re: Is too much protein bad for you?

Prolly. I've known people to have a 25g shake with all eight meals. 16 x 25 is only 400g. If you are drinking plenty of water, no you almost assuredly would have no side effects other than rapid fat loss.

But unless you are doing an extreme diet like the velocity diet why would you only do shakes?

And why do so many of y'all refer to how many shakes you have a day. How many shakes you have doesn't describe crap. Might be 25g shake, might be 200g, who knows?

There is, btw he isn't saying there is no limit but he doesn't track macros and only eat when hungry so of course he doesn't think there is a limit. I doubt he has ever gone over 300g in a day.

There are diets like this, velocity diet in particular. It the reason it's not talked about much is because it fricking sucks. How the hell are you supposed to have a life? You gonna turn down every invite to go to dinner? God forbid you be married or have a gf let alone kids.

Calories in vs calories out is an inexact science anyways. You can get close to your TDEE or maintenance calories through a calculator but you aren't going to know for sure without trial and error. With that in mind you can get plenty close enough using a food scale and eating regular food and logging everything.

But if you want to go on the diet you described, look up the velocity diet. The original only had one solid meal a week. I think the new version is once a day. But do the original for 28 days like it says and get back to me if you think your described diet is something somebody could stay on for any appreciable amount of time.

Oh the other reason is because STEAK is frickING AWESOME!!!!

I did the og velocity diet about ten years ago. Worst 28 days ever. It would allow for a big salad with olive oil and regular vinigar on wednesdays but no meat. I use to do these grilled portabella caps and at the time I thought it was amazing. I mean I love mushrooms, but if your diet is so strict you think mushrooms taste like dessert than you have gone overkill. It worked though no doubt about that.

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there are a lot of protein shakes, you can develop some gut issues
can you explain a little more on what this entails. Symptoms of too much protein shakes?

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I think he's referring to things like whey based powders that can upset gut integrity for those with dairy issues.

Even with a plant base powder treat it like any processed food and read the label. Look out for sugar content, unpronounceable ingredients, and added "gums"

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can you explain a little more on what this entails. Symptoms of too much protein shakes?

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Just think about it. You're drinking whey which is from milk, and artificial sweeteners. If you're drink over 3 protein shakes a day for an extended period of time, it can just be uncomfortable. Not the case for everyone but for some yes.

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I was being facetious, of course there's a reasonable limitation on how much you should/can take in say 1 day... despite what the resident contrarian on this board might tell you

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To clarify: the OP's question is written a little awkwardly. I would change things to say something more like: unless you are trying to overeat yourself to death (like a fraternity hazing or something like that), you can't really have "too much protein". 777 is right - you are limited by satiety. But of course, the same way it's possible to die from drinking too much water, certainly there is some remote physiological limit where you will croak from "too much protein" (and even then, in those quantities, I doubt that it would be specifically the protein per se that would do you in.) TL;DR - my answer sticks and it's the right answer. Not sure what is "contrarian" about this.

How much water are we talking here?

gallon plus

Thanks 777