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I'm amazed the powder is still selling well enough to warrant further development after the release of the drink form. It's it primarily an issue of the drink being too expensive for many?
I'm amazed the powder is still selling well enough to warrant further development after the release of the drink form. It's it primarily an issue of the drink being too expensive for many?
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Every time I see a comment like this, I'm amazed at the commenters inability to not take everything to the extreme. YOU CAN EAT SOYLENT AND STILL EAT FOOD. If you don't have much time on your hands, and you want a quick meal, it works really well and is better than, say, McDonalds. 1) Eating isn't pleasure for me 2 to 3 times a day. I eat lunch because I'm hungry. I'll go out and eat a nice meal once or twice a week.…
I am going by how they market it, not by how you use it. If company makes market claim "x", which is ridiculous and I criticize that claim, someone then saying that he personally hasn't bought it because of claim "x" does not make my point invalid at all. 1) We differ there, I can well get all of my calories from normal food without being annoyed by eating. 2) But it's marketed as complete food replacement, not as a…
So what is your problem? "I should eat better food?" "I should learn to cook?" "My friends won't like me if I eat product X?" You don't know me. You don't know my friends. You don't need to provide a synopsis of what you ate today; that's not interesting. It'd be like if I said I was passionate and went to a football forum and pointed out all the ways that football was a pointless waste of time.
No. Padding your judgmental crap with "I believe in truth justice fairness and freedom" doesn't make it a good point. Sounds more like you're bordering on irrational hatred. Call it 'passionate' if you want. Let's say that's your right and that your real problem is with branding. That's not hypocrisy at all.
I will comment on Soylent as a product, not the 1.6 update specifically, sorry, just want to make a few points (I think some of you are in for a tough ride, just passionate, not my intention to attack anyone personally): -) psychological value: eating has a great psychological value, it's pleasure (if not, you should eat better food) -) social value: you probably won't go out with friends to have a glass of Soylent,…
Real food is one of the great joys of life. I can't imagine the state of mind anyone has to be in to not want food. Depressing.
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Every time I see a comment like this, I'm amazed at the commenters inability to not take everything to the extreme. YOU CAN EAT SOYLENT AND STILL EAT FOOD. If you don't have much time on your hands, and you want a quick meal, it works really well and is better than, say, McDonalds. 1) Eating isn't pleasure for me 2 to 3 times a day. I eat lunch because I'm hungry. I'll go out and eat a nice meal once or twice a week.…
I am going by how they market it, not by how you use it. If company makes market claim "x", which is ridiculous and I criticize that claim, someone then saying that he personally hasn't bought it because of claim "x" does not make my point invalid at all. 1) We differ there, I can well get all of my calories from normal food without being annoyed by eating. 2) But it's marketed as complete food replacement, not as a…
But cooking is never as easy as what you're saying. I get home, just thinking to figure out what to make is a pain and sometimes leads to not eating at all. I have to thaw the meat I want to use, takes far too long. Cooking sometimes takes long. Need ingredients I thought I had but don't. Go to buy the ingredient, get the wrong thing, now I've got two of what I don't need and none of what I do.
I don't consider myself inept but with cooking it's really hard to make it happen when I need to eat.
edit as regards a previous post: Alternative hospital shakes and such tend to be extremely high in sugar, and low calorie. If you calculate how much sugar you'd end up getting in for 2500 or 3000 calories a day, it's terrifying.
I don't use Soylent. I eat a ton of nuts to supplement my caloric intake of regular meals. But it looks amazing and I don't understand why people seem almost offended it exists.
I will comment on Soylent as a product, not the 1.6 update specifically, sorry, just want to make a few points (I think some of you are in for a tough ride, just passionate, not my intention to attack anyone personally): -) psychological value: eating has a great psychological value, it's pleasure (if not, you should eat better food) -) social value: you probably won't go out with friends to have a glass of Soylent,…
100% agree. Saddest thing ever. Real food is one of the great joys of life. I can't imagine the state of mind anyone has to be in to not want food. Depressing.
As someone who very occasionally gets very nervous about something to the point of not wanting to chew, soylent+chocolate powder in a blender bottle is really helpful.
How much chocolate powder do you usually use? I've been trying to experiment with different things to put in mine and haven't thought of chocolate powder before.
What's the difference between soylent 1.x and 2.y?
1.x is powder that you mix yourself. 2.y comes in bottles.
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This is empirically wrong. Soy contains phytoestrogens which have no effect on the human endocrine system. You are more likely to become "feminized" by consuming cow's milk, which contains mammalian estrogen.
I'd love for that to be true, but the research I linked to says otherwise. If you have research you could point me to that supports what you're saying I'd be happy to read it.
Source 1 is not "research." It is case reporting.
Source 2: While I admit I didn't read the whole thing (merely quickly went through the intro and conclusion plus a couple of other key paragraphs), it sounded like they were talking about setting levels of supplementation beyond normal dietary intake, right? If correct, that's at 75mg plus normal Japanese intake (which is higher than standard US intake, I believe). I'm happy to be corrected if I misunderstood something in my quick skimming.
Plus, as is the case with most of these guidelines, especially with initial stabs at setting limits, they acknowledge that this threshold they set is conservative. The real best guess at a safe level would be higher--even according to them--because it is their job to be artificially conservative.
Anyone know if there's anything like Soylent but for protein only? Sometimes I go on a no-carb diet (sometimes to lose weight and sometimes because carbs make me sleepy) and I am too lazy to buy ingredients and cook at home. I just want soylent, but with 0 carbs. Anyone know?
Great with coconut/almond milk, two scoops shaken.
With water it's like drinking baking flour but makes you want to run through a wall.