Ed Davey has lost 2sts in 7 weeks‼️

Does have to put sand on the floors of his house i wonder ?.

Oh yes, growstuff. Silly me. ?
Two weeks indeed!!!!!

Yammy

As someone else has said it sounds like the Diet devised in Newcastle to avoid Diabetis.
As a lot of people have said it is keeping it off afterwards.
One Northeastern newsreader on BBC Local lost a lot of weight and did not disclose why. Unfortunately, she has put it all back on and more.

It does sound like a 800 calorie per day diet, which the NHS recommends in some circumstances.

henetha

I'm quite envious! But it's a bit much in two weeks and he might well put some weight back on again

It was 2 months.

As someone else has said it sounds like the Diet devised in Newcastle to avoid Diabetis.
As a lot of people have said it is keeping it off afterwards.
One Northeastern newsreader on BBC Local lost a lot of weight and did not disclose why. Unfortunately, she has put it all back on and more.

Rapid weight loss is so often followed by gain - and we all know that yo-yo dieting is the worst thing you can do for your metabolism.
A change in lifestyle and diet not A DIET are the only sustainable options and likeliest to succeed.
I bet most of us have lost a stone or two before e.g.a son’s or daughter’s wedding - and of course it has gone on again.
If one diet solved the problem, Weight Watchers and Slimming World would have gone out of business year ago!

He had to make a statement about it I guess as people (myself included) were probably worried that he was ill. I hardly recognised him when I saw him on tv the other day.

I'm quite envious! But it's a bit much in two weeks and he might well put some weight back on again

From Diabetes UK

Type2

If you have obesity, your diabetes is more likely to go into remission if you lose a substantial amount of weight – 15kg (or 2 stone 5lbs) – as quickly and safely as possible following diagnosis

I tried a similar change of eating to this type and lost weight but gained energy.
Eating white flour ,sugar based consumer products is the enemy,they are addictive. Once you wean yourself off them the weight stays off

I'm no expert on the matter but as I understand things, if wanting to pre-empt Type 2 then the slowly-slowly approach doesn't work; a good few kilos needs to be lost quickly, and kept off of course.

It’s an astonishing amount of weight to lose in such a shortage period and I’m sure it is very encouraging for him, but these very low calorie diets can’t be sustained indefinitely and therein lies the problem.
Unless he addresses his normal day to day food consumption, the weight will inevitably go back on won’t it?

I’m pretty sure the advice is to just cut down a little bit so the body isn’t thrown into survival mode where every calorie is stored as fat.
The advice is usually to aim for a loss of one pound a week, no more.

good on him, that is a very good quick start to a healthier lifestyle, as long as he builds in some exercise. No doubt that was media clickbait and no doubt that he would not be so foolish so as to keep that daily diet as it is. He now needs to add various foods. I am sure he knows that. Something must have sparked an alarm bell in him

I think Theresa May has type 1 diabetes, you can't reverse that.
I agree that it sounds a bit like the Newcastle? regime at the start of low-carbing. Once you introduce healthy fats back in it becomes much easier.
We did a gradual low-carb diet some years six or seven ago. We have stuck to it and never put the weight back on. DH had been diagnosed with pre-diabetes, but has never needed medication. It does work.

Didn't the same thing happen in the case of Theresa May? I think she was diagnosed with diabetes.

It would be good as a 5:2 diet, I hate walnuts, lentils, kimchi and edamame beans, so would have to double up on …….fish?
but I would have to stay close to the loo as well.

Well done though.

why do men lose weight quicker than women?

when i went to a slimming club the men would always lose huge amounts quite quickly whilst all the women had much smaller losses over a longer period of time

I haven't read the article as it's behind the Telegraph's paywall - maybe it was an attempt to reverse/prevent Type 2 diabetes. This sort of drastic diet does seem to be successful for that.

Obviously keeping it off will be hard but is do-able with determination and hard work.

Yes Clinton and Lawson did look gaunt when they lost weight but they were both very overweight with round podgy faces so it's the face we focus on. Clinton's had heart problems/surgery over the years to I expect he was ordered to lose weight or else!

I'm so glad to read this explanation of his weight loss. I actually thought campaigning was making him ill. He certainly doesn't look well to me but I'm sure he is in good hands.

I would find no joy at all in that diet. What a boring existence. I do like to look forward to a meal!

Urmstongran

I get the ‘low carbs’ idea etc it’s just that I’m astonished at the huge amount he’s lost in such a very short time.

I'm in competition with him. It's seems easy enough if you eat (good nutritious) rabbit food.
4 weeks = 1 stone 2 lbs
But as someone said, just for a short while - to go on holiday and eat, eat, eat.

I put on weight over lockdown and am now worried that when I eventually pick up the courage to diet I'll end up with surplus skin and saggy breasts.
Davey's extremely rapid weight loss has to be unhealthy.

I get the ‘low carbs’ idea etc it’s just that I’m astonished at the huge amount he’s lost in such a very short time.

He's lost it too fast. Not healthy.
10 to 1 he'll put it all back on again.

Do you remember when Nigel Lawson lost a lot of weight?
He certainly needed to, but looked dreadful afterwards. As does Bill Clinton -I actually thought he must be gravely ill!