How (and why) I developed my own real food replacement for meal replacements

I created my own meal replacement shake to lose weight and it worked. But before it worked, it didn’t.

Karl Hodge

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There’s an elephant in the room. It’s me. I’ve been trying to lose weight since 2019 and, in the beginning, I did pretty well, counting calories and using meal replacement shakes. Between August 2019 and September 2020 I lost about 60lbs. You can probably guess what’s coming next.

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Karl Hodge

Journalist and University Lecturer, writing about health, science, tech and pop culture.