Ladies: How much protein do you eat daily? (For those exercising without focusing on muscles)

I can't speak for them I try keep my protein at least at 120gr a day 150+ on workout days

You still need muscles to run or do cardio , I think the minimum for women is around 60gr or something crazy low

OneTwentyThree wrote: »

For those that are doing cardio exercises and not really focusing on building muscles. How much protein do you usually eat per day?

To help maintain muscle mass furing weight loss, it should be around .8 to 1g per lb of lean body mass or roughly .6g to .8g per lb of weight.


And you should do some resistance training to work your skeletal system and not just your cardio system.

I make sure I hit a minimum of 100g on days I workout, no less than 80g when I don't.

I do have to have protein powder shakes on occasion to make sure I hit my goal but it's fine. Oddly enough, since I was overweight, I don't have a large appetite. My problem was always boredom eating (whole bags of chips) and not being active at all. So this does make it hard to meet my goal at times. Hence the shake.

Between 40-60 mg. I find it very tough to include enough protein in my diet, but working on it.

Around the recommended amount (66g for me), but some days less and some more. Probably more Less days than More days, tbh.

I wouldn't say that I don't focus on muscles, but I don't do it obsessively. I don't try to build big muscles and I won't follow fads like eat this many calories at these times or eat lots and lots of protein or whatever comes next. I eat a healthy, balanced diet and I exercise to keep myself toned. I don't know if you'd call that "focusing" on it or not.

I tend to get 1g per lbs body weight, more if I can squeeze it in.
I am F, 62, 5'1 and 100-105 in maintenance. Keeping a higher protein level at my age is more important for muscle retention than if I was younger where .65-85g would be enough.

Cheers, h.

I do quite a bit of sport, and found my performance improved heaps at about 125g-150g protein per day. I'm female, 5'3-5'4, 18 years old and 113lbs.

I do cardio 5 days a week and lifting once. I average about 100g of protein daily.

110-130g.

LokiGrrl wrote: »

I'm trying to do 30% protein which works out to about 144g. Protein is just difficult for me. I'm all like OH GOD PLEASE NO MORE TUNA.

I so hear you on the tuna. My cat really loves me now though as she inherits the left overs. Luckily I can eat a whole lot of cottage cheese and yogurt.

Cheers, h.