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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is a good opportunity to start talking to your son about why he wants his body to look a certain way helping him distinguish between needing food/protein to have energy for a workout vs. to “bulk up” - he should be judging how much protein he needs by how he feels after a workout/normal day.

Food/body issues in young men are overlooked![/quote]

It's not about how he wants his body to look. He's not a bodybuilder. He wants to have muscle to get better at sports. He does not need an idiotic lecture on body positivity.

You can't possibly judge protein intake by "how you feel at the end of the day". You can feel perfectly fine and still not be getting enough protein to build muscle as well as you could if you got more protein.[/quote]

Sad if you think talking to a kid about this stuff is automatically a lecture!

Always good to check in on this stuff. Going mostly off of your words such as he is “skinny” and wants to “bulk up” - I would think if his goals are strength then yes, he could go off indicators such as how he is performing in training and how he feels. Going off of things like macros, rigid protein amounts, etc is the type of behavior that disconnects kids from paying attention to how they feel. Not a good practice in the long run.[/quote]

Do you have a teen son athlete who wants to build muscle? Probably not, and therefore you should just shut up and go away. This is not about "how he feels". He has to eat a lot of protein to build muscle, period.

"talking to your son about why he wants his body to look a certain way" - yes that is going to be a lecture, and he will just roll his eyes and ignore you.

If he is 5' 9" and 140 then he is definitely skinny and needs to eat more protein.[/quote]

Teens roll their eyes and appear to ignore almost everything, but deep down they need to hear their parents say the right thing anyway. It does matter. That said I’ll definitely take you up on the offer to peace out - I could not care less how much protein this kid eats (neither should you, really)[/quote]

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