Purpose and Pre-Soylent thoughts

Introduction

Hello Everyone, and welcome to Soylent2Fit!

My name is Chris and I am attempting to use Soylent as my main food source while I transition to a happier, healthier lifestyle.

This blog is mostly going to be a chronicle of my day to day life. I will log food and health events in the day and monitor everything I can. I will be posting how I feel physically and emotionally so I can track Soylent's effects on my body and mind.

Pre-Soylent Life

Just a little background on me before we get into the good stuff. My name is Chris Appling. I live in Phoenix, AZ with my beautiful wife and our two cats. I work at an IT company full-time Monday through Friday, so my choices for food are "fast or faster." I eat way to many fast food lunches and don't exercise much, which contributes to my currently poor and getting worse health. I am currently at approximately 256 lbs at 5'10" in height. Diabetes runs rampant in my family and I am at risk with every burger I bite in to and every "I'll go to the gym tomorrow" that gets tossed around. I need a change, and it just arrived yesterday in a big box.

Goals and Planning

I plan on living nearly exclusively on Soylent. The only "cheating" I will be doing is 1 cheat day and 4 cheat lunches. Every Wednesday my company buys everyone lunch, so I will be eating healthier choices, but will still be eating solid food and then soylent for the rest of my daily calories. My cheat day will mostly be because of the restrictions of soylent itself. I get 28 packets of food replacement per month. This leaves me 30 days of food after taking into account the company lunch days. On months with 31 days this presents an obvious problem. My hope is that I will not consume a full 2000 calories on some days and will have an abundance of food and then all of my worries will be for naught.

As far as weight goals, I am hoping to get down to 200lbs in the next 6 months, and then slowly work my way to being more fit and growing in to whatever weight I need.

So... What is Soylent???

The Soylent website describes the product as "...a simple, efficient and affordable drink that possesses what a body needs to be healthy." Looking at the product as a whole, it comes with a baggie of food powder and a 2 oz bottle of a canola/fish oil blend. It is supposed to contain everything the human body needs to function up to 2000 calories per packet. For more information on the nutritional aspects of soylent check out this link. After mixing with water and shaking it up, one day of food comes out to about 2 liters of Soylent. It's more viscous then a glass of water, but less so than a milkshake.

What is it like?

There is a slightly chalky texture, but I am used to protein shakes and this is much less chalky, so I don't mind. Some people have described the flavor as everything from liquid cardboard to cheerios and even vanilla cake. I am drinking Soylent 1.1, and I'm not sure if that changes the flavor, but to me it is a near exact replica of almond milk.

What now?

I will be doing my best to blog daily about my experiences, so if you have any questions during this whole thing, just leave a comment and I will put my answer in to the next blog post. Here's to going Soylent2Fit!