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jchiar2014
jchiar2014 Posts: 15 Member
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Trying to adopt a Paleo diet again. I did it before and I really felt good and lost a lot of weight.
My blood pressure was great and so on.

So my question is, how much protein do you consume? It seems like an insane amount of protein grams when I try to record atleast 60% protein, 20 %fat and 10% carbs.


Is my ratio off for a Paleo diet ?

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  • Cmonnowguys
    Cmonnowguys Posts: 361 Member
    edited April 2016
    Play around with the ratios to get .8g of protein per pound of body weight (ex: 200lb person x .8g = 160g of protein goal), 50-150g of carbs (from a lot of veggies and some fruit) and the rest should be fat. 30%-35% protein will usually suffice for most people unless they are doing an incredible amount of heavy weight lifting.

    This is an excellent guide for carbohydrate goals: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-primal-carbohydrate-continuum/
  • GrokRockStar
    GrokRockStar Posts: 2,938 Member
    I usually don't follow the MFP presets, but my protein is usually around 80-90g per day. Not sure if there is a specific "rule" about the right amount of macros though. Hopefully others with more insight will chime in.
  • closetlibrarian
    closetlibrarian Posts: 2,207 Member
    Mine is usually around 25/25/50 carb/protein/fat. But I also run and lift heavy, so . . .
  • jchiar2014
    jchiar2014 Posts: 15 Member
    GrokRockStar wrote: »
    I usually don't follow the MFP presets, but my protein is usually around 80-90g per day. Not sure if there is a specific "rule" about the right amount of macros though. Hopefully others with more insight will chime in.

    So isn't 90 grams only 360 calories? How can you survive on that?

  • GrokRockStar
    GrokRockStar Posts: 2,938 Member
    edited April 2016
    jchiar2014 wrote: »
    GrokRockStar wrote: »
    I usually don't follow the MFP presets, but my protein is usually around 80-90g per day. Not sure if there is a specific "rule" about the right amount of macros though. Hopefully others with more insight will chime in.

    So isn't 90 grams only 360 calories? How can you survive on that?

    My total cals are about 1450 (without exercise), and I survive just fine :)

  • wanderinjack
    wanderinjack Posts: 248 Member
    As the primal folks say, a high protein diet is really a high sugar diet because excess protein gots converted to glucose. I just had a bad experience with too much protein and added ~ 20#. For me I've got to keep my fat high 70/20/10. Down 6 #
  • wanderinjack
    wanderinjack Posts: 248 Member
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  • GrokRockStar
    GrokRockStar Posts: 2,938 Member
    wanderinjack wrote: »
    As the primal folks say, a high protein diet is really a high sugar diet because excess protein gots converted to glucose. I just had a bad experience with too much protein and added ~ 20#. For me I've got to keep my fat high 70/20/10. Down 6 #

    Thanks for sharing this info, @wanderinjack, I'll be doing some research to learn more!

  • wanderinjack
    wanderinjack Posts: 248 Member
    Perhaps this will be useful:
    http://youtu.be/_evJd_iZZzs
  • BelleCakes2018
    BelleCakes2018 Posts: 568 Member
    I'm on 75% fat 20% protein and 5% carbs, but I get that it's a little extreme for most.

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