For cost, convenience, and health reasons, I'm starting on a liquid diet. This will be the thread where I talk about it.
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I was inspired to do something like this when Soylent came onto the scene, and because I'm now in a position to really give this a good shot, I went ahead and bought everything I needed.
As far as what it was that I bought, I settled on the Keto Chow 1.0.4 (Rich Chocolate) recipe, as seen here: https://diy.soylent.com/recipes/keto-chow-104-master-rich-chocolate Commercial Soylent, and all the DIY recipes I saw, had massive amounts of carbs that would cause a huge insulin spike after each meal. I figured that even if I wasn't going to go keto (which wouldn't be right for me anyway), the fact that it was almost carb-free was a huge plus. There were side issues with other recipes as well, like grittiness, high manganese, etc. All in all, the author (Chris Bairs) seemed to have done his homework so I felt confident this would work.
I do plan on eating out for lunch several days a week but for breakfast and most dinners I plan to stick with Keto Chow.
I'll be making a few additions to the Keto Chow recipe. First, I'll start by chewing sugar-free (xylitol-sweetened) gum 2-3 times a day, to stimulate saliva production for the ongoing remineralization of my teeth. Second, I want to start adding resistant starches to my diet. The easier way will be to eat a few tablespoons of raw unmodified potato starch daily. This stuff is type RS2. The slightly more inconvenient way is to start cooking retrograded mashed potatoes with tons of butter, but the upside is that the butter makes bulking cheap and easy. Retrograded potatoes have more RS3 (good for the distal colon) and less RS2 (meh).
The prevailing theory of online communities is that with excess RS2 (>4 tbps per day), the gut flora don't ferment it fast enough in the proximal colon, thereby allowing "sufficient" amounts of RS2 to make it through the distal colon and into the feces, thereby fueling the colonocytes throughout the entire large intestine. Anyway, there's lots of reading material on resistant starches, but the benefits of eating enough of it appear to include: lower risk of colorectal cancer, blunting of post-meal insulin/blood glucose spikes, reducing hunger, better bowel movements, improved mood, and deeper sleep. The downside is that many people seem to have established populations of the wrong kinds of bacteria and yeasts, that negatively impact health when they gorge on lots of RS. If I happen to fall into this group, I'll pop probiotic pills.
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I was inspired to do something like this when Soylent came onto the scene, and because I'm now in a position to really give this a good shot, I went ahead and bought everything I needed.
As far as what it was that I bought, I settled on the Keto Chow 1.0.4 (Rich Chocolate) recipe, as seen here: https://diy.soylent.com/recipes/keto-chow-104-master-rich-chocolate Commercial Soylent, and all the DIY recipes I saw, had massive amounts of carbs that would cause a huge insulin spike after each meal. I figured that even if I wasn't going to go keto (which wouldn't be right for me anyway), the fact that it was almost carb-free was a huge plus. There were side issues with other recipes as well, like grittiness, high manganese, etc. All in all, the author (Chris Bairs) seemed to have done his homework so I felt confident this would work.
I do plan on eating out for lunch several days a week but for breakfast and most dinners I plan to stick with Keto Chow.
I'll be making a few additions to the Keto Chow recipe. First, I'll start by chewing sugar-free (xylitol-sweetened) gum 2-3 times a day, to stimulate saliva production for the ongoing remineralization of my teeth. Second, I want to start adding resistant starches to my diet. The easier way will be to eat a few tablespoons of raw unmodified potato starch daily. This stuff is type RS2. The slightly more inconvenient way is to start cooking retrograded mashed potatoes with tons of butter, but the upside is that the butter makes bulking cheap and easy. Retrograded potatoes have more RS3 (good for the distal colon) and less RS2 (meh).
The prevailing theory of online communities is that with excess RS2 (>4 tbps per day), the gut flora don't ferment it fast enough in the proximal colon, thereby allowing "sufficient" amounts of RS2 to make it through the distal colon and into the feces, thereby fueling the colonocytes throughout the entire large intestine. Anyway, there's lots of reading material on resistant starches, but the benefits of eating enough of it appear to include: lower risk of colorectal cancer, blunting of post-meal insulin/blood glucose spikes, reducing hunger, better bowel movements, improved mood, and deeper sleep. The downside is that many people seem to have established populations of the wrong kinds of bacteria and yeasts, that negatively impact health when they gorge on lots of RS. If I happen to fall into this group, I'll pop probiotic pills.
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