What's the correct answer for this ?

[buffchic69]

Hi all.


I am now really confused ? As a Beverly client I am getting updates daily, and what I read threw me for a loop. I am working with Bev. johnson and what she said to me was:


For any woman looking to add muscle, or maintain muscle you should consume 1 gram. protein for every pound you DESIRE TO WEIGH ? So she said if you weigh 170 lbs for example, and you want to weigh a lean 125 lbs. you should only consume that amount 125 gr. of protein !!!!! HUH ? ? ? ? ?


for me now weighing 133 lbs. I lost 7 lbs. I should be eating 133 grams of protein or fewer. When I told her my daily protein intake is around 160-170 grams a day she was like WHOA WAY TOO MUCH !!!!


What is right ? ? ? ? ? ?

 

[Sassy69]

Here's my opinion based on what I"m seeing from my contest prep. I changed my diet from 8 meals of 32 g protein / day (2 g protein / bodymass) to 5 meals of 32 g protein/day (around 1.2 g protein / body mass) and I lost some muscle. I'm also doign massive amounts of cardio for contest prep & trying to keep my muscle mass jacked so the extreme of 2 g/bodymass is probably not good a good measure for non-competition.

I think when you are dealing with people who train your avg person, it is hard enough to get someone to eat just 1 g protein / bodyweight. Here our scope of reference is much more focused on "weight training" for gains and the range that you want to look at is 1-1.5 g protein / bodymass.

 

[buffchic69]

Thanks Sassy !