100% Huel

nadirau · November 2021

Hey all! So over the past year or so I gained something like 100lbs due to meds I was taking and since I stopped those meds I've been stagnant at this weight and haven't been able to lose any. I decided to finally try Huel out and I'm not the type to do things very moderately haha so I'm planning to go all Huel 100% for the next few months or so. Is anyone on a Huel only diet or other meal replacements? If so, I'd love to be friends and talk about how we're doing. And if anyone has tips as well they are welcome here (:

age_is_just_a_number · November 2021

What is Huel?
Good luck with your journey.
I think you’ll find many people will reply to your post with advice along the lines of:
- Don’t look for a quick fix
- It took a year to gain the weight, expect it to take at least a year (or more) to lose the weight
- Make realistic, small, sustainable diet changes, then make realistic, small, sustainable exercise changes.
- Slow and steady wins the race to long term weight lose and a healthier you.

Best of luck.

nadirau · November 2021

Hey! Huel is a meal replacement. Thanks so much for your response and advice (: I'm not necessarily in a rush, I'm just looking for something to kickstart the weigh loss as my own diet and exercise wasnt working and Huel seemed like a reasonable way to go.

goal06082021 · November 2021

What do you hope to accomplish by consuming nothing but Huel for "the next few months"? How will you decide when you're done doing that, what will you do after that?

nadirau · November 2021

Hello! Honestly I'm looking for something simple that I can start to kickstart my weight loss again as I've had trouble losing weight with my own diet and exercise. I haven't decided when I will stop the diet, I'm going to take it week by week and if it becomes long term or short term, I'm open to either. Afterwards I plan to introduce other meals back into my diet and possibly still use Huel for some meals.

Buff_Man · November 2021

I wouldn't advise this for two reasons. First, it's pretty drastic to stop eating proper meals and it might create a bad relationship with food. Second, the weight might come off too drastically and then it may become difficult to maintain.
Diet and exercise WILL work, as long as you follow it consistently. The benefit of huel is the convenience. I would recommend you only have one huel meal a day, and have normal meals alongside, e.g. breakfast, lunch then huel dinner.
Also, don't use exercise to burn calories, in fact don't even try to count or record exercise cals. Exercise is for your mental and physical health. Your diet is where you need to control your calories. Good luck!

Xellercin · November 2021

I understand your reasoning behind this, but as someone who has *had to* live on meal replacements for a length of time, you could be setting yourself up for some brutal rebound eating binges.

I'm not saying that will happen, I'm just sharing what happened to me.

If you have a lot of weight to lose, a sustainable, longterm lifestyle change is what I find most effective. I lost 80lbs that way.

Even if you do manage to lose weight over the next few months and not lose your mind not eating any solid food, you will still have to come up with a sustainable long-term plan for eating once you finish with the Huel phase.

I wish you the best of luck, and of you do choose to go ahead, then I hope it is less miserable for you than it was for me.

It's really tough staring down the barrel of 100lbs to lose, but you CAN do it.

CaughtAVibe · November 2021

Hii I've just attempted this my self, Huel is pretty okay. I got the ready to drink version so the texture was consistent. As for the taste, it's not bad, it was almost good as long as it was freezing cold. I found I had to chugg rather than sip it though, I can't pin point what I didn't like. That's all subjective though. I recommend buying a little bit just to try it out first. I spent 200$ just to have most of it sitting in my living room untouched 😂😂

scarlett_k · November 2021

I tried doing this for a few months. It was miserable. Then I started logging what I eat here. Your mileage may vary but I didn't get morbidly obese because I hated food, and I figure anyone who actually lives on huel full time must hate food.

Deviette · November 2021

Huel isn't designed to completely replace all meals. Even the most committed people have it for 2 out of 3 meals a day (breakfast and lunch, then have a normal dinner). Also I do not recommend going from zero to high consumption in one go (actually Huel don't recommend it either): Huel has quite a high fibre content and if you're not used to high fibre, you can find you'll get a very uncomfortable toilet time (constipation) if you go all in.

Something to point out is that huel is not supposed to be a "diet" tool. It is a meal replacement. It is for more for convenience rather than calorie control. If you compare it to "diet" shakes, you'll find that it has more calories than you expect. So I suggest tracking what you eat also.

I'm not saying don't use huel at all. I use huel. I normally replace my work lunches with it and I find it an easy way to get a satisfying 400kcals lunch without having to plan or prep lunches. But it is boring. And the taste isn't great. You do get used to the flavour, but when you start off it probably won't be that pleasant. And the flavours do matter, I really hate that you can't order a small sample pack of each of the flavours. Personally I like the banana and I'm not a fan of the chocolate. My husband feels exactly the opposite.

So in summary: I STRONGLY advise against going 100% huel. Replace 1 meal a day if you want to, sure, but huel is not a magic bullet that will make you lose weight. You'll still need to consume less calories than you burn, and all or nothing rarely helps for long term weight loss goals.

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