Keeping Protein Levels Healthy
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Question: How do you keep you protein levels from surpassing the myfitnesspal recommendations? I keep going over and it's driving me nuts! Yesterday I was 43 [grams?] over my protein levels. Today, I have about 300 calories left but only 2 grams left in protein.
Any tips?
(By the way I am a college student, if it helps with perspective. I have been trying to decrease my meat intake since it was largely influencing the high protein levels. I also used to be a vegetarian for two years, so I have a hard time picking either beans/tofu or chicken.)
Any tips?
(By the way I am a college student, if it helps with perspective. I have been trying to decrease my meat intake since it was largely influencing the high protein levels. I also used to be a vegetarian for two years, so I have a hard time picking either beans/tofu or chicken.)
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Question: How do you keep you protein levels from surpassing the myfitnesspal recommendations? I keep going over and it's driving me nuts! Yesterday I was 43 [grams?] over my protein levels. Today, I have about 300 calories left but only 2 grams left in protein.
Any tips?
I would either:
a) Keep exceeding MFP's rather low recommendations.
or
b) change your settings to increase protein target manually. I would generally do this at the expense of carbohydrate given MFP's rather crappy default macros.0 -
I am a small females and I eat between 100-150g of protein a day. Don't worry about it. MFP has a very low setting for protein.0
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