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MFP is defaulting to 20% on protein. They might've done 15% before, but they've raised it.

I get that I can do that, but I still don't understand why MFP sets them so high to begin with.

Interesting too see how personally people take their protein.

What train is that?

I changed my profile pic. I wasn't wearing black face anyway. It's a Dead Sea Black Mud Mask, available at fine retailers near you. http://www.seacretspa.com/Dead-Sea-Black-Mud

The only one I can consistently meet or beat is sodium!

And Kermit the Frog!

I'm not. It's a mud mask. Gotta do something for the outside of the body too.

I don't even know how to change them. I wouldn't even know what to change them to. It's awfully hard to prove that I *didn't* do something, though.

Apologies to the group. MFP's protein goal for me is 112 grams/day. I initially wrote 135 grams/day. I must've copied the wrong number. Sorry about that. But still, I think that's high given my non-athlete status.

Sure, I can share my numbers. I haven't customized anything on MFP. I'm 43 years old, 5'11, starting weight 175, goal weight 165, and tend to wear mud masks. Here are the goals MFP gave me: 2,240 calories 280 carbs 75 fat 112 protein 2,300 sodium 84 sugar

It's the other way around. Dietary recommendations around protein were initially influenced by the meat industry. But I guess people are looking for protein shortcuts now, and/or don't want slab of meat every day, and go for the powders instead...

3,500 calories? My daily goal before exercise is 2,240 calories.

There's a difference between carrying a bag of groceries a few yards and doing a workout with weights. Sure, I could lift heavier. I could run faster. I could workout longer. I could eat less. But I'm good with the goals I have right now.

"The MINIMUM amount of protein for athletes should be at least .55 grams/pound/day." That's for ATHLETES, not office dwellers who work out 6 days a week. And MFP's recommendation, for me at least, is even higher: 0.67 grams/pound/day.

I'll keep that in mind if I ever become a woman. I don't lift heavy weights because I don't like lifting heavy weights, I don't have a weight room to go to, and I don't want to do it wrong and injure myself.

No trolling. The meat and diary industries have been influencing government nutrition recommendations for decades: http://grist.org/food/protein-propaganda-its-whats-for-dinner/

Yes, I read the article. Like most people, I'm not an avid strength-trainer. (Maximum I lift is 5 pounds per hand.) I'm not an endurance athlete. (I walk 3-5 miles at a stretch.) So why should I be treated like one in MFP's recommendations? And by people who look at my food diary, I might add...

I'll be 44 in July, but who would quibble over a few dozen months...

22. I'm quite confident in this.

I'm not as scary as this mask makes me look. Always willing to add you if your food diary is open! Mine is! See? Look!

English legs. French face. German torso. Irish temper. Greek everywhere else.

Taken. Repeatedly.

Check my food diaries. Every morning.

There's already a way to pump food out. It's called taking a ****.

This kind of support is better off coming from friends and family, not a romantic partner. Opposites attract, remember?

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