Protein Intake

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Ok. I am hoping someone can answer this. I have posted before. I started working out about 5+ weeks ago. I have lots of weight to lose but have so far lost 18 lbs. My friend goes to a personal trainer and she tells me I am not getting enough protein to work out at the pace I am going. I do 60 minutes of cardio a day, + I use a combo weight machine free weights, for an additional 35-50 minutes. I do upper body one day, lower body the next. I do this 5 days a week. I ride bicycle on other two days. I am consuming about 1200 calories a day. She tells me I need about 120 grams a protein a day, to work out and makes sure I am losing fat not muscle. It's not that I don't believe her, its just that her body type is not the same as mine. She is tall, thin and at 17% body fat trying to get to 14%, and she needs to gain weight. I havent even measured my body fat, because I know its wayyyyyyyyyyy high. Can anyone answer this?
 
Quite honestly, this personal trainer has no clue what they are talking about when it comes to protein intake. Note this, if you consume more macro-nutrients (protein, carbs, or fats) than you need to - your body will store the rest as fat.
 
Gil Burgos said:
Quite honestly, this personal trainer has no clue what they are talking about when it comes to protein intake. Note this, if you consume more macro-nutrients (protein, carbs, or fats) than you need to - your body will store the rest as fat.
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Protein can be stored as fat, but 120g is way too low for that to happen.

for muscle growth, it is generaly recommended to consume roughly 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight. (spread throughoiut the day).

So if you weigh 120 pounds, then 120g of protein per day is OK for you. it would take massive amounts for it to be stored as fat.

because you are only trying to preserve muscle, not build it, you can probbaly drop your protein to 100g (at a guess), and consume it before cardio workouts.
 
Really, I just order a whey protein supplement that I am waiting for to start, has anyone here used such a product. Good, bad etc. thanks

Michelle
 
The thing with protein supplements is that people use them without knowing their current protein intake... So if they're eating a proper of protein from their food... and then they take their recommended amount ontop of that from the supplement... you're then doubling your protein intake, which could then be stored as fat...
 
DeX said:
The thing with protein supplements is that people use them without knowing their current protein intake... So if they're eating a proper of protein from their food... and then they take their recommended amount ontop of that from the supplement... you're then doubling your protein intake, which could then be stored as fat...
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The average american consumes enough protein. However, I would say that the average non-professional athlete (particulalrly weight lifters) do not consume enough.

Like I said before it is psible for protein to be stored as fat, but very unlikely. Obviously, fat itself is more readilly stored as fat than protein, as are carbs. So in order to get fat on protein, you'd have to be eating very little fat and carbs, and massive doses of protein - quantities that would be almost impossible to consume anyway.
 
I believe, offhand, that it's something like 1g = 1lb. For me, I was at 190, and I was told 180g of protein daily. Another thing is that for 1200 calories, I think that's too low. For women, it may be different, but I was always told to keep at least 1500 for women and 1800 for men bc when a certain amount of calories aren't met, your metabolism slows down, which means that you don't burn all those calories you're eating or the ones in storage. I even know some diets that want you to gorge yourself while you work out bc the calories and weight lifting and exercise fuels the metabolism, yet I'm not sure about the whole concept of this diet.
 
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