Just had my first experience of Whole Fuel vanilla, using 50g of powder with 250g of water and blended in a Nutribullet.
It's actually really nice! I am an unashamed lover of vanilla and this is perfect for me - not too sweet, not too sickly and with a little oaty background note to it. Tastes like a delicious milkshake. I'd drink it even if it wasn't something to help a balanced diet, etc.
What are your ratios, guys and girls? Any tips for me? I'm looking to lose weight anyway but this is more of a breakfast and/or lunch replacement, depending on my schedule. I'll always eat a proper, healthy dinner... but I graze/snack throughout the day and need something to keep me from doing that.
If eating Huel/WF alone I would always use enough powder that you're getting above 20-25g protein per serving - so the usual 100g powder is what I typically use myself, and the lower end of the liquid recommendation to make it as thick as possible whilst still being drinkable.
As for weight loss, take your bodyweight in pounds and multiply it by 10-12 (lower end if inactive, higher end if active) to get a rough calorie target. Adhere to that with sensible food choices and track your weight, aiming for 1% loss of total bodyweight a week. If you're going slower than that, reduce calories, faster than that, increase calroies.
Hunger is inevitable when dieting (because dieting is controlled starvation and your body doesn't know you live in a world of virtually unlimited food availability), but a couple of ways to mitigate it are seeking out low calorie/high volume food options whenever possible, padding out meals with salad/leafy green veg and making sure your protein intake is sufficiently high, since it's both the most satiating macronutrient and also the most important when in a calorie restricted state (since it's what most of your body is made up of and what you also want to avoid losing).
Also consider your food environment and
why you snack/graze; if you have snacks and things lying around within easy reach then it makes it more likely you'll end up eating them v.s. putting them out of sight/mind and knowing what you're going to eat in advance that day by doing some meal planning. Having meals that give you a feeling of fullness (on lower calories it's often better to have fewer, larger meals because of this) can help as does keeping yourself distracted to avoid boredom-eating if that's a problem for you.
Ah, well.
