It's only hard if you don't try. I'll be honest just from looking at your diary - you don't really seem to stress protein intake. Most everything you eat looks pretty carb heavy with just some protein thrown in. If you concentrated on making even a little bit of shift from your carbs to protein, I think you'd achieve what you're after more easily. Right now you have your goals set, but you often go over on carbs and under on protein anyway so you're not even eating the ratio you set - it's even more carb and less protein. Really try to meet your goals you have set now.

Interesting, since many of my new MFP weightlifting friends with kickass bodies have congratulated me on my eating progress so far.

True, my carbs do tend to go over, especially on the days I ate pizza and a burger. I'm, what, two weeks into this new lifestyle change requiring me to adjust my eating and to lift? Last week was the first time I even touched a barbell. I've never previously calculated macros in my life. Sorry that I havn't achieved perfection right out of the gate with my macros.

Also, I'm not following the 1g of protein per bodyweight idea. I'm doing 2g of protein per kg as recommended by NROLFW. That doesn't even reach 140g of protein.

You make it sound like I'm not touching protein at all. The lowest days I have since starting to focus on macros and lifting (which is not when I started logging) are 105g, but others are 125g, and even up to 142g - over 1g per lb of bodyweight. I am eating greek yogurt, ricotta cheese, protein bars, protein shakes, milk, meat, egg whites...I know what protein is and I know how to get it into my diet, thanks.

lol I'm only going off of what you've logged for the last month and what your goals are set to.

BTW eating protein makes you less crabby.

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Why come to a group and be a *****?

I didn't say a single mean thing. Sorry if you think I did, but I didn't.