onions, etc. Reduce a bit, then stir in the cooked lentils.
Heat three tins of beans (I usually use 2 tins of haricot and one other (barlotti today)), then add to lentil-onion mix.
Add a 500g carton of passatta and simmer to thicken.
Store in a kilner jar in the fridge and reheat as and when.
#EndDeliaMode

Anybody got a non-biffer idiet?

I'm not a biffer and am following the iLifestyle. Dropped from 75kg to 68kg pretty quickly and am now sitting steady at 70kg, where I've been for a few weeks now. Not lost a lot of weight, but I've had to put another hole in the belt to stop my jeans from falling down.

i might give that bean recipe a go mike........ 8)

mike, out of curiosity, why would you advise against adding the beans unheated to the onion mix and simmering in the same pan?

TSY - Thanks for the link. I have emailed them with my details.

Is the test the same as the guy had done on that BBC2 docu last night. They were able to tell him how many litres of fat he had around his organs.

Tons beans are top notch.

for more baked bean style;

fry celery + 1 garlic clove in olive oil
add in chopped toms + 1/2 teaspoon chilli flakes
add in 1 can cannellini beans

can add onion, or use other beans. great with poached eggs/ bacon.

idave not allow baked beans then?

idave not allow baked beans then?

Yes, aslong as you make them yourself and dont stick loads of sugar in them.

Not that I'm lazy but I can't wait until the whole iDave / Slow Carb / 4hourbody thing goes mainstream and I can buy a tin of beans in the shops which doesn't have a couple of tablespoons of sugar added to it

mike, out of curiosity, why would you advise against adding the beans unheated to the onion mix and simmering in the same pan?

Probably fine to do that.

Another big vote of thanks to iDave from me - I started out at 18st 10lbs at the beginning of April and I'm currently sitting at 15st 10lbs and still dropping, although it has been slower over the last 3 or 4 weeks. I still need to lose at least another 2 stone, but I'm starting to feel much happier about the way I look now.

I've managed to be pretty disciplined about what I eat - I've found the key challenge to be keeping organised about buying ingredients. If I have what I need in the house, I'm quite happy to cook stuff up from scratch. Getting hold of a slow cooker has been a real help as well, as it means I can prep something in the morning, and it's ready when my wife gets home early evening.

Like others have mentioned, I'm finding that I have far more energy now - I've started back hillwalking on a weekly basis and I'm planning on doing my summer ML training course at the end of September; something that would have been out of the question at the turn of the year.

I've also started to think about how we try and encourage a healthier approach to eating in our youth work activities, especially the stuff we sell in the tuck shop. I'm not keen on banning the kids from eating chocolate and juice, but we're starting to provide some healthier alternatives that are less sugary.

Sorry to hear that iDave's not doing to well - hope things turn round for him soonest.

@Grum

Sorry about the delay, thanks for your earlier response 😀

Keep reading these threads, tempting to give it a go, only need to loose 3-4 kg of stubborn weight. Lots of base training and new roadie seem to have little effect. As I missed the original threads and search brings up endless pages of discussion/arguement on this, can someone point me to the right thread to read about this? And most importantly is red wine ok?!

hmm, too old for that study. wonder why they cut off at 50 ?

DT78 - Red Wine is in, 2 or 3 glasses a night for me and so far lost around a kg per week over last 6 weeks.

iDave threads really helped point me in the right direction, but [url= http://gizmodo.com/5709913/4+hour-body-+-the-slow+carb-diet ]this[/url] is what I needed to make a plan me & the misses could stick to.

No worries surfer.

Gilesey - re your link and it applies to iDave too - I don't get diet plans where it tells you to go mental one day a week; why? Doesn't seem a very 'healthy' attitude and encourages the idea that you are just getting through the week in order to have the big blowout (where you can enjoy yourself with all the unhealthy stuff that you always really want).

If it works for you then it works for you but it seems odd to me.

idave emailed me the updated version of the idiet but i seem to have lost it somehow.

really appreciate it if someone could mail it to me as it does differ from the 1.0 version and i can't remember all the tweaks. (don't want to bother idave)

ivyhouse7ATyahooDOTcoDOTuk

TIA.

i'd be interested to know if iDave is currently responding to anyone's emails?

I'd be interested in getting a copy too if anyone fancies mailing me a copy.

(mail in profile)

Ta.

Me three if anyone has a copy? Need to drop some kg's.

🙂

I'd be interested in a copy of this too if poss.

having my day off the diet today.
do not have a day off every week, but when i do i find myself heading to the bakers.
just eaten half a french bagette with crab pate on one half and ardenes pate on the other half.
de-bloody-licious............. 8)

note that both pate's were primal/idiet friendly.

Thanks for that link sounds really interesting and vaguely plausable to...might give it a punt for a month. Don't eat massively badly now, but calorie restriction makes me grumpy and messes with training

I don't get diet plans where it tells you to go mental one day a week; why? Doesn't seem a very 'healthy' attitude and encourages the idea that you are just getting through the week in order to have the big blowout

It's a bit of a psychological crutch. It allows you to still eat tasty proper bread. And drink beer. It kicks the body out of a routine. It provides possibly missing micronutrients.

Some or all or none of those.

For me, it gives me a reminded that I feel a bit shitty after eating sugary stuff.

If you read that link.... it says the 'cheat day' also helps with losing weight

For me, it gives me a reminded that I feel a bit shitty after eating sugary stuff.

i am not missing sugary stuff at all. i crave bread and cheese.
had some cheese last saturday, and it sunk like a lead weight to the bottom of my stomach.
no more cheese on my off day from now on.

seeing as a general appeal has fallen on deaf ears -

ton, could you please mail me a copy

ivyhouse7ATyahooDOTcoDOTuk

ta.

trailmonkey....i dont have a copy.

basically all i do is NOT eat,
bread
rice
pasta
fruit
dairy
sugar
fruit juice
baked goods (buns,cake)
biscuits
any grain
pastry

and what a DO eat is,
fish
meat including fat
chicken including skin
chorizo
veg (ton,s of it)
salad (ditto)
beans and pulses
quinoa
nuts and seeds
eggs (lots)

it is very easy to be honest

1 day a week eat whatever you want, i dont always do this.

cheers ton.

i have been idaving since last year and know the basics but there are some rules that idave has changed with regard to supplementary scoffing after exercising. it used to be so many grams of simple carbs for each hour of exercise but i think this has now been removed.

wish i knew where i'd filed the new version 🙄

but thanks anyway ton.

i am not missing sugary stuff at all. i crave bread and cheese.

I've just done the weekly shop, on cheat day. I was expecting to feel the need to buy lots of crap, but I didn't. A couple of beers for tonight was the only non-slow-carb thing I bought for me.

trailmonkey, sent you a copy of the diet sheet.

trailmonkey, sent you a copy of the diet sheet.

me too 🙂

I don't get diet plans where it tells you to go mental one day a week; why? Doesn't seem a very 'healthy' attitude and encourages the idea that you are just getting through the week in order to have the big blowout (where you can enjoy yourself with all the unhealthy stuff that you always really want).

Could someone email me a copy of the diet too?

pleaderwilliams AT gmail DOT com

thanks.

see what i don't get is what you'd eat for breakfast. I have oats and milk, i guess thats out the door?

can anyone send me it too please? Gonna have a proper crack at it this time.