Too Much Protein

You might want to change your goals fit the amount of protein you feel you'd like to consume.

Hello - I'm no expert, but an excessive amount of protein can cause problems. Anytime there is too much of anything something gets stressed. In the case of protein the liver has to work harder to process the protein. That said, it doesn't sound like you're getting an "excessive" amount of protein, but that you're going over by a handful of grams. Perhaps you could tweak your intake a little to bring something else into your diet and cut a few of the extra protein grams.

Medline, from the Nat'l Institutes of Health, has a good intro to protein. Here's the link:
http://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2008/March/docs/01features_01.htm

Good luck.

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In my experience, MFP's default protein recommendation is pretty low -15% of your calories.

When I eat healthy, I gravitate toward eating 25-35% of my calories from protein, but I make sure I get a good variety of sources - not only meat and eggs, but vegetable protein as well (beans, protein-rich grains, etc.).

Eat less meat! Hell don't eat any at all. It works great for me. Try eating beans or tofu. I promise you will feel better.

lol this seems a teensie bit of a misguided way to promote vegetarianism but i agree. start cutting down on the meat. it seems there are alot of people out there that feel like every meal needs some meat in it and that it isnt a meal without it. try a meal with no meat OR meat subsitutes, a purely veggie meal, trust me it'll fill you up and its just as delicious as a meat meal, it may just open your eyes to a whole new healthier way of eating!

also eating "too much" protein isnt such a bad thing (unless your diabetic, i dont know what happens but i know diabetics who try and not have much protein, they've told me its bad for them too have too much never told me why though) protein is a necessary nutrient that gives you LOTS of energy to get stuff done and if its a lean protein its way better for you then other things that give you lots of energy like too much carbs would be.

good luck!

As long as you are not going over 1.6 grams per kg there is no health issues with this but if it causes you to go over your calorie budget then it will be converted to fat like any other calorie. therefore most people can eat up to 100 g plus without problems (stressing the kidneys). Just make sure that you are eating lean protein to avoid saturated fats.

From many bodybuilding resources 1.5g protein per pound (1.5g/lb) of body weight is the really high end of high-protein diets, and such diet is deemed appropriate if you are performing regular, intense strength training. 1.0g/lb is recommended by many resources during regular strength training and in maintenance diets 0.8g/lb. Balance your protein out with how much strength training you do. Protein is primarily used to build/repair muscle tissue, and is consumed as a form of energy (equally as energetic as a carb is). If you don't do much strength training, you shouldn't require as much protein.

I played with a high-protein diet, and when your protein exceeds your carbs, your body produces cortisol, which somewhat inhibits the body's ability to burn carbs as energy. My roommates don't diet, and keep an ampule amount of carbs in the house. While I was on the high protein diet my carb cravings were unimaginable, and because of high cortisol I found myself very carb sensitive. If temptation wasn't there I could have easily stuck to it, but that just didn't work out.

Interesting side effects of a high-protein diet was the thermic effect of processing protein, which in the Cunningham Technique of calculating your caloric needs, burned ~197 calories. That's above and beyond my resting metabolic rate of ~1970 calories. Fat loss happened faster and with reduced carbs and increased healthy fats, I felt full longer.