Protein

tammyturcotte wrote: »

Is it possible to eat too much protein? I have cut my carbs way down, no pasta, no rice, no potatoes and very little bread if any. I am a type 2 diabetic taking Trulicity. My A1C went from 7.1 to 6.1 in 1 month with meds and my 33lbs weight loss. I am very happy but I am wondering if eating all this protein is hurting me? My cholesterol did go up, but not terrible. Any suggestions?

So you don't say what you consider "all this protein," but when I quickly checked your diary it looks like you are ranging from about 68-80 g, which is not actually high protein at all. The RDA is 0.8 g/kg for someone at a healthy body weight (so for a 130 lb woman, 50 g) -- that's a minimum for health. Many will recommend at least 1 g per kg even for basic health, so that's 60 g for the 130 lb woman.

However, when one is active or losing weight or both, more is recommended for muscle maintenance. A good rule of thumb is at least 0.6-0.8 g/lb of a healthy goal weight (so for an overweight woman losing to a healthy BMI goal of 130, the amount is now 78 g to 104 g, and you would want to err toward the higher side if the deficit was higher or you were active).

And that brings me to the other issue -- deficit/calories. I did not look at your food entries, but based on the 33 lb loss in a month I will assume you cal count is reasonably accurate. Your cals are SUPER low, like around 800 on average for the days I saw. Are you on a medically-supervised diet where the cals are supposed to be that low? Because if not, I think that's a much bigger issue than the protein (which again is not actually high, it probably just seems high because of the low cals).