I got a sample of Sipreme a couple of weeks ago, but only got around to trying it last week.

You really do need a 2 litre bottle as I found out with a 1.8 litre bottle which only just managed to fit the full amount.

I don't have a blender at home so I mixed in in the bottle the good ol fashioned way in two parts.

Unfortunately I don't have a funnel at home so getting the mixture into the bottle was painful until I made a cone out of baking paper to assist. I wish there was some more information/directions with the sample as there was only a small note with limited info. 

My flavour was pink so the mixture was light pink in colour after water was added.

I made the product up the night before and took a few tiny sips and the flavour initially didn't seem too bad. It wasn't awesome tasting but I didn't want to throw up or anything or give up on the experiment.

I put the completed mix in the fridge and went to bed.

First thing in the morning around 7:30am I took out my breakfast and consumed two large glasses of the stuff (probably 1/5 of the mixture). It still didn't taste that bad, but consuming such a large amount I found the flavour to be very average and not particularly appealing. It wasn't something I would look forward to consuming but again not an offensive flavour either. It would be similar to a strawberry flavoured milk heavily watered down with grainy and malty stuff. 

Given that I only hand mixed the product the finished product was pretty good. Consistency was reasonably smooth, but a proper blender would make a world of difference I'm sure.

On my bike and off to work. I regularly skip breakfast so usually by 11am I get really hungry if I have an empty stomach. Having consumed Sipreme for breakfast, no hunger pangs at 11am, but I was unsure of how to use Sipreme so I had another two smaller glasses around 11:30am.

Work continued and I had no thoughts of food or hunger. Around 2pm I did find myself feeling a little light headed. I will get pretty light headed and dizzy if for example I have forgotten/neglected to eat any food by 2pm. The feeling I had was a mild light-headedness, much less than what I would normally experience on a empty stomach at 2pm.

I keep going at work but by 4pm I decided I should have another couple glasses especially as I had a long commute home on the motorbike. I consumed two substantial sized glasses which probably left 1/5 remaining in the bottle for dinner.

Around 6:30pm at home I polished off the last of the Sipreme and flushed the bottle with another 400mls of water to catch any residual mix which I also drunk down.

At this stage I have to admit that I was a bit worried how my body would cope with 12 hours till breakfast. So i devoured one and a half beef sausages and probably 300gm of steamed carrots and beans. I did not eat any carbs. 

Following this meal I felt genuinely full and finished the evening off went to bed etc.

To be honest that day at work consuming Sipreme was a very productive day. In hindsight my body actually felt very light that day, it's hard to describe what I mean, but it's something I've heard vegetarians say they feel about living a vegetarian lifestyle especially when they compare to how they feel when they switch back to meat.

I'm sold on the concept of Sipreme/soylent/liquid food replacements. I'm a larger guy at around 90kg+ so if I were to use Sipreme on a regular basis (I'm thinking 5-6 days a week, two meals a day) then I would supplement my diet with a couple boiled eggs, or a can of tuna and a banana or apple during the day. And in the evening some steamed veges and a small portion of protein for dinner.

I'm keen to see how the Sipreme guys have tweaked their flavourings, I would personally stay away from Strawberry (never a fan of this flavour anyway) and probably choose chocolate (although I haven't tried this flavour).

For my lifestyle and being overweight this is likely to have positive impact on my health. I would like to to a full Sipreme diet for 2-3 weeks, then after I felt my body had settled in (after 7 days?) I would slowly introduce exercise (Cardio and olympic lifting - nothing serious tho) perhaps 3 times a week. I would need to potentially include more portions of real food with the increase in output (exercise).

Ultimately I would shift to a 5-6 day a week cycle with 2 Sipreme meals a day, with perhaps a low-carb vege and protein meal in the evening. I've signed up to the email list for notification on spot tasting events, I'm keen to see what the other flavours taste like before I commit.

I've always been interested on the calorie restriction thing (ketosis diet etc) but have found doing this via proper food really time consuming.

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I have no connection with Sipreme. I don't know the Sipreme guys from a bar of soap and I wasn't paid or given free stuff to write or say anything.