It's been more than a year since my husband and I helped back an idea which we've been told, repeatedly, is too crazy and too weird to ever work; replacing food with a 100% nutritionally balanced drink thingy.
Trust me, we were the first to balk at this, but after our initial disbelief and some don't-they-know-that's-a-movie-about-cannibalism comments, we opened ourselves up to the possibility. Fine. What if you can get everything you need to survive from a drink? Why would you want to? I really like food! The short answer: to save time, to save money, to have full nutritional efficiency, to avoid food allergy complications, to gain needed weight, to lose excess weight, and (in many parts of the world) to supplement a lack of natural resources. Oh and Soylent doesn't expire or go bad until you add water for consumption. So you can stock pile it, like we did.
Ok. But how different is this from, say, protein shakes? Can you live off of Slimfast? The short answer: Maybe, but those were developed as supplements, not replacements. So you'd still have to depend on a secondary source. (I'll be eating a secondary source anyway, namely cake. Probably dinner out once or twice a week for social reasons, but mostly cake.) Regardless, Slimfast is not 100% balanced. NO product is, whether from a factory or from the earth itself. Until now.
Right now, we have to consume many different things to have balanced and healthy bodies. Just look at that food pyramid! Meh. That takes a lot of planning, careful purchasing and careful preparation. Let's be honest, we suck at that! And because we suck at that, we've developed unhealthy shortcuts that have resulted in some pretty terrible long term health problems. Heart Disease, Diabetes and Obesity aside, what about other things that may be effected by our diet, having negative effects on our well being? Headaches, feeling tired all the time, skin problems, manageable (but no less frustrating) weight issues effecting self image, food allergies, random chronic health complications you may have to juggle on top of eating right - the list goes on and on and on.
Will Soylent solve these problems and save the world? I don't know, guys. That would be a dream come true. So hey, we're giving it a shot.
Personally, I find aaaallll of this extremely hard to believe. And the number one item on my list of YEAH-RIGHT-I'LL-BELIEVE-IT-WHEN-I-SEE-IT is the claim that one experiences no cravings when consuming Soylent.
NO. CRAVINGS.
WUT
One self-proclaimed habitual snacker reported that he walked past his favorite food items every day with zero desire to eat them; that Soylent was fully and completely satisfying and he simply didn't want anything more.
.......
I CALL SHENANIGANS!
But time will tell. We begin tomorrow morning. Apparently, you mix this powder with water and simply drink it, as needed. No complicated weighing and measuring of ingredients or keeping track of your intake. When you're hungry, have a swig. Greg and I will be having our blood tested periodically to see what it does, but other than that ... yeah. That's it. Weird. Awesome!
Guess I have a supplemental cake to go bake. We'll see if I even want it.
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