I’m a 37-year-old office worker. I’m 5’9" and 200lbs even. When I graduated high school almost 20 years ago I weighed 165 and was as skinny as a rail. I have no doubt put on some muscle, but I’ve also managed to put on a bit of fat. As busy as my work/life schedule is, I don’t have much time to exercise. I get up at 4:30 every morning and go to work, when I get home I have to pick up my daughter from school, help her with homework, entertain her or do some other things around the house, and then by the time my wife gets home it’s already evening and there are more chores around the house that need doing. I do get a little bit of time on the weekends to ride my recumbent trike, but not enough and rarely does the weather cooperate around here. I have some other physical issues with my back, hence the recumbent rather than a standard bike. I have no intention of getting back down to 165, but if I could get down to 175 or 180, I’d be happy with that.
I know a big part of the reason I weigh what I do is because of the way I eat. It’s not healthy at all. I’ve tried making attempts to eat healthier in the past, but I hear nothing but complaints about the food. To me, it’s perfectly tasty, but no one else seems to like it and I don’t have time or energy to make two meals. So I started looking for quick alternatives and I came across Huel.
I received my shipment today of two bags of vanilla and a chocolate flavor booster. In case you’re wondering, I ordered last Thursday and here it is Tuesday. No shipping nightmares for me. I mixed it up per the directions without the flavor booster first to see what the vanilla tasted like. The vanilla was very faint and it wasn’t nearly as sweet as I was expecting. It was extremely nutty and gritty though. Overall, not bad, but not great either. There was no way I was going to get through a whole serving of just plain vanilla so I mixed in the chocolate booster. One half teaspoon is not enough. I couldn’t even taste the chocolate. Next time I’ll try a whole teaspoon. Obviously the flavor booster did nothing for the texture. So, I put it in my Magic Bullet that my in-laws gave us. May as well use it for something. It helped a bit, but it was still pretty gritty. The thickness was really good after that though, and I actually wouldn’t mind it thicker, so I’ll also have to let it sit in the fridge before consuming next time. Has anyone found a method to completely remove this gritty texture? Would an immersion blender work better?
Something else I was curious about was how people with hypoglycemia have handled switching to Huel. I was diagnosed with reactive hypoglycemia a couple years ago. It’s not something I have to take medication for, I just have to pay attention and when I start feeling a crash eat something. Most of the time I can make it from breakfast to lunch, but having to get up so early, I occasionally need something in the middle of the morning to get me through. My plan right now would be to swap out my lunch for Huel. Rather than eating something less than nutritious for that mid-morning snack, I thought I might have some Huel then as well. I would assume that a small ‘snack’ of Huel mid morning and then a small one for lunch would be the recommended approach rather than a small serving and then a full serving, but was just looking for advice from others who also have been diagnosed and how Huel works for them.
Thanks in advance!