[Closed] My iDave experience

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.

warton - ok with low GI but not iDave.

breakfast, eggs either poached, scrambled, hard or soft boiled, omletted or fried.
with grilled bacon or chorizo in a omlette, with mushrooms and toms and homemade baked beans.
or some chicken in a omlette with spinach and chillies.

ibreakfast is awesome........... 8)

breakfast, eggs either poached, scrambled, hard or soft boiled, omletted or fried.
with grilled bacon or chorizo in a omlette, with mushrooms and toms and homemade baked beans.
or some chicken in a omlette with spinach and chillies.

I'll have a look at it, but i don't like the lack of fruit either, I love my fruit!

that for me looks too fatty and heavy for breakfast, i want something light at 5.30! and a couple of eggs aren't going to set me up for the day

I'll have a look at it, but i don't like the lack of fruit either, I love my fruit!

so fatty that i have lost 3 stone eating it........... 😆

Could someone email me a copy of the diet too?
pleaderwilliams AT gmail DOT com
thanks.

No-one?

pleaderwilliams , copy sent

so, anyone heard from iDave recently?

Not me, I got a couple of mails last week after he was called out on here, but nothing since.

You can follow him on twitter and see how busy he is 🙂

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

Food.

What did people have for breakfast before the cereal manufacturers, milk marketing board and the sugar people convinced them what to have?