This Man Thinks He Never Has to Eat Again

Post by grecy » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 9:56 PM UTC

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I saved for ~18 months, then spent two years driving from Alaska to Argentina, because I wanted to. I blogged the whole time at http://theroadchoseme.com All the financial details are at http://theroadchoseme.com/the-price-of-adventure You'll be interested to note I only spent $1200/mo on the road, which is almost exactly what I was spending month-to-month to go to work every day. I'm currently back working as a Soft…

Are you a full time employee? I'd be interested in knowing what your current employer thinks about you have a scheduled departure date that far in the future.

Post by BystanderX » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 9:57 PM UTC

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You sound like an industry-insider explaining why a new startup will fail. "They're too young!" "They don't have the experience" "We've devoted our LIVES to figuring this out, one kid in his basement didn't do it in a few weeks!" Etc etc No offense but we've heard the exact same thing about every successful idea. And what's more: People look at the human GI totally wrong anyway. They think, what can I put in to get t…

They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. - Carl Sagan Sure, he could be on to something. But we also need an enormous amount of skepticism when evaluating it, just as we do when evaluating any large claim. What pings my radar is that we're still trying to understand how our body processes "whole food" as opposed to vitamins in supp…

Post by tobyjsullivan » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 10:01 PM UTC

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Eating to me is a leisure activity, like going to the movies, but I don't want to go to the movies three times a day. For anyone that doesn't understand that statement, I recommend taking a few years off work, where you spend your time getting up early every day, doing something all day (hiking, walking, gardening, building, whatever) and go to bed late in the evening (i.e. Full days of activities you want to be doin…

I don't know what your situation is, but personally, being married, I love spending time cooking with my wife. For example, last night we spent 2 hours cooking crab cakes, chocolate souffle, kale chips... it was fantastic. We both enjoy one another's company while cooking. For some people, it may seem like a waste of time, but for me, it's a way to connect to other people.

Post by fc2 » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 10:05 PM UTC

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> a 24-year-old software engineer > ... > Soylent contains all of the nutritive components of a balanced diet What utter bollocks. We're (as in, scientists studying nutrition and how utterly wrong food industry has gotten that in the 20th and early 21st century) finally starting to get our collective heads around the benefits of whole foods vs. highly processed foods, and just how badly our bodies deal with the latte…

But that won't make up for the glop's likely deficiencies. Exactly. Yeah, he seems to have done a pretty good job of making sure his glop includes all the things we know we need. It includes exactly zero of the things we don't know we need.

Post by cgh » Wed, Mar 13, 2013, 10:07 PM UTC

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In my personal experience, optimal nutrition creates what I would, in jest, refer to as "superpowers". When I compare my mental and physical state under optimal conditions to under poor conditions, there is a dramatic difference in me. This, to me, is also why for many athletes, their performance doesn't begin on the field but rather it begins with their food intake. I don't trust the data he provided because it isn'…

Disagree. Many elite athletes are not super scientific about their food choices [1]. Instead they eat what they crave. The human body is pretty good at figuring out what it needs nutritionally. That being said, there is a lot that is important off of the field (e.g. sleep, stretching, etc). Just nutrition is fairly low on that list. [1] http://www.active.com/triathlon/ironman/Articles/Nutrition-T...