(10-07-2017, 06:47 PM)Drako Wrote: I personally have never even heard about this product. Since I enjoy cooking I never really look into that kind of stuff.

(10-07-2017, 11:20 PM)BurritoBeans Wrote: I'm a cook myself, I love food, but I had tried Soylent for a bit over a month in the middle of last year... it was odd, but actually enjoyable.

Pretty much, a friend of mine lives off of Soylent and maybe a few berries now and then - I never believed them that it was a solid diet, but because they seemed to be doing alright and hadn't had issues in the months of doing that I decided to try it myself.

Starting the whole "Solyent only" bit was tough for me - it's just about the opposite of what I usually go for, I prepare meals packed with flavor and generally involving a good bit of meat or eggs, while Soylent was just a bland smoothie with no flavor in comparison. The first few days were a little rough - I was a bit more hungry than usual and had horrible gas, but it could've been worse.

Apart from just being generally bland and not being able to have anything that looked really good, it at least felt filling enough and I was able to keep up with most of what I usually did just fine - the one exception was that I took a bit of a hit after a couple days with weightlifting and running, I found myself unable to do half of what I was able to, but I was able to work back up to the same point within a matter of weeks without my body going crazy.

I will say, one thing I noticed was that I had an extra hour or two every day by just going with Soylent and the like - this is because generally I'd wake up an hour and a half before I needed to get to school so I had time to make breakfast, get myself lunch prepared, eat, and then take another hour at work to go on break and find myself dinner. Running off of these little twenty minute pre-prepared meals in the morning that I could take wherever, this meant I got a nice bit of extra sleep and had more time to get stuff done at work, so that was really cool.

The one big issue I had was coming off of the stuff to my usual diet - I probably should've been smarter with how I did this as I have had the same experience in the past with a high-carb diet in which having something not related to the diet would make my gut flip, making me feel like crap the rest of the day. What I ended up doing was after I ran out of the stuff (It ended up being about 34 days if I remember right) was that I went to a steakhouse with coworkers and had a nice sirloin with mushrooms, onions, and fried pickles... waking up the next day my body felt horrible and I probably threw up everything inside me, so I had to slowly progress from lighter and lighter food until I could get back to the usual.

So yeah, it wasn't that bad - sure I felt like crap at the end due to a mistake, but honestly I wouldn't mind substituting a meal or two now and then with it as it frees up time and gives me what I need. I think also having a plain meal every day would've helped, as instead of getting really sick from having something my body just wasn't used to like it had. Sure it was a bit bland, but hey, it worked, so I can't complain.

(10-08-2017, 06:05 AM)mothered Wrote: Provided you're also getting nutrients from a non-meal replacement food, I don't see any harm In Including Soylent In your diet.

I'm pretty similar to you, whereby I'm somewhat lazy and not the type who spends an hour or so cooking a meal. I got better things to do with my time, hence opt for quick (but healthy) preparation of meals.

(10-08-2017, 07:14 AM)zorrophreak Wrote: I tried Soylent about a year ago after talking with a friend about it. It definitely takes getting used to, but I certainly didn't have the mood and relationship decline reported by several people. I definitely love FOOD too much to give it up completely to this, although I could definitely do this if necessary.

Good luck with it!

(10-09-2017, 12:54 AM)insidious Wrote: I have reservations about going full Soylent, just because I would miss 'real' food. Stuffs too good to pass up.