If you’re under therapy then no worries about it. I have it too (actually panhypopituitarism which lead to hypothyroidism and other hormones deficit).
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I’m sorry to hear that 
Thanks for the encouragement, I needed it a lot!
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It’s not a problem, it’s a lifelong substitute therapy and everything’s well. 
Honestly I can’t wait for my next blood test to see all the changes since I started Huel two weeks ago. 
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Hi ROAG,
I’ve been using Huel for around a couple of months now and it’s made such a massive difference to me. I don’t weigh myself, I see a health trainer every 3 or 4 weeks who do the measuring, mainly because your weight will fluctuate up and down. Gross I know but think about your bodily intake and output. No’2s etc 
- If you drank a bottle of water and not been to the loo you could be adding the best part of a kilo to the scales lol. So weigh only once a week at the very most or not at all, go by how you feel and the size of the clothes you are wearing. As long as you keep at it, and don’t kid yourself, you’ll do just fine. I’m considerably heavier than you but I’ve gone from 125.7 kilos to around 115 kilos in about 8 weeks but I’m on a mission to sort out my diabetes and other health conditions I have. Also I don’t see this a diet, it’s a lifestyle choice that I have to make in order to live a longer healthier life.
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Yep, best time to weigh is first thing in the morning, without clothes, before breakfast and after you’ve been to the loo.
I’d say the opposite. I’d say weigh every day, same time (first thing in the morning, after the loo but before breakfast as Bee says) but only look at the trend of the data.
Like you say, your weight can fluctuate so if you only weigh once a week and it just so happens to be when you’re at your heaviest, it can demotivate people. If you weigh yourself daily but look at the trend line then no single data point will be disheartening.
I guess, ultimately, you gotta do what works for you!
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Yeah I agree with this. Don’t obsess over daily changes but don’t be afraid to observe them. I check my weight pretty often but if it goes up, I just don’t record it until it goes down again.
@ROAG I count all calories because it’s so, so easy to eat more than intended. It’s very inconvenient and boring and it’s also the main reason I find Huel so useful.
Tbh, I really, really, really don’t wanna do that. What’s more, I know I’m not going to do that. I work fulltime, I have a toddler (who will soon be starting school! aaaaaaaaaa) and am struggling a bit with my mental health, so counting calories on top of that is the drop that will for sure make the bucket spill all the little water it’s still holding (does that anology even make sense?).
I thought Huel was an easy fix to that, I just swap my breakfast and lunch with a fixed amount of kcal and I will roughly be below a set caloric value, without counting.
So, that didn’t work out it seems… 
Back to the drawing board! Huel Hive Mind, if you have any ideas, they are more than welcome 
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I’m the same as you @ROAG I HATE counting calories.
I’d suggest that maybe look at it like you’ve made a really good start - you’ve changed your diet to a much healthier one: Huel and a healthy wholefood home cooked meal. This is the best change you can make for your health and you’ve smashed it so well done 
You’ve also managed to stabilise your weight (yeah I know you think you’ve put a kilo on, but I think if you’d been weighing everyday you would probably see 0.5 - 1.5kg fluctuations regularly anyway, so you can’t really tell just from two weigh ins).
Definitely weigh as @David_J suggests.
Every day but then look at the average or trend over the month, and ignore daily variations.
As for calorie counting, maybe just do this ONCE. You may be surprised how many calories are in your evening meal (it’s ridiculously easy to eat 1000 calories in one delicious meal), and count your evening snack as well.
Unfortunately even an extra 250 calories is the difference between losing weight and not losing weight.
If you’re finding yourself hungry in the evening and wanting to snack - this is actually a good thing: it means you are in a calorie deficit and burning fat… so resist that snack !!
After counting calories for just one day (even you and I can do it for one day 
) you will have greater insight into portion size.
What helped me, once realising I was happily eating 800-1000 calories in one meal, was dishing up my dinner as usual, then dividing it onto two plates, so I only ate half what I would normally eat. The remainder would go into a tupperware in the freezer for a day when I didn’t have time to cook.
You may not need to do this, you may discover your snack is 3/400 calories and cutting this out is enough to put you into a decent deficit and the weight will start to drop.
Keep going and don’t be disheartened.
Weightloss is mainly about lifestyle change and you’ve already done that so you’re most of the way there. 
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I’d also say if you hate counting calories then don’t try and force yourself to as you won’t stick with it. It is worth blocking out an hour or so to check the calorie count of your most common evening meals so you know roughly what your calorie intake is:
Morning Huel = 300 kcal
Lunch Huel = 400kcal
Stoverij + frites = 1000kcal 
If you check your portion sizes at the same time it takes a lot of the effort out of calorie counting. It depends if you are one of those people who has a few favourite evening meals that you make regularly or not.
The other thing to look out for is hidden calories. A couple of lattes in a day can be the difference between a deficit and maintaining weight. Similarly butter on toast or bread with soup all add up.
Don’t get disheartened though, you clearly aren’t going too far wrong if your weight change is so small.
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I use an app to help with calorie counting, My Fitness Pal is the one I use but not everyday. All i really use it for is working out the calories of any meals I make. Not always easy as it seems and I get why you don’t like to do it, I don’t either, it can be such a chore to work especially if you’re like me and cook mostly from fresh. So what I do is work out the calories for any new meals I make, or make best guess, then save them on the app so i can reference them when I need to. I found then after 4 or 5 weeks you kinda get to know what is a good food choice or not. I like to make a lot of bulk meals too, usually in a slow cooker and freeze meals for another day. That way I can sort something out for the kids and eat what I want.
I get that some peeps want to weigh themselves everyday. it kinda makes sense, but not for me, I would feel like it’s micro managing and if I didn’t see a significant change then I’d be stressing over it. So go with whatever works for you.
I understand. When I eat “normal” food it becomes much more difficult to count. And I have zero toddlers! There are some good suggestions here so I’ll just add that you’ve been doing well and it is inevitable that you’ll succeed, even if you wobble now and then.
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I agree with weighing like this in the morning but I have to brush my hair too. Very weird I know but I somehow feel those hairs that come out on the hair brush could make a difference.
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What I’ve taken to doing is weighing and portioning my Huel in advance, in one session.
My “daily routine” is less routine and more chaos… so finding time to accurately weigh my Huel before any given meal isn’t really viable. I know full-well that, when I just level the 3 scoops, I’m actually taking significantly more Huel than the 100g portion I should be taking.
So, every Sunday, I prepare for the week. I make the solid meals as a single batch, portion them up into ZipLock bags, and freeze them (so I can grab one from the freezer in the morning and take it to work for lunch… on days where I eat solids in the afternoons instead of using Huel for all three meals).
I portion 100g of Huel into ZipLoc bags, labelled up (I have all the flavours and all the flavour boosts as well) with a scoop (25g) of Whey Protein Isolate added to each bag.
The other thing that makes a difference is the time at which you have your first Huel of the day (and the amount).
You’ve got your smallest meal as breakfast, but really it should be your biggest of the day (certainly your largest Huel portion of the day).
Having a suitable breakfast as soon after you wake up as possible kick starts your metabolism for the day. If you make your breakfast too small, and/or you eat it too long after waking up and starting your day, you’re going to be running slow re the metabolism.
I start consuming my morning Huel within 10 minutes of waking up as a general rule (and yes, this is before I’ve even gotten into the shower).
I would suggest you try moving to 2.5 scoops (or 100g measured) for breakfast, and see what difference it makes for you.
Except this isn’t true. By far the biggest proportion of your metabolism is accounted for by your BMR, or the energy you body would use if you did nothing at all - no eating, no movement, effectively equivalent to being in a coma.
Thermic effect of food contributes approximately 10% of your daily metabolism. There is absolutely no evidence that eating breakfast “kick starts” your metabolism. Your metabolism is temporarily elevated whilst you digest food, but does not continue to function at an elevated level as soon as that digestion is complete. So when you eat and how frequently makes zero difference to your overall metabolism. Some people find that eating breakfast stops them feeling hungry and eating snacks meaning their overall calorie intake is reduced. Nothing to do with “revving up your metabolism” though.
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Yep, disproven many a time yet still perpetuated by the breakfast cereal industry and many “fitness influencers”.
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