Do you go higher carb or higher fat on your macros and why?

I'm close to even when the cut starts and slowly reduce carbs down to about 50grams a day when my total calorie intake is about 1800 with 200-220 being protein.

My body just responds better to moderate fat and low carbs. Moderate being around 80 grams

I also struggle to hit protein so I just do 100g in shakes a day mixed in ice water

Higher fat but only because by the time I'm done eating all the beef and eggs to hit my protein goals there isn't much room left for carbs. Plus I don't know how you can eat 300g of carbs without eating junk anyway.

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how are you guys getting 200-250 grams of protein a day?

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I cook 20 eggs with a pound of ground turkey and spinach and portion that out for breakfast burritos for 5 days. Eat breakfast early. I eat right when i get to work then have some greek yogurt an hour or 2 later. I'll usually put a few pounds of chuck roast in a crock pot with carrots, potatoes, rice, and some other vegetables and serve it over rice and gravy for a week. Then I'll fry some chicken thighs or wings in an air fryer. I'll also do ground beef with spaghetti sauce or make it into hamburgers or sometimes make a homemade chicken noodle soup to mix things up. You can add bone broth to your rice instead of water to get some more. I rarely need a shake to hit 220 grams. Basically just eat eggs with meat early in the morning. Then use beef chicken rice beans and pasta and come up with whatever sounds good. Jambalaya, stuffed bell peppers, seafood pastas, catfish courtbouillon all work great too. Keep some variety so you don't get bored

Use whey isolate

Fats make me feel more satiated and I can go longer without meals. If I go low fat/ high carb then I’ll get extremely hangry by day 3-4. Everybody is different though.

Last night I cut up 6 boneless skinless chicken breasts into 1.5" cubes, sautéed them, half in one skillet and half in another. Once they were cooked, I added in a bottle of BWW Asian Zing sauce and some water in one skillet, and BWW Garlic Parmesan and water in the other, and let them simmer for about 30 mins. Came out damn good! I'll probably get 5-6 meals out of that.

That will be my lunch for the rest of the week. For breakfast I've been eating a pack of homemade beef jerky. I drink one or two shakes a day on average. That alone is about 100G of protein. Add in some eggs, maybe some peanut butter, and a decent meal for dinner, and I've got right around 180G-200G of protein for the day.

This weekend I will be firing up the new Pit Boss I got for Christmas, and gilling a bunch of different meats. Chicken thighs, burger patties, sausage, wings, etc. Having a gas grill definitely helps keep some variety in your diet.

That’s three pretty big meals and you’re at 140g of protein. Where are you getting the other 60g?

They really aren't that big of meals. Also, I wasn't clear - I eat two of those daily along with my dinner (honestly pretty similar to those, maybe even more protein) and evening snack below:

170g Whole Milk Greek Yogurt
340g Strawberry Carbmaster Yogurt
200ish grams mixed berries
40ish grams Catalina Crunch Cinnamon Cereal
That comes out to ~50g protein, 15g fat, 65g carbs.

My biggest guilty pleasure is peanut butter, and I usually get two servings of that at least a day so that's another 14-16g protein that I eat daily.

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My biggest guilty pleasure is peanut butter

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PB powder in greek yogurt. You'll thank me later