Huel

What else you eat during the day?

 

Okay, as long as you do not replace real food with it I think its okay. But I would still prefer real smoothies or nuts etc instead of bars or supplementsmoothies.

Also if you are vegan I recommend that you look into ferritin, iron and b12 defficiencies. Vegan iron and ferritin do not work as well in our body and things like coffee can completely destroy all iron in a vegan meal if drank too soon after it. So look into it, planetary diet is a good way to get the best out of both worlds.

 

Yeah, ferritins some sort of iron. Look it up. There is an epidemic here in finland where 30yo females are getting exhausted because of lack of ferritin and they have to take these shots of iron that can cause multiple side effects and overall it is not a sustainable solution for it. They are all vegan/ vegetarian.

 

Hi BillyBob,

I think Huel's great. I used to never eat breakfast because I had no appetite and hated the feeling of forcing myself to eat in the morning. Huel solved this. I could just down a Huel in 20 seconds to get my much needed calories. It really helped me! It also gave me a lot of fibre that my diet at the time didn't have and really improved things. Using Huel I managed to put on weight for the first time in my adult life, and my workouts seemed to start actually working - no doubt because of my new calorie surplus.

However, I got to the point where I was having Huel shakes for most meals and not eating any 'proper' food. This certainly affected me in a negative way: I felt tired, and had some issues with my digestive system. I believe this is because my gut microbiome wasn't healthy and eating huel for every meal wasn't helping.

I'm now just having one (or two if I'm doing exercise) shakes for breakfast and trying my best to have traditional meals for lunch and dinner, with an aim to eat with as much diversity as possible. I'm feeling much better for it.

My advice is: don't have huel more than once per day.

 

Yeah, they ate healthy. Iron from vegetables does not absorve as well as from meat. Same with supplements, iron tablets etc do not absorve as well as from real food. Yeah I agree, we are paying too little focus to our diet. It should be taught in schools or junk food should be more expensive.