Weight Loss
I've now lost about 20 pounds with the combination of increasing my daily activity and drinking soylent twice daily. Most exciting to me is that I'm only about 6 pounds away from an obese BMI to an overweight BMI. I expect to be "only" overweight by the start of July.
I still attribute my weight loss to the fitbit more than the soylent, though they work well together. The fitbit has helped me pay daily attention to my activity level and walk towards a daily goal (which I've just increased to 16,000 daily steps.) I've also found that I really do have to keep a food log and at least estimate the number of calories I'm consuming. Any time I try to just "eat well" I fail. When I actually write it down I am much more likely to keep under my daily goal. (Or at least not go 1000's of calories over.)
I still attribute my weight loss to the fitbit more than the soylent, though they work well together. The fitbit has helped me pay daily attention to my activity level and walk towards a daily goal (which I've just increased to 16,000 daily steps.) I've also found that I really do have to keep a food log and at least estimate the number of calories I'm consuming. Any time I try to just "eat well" I fail. When I actually write it down I am much more likely to keep under my daily goal. (Or at least not go 1000's of calories over.)
Soylent is Shipping
I'm excited that the official version of Soylent is finally shipping. After they're caught up on shipping, I plan on ordering some and using it as a different flavor to my variation of Hacker School Soylent.
I am surprised, though, that I'm not actually tired of Hacker School Soylent. In fact, on a recent vacation where I stopped drinking soylent for almost a week, I found that I was really looking forward to getting back to it. I suspect this is the side-benefits of soylent over the flavor and texture. But those things remain just fine, too.
Amazon's Subscribe and Save
Amazon's Subscribe and Save is surprisingly annoying. I'm disappointed with how frequently items just drop off of the service and how frequently they can't be fulfilled. Now where's that "Shut Up and Take My Money" picture of Fry when I need it?
Speaking of which, I should probably update the unmodified copy of Hacker School Soylent I put up on diy.soylent.me to reflect what Amazon can actually sell...
Snacking Before Bed
I have a CPAP machine to address sleep apnea. The neat thing about the device is that I get high-quality information about how frequently I stop breathing during the middle of the night. Apneas are generally classified as obstructive, where the throat collapses on itself and air can't get through the throat, and central, where the person doesn't even bother trying to breathe. I have some of each throughout the night.
I am finding that I have fewer central apneas when I have a large snack before bed. If I eat around 400 calories just before I brush my teeth, I tend to have fewer apneas than if I eat 200 calories before brushing, and still fewer than if I eat nothing just before brushing.
I don't have an explanation yet, and I'm still investigating the accuracy of the correlation, but for me pre-bed snacking really seems to be helpful.
Everybody Poops
I think I bring up poop every time I post, but I am just so happy about it. The one benefit of soylent that I've enjoyed more than any other is that my movements have changed from a 5 or 6 on the Bristol stool scale to being pretty consistently 4's. 4's are wonderful. They're not worrisome. I have found that, even the week that I was on real food for 3-meals a day, I still mostly had 4's and didn't creep back up towards the 6 territory. Honestly, I think this makes me more happy than the weight loss.
