I am looking for personal experiences of long term 100% Huel use, for evidence to support the use of Huel meal replacement powders and ready to drink shakes, as a viable product for a long term liquid only diet.
Please include details of how Huel has benefited your physical and mental health.
This is not for a court case, this is to prove to my social worker, that I am getting everything I need from Huel.
Search posts from @rikefrejut. I remember he was a 100% Huel U&U for years.
Not personal, but they did a research study doing 100% Huel with positive results.
I reckon on not going much over 2000 calories a day (neuropathy keeps me pretty sedentary and at 165cm I’m a short arse), of which 1500 calories is Huel black powder. I’ve been eating Huel for nearly nine years now (my cakeday is in a couple of weeks), most of that time getting at least half my calories from Huel. I live with HIV and diabetes 2.
I did a pretty radical makeover of my diet in 2021 when my Hba1c went berserk - I’d been having too many little treats, as most of us did then. Last time I saw a dietician was in 2017 at the HIV clinic. In the course of that meeting she set out to convince me that Huel was a bad choice. She spent a good twenty minutes going through the ingredients list and nutritional breakdown online, muttering “they’ll hae forgotten about… nope, it’s there”, and at the end of the meeting said that she wished she could prescribe Huel.
Both HIV and diabetes are stable on my present diet, with my Hba1c (measurement of glucose levels over the past three months) regularly showing in the mid to upper thirties. Okay, I have drug help with my diabetes, but Nurse Diabetes is nevertheless still impressed.
I realise this is all anecdotal and I’m not doing 100% Huel, but I hope there’s something there to help with your social worker…
10 years only Huel U/U, 100% of my daily calories.
It’s food. You’ll live.
I will switch to a better product once someone makes it. So far I just looked at the ingredients lists of alternatives, and they all either lack some nutrient or add pointless things such as flavor or are sold with water included (I have water at home and work).
Hi @rikefrejut . Still doing OMAD? And supplementing with Creatine? Did you found a good Potassium supplement?
For last two years I’ve actually changed from OMAD to 5x 400kcal spread evenly during the day, for no reason other than to test whether it changes anything. It didn’t change anything.
I still add 5g of creatine every day, in my first shake in the morning.
I still consume one caffeine pill (200mg) in the morning, with huel.
I add a pure KCl salt (not mix of NaCL+KCl, actually pure KCl) in my last shake of the day to increase potassium to the levels that are in USA Huel (EU Huel is inferior in this regard).
may I ask why creatine? and where do you get food grade KCl?
Appears to be the most studied substance out there, great safety profile, minor improvements for memory, modest improvements for strength training. Unfortunately in most studies, they don’t test on vegans, who have zero creatine in their diet, so their body has to make all of it. Whereas for everyone else, they already get some creatine in their diet so creatine supplementation is harder to study in isolation.
Overall I’d say if you don’t get any creatine in your diet at all, such as if you consume Huel U/U for 100% of your daily calories, then you should supplement with creatine.
Regular shop, look for potassium salt, then check the ingredients to see if it’s a mix of NaCl and KCl or KCl on its own.
thank you very much for replying