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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (7 children)

According to this calculator I should be eating 53g protein per day.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    As someone who needs to lose weight, that calculator says my who minimum safe protein is 113 g/day. As a carnivore, I don’t see how I do this on most days.

    I call bs on the claim that most of us get too much protein. Overweight people are less likely to and plant eaters are less likely to.

    The muscle building community recommendations are based on insufficient evidence and are likely too high. I do believe those following them likely to get excessive protein their body can’t use but I don’t see how that generalizes to “most people”

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    As a carnivore, I don’t see how I do this on most days.

    450g of beef/chicken per day (if you eat 3x a day thats 150g per meal)

    As someone who needs to lose weight

    consider low carb, its highly effective and can prioritize protein at the same time.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I don't really think everyone who eats meat does three full portions a day

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Fair, I myself only eat once a day, so there is a ton a variability out there. Most people probably eat 6-8 times per day (breakfast, snack, drink, snack, lunch, etc).. but 3 a day seems to be the commonly accepted "normal" pattern

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Breakfast - 2 eggs == 12g protein

    Lunch - pbj == 7g protein

    Dinner - chicken breast == 31g protein

    It seems to me my typical day is 50-60g protein, which is way lower than any recommendation 🙁

    While I have no pretensions to being “typical”, if I get half the recommended protein in a day, yeah I have a problem believing the claim that most people get too much

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