How much protein/Carbs/Fat in the daily diet? (Read 160 times)

i am very particular about my diet, but I don't add anything up. Once i added how much protein i get just to get me in the ballpark, and in so doing, i figured in needed to drink about 75 grams of protein shake per day and make sure i got a protein afternoon snack, in addition to the protein in my normal diet. That's eat, i mean "it" (and I actually did write eat the first time).

My daily food intake is super clean, and my weight never ever fluctuates more than a pound, which i weight every time i go to the gym.

As for your choc. milk, i just mix organic cacao powder into my protein powder and that does the same thing, mixed with water. Sometime as a post run recovery beverage, i will mix milk with it, and a tablespoon of beetroot powder (Yeah, baby!).

If anything, I should start upping my fat intake. I mostly get it from nuts and a little bit of meat, and it's probably not enough.

For me, counting calories and the like is not worth it. I just watch the results. And my weight is good, i have enough muscle, etc., and if it wasn't, it would just adjust my eating habits accordingly.

Not to preach, but I believe whole fat organic milk to be superior for one's health than skim or 2%

btw whole milk is 3.25% fat,

I'm not a fan of protein powders, eat real food instead, if you weren't getting enough protein per day then maybe a shake, i strongly believe they do more harm than good, They're unnatural. Many contain heavy metals, added aminos etc.. in unnatural unbalanced ratios, or only some aminos, etc.., etc..,

.5g of protein per lb of bodyweight? Most of these formulas are for bro's on steroids.

the average American gets plenty of protein per day, My belief is get adequate protein throughout your day. Milk, Meat, plants usually don't have complete amino profile or if they have them all, they are low in many/some of them.

I think people obsess way too much about diet. Just eat a reasonable amount of a reasonable variety of food. With the exception being eat as many veggies as you like because, worst case, they won't store as fat and you'll dispose of them naturally!

Michael Polllan has always made a lot of sense to me when I get in the mood to obsess a little...

How to Eat
Diet secrets from Michael Pollan (and your great-grandma)
Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle, January 23, 2010
The most sensible diet plan ever? We think it’s the one that Michael Pollan outlined a few years ago: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” So we’re happy that in his little new book, Food Rules, Pollan offers more common-sense rules for eating: 64 of them, in fact, all thought-provoking and some laugh-out-loud funny.

By “food” Pollan means real food, not creations of the food-industrial complex. Real food doesn’t have a long ingredient list, isn’t advertised on TV, and it doesn’t contain stuff like maltodextrin or sodium tripolyphosphate. Real food is things that your great-grandmother (or someone’s great-grandmother) would recognize.

Pollan points out that populations that eat like modern-day Americans — lots of highly processed foods and meat, lots of added fat and sugar, lots of refined grains — suffer high rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. But populations that eat more traditional diets don’t. Our great-grandmas knew what they were doing.

But in the last few decades, we seem to have lost that old cultural know-how — or maybe it’s just hard to remember it in our drive-thru world. We need rules.

Like Rule No. 19: “If it’s a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, don’t.” Or Rule 36: “Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk.” Or Rule No. 20: “It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car.”

For most of us, “not too much” is especially hard. But if you follow Rule 52 — “Buy smaller glasses and plates” — your portions will seem larger. And Rules 58 (“Do all your eating at a table&rdquo and 59 (“Try not to eat alone&rdquo will help you slow down and enjoy your meals more.

Hard-core vegetarians complain about the “-ly” in the rule “mostly plants.” So be it: Pollan isn’t dogmatic. He urges us to eat less meat, and better-raised meat. But he doesn’t insist that we give it up entirely.

He ends his book with Rule 64: “Break the rules once in a while.” Decades of obsessing about nutrition — eating low-fat this and low-carb that, drinking sugar-free sodas and vitamin-enhanced water — haven’t made us thinner or healthier.

It’s time we ate like our great-grandmas.

 

The first one would seem to be enough. The second one I guess you need if you want to sell some books.

completely agree! Can't sell any advice that fits in one sentence or even one page...

I do not follow any diet and just eat whatever I want. I don’t know how it works, but I am still fit and feel good.

Are you my long lost twin?

I pay more attention to WHEN I eat, so I'm not full when workout time comes around (afternoons for me). But, I end up following the Michael Pollan rules instinctively. Unless there's bacon or jerky involved. Or cake. Or donuts; tiny little ones. Ok, basically any pastry.