How on earth do you eat 1g of protein per pound

kwtilbury

AnvilHead wrote: »

Shoot for either one gram per pound of lean body mass (which you can calculate if you know your body fat percentage), or 0.6 - 0.8g per pound of your goal weight.

This. 240-260 grams of protein is 68-74% of your total caloric intake. That's insane.

cmtigger

stanmann571 wrote: »

cmtigger wrote: »

Won't high protein make it hard to lose weight as excess gets turned into glucose? And is bad for your kidneys...unless you are building muscle by wprking out ALOT!

mtague7733 wrote: »

It is hard on your kidneys, but not a huge problem unless you have other kidney issues.

Even then it's potentially manageable

If you have kidney issues you are put on a low protein diet. Manageable by NOT eating crazy amounts of protein.

sgt1372

kwtilbury wrote: »

This. 240-260 grams of protein is 68-74% of your total caloric intake. That's insane.

Yeah, those numbers don't add up. On a 1400 cal diet, 240-260g of protein equals 960-1040 cals or 68.6 - 74.3% of that diet. That not a practical or realistic protein macro by any means.

Even at 40%, which is a common protein macro suggested for weight loss and muscle development when on a deficit diet and doing heavy lifting, you'd only need to ingest 140g of protein a day on a 1400 cal/day diet.

ikonnikonn

100 gr of chicken breast contains 98 gr of protein, the same thing is in 100 gr of tilapia. This is what I eat every day in addition to vegetables. Also, there is 100 cal in 100 gr of chicken or tilapia.

kuranda10

I try to spread it out over three meals and one or two protein snacks.
For me that's between 20-25g per meal and 5-10 per snack (hard boiled egg only has 6g protein (ish)

allisonl6

ikonnikonn wrote: »

100 gr of chicken breast contains 98 gr of protein, the same thing is in 100 gr of tilapia. This is what I eat every day in addition to vegetables. Also, there is 100 cal in 100 gr of chicken or tilapia.

I think you might be using an erroneous data entry. 100 grams of chicken breast is more like 30 grams of protein. There is also more than 100 calories.