How many grams of protein do try to eat everyday?

[enfuego23]

I'm trying to increase my protein because I'm Crossfitting more. I'm reading a lot of conflicting advice about how much protein you should have every day - I do not follow the 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight - I actually try to eat a bit more. 

Ugh - I'm second guessing myself, questioning whether I am eating too much protein? 

[wambam]

1g per lb of bodyweight

When I was trying to get leaner, it was a bit more.

[shorewife]

I go for about 70g (the womens' requirement is a bit lower than mens') but 1g per lb of bodyweight should be fine if you are trying to increase muscle mass.

[emilyinchile]

Another 1g/lb person here. This for me matches up to 25% of my daily calories - I seem to do better with the higher carb of 45-50%, and keeping fat below 25% is hard, so that leaves protein at 25-30%, which I think is a good range.

[wambam]

Also, it is really hard physically to eat too much protein. Once you get much above 30%, it's really hard to choke anymore down because of how satiating it is.

Bets are off though if you're using protein powder.

[bostonmichelle]

I'm a bit below 1g/lb. I am to eat 25% protein which is 100g. I usually hit my targets, the only days I don't is long run days.

[ktzmoh]

I go for a bit less than 20% which typically puts me at around 80gs or so?

In my quest for the pull up, I wound up reading a few studies about post lifting protein. If I recall correctly, they show that the max the body can process after a workout is 25gs, after that it doesn't benefit and becomes taxing in your kidneys. Whatever you wind up consuming in terms of total daily intake, I would just make sure it's spead out over the day. But there are likely people here who know better

[sitnspin]

My RD recommends half of my weight in grams of protein, so about 60 grams or so.

[emilyinchile]

May 22, 2015 10:03:10 GMT -5 ktzmoh said:

I go for a bit less than 20% which typically puts me at around 80gs or so?

In my quest for the pull up, I wound up reading a few studies about post lifting protein. If I recall correctly, they show that the max the body can process after a workout is 25gs, after that it doesn't benefit and becomes taxing in your kidneys. Whatever you wind up consuming in terms of total daily intake, I would just make sure it's spead out over the day. But there are likely people here who know better

Yes, good point. In general, I try not to eat more than about 30 g of protein at a time (I mean, if I'm eating a steak then I'm eating the whole steak, it's not that big a deal, but I don't purposely try to eat a ton at once) and eat 4-5x/day so that I'm letting my body really use all of that protein.

[gt7301b]

I aim for 100 grams.

[mrs.jacinthe]

I think my current goal is 120, but I'm set for super low macro of fat, so there's that.

[labbie]

I'm usually around 80, sometimes higher. So far so good, but I'm still learning what % of what works best for me.

[lb2006]

I'm SUPPOSED to be around 120-130, but find it hard to reach it being a mostly non-meat eater (fish & eggs)

[mandiespharm]

Another 1g/pound of body weight.

We were just talking about this the other day at cf. The trainers recommended for most people a good target is body weight in kg times 1.4 to 1.8. Or another alternative is to read the book "flexible dieting two point oh" and that has some other info. But they are NOT nutrition experts by any means...and neither am I.

[oreos]

I aim for 100g per day and I usually fall in the 90g-130g range.

[badgergirl66]

I'm right around 90-120 every day. Which tends to be 20-25% of my calories.