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And now they've brought out flavors, basically turning it into an expensive meal replacement. It's ridiculous.
Soylent gets a lot of hate (I'm looking forward to skipping out on this thread before the inevitable negative comments from people who assume that Soylent consumers will eat nothing but Soylent for the rest of their lives), but to me, it's solved a large problem in my life: what to eat when I'm hungry but I don't have enough time to prepare a full meal. It can happen every now and then when I'm rushing around, and so…
What advantage does Soylent have over say, other meal replacements e.g. Slimfast, weight watcher shakes, juices etc that have existed for years before it and will continue to do so for years after? All I see is SV hype and marketing. In fact you just showed that Soylent is easily outplayed because you switched to a different drink already.
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Do you not eat at all during work?
If I'm as busy as OP (claims to be), then no way. EDIT: Think about marathon runners: they drink water and electrolytes. I'm pretty sure I can handle a workday fully concentrated without eating every three hours.
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What advantage does Soylent have over say, other meal replacements e.g. Slimfast, weight watcher shakes, juices etc that have existed for years before it and will continue to do so for years after? All I see is SV hype and marketing. In fact you just showed that Soylent is easily outplayed because you switched to a different drink already.
> What advantage does Soylent have over say, other meal replacements e.g. Slimfast, weight watcher shakes, juices etc Which of those examples are actual food replacements instead of liquid candy blasted with vitamins? Slimfast high protein is the only option I see online that doesn't include huge amounts of sugar, but a single 180 calorie shake also gives way too much vitamins and protein to be sane times 10, which i…
Last I checked Soylent contained Sucralose (Splenda).
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If it has a large amount of protein, it's not an actual meal replacement -- it's a supplement.
Yeah, just like ketogenic dieting and no-carb diets are supplements. What?
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I skimmed the paper you linked to and if I understood it correctly D2 has lower bioavailability than D3. Is that the primary difference?
That's one important takeaway. But we don't actually know what (synthetic) D2 and (food derived) D3 are doing differently in the body. This is exacerbated by: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4210929/ That there's this much nuance just with this one ingredient is a microcosm of the overall flaw in Soylent's approach. Optimizing for just the legible dimensions of a poorly understood domain will not result…
Thank you. This one sentence can replace all my responses to the original post.
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I'm 6'5" and ~220lbs, every calorie calculator I've tried recommends 2400+ calories a day to maintain body weight with a sedentary lifestyle. At the time I tried this experiment I was running close to 30 miles a week and spending 2+ hours a week rock climbing.
Estimates like 2400kcal might work if you have a physically demanding job 40 hours a week. Running 30 miles a week and spending 2+ hours a week rock climbing will lift cause you to expend only maybe 500kcal a day extra on average, but if you spend the rest of that time being sedentary, you're still unlikely to end up at any more than 2000-2200kcal. Overall I think the typical old advice of 2500kcal for men and 2000 f…
Obviously if the op was gaining weight at 2000 calories it was a bad estimate for him (or he was eating more than he thought, which is often the case), but it isn't a crazy estimate or anything.
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If it has a large amount of protein, it's not an actual meal replacement -- it's a supplement.
An average meal comprised meat and rice contains a large amount of protein. It's a relacement for that. What are you talking about?
So I say that it's a supplement rather than a replacement because it's not replacing a balanced meal. It's supplementing protein. A single protein shake can give a sedentary person almost 100% of their protein. That's great for active, athletic people who have higher protein requirements. Not great for sedentary people who have lower protein requirements.
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Are you a soylent stakeholder? It's puzzling why you would invalidate someone's experience with such a condescending tone. Soylent is just another hyped up SV junk. The rest of the world does not give a shit about having to cook because they don't have much to eat. I personally wouldn't touch Soylent and leave it up to some 30 year old engineers with no understanding of the food industry. The CEO is super fucking ann…
The unfounded hostility that the mere existence of Soylent brings out of otherwise level-headed people is always a great source of amusement.