Is it bad to eat too much Protein?

I belive its hard not to go over protein with all the new High fiber breads with proteine, the cottage cheeses and yougurt.. I go over every day and loose.. the only one i stay away from going over is FAT... FIber is also a big one for me. most foods have protein and high fiber that are healthy for you... so that is how i feel...:bigsmile:

Not a problem.. I have 95 more to go still.... LOL... :bigsmile:

My understanding is that you should have 0.8 g of lean protein per pound of body weight. I see that the MFP calculator sets a goal lower than that. I aim for 100g per day and feel great. I eat 5 small 200-300 calorie meals, not more than 2 1/2 hours apart, with at least 10g protein in each meal/snack. This keeps my energy and apetite level throughout the day. I can tell yhe difference when I don't hit those marks.

The 100g is not arbitrary. It is the amount that was recommended while I was pregnant and nursing. I kinda stopped paying attention to it when I weaned my daughter. That along with still eating for 2 but no longer nursing is when I started putting on the weight.

I have gotten back to watching caloried and eating more protein and I feel much better and have been able to drop the weight.

If people are anything like animals going super high on protein would just amp you up on an energy burst and then pass the rest through you with some strong smelling urine. WAY over on long term basis (I'm talking WAY over) would cause protein buildups in the kidneys, which is not a good thing.

But, not sure people are like animals The above is true for my horse. :laugh:

I Googled it and it looks to be about the same - http://www.thedoctorwillseeyounow.com/articles/nutrition/protein_2/

Too much is just excreted but WAY too much on regular basis is bad for kidneys and other things.

I'm not sure... I eat the amount i got from a nutrisionist from my dr. my req amount is a serving per meal and snack which is 2-3 eggs 4 breakfast can of tuna for lunch 7 2% cheese cubes for snack and whatever for dinner weather it be ham, chicken, steak, fish. ect..... but i guess everyone will be differnt depending on your body... so thanks for the tip

If people are anything like animals going super high on protein would just amp you up on an energy burst and then pass the rest through you with some strong smelling urine. WAY over on long term basis (I'm talking WAY over) would cause protein buildups in the kidneys, which is not a good thing.

But, not sure people are like animals The above is true for my horse. :laugh:

I Googled it and it looks to be about the same - http://www.thedoctorwillseeyounow.com/articles/nutrition/protein_2/

Too much is just excreted but WAY too much on regular basis is bad for kidneys and other things.

If you're passing protein in the urine, it's a sign of renal failure or diabetes, not of a high-protein diet. Ammonia levels can increase due to very high protein diets and/or dehydration, but that's from deamination, not the actual amino acids. It's flushed out of the body just like any other waste product. Too much protein can increase blood viscosity, and in turn increase BP, but you'd have to eat HUGE amounts (think more than 50% of your calories for a long time). Unfortunately you definitely can't compare the digestive tract of a thousand-pound herbivore to a 150 pound omnivore hehe

Protein is a funny thing. If you eat too much of it, the extra is converted and stored as fat. If you eat too little, it's all converted and stored as fat. If your protein is unbalanced, it's all converted and stored as fat. It's not a very practical set-up our body has for protein, if you ask me.

That's not actually how it works, though. If you eat too much of anything--hence, you overeat--calories are stored in the form of either glycogen (stored blood sugar, which can be created from some amino acids via a process called gluconeogenesis) or triglycerides (which are stored in fat cells). If you eat too little protein, it's not converted to fat, you simply aren't providing your body with sufficient amino acids to repair damaged tissues. You won't gain fat, but you won't recover well either. The only time you're going to store *all* of your nutrients as fat is if you're overeating. When you're in a deficit, that doesn't occur...hence the point of the deficit.

I think the general rule is that protein should make up no more than 40%. I think you are going a little TOO high, but generally going over a bit is no big deal, these settings are low anyway.