Originally Posted by
bblair
Darn it. Of course you are right.
As an aside, we got our monthly issue of Consumer's Reports today and it has an article about supplements. Of protein supplements, to continue this thread, it said you need 54g for a 150 lb person (close to my weight), which according to other "experts" seems be about half. What a condry.
To confuse matters even more, as I mentioned above, I am trying to track my intake via Cronometer. Even with tonight's 8oz beef tenderloin, I am short on protein. Am I wasting away or am I terrible at using the app? It says my steak was 75% protein, coming in at 60gm.
The common stated advice for protein is 0.8 to 1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight. So 54 grams is the lower limit recommendation for a 150 lbs (68kg) person. The other experts here you allude to might be assuming a person that does a lot of physical activity. And that will likely get a recommendation of 108 grams of protein.
You just need to decide whether you do enough hard physical activity to justify being on the high side. Two or three bike rides a week probably does not alone justify the upper end. IMO.
If you are on the low side of the intake, then do you have any of these symptoms?
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/p...iency-symptoms
If not, you are probably good enough for protein. Till you can come up with some reason why you need more.
And your steak that night probably isn't the only protein you got that day. So it's likely you got enough. Without needing protein supplements.
And that un-memorialized handful of chips may have had 2g of protein. <grin>