Amount of Protein

[karpull]

Can anyone tell me how much protein we should have in a day.

[Sue1975]

Anything between 20 to 40% of your daily calories should come from meat. catbs not more than 5-10 %, the rest should be fat.

IMHO. YMMV.

[karpull]

so 20-40 percent should be protein?

[Sue1975]

Yes...20% to 40% of your daily calories should be protein....sorry....my earlier reply was a bit misleading, it can be meat/fish/eggs/soy anything protein.

[PrincessAmeenah]

90 grams I think

[RosemaryStevens]

I found this (Googled) information very helpful:


You *need* a certain amount of protein every day to repair tissues, and
since you're eating very few carbs, you also need an extra margin of
protein to produce the glucose you actually *need* without breaking down
muscle tissue to do it. How much protein you need is an individual
thing, but a rough estimate can be reached this way: Take your
*healthy* body weight in pounds (It is *essential* that you actually use
a reasonable, healthy weight for this calculation. Do *not* use a
weight which would make you fashionably anorexic-looking.), and divide
that weight by two. This gives you the rough number of grams of protein
you need each day for tissue repair. Now, add about 10-20 grams for
gluconeogenesis (your body making the glucose it needs.) This is the
number of grams of protein you should be eating in a day.

So say a reasonable weight for you would be 130 lbs. Half of that is
65. Add another ten to twenty grams, and you get 75-85 grams of protein
that you need each day. More than that won't hurt you, but it may
lessen your ketosis.

Now, remember that most of your protein foods have about 7 grams of
protein in a "unit" -- an ounce of meat, poultry, fish, or cheese has 7
grams of protein, as does one extra large egg. A cup of yogurt has 8
grams -- near enough for government work. So we're talking about, say,
three eggs for breakfast (21 grams), four ounces of chicken in a salad
at lunch (28 grams), and a quarter pound hamburger for dinner (28 grams
*if* it's weighed after cooking; if it's a fast food burger it actually
weighs about 3 ounces after cooking, and will have about 21 grams.) Add
a few grams in the form of a handful of nuts and seeds for a snack, and
you've hit 80 grams.

Looking at this, many of you may realize that you've been eating a *lot*
more protein than you really need -- after all, how many low carbers
believe that they can eat unlimited protein food and still lose? Again,
the extra protein won't hurt you, and if you're losing weight, keep
doing what you're doing -- but if you're not, you may need to consider
cutting back.