• AA5B
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    2 days ago

    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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      13 hours ago

      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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          12 hours ago

          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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            5 hours ago

            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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              4 hours ago

              Oh yeah. Totally agree. Most people have a huge protein problem. Hence the widespread B12 deficiency problems.