Questioning your diet

Hello Dr. Feigenbaum - how do you consume enough protein?

Jordan you mentioned that you try to consume around 40 grams of protein per meal, and if you eat three times a day then that is only 120 grams. So does that mean that you also drink three 30 gram protein shakes a day as well? Or what else do you do?

If I take two scoops of peri rx, how many grams of protein should I count that for?

Also, you mentioned that you aren’t an advocate of low carb diets; however, if you are consuming that much protein a day, and you have to eat vegetables, etc., then there isn’t much room for hihg-carbohydrate food like pasta if you’re trying to restrict your calories as you obviously do to stay so lean at 200 BW - am I right or am I thinking wrong about this?

One more question: you mentioned on the AOM podcast that you can’t lose fat and build muscle at the same time, but strength training builds muscle, and you are making gains and getting stronger, does that mean that you are building muscle despite keeping your weight really low?

Thank you very much,

Matt

Willy_P,

Thanks for the post. I hope you are well.

I typically eat 3-5x/day. If I eat 3x/day I am for 40g protein from animal per meal. If I eat 5x, it’s probably closer to 30g.

Let’s assume that I eat 120-130g protein from animal sources per day, which is a little low when looking back through my actual dietary logs (closer to 150). That’s 480-520 calories from protein alone. Now, what am I supposed to do about the other 3000+ calories I need per day to maintain weight and stave off hangry-ness? Carbs and fat, right?

Guess what both of those things have (usually), protein.

I get 50-80g of protein per day from trace proteins. You’re not counting those, which is why you’re making this complicated. I don’t particularly like pasta, but I do eat a lot of rice, cereal, oats, and potatoes to get ~500g carbs in a day.

I said in the AOM podcast that for those outside the untrained and overweight, significant muscle gain while losing body fat doesn’t really happen. You’ll gain a little bit whilst dieting, but you won’t be able to measure it unless you own a lab.

Jordan, would you say it was possible for a previously trained person to be able to simultaneously gain muscle and loose body fat when returning to lifting after a prolonged period of non training (up to and above one year)? My measurements using skin fold callipers, scales and a good old measuring tape would indicate this is going on but I always believed that this wasn’t possible.

Great response Dr. Feigenbaum, I appreciate it!

Sure, but they are untrained at that point.

Jordan would you say that you’re currently dieting to stay at 200 pounds?

Would you lift any more weight then you already do if you decided to ‘bulk up’ to say 220 or 230?

Also, I think it would be cool one day if you wrote a blog about what you would eat for a typical day.

Thanks again!