Starting to question the high protein hype

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:120g is 1 whole chicken, fine to eat one after leg day but every day for 6 month? How did you stomach that much.

120g of protein is 400g of chicken breast and that can easily be eaten in two meals. But obviously you don't have to eat just chicken. You can do yoghurt, eggs, cottage cheese, fish. Tons of protein dense option with low calorie content. And considering many other foods (bread, legumes, some veggies) contain protein too it all adds up. 120g is very easy to get and stomach. I get that without even trying. It is just a normal way of eating for me. And I still get plenty of carbs and fat too as 120g of protein is only 480 calories.

I’m just curious how many calories you eat ever day. I only eat about 1400 calories a day and there’s no way I could hit 120 g of protein unless it was all I ate. Looking back over my food tracker for the past 4 months, the only says that I even hit over 80 are the days I eat fish, which I probably shouldn’t eat every day.

I eat more than 1800 but struggle to go over 100g of protein. It’s too stuffy and I lose appetite after a week.

[Anonymous]

People tracking macros and calories and whatnot are so boring. It makes me want to dive facefirst into a large lasagna.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People tracking macros and calories and whatnot are so boring. It makes me want to dive facefirst into a large lasagna.

I agree with you, and I’m the OP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been working hard on my diet for a year now. I’ve lost fat and retained muscle by eating 100-120 grams of protein daily and lifting weights. I’m a 130 pound woman. I just got new bloodwork at my annual exam. My LDL cholesterol and BUN/creatinine levels are elevated and my doctor thinks my diet is to blame. So what gives? I thought I was doing all the right things!

Not new. Not unique. Everyone knows meat = cholesterol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:120g is 1 whole chicken, fine to eat one after leg day but every day for 6 month? How did you stomach that much.

120g of protein is 400g of chicken breast and that can easily be eaten in two meals. But obviously you don't have to eat just chicken. You can do yoghurt, eggs, cottage cheese, fish. Tons of protein dense option with low calorie content. And considering many other foods (bread, legumes, some veggies) contain protein too it all adds up. 120g is very easy to get and stomach. I get that without even trying. It is just a normal way of eating for me. And I still get plenty of carbs and fat too as 120g of protein is only 480 calories.

Would you mind posting what you eat on a typical day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been working hard on my diet for a year now. I’ve lost fat and retained muscle by eating 100-120 grams of protein daily and lifting weights. I’m a 130 pound woman. I just got new bloodwork at my annual exam. My LDL cholesterol and BUN/creatinine levels are elevated and my doctor thinks my diet is to blame. So what gives? I thought I was doing all the right things!

How do you feel? Use common sense. If you feel great, keep doing what you have been doing.
Do a little research on how cholesterol treatment has changed over the years. You will find that doctors are being educated by pharmaceutical sales reps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:120g is 1 whole chicken, fine to eat one after leg day but every day for 6 month? How did you stomach that much.

120g of protein is 400g of chicken breast and that can easily be eaten in two meals. But obviously you don't have to eat just chicken. You can do yoghurt, eggs, cottage cheese, fish. Tons of protein dense option with low calorie content. And considering many other foods (bread, legumes, some veggies) contain protein too it all adds up. 120g is very easy to get and stomach. I get that without even trying. It is just a normal way of eating for me. And I still get plenty of carbs and fat too as 120g of protein is only 480 calories.

I’m just curious how many calories you eat ever day. I only eat about 1400 calories a day and there’s no way I could hit 120 g of protein unless it was all I ate. Looking back over my food tracker for the past 4 months, the only says that I even hit over 80 are the days I eat fish, which I probably shouldn’t eat every day.

Consistently undereating is a bigger problem than eating a lot of protein. 1400 calories would only be adequate if you are a very tiny and very inactive person. I am 140lbs with sedentary job but 10k+ steps a day and weights 4-5/week. My maintenance is around 2300 calories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been working hard on my diet for a year now. I’ve lost fat and retained muscle by eating 100-120 grams of protein daily and lifting weights. I’m a 130 pound woman. I just got new bloodwork at my annual exam. My LDL cholesterol and BUN/creatinine levels are elevated and my doctor thinks my diet is to blame. So what gives? I thought I was doing all the right things!

How do you feel? Use common sense. If you feel great, keep doing what you have been doing.
Do a little research on how cholesterol treatment has changed over the years. You will find that doctors are being educated by pharmaceutical sales reps.

Good friend of mine is a Pfizer pharm sales rep. He was an Army officer working in weapons (bio, chem, nuclear) before that. That's pretty much what he does. It's scary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been working hard on my diet for a year now. I’ve lost fat and retained muscle by eating 100-120 grams of protein daily and lifting weights. I’m a 130 pound woman. I just got new bloodwork at my annual exam. My LDL cholesterol and BUN/creatinine levels are elevated and my doctor thinks my diet is to blame. So what gives? I thought I was doing all the right things!

How do you feel? Use common sense. If you feel great, keep doing what you have been doing.
Do a little research on how cholesterol treatment has changed over the years. You will find that doctors are being educated by pharmaceutical sales reps.

Whoa, if your BUN/creatinine levels are elevated you don't want to destroy your kidneys and get kidney disease.

[Anonymous]

Once you get to level 3, level 4 and level 5 kidney disease there are no meds that reverse kidney damage from eating too much protein.

[Anonymous]

I do think the protein hype is a fad. My guess is that it would benefit many women if they ate slightly more protein going into middle age, but I don't understand people's obsession.

That said, how old are you, OP? It's probably just hormones if you are over 35. Changes in hormones can be responsible for this. Maybe see a GYN who specializes in menopause.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once you get to level 3, level 4 and level 5 kidney disease there are no meds that reverse kidney damage from eating too much protein.

Natural animal proteins do not cause kidney disease. If you are getting your protein from a bottle then absolutely stop doing that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been working hard on my diet for a year now. I’ve lost fat and retained muscle by eating 100-120 grams of protein daily and lifting weights. I’m a 130 pound woman. I just got new bloodwork at my annual exam. My LDL cholesterol and BUN/creatinine levels are elevated and my doctor thinks my diet is to blame. So what gives? I thought I was doing all the right things!

How do you feel? Use common sense. If you feel great, keep doing what you have been doing.
Do a little research on how cholesterol treatment has changed over the years. You will find that doctors are being educated by pharmaceutical sales reps.

Good friend of mine is a Pfizer pharm sales rep. He was an Army officer working in weapons (bio, chem, nuclear) before that. That's pretty much what he does. It's scary.

When I learned how Type 1 diabetics were being treated, it made me question all medical advice. Doctors are killing diabetics every single day and the ones they aren't killing are having a ton of health problems starting in their late 40s.
Medical advice is literally being taught and put in place by sales reps that have no medical background.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been working hard on my diet for a year now. I’ve lost fat and retained muscle by eating 100-120 grams of protein daily and lifting weights. I’m a 130 pound woman. I just got new bloodwork at my annual exam. My LDL cholesterol and BUN/creatinine levels are elevated and my doctor thinks my diet is to blame. So what gives? I thought I was doing all the right things!

Not new. Not unique. Everyone knows meat = cholesterol

What's wrong with Cholesterol? 75% of heart attack patients have normal or low LDL cholesterol. High cholesterol is not causing heart attacks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been working hard on my diet for a year now. I’ve lost fat and retained muscle by eating 100-120 grams of protein daily and lifting weights. I’m a 130 pound woman. I just got new bloodwork at my annual exam. My LDL cholesterol and BUN/creatinine levels are elevated and my doctor thinks my diet is to blame. So what gives? I thought I was doing all the right things!

Any chance you were dehydrated or did you eat protein just before your blood sample was taken?