Call bullshit on whatever you want. I witnessed it. He followed the diet exactly as it was laid out.
You said it was one of two things - I am lying or he didn't follow the diet. How about the third thing? This diet doesn't work on everyone which was this case. Do you think it is possible to lose 42 pounds in 1 month and not lose muscle? I doubt it.
Like I said before. This diet may work on some people but not on everyone. A diet needs to be tailored to an individual person and that wasn't done in this case.
One last thing. I am not knocking Dave as a person. I don't know the guy but I am questioning this diet. Bottom line is it doesn't work on everyone.
OK, so lets say this story is true, fine, it still doesn't make sense, not if he followed the exact protocol. You are right, every comp diet has to be tweaked to fit the individual, but if this guy ended up like you said, then there were underlying problems. First off, I know you said he was your friend, and we all like to trust our friends, but did you wittiness him eat every meal? Also, if he did in fact lose that much weight, there is no way that on a Dave style diet he lost this much without some other factor coming into play, i.e. DNP, or other rec drugs.
Again you're right, some diets won't work as well for some people, but still, there is a hole in your friends story somewhere. Oh, and one more thing I forgot to mention in my last reply, you said his carb up was only 1cup of rice, that's it. Maybe that's what he ate and maybe that's what he said Dave recommended, but this does not sound like Dave's advice for carbing up at all. To get the answerers, the best way would be to confront the two sources, your friend and Dave.