To anyone whoās wondering (probably no one, but here it is anyway 
), hereās my Huel-flavouring stash all lined up!
@Madeleine That one by the left corner is for you! Following your suggestion and thread about Nooch, I finally took the plunge and bought it at Holland and Barrett! Iāve been sprinkling it on veggies so far and havenāt dared tried it in Huelā¦how do you recommend preparing it?
Hi @jeffy89 love your stash! This is my favourite recipe for using Engevita ā¦ 400ml water, 100g Huel (half U/U, half original vanilla), 1 tablespoon Engevita, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon nutmeg if you like it.
Itās not to everyoneās taste though!
In other news, Iāve cracked my pineapple craving! Iām adding 2 or 3 teaspoons of baobab powder to vanilla Huel. Gives a fruity, pineapple-y, almost sherbet-y flavour. Very refreshing and very nutritious. Baobab is an amazing natural product. Look it up if you havenāt seen it before (I hadnāt)
I see you are using TRS Cinnamon Powder. Is this the Cassia variety? From what Iāve read, Cassia isnāt as good for you as Ceylon, and can be poisonous if you have too much. I nearly bought Cassia as cheaper, but found out (it may have been on here) that Ceylon is the one to go for!
Day 22
Weight: 59.8kg I donāt understand. One does not simply gain 1kg overnight and have it stay onā¦ and I havenāt even really changed my diet drastically! I worked so hard to sloooooowly, 100g by 100g get that off. Whatās the use if it just jumps back on 10x as fast?
Huel Review: I canāt tell if this is New Vanilla or with toffee drops.
Food Intake: (1529kcal)
Exercise: 1h conditioning
Other observations/thoughts:
@ElectroDan Oh no, I never knew there was a difference! HAHA yeah like you I just saw it was MUCH cheaper and thought āwhat a steal!ā Ah well I guess I just wont put TOO much then 
@jeffy89 lack of sleep is an absolute killer. It wrecks your mind and body and makes you eat crap and makes your body cling to every calorie. (Yes Iām too familiar with it, yes Iām bitter!)
Stress and new routines can also cack things up. But if you can keep to a healthy routine, or at least keep getting back on the wagon, youāre going the right way to seeing results when things settle down.
Also, sometimes the scales are not your friend. I used to think mine were just a bit dodgy when they fluctuated all over the place with no apparent impact from a good day, but over time - and Iām talking charting over a month or more - the downward trend could be seen. I hope youāll see similar in a few weeks!
Found the reason. 
Unless you can break physics itās going to be as easy as sticking to your deficit. With a 500 calorie deficit you can drop 1lb a week, with a 1000 calorie deficit you can drop 2lb a week (but Iād say this is dangerous at your height and weight, not enough nutrition).
You canāt act surprised to be maintaining with nights out with drinks, cookies and an intake of 1800 haha.
@GTIPuG HAHA I know, Iāve been tracking so I know technically I should be maintaining (having tracked the cookies and alcohol too, not on top of it)?? I just donāt see how I couldāve gained 1kg back so quickly eating maintenance.
@Kay thank you for your encouragement! Lack of sleep and stress is quite the weight loss bitch isnāt it xD Yeah, I guess all I have to do is to keep sticking to a healthy routine (and make small tweaks to make it as healthy as I can) and trust that it will come down when life settles down once more. I guess rn personally itās important for me to not think āwell Iām exactly the same weight I was when I was eating junk, might as well just eat junkā but instead focus on all the other aspects aside from weight, and yeah I HAVE had a pretty consistent downward trendā¦I now have the choice to turn it downward again, or make it skyrocket upwards. Pretty straightforward choice I think 
How has your experience with losing weight been? (I read on another post thatās what youāre trying to do? 
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Knocking yourself into a deficit over the first week likely dropped your water weight by a kilo.
Creeping back into maintenance and possibly above into surplus has likely caused that water weight to creep back in and your glycogen stores to be replenished. Bodies are confusing things. 
A deficit of 500 a day should give you a loss of maybe 2kg in a month. Itās literally all just consistency and self control. How badly you want the end goal is what determines your level of discipline I guess.
Day 23
HI FRIENDS! So Iāve decided that Iām going to do 100% Huel next week (and will be starting a new thread to document that challenge. Will link when I create it!) and am looking for fellow Huelers to go 100% together! 
https://discuss.huel.com/t/looking-for-huel-challengers-challenge-100-1-week/8272?u=chrisjeffy98
Weight: 59.8kg shrugs
Huel Review: Hmm people have been raving about the Toffee Flavdrops but I donāt really taste it very much(?)
Food Intake: (~1700-1800kcal)
Other observations:
@GTIPuG the way you say things can be really harsh/blunt haha but I guess one phrase struck me in a positive manner āyou canāt break physicsā. ED-and-recovery has made me take the long route of developing many unhealthy associations with numbers, especially since back then it seemed to be that if I -500kcal, Iād be left with 1000kcal or less. Thatās what started it all, reallyā¦itās not easy cutting as a 5 foot tall sedentary Asian girl 
(yes I know I need to up my exercise but that aside haha). My body just doesnāt burn as many calories ~existing~ and it feels so unfair. That youād be able to cut on 2000kcal while I gain.
Tl;dr I decided that Iām ready to face reality and numbers again, and am learning to dissociate emotion from the number game. And that consistency beats yo-yo-ing. So here it is, plain and simple:
Ngl one thing that worries me though: if I cut at 1500, then stop losing, then cut more until 1200kcal and stall againā¦what do I do? I donāt wanna end up eating 800kcal haha. Any advice?
Hahaha, sorry if it comes across blunt, I guess itās just a bad habit of dropping truth bombs. Itās not meant to be harsh or insulting, it just seems to do more damage to sugar coat things, pardon the pun.
Weāll worry about that later. Once you get on the road to a stable nutrition plan and sustained, controlled, healthy weight loss you can start considering the future.
The only reason I can cut at 2000 cals is an addiction (a positive one, I guess) to weight lifting. I picked it up a few years ago when I lost weight and itās the best thing Iāve ever done. Insane fun, great for mental health, great for body confidence and even better for appearance.
A close female friend is 5ft6 and maintains on 2300 a day, sheās been lifting for 6 months. Itās not for everyone but I canāt recommend it enough.
This.
Iām currently cutting on 2500 calsā¦ @ 6ft1 185lbs (less now)
Lean mass always burns extra calories, plus making sure other factors such as sleep are in check.
I also have found from previous experience that the body very quickly adapts to the new amount of calories its taking in, I found when I had a really disordered relationship with food years back I actual lost weight at one point when I started eating more, impossible right? Well argue with the mirror and scalesā¦
I think this is why refeeds and diet breaks are showing signs of success in the most recent studies.
Iām having a refeed/maintenance calorie day once a week at the moment, and itās working really well!
Might be worth having a genuine refeed at maintenance or just above, controlled obviously, not āletās eat 10 cakes!ā haha. Should be easy enough to gauge with Huel
Yeah I completely agree, especially important when lifting in deficit too. It can seriously burn someone out to be lifting on an intense program while in deficit without a refeed or cheat meal every once in a while, as I mentioned when I did my deload. 
I mean I wouldnāt recommend this for OP as sheās barely lost 1KG and doesnāt deplete her glycogen stores to any extent (yetā¦). In OPs case it would just be āeating at a surplusā rather than there being any point to it.
OP - Sorry if this seems nasty or blunt once again, not intended to be
Hmm, the studies I think were done on untrained individuals if I recall rightly, nevertheless its certainly an interesting concept and one Iām keen on trying to implement myself, aka periodically minicutting, thus keeping my metabolism as high as possible when I jump back into a slow bulk. What Iām doing isnāt essentially relevant to op,
The video above might be useful to explain where Iām getting this idea and notion form.
And going back to how any of this is actually relevant to OP, I think itās certainly a good tool to use in the event of a weight loss plateau, where further calorie restrictions are not appropriate, or getting way too low, which they would be for op if she dropped calories any further.
It is also a good psychological break too, and stops obsession over constant long cutting, which is the Rabbit hole I ventured down years back, certainly not a good place to be.
@jeffy89
Apologies for talking about you as though your not actually hereā¦ 
Day 24
Weight: 59.3kg this is good feedback for me to recognise that just because Iād gained weight doesnāt mean I should go on a full blown binge, and just because Iāve lost a bit of weight (thatās probably water) doesnāt mean I should go on a full blown binge either.
Huel Review: Tried Coffee Huel today! I was less disappointed than I thought I would be from all the reviews, but I can see how thereās that slight bitterness and the coffee isnāt strong enough. Iāll be mixing it with Vanilla Huel and coffee granules next time!
Food Intake: (1580kcal)
Exercise: 2h Ultimate Frisbee, sprinting everywhere HAHA so much fun!
Other observations:
It sucks because then it takes more time to figure out what truly does work but well, such is life.Sounds like a really positive mindset! Iāve found most things with food (and life) are rarely as black and which or binary as we think they are, half the issue is just stopping for a minute and looking at it rationally without judgement, then slowly it starts clicking into place again.
Escaping the āall or nothingā behavior is huge.
Recovering from an ED is possibly one of the hardest things Iāve ever done, and this is coming from a guy whoās not had an easy life to say the least (not looking sympathy votes by the way, Iām not like that), but still, itās like doing mental gymnastics every time you need to eat. I get it.
Allowing yourself to enjoy eating with friends is another big one! I used to beat myself up whenever I deviated from my regimented diet, not fun, in fact I didnāt eat out for years in the endā¦
Good work.
Day 25
Weight: 59.2kg lel wtf is weight even
Food Intake: (1430kcal)
Other observations:
Day 26
Edit: Ignore this (not sure if this counts bc for the first time Iām not consuming Huel, since Iām doing 100% Huel for the next week and Iām trying to get rid of any produce that can spoil.)
It feels weird not drinking Huel. I really tried: ugh a bit of an annoyance, we were supposed to have cheapish brunch Ā£3-4 where I could literally just eat scrambled eggs and smoked salmonā¦then we ended up going to an EXPENSIVE AF brunch place which was exorbitantly priced (Ā£10++) and took forever. I ended up getting the cheapest and Iād rather have had Huel -.- I love the routine Huel gives me. I tried to cancel my order but theyād already prepared it :ā( Ah well. Streaks are less important than I think. Or I may just drink 1/4 just cuz 
Weight: 59.3kg
Food Intake: (1595kcal, maybe 1700kcal)
Exercise: 1.5h Ultimate Frisbee match + some cycling & walking
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Day 27-33: Huel 100%: 1 Week Challenge
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@jeffy89 yes indeed. I do need to lose weight but Iāve got a couple of life things that just have higher priority right now, so Iām not giving it a lot of focus. Huel is fab and means I get a nutritionally balanced meal instead of skipping a meal and then eating tons of crap later, so along with a bit of mindfulness on what Iām eating, Iām hoping thereāll be a bit of weight loss that way. Iāve dieted before, so Iām familiar with what I should be doing, but Iām not counting calories or tracking fitness although that may change. Iām new to Huel so really just seeing what happens.
Day 34
HEY GUYS IM BAAAAACK! From my 1 week exclusively on Huel. Boy oh boy eating non-Huel things was such an odd transition (it was a bite of my Friendās chicken and honestly I much enjoyed my Huel).
Weight: 58.3kg
Food Intake: (1397kcal)
Exercise: 1h Hip Hop
Other Observations: