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?

  • lockedcasket@lemm.ee
    13·
    2 days 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.

    • alcibiades@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      No shit people were asking if you were tired of drinking soylent. To the average person it sounds damn near psychopathic if you get all your nutritional needs from a drink. Lock in bro

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
    26·
    3 days 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
    113·
    2 days 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
      9·
      2 days 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.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
      4·
      2 days ago

      I’m in the same boat as you. I researched it a bit. Yes, Soylent Green is a movie. It is a meal replacement product made up of human remains. The movie takes place in 2022. The real Soylent is not human remains (or is it? 🤣).

      I had no idea meal replacements were so popular.

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
      31·
      2 days 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.

    • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      At least one company made a soylent, it’s just not soylent green. Not sure if it contains soy or lentils.

  • Shadow@lemmy.ca
    5·
    3 days ago

    Pretty long. I went about a year on mostly soylent. The newer formulations are a lot easier on the digestive system.

    You still need to consume water and you’re still going to poop, just not as much.

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I did about two years on Soylent no overt issues. It made eating simple, and I didn’t gain any weight, but didn’t lose any weight either. Guts will not atrophy

      Agreed on the pooping reduction.

      I wouldn’t recommend Soylent to anyone now, not because it is bad (it’s better then the Standard American Diet), but because I’ve found better ways to manage food and health (and even less pooping heh)

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    24·
    3 days 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?