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It's entirely up to you. For me, there wouldn't be many benefits. They're boring, 100 of them isn't a long enough workout, and I'd rather go for a bike ride or row.

I should have specified meat that tastes good is often high in fat. There's always chicken breast or 99% lean ground turkey - yuck. So I get maybe a third of my protein from vegetable sources, for variety, and to have more of my fats be monounsaturated.

I've been more hungry since I started eating 4-5 servings of veggies a day, instead of mainly protein and fat. I'm not sure it can be helped if I'm going for antioxidants in my diet.

Definitely the duck fat. Olive oil is great too.

No. I use up my carb allowance on fruits and vegetables. If I have anything left at the end of the day, I have cheese.

You can make all kinds of vegetarian things with protein powders, without adding a lot of carbs or fat. I like protein powder bread. One serving is easily comparable to meat in terms of protein, and I add vegetables to it as a way of eating more of those. It's a little bit like quiche, mostly like quick bread.

There are plenty of more recent papers on why a lot more than 3% of the population could use more than the RDA of protein, such as anyone eating at a deficit, anyone over 65, and anyone engaging in strenuous physical activity.

I'm aiming for 1500 a day, which might be a slight deficit, or might be maintaining. I wish I were a person who could eat 1700 a day and maintain the weight I want to maintain.

People are weird!

I've seen what sarcopenia looks like, in human anatomy lab. I don't want to have a biceps that looks like a thin strip of bacon surrounded by fat, even if that's normal human aging with "sufficient" protein.

Cauliflower and protein powder.

A lot of people need more than 0.8 grams of protein per kg of lean mass. Here's a paper that recommends 25-30 grams of protein with each meal, for older people, to mitigate muscle wasting associated with aging. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2760315/

If you have a food processor, it's easy to rice cauliflower yourself. The hardest part is drying out the florets. I do it in the salad spinner.

My favorite things to do with plain protein powder are pancakes, and savory breads. I don't like shakes, and I mostly don't make anything sweet.

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Do your thing, and be safe! When I get honked at or yowled at, I assume it's a compliment, and wave sweetly.

Since I aim for 100 grams of protein every day, meat is high in fat, and fish is expensive, I like some of my protein to come from vegetable sources.

I love cauliflower fried rice, made with riced cauliflower, carrots, broccoli, green onion, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, bacon, and eggs. Warning, it isn't like rice - it's a delicious way to eat a bunch of veggies. My favorite bread substitute that really is fairly close to bread is to make protein powder pancakes or quick…

Go! Anyone who gives you a negative look, or, God forbid, insults you, has severe emotional problems and is to be pitied.

The adaptation can take longer than two weeks. If you eat extra salt and drink enough water, you might not have a problem adapting. I didn't.

I don't think soy is a problem. I would mix it up with almond milk and coconut milk anyway, for the different fats. You can always get your protein from powder or meat.

I have medium bones. I am most certainly not a tiny boned person. I've seen the x-rays. It means that at 122 pounds, about 100+ pounds of it is lean mass from larger bones and larger muscles. At 115 pounds, I look gaunt.

Mine is in the 40s too, although I don't think it's diet in my case. I stopped over training and it dropped 12-15 bpm over the course of a few months.

I'm 5' 4" with 99 pounds of lean mass, I do about 5 hard workouts a week (2 strength/2 strenuous cardio/1 long cardio) and I aim for 100 grams of protein a day, give or take 10 grams, but usually give. I'd rather get more protein than I need than compromise my recovery. I'm not body building, or eating at a deficit - I…

80-90 grams is probably a reasonable minimum, and is quite a bit more than .8 grams/kilo for a person who weighs 130 pounds.

It's much safer to judge yourself by body composition than by your clothing size, your weight, or your measurements. If your body fat percentage is healthy, you don't need to lose weight. Not everyone was meant to be a size 0. Not everyone who is a size 12 is overweight.

You would use extra protein the same way you'd use other calories, not pee it out. 0.8/kg is quite low for a person who exercises regularly. Why waste your strength training by not getting enough protein? You're not going to get bigger by eating enough protein if you aren't training like a bodybuilder. You'll recover…

I can't prove it that there's a causal link, however my Hashimoto's flared up while I was on a high carb diet, and since I've been on a more moderate carb diet, my dosage of meds has never changed, in about 20 years. Nothing changed when I went low carb, at all, with my thyroid tests. Subjectively speaking, I feel more…

Fruits have too much sugar for me. I eat them sparingly, and have more vegetables instead.

I don't think it's physically possible for me to have skinny legs. They're thick, even when my body fat is below 18%. I'm seeing where my weight settles out if I eat 1500 calories a day.