Week on "digital" food. What happens if you 7 days to eat Soylent SmartFood

What is SmartFood

SmartFood Russian Soylent - Soylent is the Russian so-called digital food. You can find an overview of the results and tasting SmartFood edited Layfhakera here, Well, if you read a lot of letters does not want it, here is a brief squeeze:

SmartFood - a convenient substitute ordinary food when it is available. The powder which is reconstituted with water, milk or any other liquid. controversial flavor. The developer says it will not set a goal to make the product tasty (flavorings are not used), the main emphasis was on to create as ingredients and food balance. Someone Soylent resembles a milkshake, someone - whitewash. The easiest way to explain to those who are familiar with sports nutrition. Introduce gainer for cream base with the addition of nuts without fruit and berry flavors and sugars. That is SmartFood.

Please, take the time to write comments in the style of "From this term can fly away."

Firstly, SmartFood produced "ART Modern scientific technology" in the Moscow region, and therefore regard it as an attempt to ease the cunning Americans Russian people can not.

Secondly, we have SmartFood Declaration of the Customs Union of conformity with the food safety requirements, ie quality and compatibility with the human body checked and confirmed by the competent authority.

Third, once again look at the description above, and note the phrase "when it is not available." The manufacturer does not offer the full transfer to the powder and completely abandon the traditional food.

The idea is that we want to have on a regular basis, but a healthy and balanced diet is not always available. Blockage and complete lack of free time at work, long journeys and trips, laziness and unwillingness to attack to cook at home, unheard Service and the following skipping breakfast. Familiar?

It is at such moments, instead of starvation and abominations such as cookies, candy and fast food you can imagine for a minute to mix and get a glass of SmartFood strictly verified balanced portion of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, fiber, vitamins and minerals with a certain caloric value, thereby securing a complete food reception.

The objectives of the experiment

I wanted to find out what impact a week's rejection of the traditional diet and a full transition to Soylent on the most important aspects of life, namely:

• psychological condition;
• mental performance;
• the physical state;
• the ability to engage in sports.

About me:

• man, 29 years;
• sedentary work, eight hours a day five days a week;
• moderate physical activity, fitness center - three times a week;
• weight - 99 kg;
• height - 184 cm;
• endomorph in stature, that is full-bodied.

Blog sensations and tips

Within seven days, I recorded the sensations detected and useful pieces that helped me cope with the arising inconveniences. In addition, in the comments on the previous review and the announcement of an experiment in social networks you are asked a few questions, which I will try to answer.

Day One - breathtaking

To begin with, that the greatest joy of the upcoming experiment experienced wife, because "a week do not have anything to cook and wash the dishes." Of course, she was joking.

I took up the definition of daily and single servings of powder. SmartFood made so that it is convenient to assume. Each packet is measuring spoon, which fits exactly 25 grams.

1 = measuring spoon 25 g of powder = 100 kcal.

Enough to know their daily calorie intake, divided by 100, and you get the number of spoons, which can be randomly distributed between the techniques.

Packaging is also made convenient. After opening the package is closed on zip-lock. The mixture can be allowed in the bag or backpack without fear of precipitation content.

powder structure is such that hardly changes the volume. It is impossible to compress or loosen. This makes it quite casually throwing a spoon in a glass or shaker and not have to worry about excess or lack of substance.

When my physical data adjusted for appropriate training to support the weight of the daily rate will be 3 200-3 400 kcal. However, as I endomorph and SmartFood 50% is made up of complex carbohydrates, it was decided to limit ourselves to 3000 calories in the form of six receptions for five spoonfuls a day. In the future, if the mass of the body starts to change, I simply increase or decrease the daily rate for 2-4 spoons.

To my surprise, the idea is to adhere strictly to the chosen norm of calories, as well as a six-power five spoonfuls at a time, he fell on the first day. The reason sytnosti mixture.

In proper SmartFood be diluted, starting from a ratio of 100 g of powder per 200-250 ml of water. You should not confuse what is the amount of powder takes up to half of a standard shaker.

After addition of water and literally several seconds of agitation obtained and rather homogeneous liquid mixture at a consistency resembling yogurt.

The water temperature is not important. The powder perfectly soluble in cold liquid, and drink the mixture cooled, even nicer.

Due to the low density of the mixture it is very easy to access and does not create heaviness and discomfort in the stomach. I expected that, as in the case with any other low-fat liquid food, the saturation effect will take a maximum of a couple of hours, but the feeling of hunger does not appear to the next scheduled reception.

By the third and fourth receptions residual satiety increased, due to which the mixture disappeared pleasant notes of taste, but the whitewash was felt more and more. This is the same that is, through the force. As a result, I spat on the daily caloric and decided to continue to take a mixture of intuition, relying solely on the resulting feeling of emptiness in the stomach and the emergence of appetite.

How to make delicious Soylent. The first experiment was to improve the taste reducing the amount of water in the evening reception mixtures thereof. At a ratio about 1: 1 is obtained some sort of drinking yoghurt. Continuing to reduce the amount of water can be achieved clover, but it does not vzobosh in a shaker. We'll have to mix in a bowl. More importantly, such a mixture has a much more pronounced nutty flavor and creamy, and chalk notes go.

A sufficient amount of carbohydrates in the mixture allowed me to work very efficiently all through Monday and is not provoked to disrupt a normal food and sweets in particular. The novelty of the sensations and natural interest is entirely absorbed me and did not allow for even a second feed on envy of traditional food counterparts. Cookies on the table did not cause absolutely no emotion. Visits cuisine and indifferent glance at the refrigerator have added me confidence that I can easily hold out for seven days.

The first negative effect of the transition to a completely different kind of food caught late in the evening when entering the room for meditation and reading news from your smartphone. Nutrition consultant warned me: "If any abrupt transitions in the diet (for example, with the usual for Chinese kitchen) can be observed gases can just twist the stomach, but once again, it is not the norm, it can happen and can and no. But even if that happens, there will be discomfort in the region. "

And so it happened. More precisely, almost. Stomach is not steep, but the gas was. :) Looking forward slightly, as well as for the final closing is not the most pleasant topic, I note the following: after switching to the toilet SmartFood begin to walk less and less (because part - it is almost concentrated nutrients that are completely absorbed), and slightly thinner (agree, Fu, but it had to be to tell).

Day Two - milk (+ first training)

Strategy with a decrease in daily caloric intake of the mixture and only when there is an appetite and hunger, stopped working somewhere for dinner. I'm just tired of the same taste. To gain more experience with sports nutrition. What to do when the protein does not fit? That's right, diluted with low-fat milk instead of water. I did the same thing.

The milk mixture was transformed into ofigennyj milkshake.

The feeling of whitewash completely disappeared, the taste became milder, creamy notes - saturated. Consistency is not changed, that is, compared to dilution with water the mixture became thick with the same proportions of liquid and powder.

When using milk is important to remember about the extra calories. In 200 ml of milk fat contains 2.5% 6 g protein, 5 g fat and 10 g carbohydrate, and a sum is obtained an additional 100 kcals per reception. Since the mixture already satisfying, I decided not to increase the calorie and reduced the amount of powder on a spoon. Total - four tablespoons SmartFood and 200 ml of milk were given the same 500 calories in one step.

For almost two full days I was convinced that there is no negative impact on the mood of the powdered food, mental activity and overall physical condition. There was only one, but a very important moment for me - a gym. Power loads inferior incompatible with an unbalanced diet, and it will be felt immediately.

To honor SmartFood, training took place in the same way as a conventional power supply. I worked for a planned volume of employment by 100% and did not notice any difference.

If we are talking about sports, it would be useful to tell whether it is possible to use meal replacement as sportpita and if so, how.

Meal Replacement as a sports power, and vice versa. The feasibility of using SmartFood as sports nutrition depends on the goals. In fact, the meal replacement is based on carbohydrate-protein mixture and differs from gainer the inclusion of additional fats, vitamins, minerals and fiber, making it a full-fledged substitute food. Gainer is cheaper, but does not contain almost nothing but carbohydrates and protein, and therefore will not fully replace the normal food intake, unlike Soylent.

If you type or hold the weight, then use a meal replacement instead gainer possible. A gainer as a full replacement for a meal - you can not. If you want to dry up or lose weight, then 2-3 hours after exercise should not drink any SmartFood, no gainer.

Day Three - juice

Upon successful completion of yesterday's training, I actually got answers to all the questions that interested me about the mental and physical performance. Now you just need to continue to sit on the powder and observe the general state, simultaneously trying to apply the remaining arsenal of tricks to overcome the lack of diversity of taste. One of these tricks - juice. I like apple and orange.

According to the chemical composition of the juice yield milk, because it contains only carbohydrates. For calorie juice is slightly lighter (45 kcal per 100 ml), but for simplicity I counting still rounding up to 100 kcal per 200 ml. The strategy is the same minus one spoon Soylent with the final 500 kcal per reception.

SmartFood, divorced juice - a delicious milk-fruit cocktail, which you drink with pleasure.

Given the existing variety of juices and simplicity of storage and transport, I guaranteed to provide yourself taste the variety of all the remaining days.

As an alternative, dry milk and juice can be added to a mixture of cocoa, oat flour and any other product with a pronounced taste. Fantasizing can be long, but I had enough milk and juice.

Day Four - boring (+ second training)

Adapting to the new diet was complete. Everything has become so familiar that I can not identify any records worthy moments.

The second training session (the most difficult - the day of the feet) held in the same way as the first. I have completed 100% of the planned volume and did not notice a difference in health.

The only significant event was the fourth day of the disappearance of the negative side effects associated with gases. The intestine has adapted as the experts say.

Day Five - Friday-alcoholic

The hard working week and the desire to relax came upon the idea to check with a delicious combination of SmartFood crafting ale. Do not think that I have used for breeding foamy drink powder. Just a slight evening libation between meals. I like it. Intestine - not. However, the blame here, most likely, not Soylent.

The output and return to the traditional food

The last two days were no different from a boring Thursday. At first I wanted to put pictures "before" and "after", but because of the short duration of the experiment and the lack of goals to lose weight this makes no sense. I have not recovered and not lost. I have not fallen off the ears, vision is lost, not lost his hair and appeared superpowers. In fact, seven days - it's so little time, that the effect would have been negligible, even in the event of a hunger strike hard. Given that all this time I get enough calories, there is no difference.

For tests I did not, because it did not observe the deterioration of health. Perhaps the absence of any change - this is the best property that can boast a product that claims to replace the conventional food.

Fearing a bad reaction to a sharp return to solid food, I get down to a meal substitute care. At first, the chicken broth without anything. Next - a light soup. Then, an ordinary soup and porridge on the second. Rapid and significant changes in the diet fraught with problems with the intestines. Keep this in mind when experimenting with diets.

Once again I want to remind you that SmartFood test my script is non-standard. In fact, this self-indulgence and self check. Completely abandon the traditional foods in favor of the powder can be only in extreme situations when life is threatened when access to other food is not available (for example, if you washed up on a deserted island, where there is only source of fresh water, and washed ashore box Soylent).

Use SmartFood only in line with its positioning, that is, as a complete replacement for a traditional meal in cases where normally there is no way to eat.

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