I once drank soylent before going partying, and I didn’t have to use the bathroom at all.

That was really good because taking off my outfit to use the bathroom sucks.

Building upon that, if I just kept drinking soylent, I could party non-stop without bathroom breaks.

So how many days can my digestive system, and body, handle being on a soylent only diet?

Will my guts atrophy?

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Big Soylent fan here, firstly, Soylent isn’t designed as a 100% meal replacement, or at least it isn’t approved as such.

    That being said, the inventor claimed in an interview that he had gone for a month on pure Soylent, and there have been many people who make similar claims.

    Stay hydrated, Soylent does make you poop, it’s just delayed because of the high fiber. Trust me, try it for a few days straight, you’re colon will get cleaned out lol.

    Make sure you drink lots of water, that goes for any diet, (lots of people are mildly dehydrated without realizing it.)

  • alcibiades@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Is this shi real 😭 isnt soylent a made up food from a dystopian movie? How do so many people in this thread have experience with soylent

    • BackwardsUntoDawn@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      it’s a real meal replacement product named after the movie, it was a big trend in the tech crowd like 10 years ago. it’s supposed to be a blend of all the nutrients you need in drink/powder form, people would try living off of it.

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      I believe i found it

      Looks like someone saw the movie and got mad because “that’s not how capitalism would do it” and then proceeded to sell overpriced astronaut food.

      It admittedly does look decent and reasonably healthy on paper.

  • lockedcasket@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I did it for quite some time. I think close to 1.5 years. I bought a metric ton of it during Covid and I never ever got sick of drinking it. To me it’s like drinking water and my brain just adapted to it. I did get tired of people asking me if I was tired of drinking Soylent. That was legitimately nonstop.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    If you take a multivitamin, I don’t see why you couldn’t live off of it indefinitely. It does probably have enough vitamins for you anyway. Is that really a life worth living?

        • Luc@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          The definition of soylent is that it contains all nutrients you need. What’s the multivitamin pill for?

          • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            I think the definition is a food product made from a combination of soy and lentils. Some variations are “nutritionally complete” others are not.

            • Luc@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              The fictional version of it is apparently named after soy and lent (the religious fasting thing, I guess), TIL. But the real-world version literally has meal replacement in the Wikipedia page title. Was looking for a reference from the creator stating their goal but Wikipedia said unreferenced (at the time that I wrote the Dutch translation in 2014) that it’s supposed to be nutritionally complete. The English page was shortened considerably since then, dunno why but this part is gone. That’s how it started and was marketed though, so that’s what makes it that by definition in my mind. If they’ve strayed from their raison d’être, idk what they are anymore