http://www.ruled.me has tons of good info on protein requirements.

I use this calculator to get my macros.

http://keto-calculator.ankerl.com/

Also found this site very helpful

I find I have to keep a close eye on my protein intake. I'm a woman (don't be fooled by my avatar). If I go over my protein grams, say more than 80 grams a day, my weight loss stalls. Gluconeogenesis at work.

Somewhere along the way someone made a "mistake" and wrote it as 1g per pound and the Internet has never recovered.

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So true. People quote that all the time.

My limits are 1gm/Kg at the start and I slowly bumped it up in phases to 1.5g/Kg of body weight. I had no problem building muscle or burning fat with 1g/Kg of weight, i recently bumped the protein to 1.5g/Kg because I do intense weight training for 90 min now.

This sounds exactly correct - right on target for keto dieters who are active.

My limits are 1gm/Kg at the start and I slowly bumped it up in phases to 1.5g/Kg of body weight. I had no problem building muscle or burning fat with 1g/Kg of weight, i recently bumped the protein to 1.5g/Kg because I do intense weight training for 90 min now.

This sounds exactly correct - right on target for keto dieters who are active.

What about for not overly active keto dieters? I walk about 45 mins 5 times a week but haven't been exercising heavily. I've found if my protein is higher than 70 g I don't lose a thing. (thats with 1400 cals a day)

way of eating

Thanks - I figured it was going to something that should have been obvious!

OK- are we saying 1gm per kg of LBM or 1gm per kg of body weight? If it's LBM that would only leave me with about 42 gm of protein per day. Clarification anyone?

Snow, I would have to totally agree with both observations. I was eating close to 200 grams of protein per day, sometimes less and sometimes more and my ketones were steadily dropping, into the light to almost nonexistent pink/pales colors. Now my protein has been around 100-125 per day and they are slowly starting to climb again. Hopefully the weight will start to drop again as well, as i have been in a holding pattern for about a week. One other thing i noticed was with higher protein level I seems to get the urge for something sweet again and I seemed to get hungrier more often. Maybe that part is in my head.

It's not in your head. There's plenty of info available on the net regarding the insulogenic properties of proteins and there's even an Insulin Index that also shows how many of the major protein sources can be just as insulogenic as some refined carbs. If we can agree that weight management is about hormone controls we can arrive at the conclusion that over-eating protein is going to impact your "will power" by playing havoc with insulin and leptin. I can add my own anecdotal observations that I feel exactly the same way when I was over-eating protein.

Dairy is another source that must be experimented with and determined per user. I've read that some people have no problem at all with it, but now that I only have 20 lbs to go to reach my goal weight it seems that food items that previously were not problematic need more attention now. I used to pound hard and soft cheeses and found that I would become hungry again quite soon later (and they also seemed to be creating stalls in my weight loss). I still eat a 2-3 ounces of cheese each day and that seems to be fine.

OK- are we saying 1gm per kg of LBM or 1gm per kg of body weight? If it's LBM that would only leave me with about 42 gm of protein per day. Clarification anyone?

1g/kg of LBM. 42gm of protein equates to only 92.6 lbs of LBM. That is quite low for LBM. Do you mind sharing the rest of your stats? How did you determine your body fat percentage?

I'm only 5"1" weigh around 135. My BF% is somewhere between 28-30%. I have my macros set to 65-30-5 currently.

Clearly I'm not used to looking at female measurements.

So yes, you've calculated your protein requirement correctly. Note though that these clearly are estimates so I wouldn't fret about going 10g over/under.

So, do I need to adjust my macros? My current macros allow for 100 gm of protein and 17 gm of carb.

Keep 1gm/KG of total weight, there are too many variables if you go by LBM. I usually keep it total weight to compensate the slightly higher need for protein under a low carb diet.

thanks for the input. I think I'll adjust down somewhat and increase the fat some more. Maybe that's why I haven't lost any weight.

It's always worth experimenting, but keep do the experiments right. So only change one variable at a time and you really should "test" for at least a week before reaching any conclusions.