@@jhoughjr1 Fellow gut sufferer, celiac though. I tried the GF version and it seems to have help with deficiencies at least! Shame it only tastes good with milk, which also probably isn't too great for crohns.
I had a terrible habit of not eating for my entire 13 hour nursing shifts d/t stress, over caffeination, and lack of time and ability to leave the nursing station (falls, heart rate spikes, any and every medical issue under the sun that requires my constant monitoring) and huel helped me fill that crucial gap in my diet. Additionally, I have seen huel help supplement the diets of elderly relatives who have mostly lost their appetites and interest in food. Not a bot, and philosophically I find Huel horrifying, but I must admit it serves some useful functions.
Not to speak for you, but I get the feeling that the part about the being too much "that requires [your] constant monitoring" could accurately be followed by mention of your employer staffing nurses extremely austerely? I've heard that, at least here in the US where I live, hospitals have been slashing nurses' hours for years and staffing well under what's truly necessary, and I've heard it has actually only gotten worse since the pandemic began (bc, y'know, the profit motive is apparently more important than literal lives in this country). Does that sound accurate based on your experience actually doing the job? Also, not that it makes what you and every other nurse in the country go through ok, but thank you for what you do. I hope to soon see a day when we treat nurses (and really just working people of all occupations) with respect, fair pay, and reasonable working conditions (including capping shifts at way shorter than 13 hours bc that sounds like hell and also sounds like the exhaustion would make errors much more likely).
My grandmother has lost interest in food, but isn't quite ready to transition to hospice care. She loves the smoothies I make with a meal replacement base, yogurt, and fresh fruit. She's gained a few pounds and has more energy. It's a lifesaver for her. As someone on the autism spectrum I find chocolate soylent to be a palatable meal replacement even when no food is appetizing.
@@mareksicinski3726 Because food is one of the greatest human experiences, in so many senses, and voluntarily surrendering that is disturbing. I will never understand why people would seek less joy in their lives.
After my great-grandmothers 9th child, she’d been on speed every moment she hadn’t been pregnant. This is what they sold to pudgy housewives at the doctors in those days. A few times, they put a tapeworm in her too. All of that made her very sick. The diet industry is truly horrifying. She lived a long life though, despite this, and was very elegant and well spoken. I miss her a lot. She decorated everything with silk and pastels, and had an orange tree that hung into her window and made it hard to close. When I was a kid, I always felt like I’d been raised by wolves around her. Even though we were the same class, she seemed like nobility to me. She played the piano, but only these slow church tunes. I think she wanted to be skinny because she worried her size would be at odds with her grace. But I’ve never met anyone like her in all my life. Her weight didn’t matter. She had more class than anyone I’ve ever met.
wishing you the best!!! used to go to an infusion center and there was a really awesome older woman there for cancer treatment that used to make me laugh and smile all the time. It's so hard to go through, so I am glad you can laugh about it. I hope you give yourself credit for how hard it was to!!!!
A few years ago a bunch of "cafes" opened up around me selling basically just reskinned herbalife teas and coffees. It seemed super sketchy to me because they all had similar names like "Unbreakable Nutrition" "Unbeatable Nutrition" "Unstoppable Nutrition", etc. The worst part about them was that one opened up literally across the street from my high school, so most of the girls would come in everyday tweaking off this highly sugary/caffeinated appetite suppressant. Pretty much everyone i knew was getting addicted to these drinks, some of them even started working at the cafes and selling herbalife themselves. Blew my mind when i started talking to the older people in my life about this and they all explained how herbalife has been around for decades and surprised its still going around. Its terrifying that they have an entirely new and even younger audience now from opening up these starbucks-esque shops and preying on high school aged girls under the guise of "nutrition" and being healthier
i mean, replace the name herbalife with starbucks or [insert soda brand here] and your post is still 100% accurate the only difference is the level of acceptance and where the seal of approval for society to imbibe them came from
@@victorkreig6089nah, because people know those are unhealthy. This is closer to the charged lemonaida from panera. I think you are ignoring the "healthy" aspect, teen girls know that starbucks coffee and soda isn't good for them. A smoothie from a shop by school getting addicted to hunger suppression?? sounds like a good way to destroy the bodies of ED girls even more so
@@victorkreig6089 Starbucks while being a shady company is not advertising their coffee as healthy, maybe soda brands with diet sodas but ive never seen starbucks marketing that pitches any of the coffee as healthy
The most ironic thing about all this is that the Instagram models that these companies pay to advertise their bullshit are people that actually take fitness seriously and have spent years of hard work to achieve their body goals.
Oh man. Glad to see Huel get an 'alright' rating. I had a period in my life when I was working 12 hour days, but had a nutritional-ish provided lunch. Whenever I got home I didn't want to cook or buy convenience food so I choked down a huel shake in the evening. Pretty solid hearing "you could have done worse" when it comes to my health.
Idk if it's matters to you specifically but I'll just leave it here for anyone who might care about it: with respect to the amount of phytoestrogens in these meal replacement drinks, replacing the soy with peas and flaxseed might actually be WORSE for you because both contain high amounts of phytoestrogens as well
@@every_username_is_takenthere is no substantial evidence to support phytoestrogens are negative to human health - unless you have breast cancer. in fact it can help regulate hormone balance
@@kirabad-artist6532 Oversimplifying it like you did won't change the dozens of studies that show the adverse effects of isoflavones with respect to testosterone production; flaxseed can help control the effects of PCOS, which is an overproduction of male hormones in women; gynecologists recommend soy milk to women on menopause... It's not a matter of belief. Though if YOU want to not believe, that's up to you
Once on a road trip my grandfather from the back seat broke the silence with a phrase that we still quote to this day “Sheila I’m no botherin, but when are we getting our eatables ?” We all just burst into laughter it was great.
"Go for it, I can take it" "Make fun of the burns" "I'm not going after this guy because I didn't want him to kill me in my dreams. Like Freddy Kreuger"
I'm a software engineer. I know how many bugs every software has, even the seemingly stable one. I would never trust a software engineer with anything that could affect my body.
I think the problem would be drinking soylent or huel 100% of the time with no add-ins. Supplementing it can improve nutrition above the baseline but full reliance over long term means anything they've missed will eventually be an issue. I think it's unlikely anyone could stand the monotony.
I personally love eating way too much to even consider using stuff like huel or soylent, but i respect the idea. My mother is the perfect example of someone for whom this makes sense. She's an absolute workaholic (small business owner) and sometimes put off breakfast and lunch alltogether because she "didn't have time". Then she wondered why she got so weak in the evening. Now she uses huel and at least she's getting the nutrients and energy she needs. Better than nothing i guess.
@@rrwholloway I'm a stay at home slacker and I usually eat fast food/snacks/noodles whatever I can get my hands on and sometimes some home cooking my mom makes. I usually skip meals/eat whenever, lots of coffee, this is going to be perfect for me, I'll be able to get all those nutrients at least. 1 or 2 servings in the morning aka 400/800kcal + most of my daily nutrients in one easy shake? That's one headache less. I can eat dinner and I'm done.
I grew up with my family regularly having slimfast in the house, but there was never any notion that it was a meal "replacement", we would just drink it like a supplement or an after school snack. Now the taste just makes me nostalgic and I'll still have one from time to time
it’s really dystopian that “food sludge” has become a viable industry now. People are so exhausted and strapped for time that nobody wants to cook breakfast or lunch anymore.
Even when I have the time, I just can't eat solid food in the morning and barely at lunch. With Huel, I get the calories I need, so I last until dinner, when my digestive system and brain have finally woken up. I'm not a morning person. I'd work 6 pm to 2 am if I could.
Oh, not like the good-old days when people bought soups in a can or instant "coffee", or powdered "cocoa" mainly made of sugar. And if you're in the US, you've probably never eaten actual bread, but only the corn-syruped dough candy product. But how dystopian to have an (allegedly) balanced meal! What is it, 1984?! I want my wife high on speed cooking burgers on the kitchen!
I have autism and am a recovered ED survivor, huel has changed my life for the better. I honestly love it. The flavor and texture is perfect for someone like me who doesn’t enjoy chewing… lol it works perfect for me! I switched from boost as I wanted a healthier and sustainable option. Love the historical knowledge in this vid! Edit: I use huel to maintain a healthy weight not as a weight loss tool.
I turn to Huel every so often when I'm in a bad depressive episode and can't really stomach food (I get super nauseous sometimes when I'm in that bad a space) and yeah. I'm definitely glad we have that and not Soylent, or god forbid, AYDS. It's pretty decent when throwing something in the microwave or oven is too many steps.
look into your gut microflora. It has some connnection with depression. I guess if you can't literally stomach you're put of luck, but yeah some of fibre might help.
@@sakesaurus1706 Huel has been shown to improve gut flora. I have it every day for breakfast, plus occasional meals (Mac n Cheese) when tired, or all day if I'm reacting badly to other foods (long covid and MCAS...). Overall, I have far fewer gut issues than others with my conditions - especially since I started on Huel. And like I said, it's my safe food. It's so easy to just end up more unbalanced when you react badly to everything. Huel helps prevent the downward spiral.
Marketing practices has put this idea into people's (America) heads that if you don't eat 3 times a day than you are not eating enough.Modern times have exacerbated this concept with the misuse of "thicc" and the acceptance of obese and overweight people as an reasonable existence.
“Skinfluencer” actually sounds like a really good term for describing the kind of influencers who have made their carriers on just their body/looks. Anyway, keep on producing 10/10 videos for us to enjoy.
A skinfluencer is a term already used by the skincare community. A skinfluencer is someone who reviews skincare products and brands but aren’t dermatologists for example hyram or James welsh
meal replacement drinks are great for people recovering from eating disorders or on medications that disrupt your appetite. something like soylent with a fiber supplement is pretty solid
soylent and stuff like it saved my ass when i was on chemo. i was losing so much weight and could barely stand chewing + swallowing without gagging. quickly chugging a meal replacement was the best way for me to get the calories and hold them down.
i use boost for when im going through mental health struggles. works well! but i suppose everything works well when it's used for what it needs to be used for instead of being marketed as something it shouldn't be, such as the case of slimfast and its precursor...
I gotta say I do really appreciate Huel. When I go through periods of intense depression, cooking and eating nutritional food is basically inaccessible. So as a temporary means of just getting as much nutrient into you as possible without tasting absolutely vile, it's really been a lifesaver for me as a self-care last resort
Quite frankly, walter, screw you. I wouldn't wish going through this shit on many people, but I hope one day you too can be so depressed that you can't cook or eat. so depressed that you don't leave your house for weeks, months, hell maybe even years. I hope you learn what it's like to have to choose between a living hell, or signing out of life and scarring your family for the rest of theirs. I may be so sick of this world that I wish I was never born, but I'm glad I'm not the kinda guy that goes and says shit like this to someone with depression.
Normal people would never understand the struggle. I have type 1 Bipolar and have had episodes so severe I've ended up in the hospital for dehydration because I didn't drink or eat for a week straight. I'm usually a very self conscious person that cooks my own meals and I even grow my own veggies. But before being medicated, I definitely almost died multiple times from malnutrition. People don't understand the struggles of mental health. I'm a healthy and productive person now thanks to medication and a lifestyle change (including overhauling my diet entirely), but prior I was an absolute mess. I have all the empathy in the world for people who can't eat due to mental health that get ragged on for it. It's just not as simple as "eat this, don't eat that". Sometimes it's just getting the person to EAT.
@@walter9240 Try a little harder? Maybe the medical system and society as a whole should first so we don't have the mentally ill unattended, worsening, and then blame them for being mentally ill and demand they "try harder lol". Good one. It cost 10k to go to a psychiatric hospital easily. (I'd have an insane amount of debt if it weren't for my parents, and that's with insurance). Of which are anywhere from helpful to inhumane. And you rarely go just once. I still recommend them in emergencies so take that as you will. I hope to God you're nicer to the mentally ill in person. Not everyone has someone to finically support them when they're mentally wasting away. Bosses don't just accept it.
Despite all of this, I gotta thank meal replacements for keeping me alive when my meds made me not want to eat and an easy to swallow juice was all I could take without wanting to throw up.
damn this kinda hit home. one of the darkest times in my life was when i was working as a mechanic, prescribed vyvanse & was replacing meals with soylent shakes because they were cheaper than actual meals & i could get back to work quicker. lost 50 pounds & everybody thought i got into heroin. especially when the amphetamine induced psychotic episode set in. i legitimately suspected i was an android. fuck hustle culture. totally not reccomended.
@Drew Scrivers take it as prescribed, never any more, take the recommended breaks even if it’s hard, and be honest with your doctor about your side effects. You’ll get a bunch of euphoria and feel immortal for the first few weeks but it won’t last and won’t come back no matter how much you take so enjoy it but don’t chase it.
Like am I the crazy one who just wishes I could buy a pill that had all the calories and nutrients I need for a meal and just pop one of those at certain times a day? It’s just so inconvenient making healthy meals so I usually end up eating out and breaking the bank and my scale.
I love this type of video. Though in Huel's defence, they actually also produce field-ration-style freeze-dried "just add boiling water" meals that are actually half-decent
That stuff only came out recently. I used to buy the shakes years ago when I could barely afford to buy food, but I've been thinking about buying the freeze dried ones just as something cheap and easy to take to work, have you personally tried them? Would you recommend them? My job is very physically demanding and I'd imagine that would be much better than just eating nothing at all until I get home lol.
@@iamnotafraid so far, I’ve only had the pasta bolognese flavor. Not bad, the taste is comparable to frozen or canned food, which is a low bar, but Huel actually has nutrients in it. Wouldn’t do it for every meal, but it comes in handy when you don’t feel like cooking and don’t want to eat junk.
@@ATR-Sound I got the Mac and cheeze and one other flavor, the name of which escapes me, but I'm very happy with both of them. I always add a handful of shredded cheese to mine along with a spice or two, and the difference it makes in flavor is incredible imo.
@@iamnotafraid Just started with the Mac n Cheese and Cajun Pasta, which were pretty good I thought. I'm not a huge fan of the Mexican chili, I think that one is just too mushy for my tastes.
@@CraigStCyrPlus remember the time that the people behind Ayds refused to change thier name despite the pandemic back then and said that the fucking AIDS disease needed to change its name? I think the amount of *OOFS* in that one sentiment could eclipse the sun for the next ten millennia.
@@lorddrayvon1426 "AYDS tablets helps keep the weight off." "AYDS is one of the best appetite suppressants you can buy!" "AYDS won't make you nervous." I mean. Change the name friend-o.
Fun anecdote. My dad sold Herbalife back in the 90s. He didn't get rich, but young me listened in on him using their person-focused sales tactics. Later in life, when I ran a fencing club, I used the tactics I picked up from listening to make the club members feel included and to track their achievements. It worked marvelously. Turns out celebrating success, giving everybody some personal time to ask them how their session was this week and so on is great advice if you are actually giving them something they can use and that makes them better people. In this case, better fencers and members of a club that had fun and collectively fought to get better and better. Not so much if you're doing an MLM selling over priced shakes though...
The ability to sell can be either used to convince people that what you’re selling is right for them, or be used to convince people that what you’re selling is right for them, even when it’s not. Glad you use it for good. It’s a powerful skill to have.
A bit like homeopathy in the UK partly being popular because homeopathic *cough* doctors give the patient more attention. Weird how basically 'being nice' is actually a neutral force that can be used for good or -evil- scams.
Honestly I had an issue with food during the pandemic and I just didn’t have an appetite and was repulsed by real food. Meal replacements literally saved me as not eating comes with a lot of uncomfortable health issues
i have to confess: i am the type of person that finds the concept of a "meal replacement pill" appealing. eating is generally an unpleasant chore for me- even when eating something that i ostensibly enjoy. if i could have like 2 or 3 actual meals a month, that would be ideal lol.
Out of curiosity, are meals typically a social experience for you? Because I used to feel the same way you did until I started eating with people I actually liked.
especially having ibd eating is almost always painful and excruciating for me at least so i can definitely see the appeal for a lot of people. i think it would be cooler to just be able to completely remove the need of ANY bodily functions, imagine if we didnt have to eat, drink, go to the bathroom, sleep. so much more free time to do ANYTHING really
Freezing to death actually isn't as bad as it sounds. It's a bit painful but once you start to go you feel warm and tired and kind of just fall asleep. What really hurts is if you freeze a limb and then warm it back up again. Once you bring it back up to temperate whatever was formerly frozen will feel like it's on fire. Source: I live in Canada, and I have frozen my hands before.
My dad would say to us,” eating and food is one of the primal joys of life”, when he returned from a tour with his band across the Midwest and even America. I believe him. It’s such a human thing to enjoy cooked food since we are the only animal that can cook.
In the late 1970s, I tried meal replacement shakes because I was put on a diet that I (frankly) didn't want to be on. The products available on the supermarket shelves back then included Alba 66, Alba 77, and Sego. They came in cans, and while they COULD be refrigerated, they were shelf-stable and could be stored and drunken at room temperature. None of these brands are still around, and even finding vintage ads for them is challenging.
@@glittermutt yeah I love his content too. Not sure where you are from but he’s got a pretty normal U.K. sense of humour. When we aren’t joking about sensitive topics is when you know things got real around here. I had life risking surgery and my surgeon started with a joke instead of hello lol.
@@SD-oi9gr interesting, i'm really not used to this type of humor, so it's always amusing to me how yall are able to joke about sensitive things and not make it weird haha i'm russian by the way
A similar (diet) company from the mid 2000s had to change it's name a few years back.. having a company called Isis just come with a weird vibe these days.
@@caties1114 imo Isis is an Egyptian goddess, not these fuckboys who go around cutting kids heads off, I know someone called Isis who refuses to change her name because you're kinda letting the terrorists win if you let them steal your name tbh
as a real life overweight person (not horrendously so, I dont own a scale but I'd guess around 215? at 5'8) meal replacement has always been an attractive idea to me, I always find it easier to completely avoid something rather than try to reduce portions, because then at least I'm not tempted. same with Fasting, which ive unintentionally done a couple of times while dead broke and wasnt too bad.
Damn! An AIDS joke, and a cancer joke in rapid succession, but both hilarious and in relatively good taste. Top-notch writing sir, well done xD - Also, "unlike their customers, Soylent did produce some solids from time to time"...This whole video had me in stitches! Subscribed :)
As someone with stomach issues, meal replacements were a godsend for me a couple years ago. I couldnt eat anything except bread, rice, and plain chicken for months, but for some reason, my body didn't hate meal replacement shakes. Got most of my vitamins/nutrients from there while I was healing. I know the industry is crap but the products themselves can be very medically useful. I love this video, it is hilarious.
Medically it’s probably a positive thing since some people can’t even handle the weight of food in their stomach, but for a normal healthy person it would be bad of course!
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@@bladeriders where I live (Sweden) most meal replacements arent bad per se, and not all of them are for losing weight. Losing weight without changing diet usually doesn't work anyway. I use plenny a few times a month when it's more convenient than bringing food, but I can't imaging changing my diet to it xD
@ What are you talking about? We have a huge amount of shit meal replacements in Sweden; bad stuff with low nutritional value, consisting of lots of sugar.
Talking of the 4 hour thing. I noticed that with belvita. They claim it slowly releases energy over 4 hours. I thought to myself "yeah I'm pretty sure all food digests slowly over 4 hours......".
I remember adverts for Nutella (that were later banned) saying the same thing: "Nutella releases energy slowly, so it can be part of a balanced breakfast that can help to keep them going." Of course, Nutella is just made from a shit load of palm oil, sugar, milk powder, hazelnuts, and cocoa. It's nothing but a junk food, but the marketing was pretty creative in not explicitly saying that.
Explain Chinese food evaporating, that's the question of life itself, why do delicious Chinese food make you hungry again so fast. Garbage tier? I never met Chinese takeout food that lasted 4 hours.
Think this is the first episode that really made it click to me just how similar your style is to Charlie Brooker's Screen/News/Weekly/Yearly wipe. I fucking love it. Massive props.
I've always respected the need for these meal replacement products for certain people/situations, but it always makes me laugh how they advertise it by dissing on the taste and texture of food like. Yeah mate, that's the part most people like actually.
Actually advertising it for people with sensory issues is a good move. My boyfriend has at most 10 comfort meals, he won't eat most veggies and fruit due to texture and uses very few spices because he likes a very stecific taste. He looks malnourished and probably has lots of deficiencies lol
@@pourquoi6471 hope he can overcome or at least circumvent those issues, being malnourished/vitamin deficient is REALLY bad for your long term lifespan
@@pourquoi6471 No its not ,because you are abnormal. Advertising should cast a wide net. They want to sell to as many people as possible. Thoes who need the product and especially thoes who dont.
@@rico9163 texture sensitivity issues don’t go away. I have the same kind of texture issues as that persons boyfriend, you can’t just get used to them. I’m not sure what their boyfriends diet is exactly, but you can avoid eating most fruits and vegetables and still not be malnourished or have deficiencies.
My husband was initially pretty satisfied with his fertilizer (read: Huel) but then eventually he started noticing that for all its alleged protein and other nutrients, it doesn't really make him feel full at all and he just ends up eating more real, cooked food later. He still has it from time to time when I'm not home because too lazy to cook, but he doesn't swear by it anymore.
As an avid huel customer and lover, I thought this was expertly done. Everyone considering meal replacement needs to know that you can’t really completely replace actual food, it’s great for quick meals, but it’s fine and even NORMAL to eat out and enjoy other stuff.
Due to some old mental health issues, I eat a fraction of what I need daily (being a 21 year old guy), and don't get all my vitamins and minerals. I used to try and just choke down vitamin supplements every day but I would often forget, but when I found out that a lot of these meal replacements have close to 100% the daily dose and a few hundred calories, I switched over. It's pretty simple to just throw together a shake with dinner (the one meal I always remember to eat) and while it doesn't meet my recommended caloric intake, it at least helps. I think a lot of these would be better branded as 'meal supplements' rather than replacers, but that's probably not trendy.
Yeah,saying "oh it can't replace an actual healthy diet" may be true, but there are so many people who would never have that diet at all, either eating really badly or eating nothing at all. For me, soylent was a huge improvement health wise because without it I was just eating like a fast food meal one day and then a absolutely nothing for up to 3. Yeah, it'd be dystopian if this was the mandated diet of every citizen, but as it stands it's a life helping option for a minority who appreciates it.
They are actually called meal supplements in other languages. At least in Spanish speaking world and our uppity bad habit of using English loan words instead of the normal Spanish equivalent, the idea of a "meal replacement" is utterly insane. There's no way you can sell anything with a name like that, just like all the other "not meat", "not milk" variants. You can see them on supermarkets owned by Walmart but they are almost hidden in the corners of every aisle.
We have stuff like that too, called complan. It's the same thing but is more concerned with making sure you get plenty of vitamins and minerals. It's pretty useful to keep around for when you're ill
"Huel" sounds like something Patrick Bateman would praise the merits of before murdering a work colleague. "Soylent was a little too hominid for my taste. But when Huel came out in 2015, I think meal replacement gruel really came into their own, commercially and gastronomically."
"Impressive. Let's see Paul Allen's turd." *looks into toilet* "Look at that subtle colouring. The tasteful thickness. Oh my God it even has a watermark."
I feel like it has both its ups and downs. It’s super convenient for people that work long and stressful shifts, but I feel like it also contributes to the diet-culture we got going on now. It could also be both positive and negative when it comes to people with restrictive eating disorders (source: me)
I wonder if the overuse of and ease of access to amphetamines in the 20s to 50s increased people's production to such unrealistic levels that this created the corporate "work yourself to death" culture we have now. That it's "normal" to be so productive, when in reality, people have never been this productive.
I think initially it was a religious immigrant thing, you basically work to please god and by the 50s/60s it became a anti-communist kind of subverted propaganda by playing with the message to mean working harder means more freedom, life, liberty or something along those lines. There's some good information about how all the school athleticism from the 50s/60s. focus on sports, and competition, was actually a slick way to make sure we would have enough fit men for the next war.
@@CheapSushi Hilarious. Work against communism by working yourself to death... just like the communists. Americans really have a fascinating way of doing things
I'm pretty sure farmers were always excited to wake up at 4:30am to plough a field. And finish all the days activities before 10pm that day. It wasn't much hard work being a productive farmer before machinery were invented. 🙃
As someone who has several medical problems that makes eating in the first half of the day difficult, meal replacement shakes atleast let me give my body something that i might be able to keep down. Definitely gonna have to try huel now.
These things just popped up in Germany when I was deep in an eating disorder. I was furious I couldn't get my hands on any and now everytime I walk past them at the store I wonder if they would've helped me or made my ED worse. I suffered horrible side effects because my nutrition was shit, but I never dropped very low so I had no life threatening consequences. I feel like these shakes could've prevented a lot of the annoying side effects like fatigue which could have made me keep up my unhealthy eating habits so much longer leading to serious side effects. In the end the main thing that saved me was that I ended up so tired and nauseous all the time that I couldn't take care of my pets and therefore I forced myself to eat more because I was fine with myself starving, not my innocent pets.
"Hunger tantrum" I love that expression. I wanted to eat healthy but my stomach had a hunger tantrum and it forced me to eat a large pepperoni pizza. It was beyond my control.
I keep seeing people mentioning how meal replacement shakes are great if you don’t have time, or if you really need to eat in between your shifts, or whatever. If that’s what you enjoy, sure. To me, this is just ignoring the larger problem. Hustle culture has convinced us that our productivity should take precedence over eating. Why do we feel so rushed that taking 10 minutes to stop working and enjoy food is a sign of laziness? Pack a lunch. Make things you like, that are healthy. Chew slowly, and enjoy what you eat. Your physical and mental health will thank you.
I tried a soylet diet to see what it was like. After day 3 I went to fart and had to quickly halt the fart as I felt it wasn’t just gas. Went to the toilet and proceeded to spray the entire bowl
Accurate description of my early soylent experiences too, only a buddy convinced me it was this great hiking food on a trail with the flimsiest least private bushes imaginable
Ive actually been using huel for awhile as a way to calorie control my lunch and stop eating out all the time during work. It has actually saved me a lot of money
The sentence "Once the arctic got all discovered, people realized there weren't nothin there" is the funniest thing in the world to me and i don't know why.
I actually used Huel for around 2 months, (only once a day, usually breakfast) and I actually enjoyed it. It tasted pretty good, (I got the Chocolate flavor) and I felt full for around 5 hours after drinking it. I didn't do anything crazy with my work out regime, but I did see a reduction in my weight, Lost around 10 pounds in those 2 months. A bit pricey, but like Ordinary Things said, It's aight.
Huel can be a mental health godsend, too. A lot of stuff like depression or anxiety can cripple your appetite, or energy to prepare something even as simple as a frozen dinner. Which is a catch 22 because hunger can make depression and anxiety worse. But having something to pop open and chug and get the meal you need is really effective. I lived off the stuff during some hard times.
This is the main reason I've been tempted by Huel in the past. Would you genuinely recommend it? I'd probably try to limit it to once a day, but on my worst days I literally go eithout eating at all so surely Huel would be better than scoffing chocolate bars and crisps at the end of the day when I realise I haven't eaten at all.
@@darkflame5917 Baby foods can do similar things, though, with more variety. Some people with similar conditions do that - use those baby food fruit/vegetable pouches. And those do go down pretty easy even if it should otherwise make you gag - because they are designed to go down easy so that babies, whose digestion isn't fully developed, can eat them.
@@lsmmoore1 I used baby food and meal replacement shakes after surgeries where eating solids wasn't possible. They have their place. But omg the meat baby foods were truly awful. I tried a "beef stew". I have never gagged so audibly before. Poor babies.
@@loosingit9355 Yeah, I figure if an adult is going to use baby food, it's better to use the plant ones. The meat ones probably only seem any good at all to baby tastebuds.
I've been telling my friends for the past almost 2 ears how great Huel is. When I saw this video I was like "Oh no, have I accidently been promoting a Pyramid Scheme that funds the Republican Party all along?". I'm very relieved to know that it got the official stamp of acceptability.
@@Allosaurus675017yes, funding anything that literally denies science(climate change, vaccines etc.) and blocks support to a country fighting one of our (as in the west, since I'm not American) biggest enemies which also has much potential among other things is bad
Huel - for when you want to voluntarily reinvigorate your PTSD of crawling through bushes and shitting in Tupperware in an active war zone for three days without sleeping while in the marines.
I did lose 80 pounds on the Slimfast diet over 7 months, but it was also through a mix of daily probiotic pill, daily multivitamin, once-a-day controlled dinner portion, and allowing myself to have as much extra fruit and vegetables as I wanted. Since that point 2 years ago, I've put back on 20 pounds, but mostly because I love ice cream lol
I will say, I knew someone who went through some serious mental issues and wouldn’t eat. Protein shakes helped them maintain their weight even when they weren’t eating. They have a place but not as they’re being advertised.
"Unlike their customers, soylent did produce some solids from time to time."
some christians do observe soy lent
! Soylent green IS PEOPLE!
I eat Nesquik cereal as the "one regular meal" with powder replacement shit diet. It works, solids are produced, lol
@@machinerin151 use pea protein for your powder works great and won’t constipate you as badly
@@bigshrimp6458 i use pee protein
I was shitting myself watching this because I use huel. Not because I thought you were gonna slate it, just because of the huel
7 grams of fiber on 100 grams of Huel. Your ass is not happy.
@@alexforce9 as a person with crohns disease, 7 grams of fiber would be brutal once a day much less 3
Me too. I lasted a week on it because I missed chewing 🤣
Guess you could say you once was in it for the long huel
@@jhoughjr1 Fellow gut sufferer, celiac though. I tried the GF version and it seems to have help with deficiencies at least! Shame it only tastes good with milk, which also probably isn't too great for crohns.
I had a terrible habit of not eating for my entire 13 hour nursing shifts d/t stress, over caffeination, and lack of time and ability to leave the nursing station (falls, heart rate spikes, any and every medical issue under the sun that requires my constant monitoring) and huel helped me fill that crucial gap in my diet. Additionally, I have seen huel help supplement the diets of elderly relatives who have mostly lost their appetites and interest in food. Not a bot, and philosophically I find Huel horrifying, but I must admit it serves some useful functions.
Not to speak for you, but I get the feeling that the part about the being too much "that requires [your] constant monitoring" could accurately be followed by mention of your employer staffing nurses extremely austerely? I've heard that, at least here in the US where I live, hospitals have been slashing nurses' hours for years and staffing well under what's truly necessary, and I've heard it has actually only gotten worse since the pandemic began (bc, y'know, the profit motive is apparently more important than literal lives in this country). Does that sound accurate based on your experience actually doing the job?
Also, not that it makes what you and every other nurse in the country go through ok, but thank you for what you do. I hope to soon see a day when we treat nurses (and really just working people of all occupations) with respect, fair pay, and reasonable working conditions (including capping shifts at way shorter than 13 hours bc that sounds like hell and also sounds like the exhaustion would make errors much more likely).
How can you find hurl ‘philosophically’ (lol) horrifying
My grandmother has lost interest in food, but isn't quite ready to transition to hospice care. She loves the smoothies I make with a meal replacement base, yogurt, and fresh fruit. She's gained a few pounds and has more energy. It's a lifesaver for her.
As someone on the autism spectrum I find chocolate soylent to be a palatable meal replacement even when no food is appetizing.
...n.
@@mareksicinski3726 Because food is one of the greatest human experiences, in so many senses, and voluntarily surrendering that is disturbing. I will never understand why people would seek less joy in their lives.
After my great-grandmothers 9th child, she’d been on speed every moment she hadn’t been pregnant. This is what they sold to pudgy housewives at the doctors in those days. A few times, they put a tapeworm in her too. All of that made her very sick. The diet industry is truly horrifying. She lived a long life though, despite this, and was very elegant and well spoken. I miss her a lot.
She decorated everything with silk and pastels, and had an orange tree that hung into her window and made it hard to close. When I was a kid, I always felt like I’d been raised by wolves around her. Even though we were the same class, she seemed like nobility to me. She played the piano, but only these slow church tunes.
I think she wanted to be skinny because she worried her size would be at odds with her grace. But I’ve never met anyone like her in all my life. Her weight didn’t matter. She had more class than anyone I’ve ever met.
Your great G sounds like she was pretty dope ngl
A TAPEWORM? I got infected with ecoli and it made me lose 20 lbs but felt like a knife in my tummy anytime I ate 🥲
You're a great writer
@@uncle978 I got infected with ecoli (just recovered a few days ago) and didn't even lose a pound 😭
@@juliet1495 get a refund
Naming it Soylent. That's like naming an ai network skynet or your pharmaceutical company Umbrella
i worked at a company that in house customer/order management software was named skynet
There’s a robotics company that named itself Cyberdyne Systems
I worked for a company called Aerotyne International
Look up the Wuhan lab logo, go ahead
@@dumbcrow1536 the company you are thinking of is in shanghai
shanghai ruilan bao hu san biotech limited
If a company advertised a drink to me with the slogan: "Shit yourself thin!" I'd buy it.
That's just bourbon
Same, and I weigh 50kg.
You're looking for laxatives, and please consider before going on such a diet
@@MrHack4never I will consider nothing!
@@Asdayasman 🤣🤣🤣
As a Brain Cancer survivor I was laughing hysterically at that joke, during treatment I was lookin like the Minecraft skeleton
Respect
wishing you the best!!! used to go to an infusion center and there was a really awesome older woman there for cancer treatment that used to make me laugh and smile all the time. It's so hard to go through, so I am glad you can laugh about it. I hope you give yourself credit for how hard it was to!!!!
Is your favourite food still spare ribs?
A few years ago a bunch of "cafes" opened up around me selling basically just reskinned herbalife teas and coffees. It seemed super sketchy to me because they all had similar names like "Unbreakable Nutrition" "Unbeatable Nutrition" "Unstoppable Nutrition", etc. The worst part about them was that one opened up literally across the street from my high school, so most of the girls would come in everyday tweaking off this highly sugary/caffeinated appetite suppressant. Pretty much everyone i knew was getting addicted to these drinks, some of them even started working at the cafes and selling herbalife themselves. Blew my mind when i started talking to the older people in my life about this and they all explained how herbalife has been around for decades and surprised its still going around. Its terrifying that they have an entirely new and even younger audience now from opening up these starbucks-esque shops and preying on high school aged girls under the guise of "nutrition" and being healthier
i mean, replace the name herbalife with starbucks or [insert soda brand here] and your post is still 100% accurate the only difference is the level of acceptance and where the seal of approval for society to imbibe them came from
@@victorkreig6089nah, because people know those are unhealthy. This is closer to the charged lemonaida from panera.
I think you are ignoring the "healthy" aspect, teen girls know that starbucks coffee and soda isn't good for them. A smoothie from a shop by school getting addicted to hunger suppression??
sounds like a good way to destroy the bodies of ED girls even more so
@@victorkreig6089 Starbucks while being a shady company is not advertising their coffee as healthy, maybe soda brands with diet sodas but ive never seen starbucks marketing that pitches any of the coffee as healthy
Gotta love how the soylent guys are deadset on the "dystopic concrete prison" aesthetic, a truly bold marketing choice.
that or they're XDCD fans lol (Relevant XKCD: "Brand Identity")
Well, it worked with Big Brother and its worldwide spin-offs
Also the Battle Royale game genre
"Let's try to make brutalism pretty!"
Guy even looked like he's CGI
soylent green is made of humans!
The most ironic thing about all this is that the Instagram models that these companies pay to advertise their bullshit are people that actually take fitness seriously and have spent years of hard work to achieve their body goals.
That’s what makes it so disingenuous. But hey, gotta get on that grind
@@OrdinaryThings gotta chase that bag innit
And you can be sure they don't put that shit in their body.
The only thing those fitness gurus were ever right about is protein supplements and its still just a supplement, not a replacement for real food.
Most fitness professionals are on some kind of cycle as well.
Oh man. Glad to see Huel get an 'alright' rating. I had a period in my life when I was working 12 hour days, but had a nutritional-ish provided lunch. Whenever I got home I didn't want to cook or buy convenience food so I choked down a huel shake in the evening.
Pretty solid hearing "you could have done worse" when it comes to my health.
Idk if it's matters to you specifically but I'll just leave it here for anyone who might care about it: with respect to the amount of phytoestrogens in these meal replacement drinks, replacing the soy with peas and flaxseed might actually be WORSE for you because both contain high amounts of phytoestrogens as well
@@every_username_is_takenthere is no substantial evidence to support phytoestrogens are negative to human health - unless you have breast cancer. in fact it can help regulate hormone balance
@@every_username_is_takenBruh do you still believe that phytoestrogens will make you “girly”?
@@kirabad-artist6532 Oversimplifying it like you did won't change the dozens of studies that show the adverse effects of isoflavones with respect to testosterone production; flaxseed can help control the effects of PCOS, which is an overproduction of male hormones in women; gynecologists recommend soy milk to women on menopause... It's not a matter of belief. Though if YOU want to not believe, that's up to you
@@kirabad-artist6532 I wish they did 😞
Once on a road trip my grandfather from the back seat broke the silence with a phrase that we still quote to this day “Sheila I’m no botherin, but when are we getting our eatables ?” We all just burst into laughter it was great.
okay your grandpa sounds absolutely legendary!!!
As a cancer survivor I want to thank you from the bottom of my shriveled hair follicles for the cancer joke. Not enough of those.
I got a good chuckle at the idea of "Ya know, there's just not enough cancer jokes."
People with cancer are pretty crabby.
I never stopped making jokes during my cancer treatments. I tried to kill it with sarcasm.
"Go for it, I can take it"
"Make fun of the burns"
"I'm not going after this guy because I didn't want him to kill me in my dreams. Like Freddy Kreuger"
@@robinthrush9672 😭😭😭
I'm a software engineer. I know how many bugs every software has, even the seemingly stable one.
I would never trust a software engineer with anything that could affect my body.
Especially one that says "everything is made of parts" when talking about nutrition and biology like he's a 21st century Da Vinci
@@gavind351 the ingredients are all locally sourced atoms
I hope you never have to be hooked up to a hospital machine then...
I think the problem would be drinking soylent or huel 100% of the time with no add-ins. Supplementing it can improve nutrition above the baseline but full reliance over long term means anything they've missed will eventually be an issue. I think it's unlikely anyone could stand the monotony.
If someone told you his code is flawless, he can be safely assumed to be a pathological liar.
I personally love eating way too much to even consider using stuff like huel or soylent, but i respect the idea. My mother is the perfect example of someone for whom this makes sense. She's an absolute workaholic (small business owner) and sometimes put off breakfast and lunch alltogether because she "didn't have time". Then she wondered why she got so weak in the evening. Now she uses huel and at least she's getting the nutrients and energy she needs. Better than nothing i guess.
Or better still, confront the real issue which is that she’s overworking and will eventually cause herself bigger issues than not eating some meals.
I am lady like your mom, and I need meal replacements too sometimes. It's either get more work done, or snooze and lose. Gotta pick . XD
@@rrwholloway I'm a stay at home slacker and I usually eat fast food/snacks/noodles whatever I can get my hands on and sometimes some home cooking my mom makes. I usually skip meals/eat whenever, lots of coffee, this is going to be perfect for me, I'll be able to get all those nutrients at least. 1 or 2 servings in the morning aka 400/800kcal + most of my daily nutrients in one easy shake? That's one headache less. I can eat dinner and I'm done.
@@plazadepaul Learn to cook proper meals. Trust me, it's worth it.
@@rrwholloway better still, mind your own business???
I grew up with my family regularly having slimfast in the house, but there was never any notion that it was a meal "replacement", we would just drink it like a supplement or an after school snack. Now the taste just makes me nostalgic and I'll still have one from time to time
So basically we’re moving towards making bachelor chow a real thing at an alarming rate?
I'm a bachelor and I see absolutely no problem with this. I would pay for it.
@@ixl911ixl Shut up and take my money!
Slurm it's highly addictive :)
Bachelor Chow.
Now with flavour!
Binging with Babish did make a recipe for bachelor chow.
it’s really dystopian that “food sludge” has become a viable industry now. People are so exhausted and strapped for time that nobody wants to cook breakfast or lunch anymore.
Even when I have the time, I just can't eat solid food in the morning and barely at lunch. With Huel, I get the calories I need, so I last until dinner, when my digestive system and brain have finally woken up. I'm not a morning person. I'd work 6 pm to 2 am if I could.
Oh, not like the good-old days when people bought soups in a can or instant "coffee", or powdered "cocoa" mainly made of sugar. And if you're in the US, you've probably never eaten actual bread, but only the corn-syruped dough candy product. But how dystopian to have an (allegedly) balanced meal! What is it, 1984?! I want my wife high on speed cooking burgers on the kitchen!
@@alexeysaranchev6118 r u ok ?
@@phoenixjones7191 Sorry, only English please, thank you.
@@alexeysaranchev6118 are you okay?
I have autism and am a recovered ED survivor, huel has changed my life for the better. I honestly love it. The flavor and texture is perfect for someone like me who doesn’t enjoy chewing… lol it works perfect for me! I switched from boost as I wanted a healthier and sustainable option. Love the historical knowledge in this vid! Edit: I use huel to maintain a healthy weight not as a weight loss tool.
wishing you well!!! I'm proud of your progress! someone very close to me has an eating disorder and huel has actually been helpful for her too.
I turn to Huel every so often when I'm in a bad depressive episode and can't really stomach food (I get super nauseous sometimes when I'm in that bad a space) and yeah. I'm definitely glad we have that and not Soylent, or god forbid, AYDS. It's pretty decent when throwing something in the microwave or oven is too many steps.
look into your gut microflora. It has some connnection with depression. I guess if you can't literally stomach you're put of luck, but yeah some of fibre might help.
Also, I'm pretty sure Huel is healthier than most foods you quickly make in the microwave or oven
@@sakesaurus1706 Huel has been shown to improve gut flora. I have it every day for breakfast, plus occasional meals (Mac n Cheese) when tired, or all day if I'm reacting badly to other foods (long covid and MCAS...). Overall, I have far fewer gut issues than others with my conditions - especially since I started on Huel. And like I said, it's my safe food. It's so easy to just end up more unbalanced when you react badly to everything. Huel helps prevent the downward spiral.
So I also struggle with eating regularly when I'm depressed, and never thought of doing that. Better than eating nothing I guess.
"Controls hunger for up to 4 hours"
Am I crazy or is that a very less than average amount of time to go without food
For many people that's pretty accurate sadly. Although i don't think that's healthy.
Marketing practices has put this idea into people's (America) heads that if you don't eat 3 times a day than you are not eating enough.Modern times have exacerbated this concept with the misuse of "thicc" and the acceptance of obese and overweight people as an reasonable existence.
I see it as normalish. Breakfast at 8, lunch at 12, dinner at 4 (bit early but the other two are normal)
Yeah I normally go like 6 hours on average without food? I eat big meals tho.
Many people snack themselves to death so seems accurate tbh
“Skinfluencer” actually sounds like a really good term for describing the kind of influencers who have made their carriers on just their body/looks. Anyway, keep on producing 10/10 videos for us to enjoy.
Sounds like the name of an enemy you'd find in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Proud box📥. 👈😎👍
A skinfluencer is a term already used by the skincare community. A skinfluencer is someone who reviews skincare products and brands but aren’t dermatologists for example hyram or James welsh
I thought it implied they sell or push face wash. Lol
So half of insta and only bellows.
meal replacement drinks are great for people recovering from eating disorders or on medications that disrupt your appetite. something like soylent with a fiber supplement is pretty solid
soylent and stuff like it saved my ass when i was on chemo. i was losing so much weight and could barely stand chewing + swallowing without gagging.
quickly chugging a meal replacement was the best way for me to get the calories and hold them down.
Yep. People with gastroparesis are literally kept alive by these drinks.
sunflower seed oil... you all will be fucked by seed oil in the long run
@@Noqtis get a load of this guy who isnt immune to seeds lol
i use boost for when im going through mental health struggles. works well! but i suppose everything works well when it's used for what it needs to be used for instead of being marketed as something it shouldn't be, such as the case of slimfast and its precursor...
I gotta say I do really appreciate Huel. When I go through periods of intense depression, cooking and eating nutritional food is basically inaccessible. So as a temporary means of just getting as much nutrient into you as possible without tasting absolutely vile, it's really been a lifesaver for me as a self-care last resort
Inaccessible? Maybe try a little harder
Quite frankly, walter, screw you. I wouldn't wish going through this shit on many people, but I hope one day you too can be so depressed that you can't cook or eat. so depressed that you don't leave your house for weeks, months, hell maybe even years. I hope you learn what it's like to have to choose between a living hell, or signing out of life and scarring your family for the rest of theirs.
I may be so sick of this world that I wish I was never born, but I'm glad I'm not the kinda guy that goes and says shit like this to someone with depression.
Normal people would never understand the struggle. I have type 1 Bipolar and have had episodes so severe I've ended up in the hospital for dehydration because I didn't drink or eat for a week straight. I'm usually a very self conscious person that cooks my own meals and I even grow my own veggies. But before being medicated, I definitely almost died multiple times from malnutrition. People don't understand the struggles of mental health. I'm a healthy and productive person now thanks to medication and a lifestyle change (including overhauling my diet entirely), but prior I was an absolute mess. I have all the empathy in the world for people who can't eat due to mental health that get ragged on for it. It's just not as simple as "eat this, don't eat that". Sometimes it's just getting the person to EAT.
I agree, as well as periods of depression I am generally not food-motivated so having the option of Huel is great.
@@walter9240 Try a little harder? Maybe the medical system and society as a whole should first so we don't have the mentally ill unattended, worsening, and then blame them for being mentally ill and demand they "try harder lol". Good one.
It cost 10k to go to a psychiatric hospital easily. (I'd have an insane amount of debt if it weren't for my parents, and that's with insurance). Of which are anywhere from helpful to inhumane. And you rarely go just once. I still recommend them in emergencies so take that as you will. I hope to God you're nicer to the mentally ill in person. Not everyone has someone to finically support them when they're mentally wasting away. Bosses don't just accept it.
Despite all of this, I gotta thank meal replacements for keeping me alive when my meds made me not want to eat and an easy to swallow juice was all I could take without wanting to throw up.
Honestly, if meal replacements were advertised as that, I might of bought some
Thats what they’re designed for tho
@@quadrofirehands3399 but the problem is that that's not how they are marketed
There's this thing called a blender. Crazy I know
@@mollywhoppedsouls_pvp There's this thing called money. Crazy I know
damn this kinda hit home. one of the darkest times in my life was when i was working as a mechanic, prescribed vyvanse & was replacing meals with soylent shakes because they were cheaper than actual meals & i could get back to work quicker. lost 50 pounds & everybody thought i got into heroin. especially when the amphetamine induced psychotic episode set in. i legitimately suspected i was an android.
fuck hustle culture.
totally not reccomended.
Hope your doing better ☺️
@@brickguy8341 comparatively, yes absolutely
thanks for the wishes
Same here, my dopamine levels are still not normal
@Drew Scrivers what did you get adderall prescribed for? If you're on it for adhd I could help a bit!
@Drew Scrivers take it as prescribed, never any more, take the recommended breaks even if it’s hard, and be honest with your doctor about your side effects. You’ll get a bunch of euphoria and feel immortal for the first few weeks but it won’t last and won’t come back no matter how much you take so enjoy it but don’t chase it.
Like am I the crazy one who just wishes I could buy a pill that had all the calories and nutrients I need for a meal and just pop one of those at certain times a day? It’s just so inconvenient making healthy meals so I usually end up eating out and breaking the bank and my scale.
No same 😂
I just wish we had more canteens, where fresh hot food was just made for people in mass readily somewhere where you can socialize if you want
I love this type of video.
Though in Huel's defence, they actually also produce field-ration-style freeze-dried "just add boiling water" meals that are actually half-decent
That stuff only came out recently. I used to buy the shakes years ago when I could barely afford to buy food, but I've been thinking about buying the freeze dried ones just as something cheap and easy to take to work, have you personally tried them? Would you recommend them? My job is very physically demanding and I'd imagine that would be much better than just eating nothing at all until I get home lol.
@@iamnotafraid so far, I’ve only had the pasta bolognese flavor. Not bad, the taste is comparable to frozen or canned food, which is a low bar, but Huel actually has nutrients in it. Wouldn’t do it for every meal, but it comes in handy when you don’t feel like cooking and don’t want to eat junk.
@@ATR-Sound I got the Mac and cheeze and one other flavor, the name of which escapes me, but I'm very happy with both of them. I always add a handful of shredded cheese to mine along with a spice or two, and the difference it makes in flavor is incredible imo.
@@iamnotafraid Just started with the Mac n Cheese and Cajun Pasta, which were pretty good I thought. I'm not a huge fan of the Mexican chili, I think that one is just too mushy for my tastes.
I have the spicy curry one and it tastes pretty good too
"The only worse way to lose weight in the 1980's was AYDS." Now THAT is top quality writing right there. Subscribed!
Peanut butter AYDS for the picky palate.
@@CraigStCyrPlus remember the time that the people behind Ayds refused to change thier name despite the pandemic back then and said that the fucking AIDS disease needed to change its name? I think the amount of *OOFS* in that one sentiment could eclipse the sun for the next ten millennia.
@@lorddrayvon1426 "AYDS tablets helps keep the weight off."
"AYDS is one of the best appetite suppressants you can buy!"
"AYDS won't make you nervous."
I mean. Change the name friend-o.
I immediatly thought of this specific south park episode🤣
What about AIDS? 😂
Fun anecdote. My dad sold Herbalife back in the 90s. He didn't get rich, but young me listened in on him using their person-focused sales tactics. Later in life, when I ran a fencing club, I used the tactics I picked up from listening to make the club members feel included and to track their achievements. It worked marvelously. Turns out celebrating success, giving everybody some personal time to ask them how their session was this week and so on is great advice if you are actually giving them something they can use and that makes them better people. In this case, better fencers and members of a club that had fun and collectively fought to get better and better. Not so much if you're doing an MLM selling over priced shakes though...
The ability to sell can be either used to convince people that what you’re selling is right for them, or be used to convince people that what you’re selling is right for them, even when it’s not.
Glad you use it for good. It’s a powerful skill to have.
A bit like homeopathy in the UK partly being popular because homeopathic *cough* doctors give the patient more attention. Weird how basically 'being nice' is actually a neutral force that can be used for good or -evil- scams.
Many MLMs are known for having great sales courses so you can probably use many of their methods in other situations.
Nah, good products sell themselves
@@EEsUA-camChanel Sweet summer child.
Having had cancer and being on a chemo ward, that joke was top tier
Honestly I had an issue with food during the pandemic and I just didn’t have an appetite and was repulsed by real food. Meal replacements literally saved me as not eating comes with a lot of uncomfortable health issues
I hear you I have ADHD and anxiety and sometimes I just want to eat "meal" without having to think or work. Especially when my mental health is bad
Why does Rinehart look like a CG cutscene in a game? His face just comes off as so uncanny.
Broooo I was thinking the same! Like a living deep fake! Which in essence soylent is, relative to food.
Kinda Detroit Became Human looking
He looks like his skin is probably rubber as well, like a living doll.
Ok, great. I was thinking the exact same thing lol. I was looking for this comment.
Holy heck, this can't be an accident.
The first thing that came to mind when I first heard about "Huel" wasn't "human fuel", it was "human gruel"
Hurl + fuel = Huel
Hurl + gruel = Huel too
You happy huel?
It just reminded me of that fat dude from breaking bad. Ironically
The first thing that came to mind was "It's German. And it's Nazi soylent."
i have to confess: i am the type of person that finds the concept of a "meal replacement pill" appealing. eating is generally an unpleasant chore for me- even when eating something that i ostensibly enjoy. if i could have like 2 or 3 actual meals a month, that would be ideal lol.
Out of curiosity, are meals typically a social experience for you? Because I used to feel the same way you did until I started eating with people I actually liked.
@@kirablagoev8534 theyre pretty evenly split between solo and social affairs, but I kinda hate eating in front of other people no matter who it is
especially having ibd eating is almost always painful and excruciating for me at least so i can definitely see the appeal for a lot of people. i think it would be cooler to just be able to completely remove the need of ANY bodily functions, imagine if we didnt have to eat, drink, go to the bathroom, sleep. so much more free time to do ANYTHING really
you need therapy
@@pssurvivor you need manners
Freezing to death actually isn't as bad as it sounds. It's a bit painful but once you start to go you feel warm and tired and kind of just fall asleep. What really hurts is if you freeze a limb and then warm it back up again. Once you bring it back up to temperate whatever was formerly frozen will feel like it's on fire. Source: I live in Canada, and I have frozen my hands before.
Its incredible how Jerma manages to sneak into every corner of youtube somehow
I've been on a jerma binge and instantly thought of him when huel was mentioned. Glad to see him getting the fart based recognition he deserves.
I was so suprised
Jerma had too much huel and now only streams on saturday. If only otto had saved him
I come from watching jerma only to. See a jerma reference
It's like poetry
Just a smart man with many branches of knowledge.
My dad would say to us,” eating and food is one of the primal joys of life”, when he returned from a tour with his band across the Midwest and even America. I believe him. It’s such a human thing to enjoy cooked food since we are the only animal that can cook.
Pretty sure some birds cook in wildfires
This is how some people justify their obesity.
@@CheapSushi bait
@@thegrub3497 masterbait?
@@craviel7360 watergate
Imagine in the end he went like "I have to thank our todays sponsor, Huel"
"Cleanse" = completely evacuate your entire GI track in one violent go.
Why does the soylent founder look like he's being rendered with CG??
It looks like a pre-rendered cutscene from heavy rain. The way he moves and looks is wild.
Because he has
Probably a terrible video filter that they didn’t know shit about making look good.
The way his hands move doesn't help and neither does the shading
i was gonna say he looks like a deepfake
That goddamn alarm sound sent me into a state of fear even though I’ve been awake for 10 hours or so...
I had a visceral reaction to that as well.
I was watching this video on my phone and just assumed it was me.
You’re still dreaming wake up
wake up youre still sleeping
In the late 1970s, I tried meal replacement shakes because I was put on a diet that I (frankly) didn't want to be on.
The products available on the supermarket shelves back then included Alba 66, Alba 77, and Sego.
They came in cans, and while they COULD be refrigerated, they were shelf-stable and could be stored and drunken at room temperature.
None of these brands are still around, and even finding vintage ads for them is challenging.
I have never understood these meal replacement shakes. Thank you for vocalising everything that I have thought and said for years!
i honestly have never come across a channel as addicting and interesting as this one. good shit dude
I like how hes funny when talking about sensitive topics, thats something very hard to do
@@Bitbatgaming he's informative AND fucking hilarious, perfect for idiots like me
@@glittermutt yeah I love his content too. Not sure where you are from but he’s got a pretty normal U.K. sense of humour. When we aren’t joking about sensitive topics is when you know things got real around here. I had life risking surgery and my surgeon started with a joke instead of hello lol.
@@SD-oi9gr interesting, i'm really not used to this type of humor, so it's always amusing to me how yall are able to joke about sensitive things and not make it weird haha
i'm russian by the way
Almost as addicting as those nifty diet pills!
That Ayds ad made me burst out laughing, what an unfortunate name.
They even rebranded, but decided to keep the unfortunate part of their name. Allegedly.
I was surprised that the South Park episode about aid(e)s had no reference to the chocolate candy.
A similar (diet) company from the mid 2000s had to change it's name a few years back.. having a company called Isis just come with a weird vibe these days.
@@caties1114 imo Isis is an Egyptian goddess, not these fuckboys who go around cutting kids heads off, I know someone called Isis who refuses to change her name because you're kinda letting the terrorists win if you let them steal your name tbh
and it came out shortly before HIV became an epidemic
as a real life overweight person (not horrendously so, I dont own a scale but I'd guess around 215? at 5'8) meal replacement has always been an attractive idea to me, I always find it easier to completely avoid something rather than try to reduce portions, because then at least I'm not tempted. same with Fasting, which ive unintentionally done a couple of times while dead broke and wasnt too bad.
Damn! An AIDS joke, and a cancer joke in rapid succession, but both hilarious and in relatively good taste. Top-notch writing sir, well done xD - Also, "unlike their customers, Soylent did produce some solids from time to time"...This whole video had me in stitches! Subscribed :)
As someone with stomach issues, meal replacements were a godsend for me a couple years ago. I couldnt eat anything except bread, rice, and plain chicken for months, but for some reason, my body didn't hate meal replacement shakes. Got most of my vitamins/nutrients from there while I was healing. I know the industry is crap but the products themselves can be very medically useful. I love this video, it is hilarious.
There's actual, real medicinal products for that btw. Fresubin etc.
Dunno if Ensure is bad but my dying Mom has dysphagia (throat closure in elderly) and likes it. She doesn't have much to choose from these days :(
Medically it’s probably a positive thing since some people can’t even handle the weight of food in their stomach, but for a normal healthy person it would be bad of course!
@@bladeriders where I live (Sweden) most meal replacements arent bad per se, and not all of them are for losing weight. Losing weight without changing diet usually doesn't work anyway. I use plenny a few times a month when it's more convenient than bringing food, but I can't imaging changing my diet to it xD
@ What are you talking about? We have a huge amount of shit meal replacements in Sweden; bad stuff with low nutritional value, consisting of lots of sugar.
Talking of the 4 hour thing. I noticed that with belvita. They claim it slowly releases energy over 4 hours. I thought to myself "yeah I'm pretty sure all food digests slowly over 4 hours......".
time to go put on my clown makeup...
I remember adverts for Nutella (that were later banned) saying the same thing: "Nutella releases energy slowly, so it can be part of a balanced breakfast that can help to keep them going."
Of course, Nutella is just made from a shit load of palm oil, sugar, milk powder, hazelnuts, and cocoa. It's nothing but a junk food, but the marketing was pretty creative in not explicitly saying that.
Explain Chinese food evaporating, that's the question of life itself, why do delicious Chinese food make you hungry again so fast. Garbage tier? I never met Chinese takeout food that lasted 4 hours.
@@agoogleuser704 Hah! Yeah thats true. Feel sick as a pig after downing a load when the munchies take over. Then half hour later I could eat it again.
Think this is the first episode that really made it click to me just how similar your style is to Charlie Brooker's Screen/News/Weekly/Yearly wipe.
I fucking love it. Massive props.
ordinary things produces some of the best planned and researched videos i’ve ever watched! thank you for this!!!
Hay can knock all those rabid old school diet pills all you want, but those women's houses were fucking SPOTLESS!!
I imagine I'd take the cleaning a bit more seriously if I were on amphetamines too
@@alexdavis665 that's his point
ikr ive taken speed and blitzed my house at 3am
As someone who has to take prescription Adderall I can confirm my house is fucking shining.
The nostalgia from hearing the Rainbow Road theme hit me like a brick...
nowhere like that rainbow road
@@OrdinaryThings no where like your moms house
more like hit you like a plane am i right ;D
Like a brick? So like pemmican?
I got an AG1 ad for this. UA-cam clearly either hates irony, or fucking loves it.
10/10, thank you for this.
This was an excellent video. Not only was it informative, but you legit made me laugh several times. Good job
I've always respected the need for these meal replacement products for certain people/situations, but it always makes me laugh how they advertise it by dissing on the taste and texture of food like. Yeah mate, that's the part most people like actually.
Actually advertising it for people with sensory issues is a good move. My boyfriend has at most 10 comfort meals, he won't eat most veggies and fruit due to texture and uses very few spices because he likes a very stecific taste. He looks malnourished and probably has lots of deficiencies lol
@@pourquoi6471 hope he can overcome or at least circumvent those issues, being malnourished/vitamin deficient is REALLY bad for your long term lifespan
@@pourquoi6471 No its not ,because you are abnormal. Advertising should cast a wide net. They want to sell to as many people as possible. Thoes who need the product and especially thoes who dont.
@@rico9163 texture sensitivity issues don’t go away. I have the same kind of texture issues as that persons boyfriend, you can’t just get used to them. I’m not sure what their boyfriends diet is exactly, but you can avoid eating most fruits and vegetables and still not be malnourished or have deficiencies.
@pourquoi Would blending or dicing produce help with the texture issue?
I used to steal my mom's Slimfast as a kid. Not because I wanted to lose weight but because it tasted like chocolate milk lol.
Dude... Same haha
Because slim quick is basically chocolate milk.
Yup
Aww did you shit yourself thin afterwards?
Love the quality that has gone into this video, great watch! Should be proud
Thank you for always making youtube a place worth coming back to. Your videos are amazing.
A historian in the morning and some ordinary things in the evening, what a treat
Dojima?
@@SoftBoiledArt yes
Ikr??
I see we have same youtube preferences
May i ask who you guys are talking about. I frantically looked up the internet historrian after the video finsihed lol
The apple alarm noise at 1:55 sent a shiver down my spine and literally made me sad. How can a sound be so painful?
The virgin iPhone ringtone vs the chad samsung morning flower ringtone
*good question, g o o d q u e s t i o n*
Triggered me so hard
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Thanks for the jump scare warning
I like the topics and content you put on UA-cam it’s very good-Love the authenticity and dry humour as well 👍
My husband was initially pretty satisfied with his fertilizer (read: Huel) but then eventually he started noticing that for all its alleged protein and other nutrients, it doesn't really make him feel full at all and he just ends up eating more real, cooked food later. He still has it from time to time when I'm not home because too lazy to cook, but he doesn't swear by it anymore.
A similarly structured History video on Energy Drinks would be wild.
"The only worse way to lose weight in the 1980s was AYDS"
Had us in the first half ngl
Your so spot on. THANK YOU FOR THE BRUTAL TRUTH
As an avid huel customer and lover, I thought this was expertly done. Everyone considering meal replacement needs to know that you can’t really completely replace actual food, it’s great for quick meals, but it’s fine and even NORMAL to eat out and enjoy other stuff.
Due to some old mental health issues, I eat a fraction of what I need daily (being a 21 year old guy), and don't get all my vitamins and minerals. I used to try and just choke down vitamin supplements every day but I would often forget, but when I found out that a lot of these meal replacements have close to 100% the daily dose and a few hundred calories, I switched over. It's pretty simple to just throw together a shake with dinner (the one meal I always remember to eat) and while it doesn't meet my recommended caloric intake, it at least helps. I think a lot of these would be better branded as 'meal supplements' rather than replacers, but that's probably not trendy.
Hey dude hope you are well. You have to fight an illness. Tell yourself you are going to get better and keep repeating it until you truly believe it.
Yeah,saying "oh it can't replace an actual healthy diet" may be true, but there are so many people who would never have that diet at all, either eating really badly or eating nothing at all. For me, soylent was a huge improvement health wise because without it I was just eating like a fast food meal one day and then a absolutely nothing for up to 3. Yeah, it'd be dystopian if this was the mandated diet of every citizen, but as it stands it's a life helping option for a minority who appreciates it.
They are actually called meal supplements in other languages. At least in Spanish speaking world and our uppity bad habit of using English loan words instead of the normal Spanish equivalent, the idea of a "meal replacement" is utterly insane. There's no way you can sell anything with a name like that, just like all the other "not meat", "not milk" variants. You can see them on supermarkets owned by Walmart but they are almost hidden in the corners of every aisle.
We have stuff like that too, called complan. It's the same thing but is more concerned with making sure you get plenty of vitamins and minerals. It's pretty useful to keep around for when you're ill
Glad you’ve found a way to make it better
"Huel" sounds like something Patrick Bateman would praise the merits of before murdering a work colleague.
"Soylent was a little too hominid for my taste. But when Huel came out in 2015, I think meal replacement gruel really came into their own, commercially and gastronomically."
That is a truly beautiful comment
I love the American Psycho reference. That made my day!
"Huel" sounds like a character from Better call Saul
Huel more like Huelewis and the news
"Impressive. Let's see Paul Allen's turd."
*looks into toilet*
"Look at that subtle colouring. The tasteful thickness. Oh my God it even has a watermark."
I feel like it has both its ups and downs. It’s super convenient for people that work long and stressful shifts, but I feel like it also contributes to the diet-culture we got going on now.
It could also be both positive and negative when it comes to people with restrictive eating disorders (source: me)
How have I only just found your channel! Great work!
Hey, thanks!
I wonder if the overuse of and ease of access to amphetamines in the 20s to 50s increased people's production to such unrealistic levels that this created the corporate "work yourself to death" culture we have now. That it's "normal" to be so productive, when in reality, people have never been this productive.
That was already a thing in the phase of industrialisation. It started long before meth was even a thing.
I think initially it was a religious immigrant thing, you basically work to please god and by the 50s/60s it became a anti-communist kind of subverted propaganda by playing with the message to mean working harder means more freedom, life, liberty or something along those lines. There's some good information about how all the school athleticism from the 50s/60s. focus on sports, and competition, was actually a slick way to make sure we would have enough fit men for the next war.
Thanks for your answers guys
@@CheapSushi Hilarious. Work against communism by working yourself to death... just like the communists. Americans really have a fascinating way of doing things
I'm pretty sure farmers were always excited to wake up at 4:30am to plough a field. And finish all the days activities before 10pm that day.
It wasn't much hard work being a productive farmer before machinery were invented. 🙃
16:15 the dude looks like an animated CGI character in a JRPG
Guy looks like an android.
Is he not?
Omg so its not just me...
How is this so accurate
Probably is. It’s Silicon Valley
As someone who has several medical problems that makes eating in the first half of the day difficult, meal replacement shakes atleast let me give my body something that i might be able to keep down. Definitely gonna have to try huel now.
These things just popped up in Germany when I was deep in an eating disorder. I was furious I couldn't get my hands on any and now everytime I walk past them at the store I wonder if they would've helped me or made my ED worse. I suffered horrible side effects because my nutrition was shit, but I never dropped very low so I had no life threatening consequences. I feel like these shakes could've prevented a lot of the annoying side effects like fatigue which could have made me keep up my unhealthy eating habits so much longer leading to serious side effects. In the end the main thing that saved me was that I ended up so tired and nauseous all the time that I couldn't take care of my pets and therefore I forced myself to eat more because I was fine with myself starving, not my innocent pets.
Huel sounds like the noise I make when I vomit it up in the toilet.
i drink huile
@Lee Juddy Huel Babineux
Can I steal ur oc
@@captainjimmy2306 Sorry not an OC a char owned by Ken Penders ask him.
@@fionathefox8945 o thx I was half joking lol
"Hunger tantrum" I love that expression.
I wanted to eat healthy but my stomach had a hunger tantrum and it forced me to eat a large pepperoni pizza. It was beyond my control.
Think they mean Hunger Pangs, but still your point is valid
it's literally just the 50s way of saying "hangry." in many ways we really haven't changed since like 1900
I'm pretty sure it's referring to the tendency for your mood to get worse when you're hungry. Because that does happen.
I keep seeing people mentioning how meal replacement shakes are great if you don’t have time, or if you really need to eat in between your shifts, or whatever. If that’s what you enjoy, sure. To me, this is just ignoring the larger problem. Hustle culture has convinced us that our productivity should take precedence over eating. Why do we feel so rushed that taking 10 minutes to stop working and enjoy food is a sign of laziness? Pack a lunch. Make things you like, that are healthy. Chew slowly, and enjoy what you eat. Your physical and mental health will thank you.
Indeed
i feel like i got a greater understanding of meal replacements over the last few decades, so thanks!
Huel is the sound I make when drinking Huel.
I lol'd
Yeah, they could not have chosen a worse brand name
Reasonably
For real, the name is so ridiculously disgusting
I can hear this comment and I don’t like it
I tried a soylet diet to see what it was like. After day 3 I went to fart and had to quickly halt the fart as I felt it wasn’t just gas. Went to the toilet and proceeded to spray the entire bowl
Something like a shotgun?
Jesus Christ you sacrificed your digestive system for an experiment
Accurate description of my early soylent experiences too, only a buddy convinced me it was this great hiking food on a trail with the flimsiest least private bushes imaginable
LMAO
Yeah. It's no replacement for solid food intake. Decent supplement though I've garnered.
11:08 “Imaginary”
“Diet-shamers”
Clearly you never heard of the body positivity movement
What a dumb movement
Ive actually been using huel for awhile as a way to calorie control my lunch and stop eating out all the time during work. It has actually saved me a lot of money
i learned the slur "skinfluencer" - thats enough to stay subscribed, thx
I wonder how often it is used by people
Were you on the fence before he said that?
That's the perfect word.
Prolly not a slur...
”Skinfluencers” are ”skincare influencers”. And yes, they call themselves that.
The sentence "Once the arctic got all discovered, people realized there weren't nothin there" is the funniest thing in the world to me and i don't know why.
😂😂😂😂😂😂of you truly believe there isn’t anything in the Arctic than you have been deceived since birth
@@sonleo369 ...what's in the arctic bro
@@mirale1622 My bet's that this guy's a flat earther. They have a weird fascination with the poles.
@@mirale1622 extra terrestial miltary bases
I actually used Huel for around 2 months, (only once a day, usually breakfast) and I actually enjoyed it. It tasted pretty good, (I got the Chocolate flavor) and I felt full for around 5 hours after drinking it. I didn't do anything crazy with my work out regime, but I did see a reduction in my weight, Lost around 10 pounds in those 2 months. A bit pricey, but like Ordinary Things said, It's aight.
Huels only like $2 a meal
Love the advertisement of Noom when I watch this. Like when I watched your Scooter apocalypse video, all I got was scooter ads.
Insert obligatory comment *"When the world needed him the most, he's back!"* here
We all missed you! Thank you for the upload and welcome back xD
Its been 3 weeks bro you're clingy
Then again that applies to every commenter when a youtuber hasn't uploaded for more than 3 seconds
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Huel can be a mental health godsend, too. A lot of stuff like depression or anxiety can cripple your appetite, or energy to prepare something even as simple as a frozen dinner. Which is a catch 22 because hunger can make depression and anxiety worse. But having something to pop open and chug and get the meal you need is really effective. I lived off the stuff during some hard times.
This is the main reason I've been tempted by Huel in the past. Would you genuinely recommend it? I'd probably try to limit it to once a day, but on my worst days I literally go eithout eating at all so surely Huel would be better than scoffing chocolate bars and crisps at the end of the day when I realise I haven't eaten at all.
@@darkflame5917 Baby foods can do similar things, though, with more variety. Some people with similar conditions do that - use those baby food fruit/vegetable pouches. And those do go down pretty easy even if it should otherwise make you gag - because they are designed to go down easy so that babies, whose digestion isn't fully developed, can eat them.
@@lsmmoore1 I used baby food and meal replacement shakes after surgeries where eating solids wasn't possible. They have their place. But omg the meat baby foods were truly awful. I tried a "beef stew". I have never gagged so audibly before. Poor babies.
@@loosingit9355 Yeah, I figure if an adult is going to use baby food, it's better to use the plant ones. The meat ones probably only seem any good at all to baby tastebuds.
if you want to fix your deep problems.. eat rice.
the way you say "powder based meal replacement drinks" has lived rent free in my head for the last 10 years
I've been telling my friends for the past almost 2 ears how great Huel is. When I saw this video I was like "Oh no, have I accidently been promoting a Pyramid Scheme that funds the Republican Party all along?". I'm very relieved to know that it got the official stamp of acceptability.
@@Allosaurus675017yes, funding anything that literally denies science(climate change, vaccines etc.) and blocks support to a country fighting one of our (as in the west, since I'm not American) biggest enemies which also has much potential among other things is bad
Huel - for when you want to voluntarily reinvigorate your PTSD of crawling through bushes and shitting in Tupperware in an active war zone for three days without sleeping while in the marines.
As if any marine since Vietnam did anything without the cover of 3 Apaches, 2 A 10s and a satellite.
The Anti-Clickbait is real. Thumbnail shows Huel, the conversation is about meth addicted housewives and corrupt doctors.
Yes
wym did u watch the whole video?
"The futuristic 1980s" is actually weirdly accurate in hindsight when you think about it.
I did lose 80 pounds on the Slimfast diet over 7 months, but it was also through a mix of daily probiotic pill, daily multivitamin, once-a-day controlled dinner portion, and allowing myself to have as much extra fruit and vegetables as I wanted. Since that point 2 years ago, I've put back on 20 pounds, but mostly because I love ice cream lol
I already had permanent diarrhea, Huel cannot even hurt me
You had permanent diarrhea?
Permanent diarrhea.. do you just not eat fiber? No vitiman c? Thats rough.
Just a heads up chief that’s probably not a healthy thing
nothin better than seeing a notification from ordinary things
u da man
everytime I see that image of finn thats your pf, I lose one more chunklet of my will to live
@@OrdinaryThings mark you da man
@@OrdinaryThings yaaa watadat
Seeing 2 notifications from ordinary things
I will say, I knew someone who went through some serious mental issues and wouldn’t eat. Protein shakes helped them maintain their weight even when they weren’t eating. They have a place but not as they’re being advertised.
I do the SlimFast plan, but instead of dieting it’s because ADHD makes me focus on something until I forget to eat