The importance of 200g of protein/day.

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It just feels excessive

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Idk man. I have the opposite problem and can't figure out how to save room for carbs. If you're eating whole foods, not snacking all day, and make meat the focal point of each meal it's pretty easy to eat 200g

200g is bullshite. There is a wide variety of body types, weights, goals for fitness. But I have and always live by 450g a day regardless of weight, race or sexual orientation.

Always thought the 200g was BS. I mean someone who weighs 150 lbs isn't going to need 200 grams of protein. Matching your body weight in protein is ideal, but even a little less is still good for muscle growth.

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If you're eating whole foods, not snacking all day, and make meat the focal point of each meal it's pretty easy to eat 200g

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You are either supplementing protein (shakes, etc) or eating close to 2lbs of meat a day. That's not normal. Daily average for most people is probably closer to 100g.

When I track, I try to prioritize and I struggle to get over 150g consistently. Especially when I'm eating sub 2500-2800 calories. I can see how others might have difficulty..

I don't see many options with a ratio better than 10 to 1, calories to protein (2000 calories- 200g protein). So if your eating 2500 and hitting 250g with room to spare, I'm curious how you are doing it. Unless it's a carnivore/keto diet and your are eating tons of meat. More power to you if so. That would just jack my stomach up..

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That would just jack my stomach up..

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Meat isn’t going to do that. Eating processed garbage that you think is ‘healthy’ would do that. It’s really not hard to get to 250 grams if eating real Whole Foods and throwing in a shake or two.

I don't ever supplement to hit 200g. The key is not just eating the typical pastry style breakfast and instead get 40g of protein in the morning. I scramble up some ground turkey, eggs, and spinach over the weekend and wrap it in a burrito and eat that for the week. You can throw in some Greek yogurt and you're at 50g already. For the week I usually make a huge chuck roast in the crockpot (~70g per serving) served over rice, some chicken pasta (50g per serving), and some shrimp and rice (45g per serving). That's over 200g in around 3000 calories. But if you're trying to keep calories lower just air fry some chicken thighs/breasts. I'll also sometimes do a homemade chicken noodle soup heavy on the chicken so it's more like a stew (600 cals with 70g of protein), pork roast (350 cal, 35g of protein), hamburger steaks (640 cal, 64g of protein), or spaghetti.

Point is that there's plenty of high protein options to keep things fresh that are easy to make at home and prep for a week at a time.

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I don't see many options with a ratio better than 10 to 1, calories to protein (2000 calories- 200g protein). So if you’re eating 2500 and hitting 250g with room to spare, I'm curious how you are doing it. Unless it's a carnivore/keto diet and your are eating tons of meat. More power to you if so. That would just jack my stomach up..

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I’m not doing carnivore or keto. Four ounces of lean ground turkey has 120 calories and 26 grams of protein. I made turkey burgers post-workout today.

Just take the leanest proteins there are and switch them up with a bunch of different recipes. Super easy to hit 250 grams a day with carbs and fats too.

i agree that meat usually wotn do it. i stay pretty low carb and mainly only to white rice as it tears my stomach up if i eat processed crap a lot.

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ill say this...high protein is more important when not on anabolics and if you try it and hit is consistently from real food, i think you would be amazed at the results.

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100% true. Not surprised my post got down voted though. I can attest as a natural lifter. I worked out like an animal continuously and didn't gain much in the first 5-6 yrs. Then I got with a lifting partner who was big on protein. Once I started getting my 1lb per body weight I blew up.