Sated Keto Meal Shake | 18g Protein | 30 Meal Starter Kit w/ Blender Bottle | Just 1.6g Net Carbs Per Shake | Diabetic Friendly, No Sugar Added, Low Carb, Prebiotic Fiber | (Chocolate, 30 Meals)

Please let me preface this review with two pieces of information. First, I have never dieted before. Not one bit. I always thought of it the way Garfield explained it: Diet is "Die" with a "T". Second, I have been drinking these shakes for 5 days. Basically, I have no experience to speak of with dieting and I haven't been drinking these shakes for long at all.TLDR? At 38 I have been chronically fatigued and in such constant pain I had lost much hope of feeling better ever, and often feared the very thought of getting any older. I have close older friends and family who are more sturdy and have more vigor than I do! After 5 days of drinking these shakes I feel so fantastic that I had to write this huge long thesis on why I am so grateful for this product and am excited to see how I feel in a week, a month, a year from now! Thank you, Ketolent!!Want to make your eyes bleed? You have been warned! Here is the rest of my review:Here is my ridiculously long backstory and why I am giving this product 5 stars after only 5 days of use...The backstory:I am sedentary. I work an office desk job. I test software. I get into and sometimes don't move for hours as I get into a task. I also work overtime - even if typically just a bit each day - all the time. I have an insane commute of 75 miles a day in sometimes heavy city traffic, which typically logs me in at another 3+ hours of sitting, give (sometimes a lot if there are accidents, etc.) or take (not usually much, lol!). When I get home - exhausted from sitting and thinking and then bookended by concentrating on avoiding insane drivers for 12+ hours - I have had zero energy. With this latest job and the crazy commute, I haven't often had energy during the week to play the dear-to-my-heart video games. Yep. So burnt out and exhausted I haven't been able to game with my laptop in my bed desk! Netflix night - every night. And that was about all I could handle. Cooking? Sometimes I would have to get a snack to keep my blood sugar up so that I could stand and cook or I would beg my boyfriend to make me food. The thought of doing YOGA exhausted me.My weight - though down from when I experienced a near system failure while I was working graveyard shift a couple years ago - is high at 164lbs and 5'5". My energy is low - abysmally low. My brain is foggy. To think at work and concentrate on my commute I subsist on caffeine and sugar to get me by - so I can think and not completely crash and burn. I've had increasing injuries in my back and joints. I've felt like I have arthritis. The pain I feel is often intense. Though it makes me feel weak and incapable of functioning normally when I cannot do things people older than me can do easily, I know that the level of pain I have plowed through to do what needs doing - work and house chores and errands - is legitimate and serious and certainly not all in my head, nor me being a wimp.The sad truth is that I am exhausted. Every day has been filled with endless fatigue and brain fog. I have horrible blood sugar crashes way too frequently. I hurt all over, all the time. Intense, deep pain in my back and joints. I have tried to exercise but it leaves me feeling worse and sore deep in my bones even with minor impact activities like walking and yoga. I get terrible migraines that last hours or days. I don't eat much at any given time as I don't like feeling overfull, but I am quickly hungry over and over again all day long and have sugar crashes when I don't eat every few hours. I have terrible menstrual periods with intense pain that can make me bedridden for a whole day.I feel so miserable - in pain, physically and mentally exhausted that even though I know all of these terrible symptoms are real and intense... I don't know how to approach it with a doctor anymore. I feel like it will sound preposterous like I am a hypochondriac. In the recent past, I have gotten various typical exercise recommendations and/or meds to control pain. I haven't gone there but I know if I asked about nutrition I would likely get the typical low-fat, low cal diet recommendations and I cannot imagine feeding my body less when I barely have the energy to get by on what I eat now! None of it has worked and I hate to take serious pain pills. I take OTC pills enough as it is! It sometimes gives me digestive issues and I have to take antacids... I guess you get it. I am a wreck. I have been for years. At 38 it is only getting worse and worse and in my heart I feel very young but my body is old, old, old.Looking to make a real change:So, Keto. I may have never dieted but I've looked. I have tons of health, diet, and cookbooks, though I never diet and rarely cook much of anything fancy. I guess I kept looking for something I could do. Something that sounded like it could work, that I could do. Something that would break the bank. Or force me to spend endless hours each week cooking when I don't have much free time as it is. The closest I came to starting something was a vegan smoothie diet, but it seemed expensive. I didn't have a great blender. What if it didn't work out and I spent $$$ on a Vitamix. Or I got a cheaper one and my diet failed cause my blender sucked? Also, no one in my house is going to go vegan, or vegetarian, with me. Meatless Mondays wouldn't even work here. I would be on my own. You see, I clearly think too much, but I also felt like I knew what wouldn't work for me. Why start to fail? I could maybe do any number of diets if I wanted to but... people fail at them all the time or fall off the wagon or rebound. I didn't want that to be me. But Keto - I could look at all those meals and though in my heart I knew I would long for bread and pasta and rice and sugar... It was all food I could see my family eating, even if they had theirs on a bun or a bed of rice. This could work, but... cooking... I still don't have time to cook... so I poked around... I stopped eating mini-donuts every day at work. I poked around more...Finding Ketolent, and sweet relief:And I found Ketolent. It made me think of the Soylent a friend had sworn worked wonders for them, but it was Keto. It seemed a bit pricey... a minimum of $90 for a month of powder? Yikes. I've had shakes in the past - not to diet but to have a swift meal - and even fancy, expensive brands from Sprouts are half the cost of this stuff or less! I hemmed and hawed. I put it in my cart. I thought about this and that. I figured it was $3 a day? That really is nothing... why was I on the fence? I just was, but then I caved. I got the vanilla kit for $105, so I would have a bottle for work and the oil all ready to go and give it a whirl. Why not? What do I have to lose? $105? Sure! Woo! Let's do this. Let's tell my boyfriend I am doing this and feel a little crazy but what is $105 for a month of smoothies?Gosh, I hope it tastes okay...It arrives swiftly in the mail despite not being Prime 2-day shipping. I let it sit there for a week. I think about it. (I am ridiculous, I know!!) On Friday, when I decide to work from home because I was having severe pain in my shoulder from who knows what. I sat against an ice pack all day and drank a smoothie for lunch. It tasted great! I wasn't hungry for hours... "This isn't too shabby!", I thought to myself. And I had one the next day, and the next, for lunch. They still tasted great, had a great creamy consistency and they were keeping me from feeling so snacky. Over the weekend I tried to eat "better" - low sugar / lower carbs - but wasn't beating myself up over anything. Then on Monday, I had a shake in the morning. I felt really good. Like, really good. I didn't need a coffee to scrape myself together and begin work after my commute. I felt clear headed and... just damned good. I drank a Monster cause I felt weird not drinking one but I didn't need it, really. The satiety lasted almost all the way to lunch which I took 7 hours after my breakfast. I had a Monster energy drink in the late afternoon. I drove home and I didn't need to eat immediately after getting home. My boyfriend and I took a walk! I felt good! I made an egg + veggie dish cooked to keto-friendly specifications and a fatty drink when I was a little peaked at bedtime - when I usually get famished and have to snack on carbs. The next day - today - I did the same having a shake for breakfast. This time I didn't have a Monster in the morning. I felt GREAT! I felt more focused, clear and alert than I felt with more sleep and more food and more caffeine. I had a shake for lunch... had some stressful issues with something I was testing that made me start to feel a bit of a headache so since I am prone to migraines I drank a Monster and took some Excedrine as I didn't want to deal with that on top of my work. But after the stress was over I felt great again. I came home and walked again with my boyfriend, then made an omelet with veggies and bacon. I sit down to write this and realize I have felt better in the last two days than I have felt so many years ago as a kid, a teen and a young person. I feel like a different person. I feel clear headed, a bit energetic - for me! - and I realized... I hadn't had joint pain for the last day.If you have made it through this whole backstory... I am sorry! And thank you! And, I hope this helps you if you have experienced similar symptoms. If you have then while I cannot give you medical advice, I can still suggest you consider trying this product. It is $3 a meal. It can make your life easier with less to buy, plan, cook, everything. All you do is blend a couple shakes at the beginning of your day (I use a cheap old Magic Bullet) and go. I like them cold. I recommend that though the taste and texture are such that I cannot imagine I would despise them at room temperature either. Then at night have a good easy dinner.Bottom line... I hadn't heard of Ketolent until a week or two ago. I have been drinking these shakes for only 5 days but I after having been at such a rock bottom for so long I am flabbergasted that within 5 days I have transformed into feeling actually good for the first time since I cannot remember when. I am just so intensely grateful for these past two days of BETTER that all I can do is write this horridly long-winded review to try to help anyone else out there like me, and to be thankful for the researchers who began the Keto diet craze and to be endlessly thankful to the makers of Ketolent for the best two days of my life in years. THANK YOU, THANK YOU!So, I am finally at the end but I am a chronic review writer and review updater. I am new to the "dieting" thing - no, let's call it a healthier thing! - but I still plan to update you with my progress for a while to see more about the long-term effects of consuming Ketolent for 2 meals a day, but to start: Today, 04/17/2018, I am feeling pretty darned positive at day 5 of consuming Ketolent shakes. I am not ultra interested in weight-loss - I am more concerned about feeling better - but I know that at 5'6"/165lbs I need to lose weight. So, I got a scale (never had one of my own before, ha!) will take some measurements for this current me and then I will be back to update this review in at most a month - perhaps sooner if I have something amazing to share. Until then I truly hope this can help even one other person out there, and I hope that no matter what route you take that you begin to feel better than you do now, too! Good luck to you, friends!UPDATE 04/25/2018: So it's been a couple weeks now. I love these things. I am having 2 a day + a nice dinner and fatty, healthy snacks and it's wonderful! I'm in ketosis and I have more energy than I can recall having in any recent history. I go walking most evenings with my boyfriend now as I am not coming home exhausted or in a blood sugar crash like I used to so often be at 7-8pm. Also, weight is peeling off. I am not bloated, not gassy and I seem to be down from 165 to 160lbs - all without feeling like I am dieting. All while feeling fantastic! Going to get my boyfriend and maybe a coworker to try this stuff out. I am so pleased. Just wonderful stuff and highly recommend this product to help get you on track if you are starting Keto and/or perhaps if like me you have little time to cook 3 square meals a day!

I used to be a huge fan of Soylent, but since I've started keto, I couldn't have it anymore. Then I found this stuff and I love it! That's one meal a day I don't have to worry about, and it tastes good. That makes it worth the cost. I like to add plain cold brew coffee, cinnamon, and heavy cream in mine, because I'm extra like that. But it tastes great by itself, too.One tip: GET AN IMMERSION BLENDER. It makes a world of difference. A blender bottle kind of works in a pinch, but I promise an immersion blender will be your best friend. I use one several times a day doing keto, since I try to add MCT oil whenever I can. It helps SO MUCH.

When you do the math it comes out to $3 a meal. However, since the bag I got would not close after I opened it I decided to package every meal in it's own individual sandwich sized ziploc bag. Here's where the trouble started. The directions say 1 large scoop powder + 1 small scoop oil. However it also says 30 servings per bag at 37g of powder per serving. One scoop, even when overfilled does not come close to 37g according to my scale. When I was done parceling out the ziploc bags I had 27 bags with 37g of powder inside. So already out $9/3 days.I will also say that having been used to Keto Chow there are negatives and positives to Ketolent. It's way less thick than Chow, which means I finish it sooner (I can stretch 1 serving of Chow to last well through breakfast & lunch) but I've started adding some HWC and that plus a cup of coffee basically carries me through the first 12 hours of my day. Unlike Chow, it's not salty AT ALL and that means I can make it and drink it the morning I need it, instead of letting it sit in the fridge overnight. The taste is *incredible* and I do not even like chocolate.All in all, I wish the measurements were more on point but this stuff does what it says and tastes great on top of it. Well worth the $3 (or in my case $3.33) a day for a month of it.

I've only had one batch thus far and will update as I continue to use the product. The taste is acceptable, there's certainly a bit of oil taste to the concoction but I expected that. I've haven't had enough time using to formula to draw a full conclusion on the actual product as of now, but some initial criticisms include:1. A better guideline on mixing the stuff. Ya it says add water to your liking, but I’d prefer a set number for the whole bag/bottle to work off of. Since you’re likely to be mixing one whole bag/bottle at once, the varying amount of water requires additional measurement to properly portion each serving.2. Update your blog/website. It would be nice to know that this stuff is still being worked or at least still being fully supported. The last post on the site was in jan of 2016.3. Provide some bottles to package the stuff in after mixing. Not totally necessary, but it would be cheap and provide some advertising for you at the same time.

It's worth it. It's so tasty and so easy to make. At 3 dollars per meal I mean it's really an offer you can't refuse. I like to blend it with ice, half of the water and whipping cream and half and half for the fats. It tastes like a batter to the most delicious chocolate cake but not in the gross gonna throw up from the raw batter. It's so...ugh I can't even describe it. It's so delicious. I am mixing it up a bit by adding different flavours. I use mint extract for a chocolate mint, I've uses coffee for the water and even a tea to add some spice.