Weight / Fat loss

What is the deal with this Huel stuff?

My neighbour works with/for them in some form, and gave me a bag of it to try out yesterday. Is it just a meal replacement thing? Anybody on here used it?

I am currently using it... only a week in.

It's supposed to be a complete food replacement. I'm having it at breakfast and lunch. It's okay so far; keeps me feeling full and tastes okay (a bit too sweet but not horrible). Time will tell in the next couple of weeks if it helps me lose weight.

July last year; 75Kg. This morning; 85Kg. Ouch.

I've had the ravaging shits since New Year's Day- I anticipate being 30kg by the end of the week at this rate.

i have put on at least 6kg in the past 12 months of non cycling and injury and now have to wear elasticated pants / get help tying my shoe laces :(
#toomanypies

Yes, high rate, low age is good.
I have tanita scales, as does a mate of mine and they roughly give the same results.
My metabolic age is 18 compared to my 32 years Earth years. Other than an "oh, that's nice" I've never really paid attention to it, just track the fat and water %

Rate will be higher the higher your muscle mass. Are there recognised average BMRs? Had a google of this and found nothing too definitive, but seems to be in the 1600-1700 range for men

M and S have a fine range of office worthy expander-trousers. #comfy

99.7KG. Thanks Christmas.

Gym membership will be purchased on the morning I hit 100. I hope this doesn't happen/holds off till Feb as the gym is hell in Jan.

Is basically Slim Fast with branding for millennials.

IMO you should be deeply suspicious of any powdered food which claims to be full of everything you need. How hard is it to eat like a grown up?

I can see it being useful for the occasional evening meal when I get home late or don't have time to cook. Or just banging a bunch of food in when you're in a hurry. Would not want to build it into my everyday diet.

That's what the local kebab shop is for.

"How hard is it to eat like a grown up?"

Boom!

The North East does have Parmo though...

Just spent a 5 days in Buxton, after 3 days of eating bread, chips, meat and gravy for every meal my body was screaming for veg. They are quite hard to come by on a menu.

Hops.

Next.

Thanks dude. Yeh, the BMR stuff is the last thing it measures I'm interested in really, but nice to have a basic understanding. Are you aware of what male BMR for our age group (i'm 30) is supposed to be, just out of interest?

It is all about the mass, fat and water % really though. My water % is way over the average.

I managed to lose 10kg in 6months back in 2007. Time for me to try again and avoid all the yummy Colombian food

2kg down from NYD.

Potato is a vegetable.

fair play

The beginning of 2015 saw me at 110kg. I managed to get that down to 101kg by around May/June and it's been going up gradually ever since.

Weighed in today at 114kg. Officially the most overweight I've ever been in my adult life :-/

Wiki linked this on 150 Scottish people :

"One study of 150 adults representative of the population in Scotland reported basal metabolic rates from as low as 1027 kcal per day (4301 kJ/day) to as high as 2499 kcal/day (10455 kJ/day); with a mean BMR of 1500 kcal/day (6279 kJ/day). Statistically, the researchers calculated that 62.3% of this variation was explained by differences in fat free mass. Other factors explaining the variation included fat mass (6.7%), age (1.7%), and experimental error including within-subject difference (2%). The rest of the variation (26.7%) was unexplained. This remaining difference was not explained by sex nor by differing tissue size of highly energetic organs such as the brain."

In my opinion if you're using meal replacement powders/bars, you're not on a sustainable diet. Maybe it's a short term fix?

I seem to have built up a sizable supplement usage. But my aim is to eat a balanced diet. I certainly don't miss meals.

Berocca - instead of morning coffee. Infuses my urin with expensive vitamins.

Cod liver oil - somehow compensates for not seeing the sun for half the year.

ZMA - meant to aid testosterone production and those training recovery. Probably just worsens my hair loss.

CLA - meant to aid fat burning.

Magnesium - reduces muscle cramp. Not currently using this. But have loads.

Gainer powder - protein with carbs and stuff. Post workout for recovery.

Diet protein bars - mainly used to stave off evening hunger.

How hard is it to eat like a grown up?

Ha. My physio mate has to stop himself from screaming this daily. So many overweight patients on a diet of hotdogs. Keeps him in bike funds though.

He needs to create his own brand diet hotdog.

People in London are lighter on average because they don't have souls.

Berocca - instead of morning coffee

DTM.

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