Protein with every meal?

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DeguelloTex wrote: »

I can't get enough without having it at every meal, anyway, so it is what it is.

Same. I never hit my 90-gram minimum without it. I ate mostly vegan meals when I first started losing weight, but now I eat meat or dairy every meal.

WifeofPastor

My dh and I decided to work on the 'Food Lovers' program which has you eating every 2 to 3 hrs with a high protein content. The idea behind it is to change your metabolism so your body burns fat and doesn't store it. You have to eat as soon as you wake-up, so I eat a smart for life snack, I get down stairs about 2hrs later when I make a smoothie adding whey protein to it. for me I eat approx every 2 - 2.5 hrs otherwise I get hungry. I also drink 10 - 12 cups of water a day. we are on day 18 of 21 days program. Also added to this is exercise. I'm usually over my calories each day but believe I am still losing weight. You weigh in the first day then three weeks later. This type of eating is then for life.

cwolfman13

don't know about the whole energy thing, if I didn't have some kind of protein source at every meal, I'd probably be hitting less than 100 grams per day.

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WifeofPastor wrote: »

My dh and I decided to work on the 'Food Lovers' program which has you eating every 2 to 3 hrs with a high protein content. The idea behind it is to change your metabolism so your body burns fat and doesn't store it. You have to eat as soon as you wake-up, so I eat a smart for life snack, I get down stairs about 2hrs later when I make a smoothie adding whey protein to it. for me I eat approx every 2 - 2.5 hrs otherwise I get hungry. I also drink 10 - 12 cups of water a day. we are on day 18 of 21 days program. Also added to this is exercise. I'm usually over my calories each day but believe I am still losing weight. You weigh in the first day then three weeks later. This type of eating is then for life.

Meal timing is irrelevant to weight loss. Personally, I have lost 61 pounds eating several hours after wake-up, but there are many people who have lost eating huge breakfasts first thing. It's all about the total number of calories, not when.

Your metabolism changes with weight loss-it slows down. You burn fewer calories as you weigh less, simply because it requires less energy to move 130 pounds around vs. 200. Your body will store fat as long as you eat more than you burn.

If you are losing weight, then you are not over your maintenance calories. You are still eating less than you burn.

If this is a sustainable and enjoyable way of eating for you, don't let me knock it. But you have bought into marketing and are repeating untruths.