Beginnings

Hi. My name is Audrey and I have a horrible relationship with food. I've started this blog to follow my trek into the world of food substitution. Hopefully it will be successful or, at the very least, interesting. So, here we go!

I recently read an article about a blogger's first taste of Soylent. She was generally pretty neutral on the whole thing, but hearing about the product piqued my interests. I have had a rocky relationship with food, my weight and the act of cooking since I was a preteen. I was raised with healthy eating habits. Every morning was at least cereal, lunch was well-rounded and dinner was hearty. I was active like most kids and also participated in cheerleading. Then, in the fifth grade, I was told that I was "chunky" by a boy I didn't know and I never felt confident in my body again. For years I felt like I ate too much and that I needed to lose weight when, in reality, I was average and even on the small side. In the meantime, I learned to cook the basics but wasn't really interested in fending for myself. The result was way too much reliance on fast food, things I could pop into the microwave and a litany of unhealthy, but easy, food choices.  So just managing to make it through the day with enough calories to survive started to become a challenge. Oh, and did I mention that I also became lactose intolerant? Because, yeah.
 Fast forward to my first job. Ye Ole Fashioned Ice Cream and Sandwich Cafe... I could go on and on about the greasy food, the ice cream I forced down despite myself and the liberal coating of Ranch dressing on everything I ate, but let's talk about the speed eating. It's at this job where I developed a need to eat quickly and in front of an entire restaurant of people. Until this point I absolutely despised eating around other people and now my lunches were on display for all to see. I had been promoted to management which meant that I had to shove food down in record time. This habit is still with me today. I can't slow down and enjoy food. My brain just won't allow it. During my years at Ye Ole I also started getting "the shot" or Depo Prevera. I gained more than thirty pounds in my first three months. I became exhausted and docile. I slept more than a twenty year old should. I didn't have the energy to get up and go to work, let alone exercise and my sudden weight gain and stretch marks made me angry at myself. This was the nail in my coffin. Up until this point I could have fought, I could have changed...
By the time we make it to today I have developed and tried to fix some terrible habits with food. I speed eat, I hate cooking, I cannot commit to grocery shopping, I'm picky and I'm addicted to caffeine. What I hope to have found in Soylent, a questionable looking product full of vitamins and nutrients, is an end all to my suffering through poor food choices. I hope I can look back on this initial post and see that everything has panned out. I hope that my experience turns out positive and that it helps someone else make a necessary change in their life.


Below is my first part of three shipments of my Poor Man's Soylent from amazon. They all smell suspicious on their own. Let's hope they mix well.