Protein Shakes...

[Drunken_Weasel]

DW, let me "AX" you a question. Did you sit down with a food counter and establish a baseline of your food intake in regards to total cals, protein, carbs and fats? This is important to find your starting point and adjust from there. If, the key word is if you need to supplement your protein then do it with a shake.

No, I haven't.. but I know for SURE i don't get enough protein... when I eat at home solely (like im doing agian to get away from fast food).. there is not much here as far as protein, so most of my calories are coming from carbs/fat's.. but I am changing that.

 

[Bigsatan13]

You need to do that. You will be surprised how much protein you get from whole foods. When I did this I was able to cut my shakes down to 12 a day!

 

[Drunken_Weasel]

I just calculated my calories from today...
I've only had 1115 calories today..

Protein - 74g
carbs - 76g
fat -30g
sat fat - 11.5

This was from 2 sandwhiches.. thats all I have eaten today.. both turkey... both with lettuce.. one with white bread, one with wheat.. one with mayo, one dry..
and a protein shake, with skim milk.

 

[Bigsatan13]

You must be hungry! Well look at it this way, right now you are consuming enough protein to maintain\build muscle if you weighed 60 lbs.

 

[Drunken_Weasel]

Well fuck.. more protein will mean more fat.. or more carbs.. what should I cap the carbs/fat's at for weight loss.. and what should my grams of protein be.. its 1g per pound right? so 220grams?

 

[saint808]

you can go to http://ww.fitday.com and start a free account and they won't spam you to death... there you can enter your food intake of rthe day and it calculates it out for you and you can also enter your own food labels for stuf they dont' have in the database

 

[Drunken_Weasel]

Thanks saint.. that helps alot.

shows I have 41% protein, 29%fat, and 30%carbs out of 980 cal's.. which is probobly about right...

 

[thebabydoc]

You also need to be eating every 3-4 hours. Protein should be roughly 1g for every lb of LEAN muscle weight. For you that should be near 150g/d.

The reason these guys are talking about dextrose/malto with your protein after a workout is that the sugar moiety facilitates the protein's flooding into the cells which is key after a workout when you want to supply your muscles with protein.

Oh, and Muscle Milk is the fuckin' BOMB! Try Cookies and Cream or Chocolate PB- a little heavy on the fat but you can mix half the amount with 1:2 parts regular whey, egg, etc... and it is like drinking a milkshake.

 

[Drunken_Weasel]

ok.. so around 150g of protein.. I can do that with one more meal.. what should my calories be at? trying to diet with atleast 4 days a week of moderate, to light cardio, and atleast 3 days of lifting?

 

[thebabydoc]

With that much exercise, you can prolly go as high as 1800 cal/d and still lose 1-2 lbs/week. You just gotta stay 30-30-40 with each meal, not only for the whole day. Has to do with insulin release and the speed of absorption of each meal and its components.