IIFYM High-Protein Meal Ideas???

I think the harder part may be to keep the fat as low as you want to, since most proteins come with fat in my experience.... But the good news is that going over your fat is fine as long as you hit your calorie goal. I pretty much only watch my protein and it works for me.

160 protein is a lot to do, what is your calorie goal and how tall are you? I eat 1700 net, am 5'6 and shoot for 140, which is approximately 1gram/pound of bodyweight for me. Even if you are training should need more than that and you could save some additional calories for those carbs you crave


For breakfast I usually have a protein shake - frozen fruit with protein powder and water or milk. When I have it with milk (semiskimmed or full fat) it keeps me full longer thanks to the fat. This is super fast in the blender and just drink

Or you can have an egg omelette, if I do eggs I go with 2 whole eggs and about 4-6 additional egg whites (or just eat it all hard boiled, I love eggs). You can add cheese, bacon or lean ham, turkey meat, spinach, anything.

A PBJ on wholewheat is a good idea, although the above options have much more protein.

Lunch and dinner. I love chilli con carne, just make it with very lean beef and beans, tomato sauce and serve with quinoa, which is another good source of protein. fell in love with Quinoa.

Any meat will do, I love all meats but for teh purposes of staying within my calorie limit and achieving maximum protein I cook a lot of pork tenderloin ( I basically just have the whole cut to myself, a whole pound of it lol), chicken and turkey breast, any other chicken parts, boiled beef or filet mignon skewers, and I usually have that with quinoa, cous cous and veggies. I roast my veggies and have salads and fruits as snacks.

I made protein icecream the other day. Basically made a protein shake with more fruit than usual, with milk and froze it. I have 200 cals and 30g protein per serving, and it's like 2 scoops! love it!

For snacks you can turn to eggs, or meat jerky.

If anything else comes to mind I'll come back

Your carbs seem too low to me, and your protein a little high. I'd aim for 130 protein, 140 carbs training day 100 non training?

I personally find it tricky to balance all 3 macros every meal, scrambled eggs (more whites than yolks) on a piece of brown bread is good, Greek yoghurt, porridge with peanut butter, or shake mixed in

My go to breakfast for more protein is 2 eggs and a slice of cheese in a Mission carb control tortilla wrap along with a cup of milk.

Wow, that helps! Thanks so much for sharing! I'm 5'4" and 160lbs so that's why the protein is so high. It turns out to be about 40% of my diet/day. I need to get a blender for the protein shakes - that would probably help me a lot. Do you have a favorite protein shake brand? I tried the powder Pure Protein a while ago but disliked it because it would become "fluffy".

I'll also have to give protein ice cream a try! Sounds awesome.

do you know your bodyfat %? it's best to decide your protein needs based on lean body mass, if you knew that that would make it easier. You may be overshooting the protein a bit which is not harmful, but it's a lot of work/money spent

I had Aminostar Pure CFM Isolate 90 which was great, nice vanilla taste and very soluable. It was a bit pricey so I ordered and will try AllMax Isoflex. I only like proteins that have very high amount of protein in them (so I get 90% of the weight of the scoop in protein grams). This way I feel I get bang for my buck and don't have the added calories from carbs and fat some of the other proteins contain. I can easily get my carbs and fat elsewhere.