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See the OptiSlim one right below? $55 for 42 servings, or $1.31 per serve. Assuming you consume 3-5 serves per day, that's $3.93 to $6.55 per day. All with the convenience of no effort required to prepare yourself and the portability of individual servings.

I found the article a bit odd in that it presented it as a new idea when there have been meal replacement drinks like boost on the market for years. Though it would be pretty interesting if it became something that you could easily do yourself in your own home.

This sort of thing is pretty common for medical reasons too. I was very ill when I was a teenager and didn't eat food for two years. Instead I had formula pumped into my stomach through a tube in my nose. In more extreme cases I've known people who have had what is called "total parenteral nutrition" - where nutrients are delivered directly into the bloodstream (bypassing digestion altogether).

*facepalm*

I don't know what products might be available in other countries, but in Australia these powdered meal replacement products have been on the market as weight loss supplements for years.

OptiFast

Manufactured by Nestlé Nutrition, OptiFast has been a low calorie diet program available through pharmacies for decades.

Ingredients

It's mostly milk protein with added vitamins, minerals and fats; basically the same thing as this guy is making, just pre-packaged into individual servings and available in a variety of flavors.

Cost: $50.00 for 21 servings - Source

The taste? I've tried them. Mostly a fake sweet flavor from the maltodextrin, with some saltiness from the amino acids and minerals. Not exactly a gourmet delight. Pro tip: if you're gonna try the bars, the chocolate is horrible. Cappuccino on the other hand is awesome. The effect from drinking one of the shakes is that you don't feel hungry for a few hours. Not full like you'd had a meal, just not hungry. Very unsatisfying if you enjoy your food.

So once Nestlé brought their product out, pretty much all the major players in the milk powder industries copied the idea and made their own products available with the same formulation.

OptiSlim: $55.00 for 42 servings - Source

Tony Ferguson: $3.29 per serving - Source

Xantrax: $21.99 for 14 servings - Source

This is old news folks. The only difference with this guy's Soylent is that it's manufactured in his kitchen instead of a food processing plant. If you wanna try what it's like, go to your local pharmacy, look for a meal replacement shake in their weight loss section and buy it. I guarantee you'll probably go off them in a few days. It's rare for anyone to tolerate nothing but a liquid diet for any extended length of time; eating real food is simply enjoyable in a way powdered meal replacements can't match.

Given the multinational base of participants we're dealing with here, you'd better express your time in a global-friendly time format rather than 'Friday Night.' A GMT +/- for example stating the time range.

It'll probably be outside of my timezone anyway.

Another taxpayer-funded article from the "No shit, Sherlock" journal of scientific research.

A survey shows two-in-five Australians drink alcohol to get drunk.

Glad to see my money well spent.

Can we do a vomiting or defecating competition?

My child is starting to really excel at both those tasks ...

I got photos of that too, don't tempt me.

Have a grandfather who was an American engineer after serving in the Navy and marrying a Spanish girl he met on leave overseas. He was part of the team that built the Apollo 11, first spacecraft to successfully land and return humans from the moon. He decided to pack up his family and move to Australia when they built a military base five miles west of his house and a missile manufacturing plant five miles east, meaning the Russians had a pretty good reason to drop a nuclear bomb on his head.

Are you sure you're not shifting the blame for the relationship problems you're having onto the medication she's taking?

Antidepressants won't fundamentally alter who a person is. Antipsychotics maybe, but not antidepressants.

With the little perspective you've supplied, it sounds like a lot of the root causes of your issues stem from her relationship with this third person. You feel this man has a serious possibility of replacing your spot as her boyfriend.

From the other statements you've made, it appears you have a fundamental objection to the concept of using medication to improve mental health problems. I'm assuming you were offered and refused antidepressants for your PTSD by a doctor? Have you been seeking alternative treatment for this instead, such as seeing a counselor or psychologist?

The only advice I'll offer is to recommend you focus your efforts on yourself instead of others for the time being. Become happy within yourself, work through your own issues and become the person you'd want to be in a relationship with. If you like yourself enough others will tend to reflect this, and it will fix the reason your girlfriend broke off your relationship. Expecting her to change for you is doomed to fail. Make some new friends, try some new things, and don't let one failed relationship define who you are.