Just thought I would sing the praises of Soylent. Any fellow soylent heads around?
(I am not shilling, I have no interest in them increasing sales)
If you don't know, (Soylent.com - Free your body) is a meal replacement product. It is designed from the ground up to have a good balance of macronutrients and vitamins and minerals. They initially sold a foul powder that you mixed with water and it made a nutritious goo that if you had a lot of discipline you could eat if you had a mastery of your gag reflex.
Then they made their 2.0 ready mixed drink! This is my second favorite product in the world, after my Model S. It comes in 400 kcal bottles, which makes calorie counting super easy. And it is positively good. It tastes like really creamy milk, but with a nutty, oaty bit. It tastes like cereal milk left over from honey nut cheerios, if you used half and half for your milk. Yet its vegan and dairy free. Some people compare it to melted ice cream.
It's made in the USA and was started in the Bay Area by geeky programmers trying to "solve" food. They wanted to make something that was better and easier than the fast food they were eating during long work days.
The concept is that it saves time and money, which I suppose it does. For me the best feature is that I can easily use it to run a calorie deficit and lose weight. I have lost a ton of weight since I have started depending on it. I am down 4.3lbs in the last month alone and I feel great. (I have shed about 17 lbs this year)
Typically I have a bottle on my commute into work. Then at lunch I have another. If I don't have evening plans I have another at 4-5pm if I need to work late. At that point I have had 1200 calories and can still have a modest late dinner or just a 4th bottle. I am probably getting 80% of my calories from the stuff in the last few months. What you end up doing is planning around social meals or the occasional burger that you need for sanity. A common "meal" for me is a bottle and an ounce of Doritos or something so I feel like I "ate"
Just sharing
(I am not shilling, I have no interest in them increasing sales)
If you don't know, (Soylent.com - Free your body) is a meal replacement product. It is designed from the ground up to have a good balance of macronutrients and vitamins and minerals. They initially sold a foul powder that you mixed with water and it made a nutritious goo that if you had a lot of discipline you could eat if you had a mastery of your gag reflex.
Then they made their 2.0 ready mixed drink! This is my second favorite product in the world, after my Model S. It comes in 400 kcal bottles, which makes calorie counting super easy. And it is positively good. It tastes like really creamy milk, but with a nutty, oaty bit. It tastes like cereal milk left over from honey nut cheerios, if you used half and half for your milk. Yet its vegan and dairy free. Some people compare it to melted ice cream.
It's made in the USA and was started in the Bay Area by geeky programmers trying to "solve" food. They wanted to make something that was better and easier than the fast food they were eating during long work days.
The concept is that it saves time and money, which I suppose it does. For me the best feature is that I can easily use it to run a calorie deficit and lose weight. I have lost a ton of weight since I have started depending on it. I am down 4.3lbs in the last month alone and I feel great. (I have shed about 17 lbs this year)
Typically I have a bottle on my commute into work. Then at lunch I have another. If I don't have evening plans I have another at 4-5pm if I need to work late. At that point I have had 1200 calories and can still have a modest late dinner or just a 4th bottle. I am probably getting 80% of my calories from the stuff in the last few months. What you end up doing is planning around social meals or the occasional burger that you need for sanity. A common "meal" for me is a bottle and an ounce of Doritos or something so I feel like I "ate"
Just sharing
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