I have always been of the mentality that gaining weight is good, being big is better, and in order to be strong, you need to be eating a ton and ingesting tons of protein. As i have absorbed more of your guys content, i have realized this mentality is not the best. I see lots of strong people (yourselves included) that are a normal weight and if anything even lean.
im 36, 5’10 215 waist 34-36 (pant size) but i feel as i am getting older, im storing more of my calorie intake as fat instead of metabolizing it better like when i was young. My goals now are :
1- to be healthy
2 - to be strong
3- to enjoy it
so my question is should i keep taking protein powders ( i take 1 scoop with milk in the morning and 1 in the evening)?? or should i just eat 3 healthy meals w/out the added calorie/fat from protein powder?
For protein, it doesn’t matter really where you get it from, provided you’re hitting 1.6-3.1g/kg bodyweight per day and less than 10% of your daily calories from saturated fat.
i dont know about the accuracy of my measurement bc i dont have a cloth tape, so i used a cable, then measured the cable with a regular tape measure, but i got 38 in.
your article says 40 is the cutoff, but im sure i could stand to lose a few. should i cut out the protein powder, or maybe mix with water instead of milk (ughh) or should i cut back on the food calories? i need to keep in mind i want good health but i also want my SBD numbers lol
