lisalifer's Journal, 19 July 2016

try adding a small container for full fat greek yogurt. It has about 18-20g of protein in just that one small container. I usually have that with fruit and nuts. The nuts add a little protein as well. or you can add a small piece of lean protein on the side and you will easily hit 30g 

I've been boiling eggs for snacks. They are only 70 calories. I cut them in half and put a little mustard and pepper on them. Quest bars are 200 calories and you get 20 grams of protein. Atkins has drinks that are low calorie and low carb and you lot's of protein (haven't tasted them yet so not sure about that). There are also other types of protein shakes that are low carb low calorie and you can get in more protein. Greek yogurt and string cheese are also good sources of protein. 

With all respect to your doctor - he/she, is not a bio-chemist. Yes, med school has requirements of chemistry and biology but never to the extent that a biologist or chemist needs - along with the extensive, years of, lab work. Unless the med student is going into a particular area of medicine and medical practice that requires a more in depth background in biology and chemistry. //////////////////////// To that, I say all that to say- we make all of our own over 120,000 different and uber specific proteins and amino acids. And, "proteins" from food, especially non fresh foods (fresh food defined as just killed, just pulled from the ground etc.), and cooked foods do not have protein molecules in them any more (decay dynamics and heat from the oven are among many things that will do a molecule in) - and even if they were fresh protein molecules from a pig or cow or avocado - they were made by the pig or cow or avocado for the pig, cow and avocado respectively - and you too will make all of your own proteins. Later on this week I will go into this in detail but for now, that's the short of it. 

thanks for all the advice.. 

Protein and fats keep you full longer than carbs so combing your meal with either protein and/or fats will help. The 30g recommendation is from the minimum amount needed to get the ~2.5g of leucine needed to promote muscle growth. That should limit lean tissue loss during dieting. Having said that, if you are on a ketogenic diet, having that much protein over 3 meals may be enough to prevent ketosis. Good luck! 

Boiled eggs are the best.  

The protein in your food is dead, decomposed, bio degraded, gone, moot - these are the facts and realities of decay dynamics which includes each and every living organism on earth. Those gram readings are of some fresh kill - not the decayed carcass nor the cooked carcass. 

There is nothing biologically active about a boiled egg. Once the raw egg is cooked - everything has changed about it - the smell, the shape/mass/size/volume, the taste, the texture, color - you name it - and these are all molecular changes - and once you change a molecule, a protein molecule say, then, just like you can't get the hard boiled or fried or scrambled egg back to it's original molecular form - so too you can't get the proteins back to their original molecular structure - and for any molecule to work in the way you need it to - you can't change it at all. At all. Just like humpty dumpty can't be put back together, neither can a molecule. 

Try fat-free greek yogurt to boost your protein. I mix it with Advocare Muscle Gain to get my protein to over 30 grams of protein. I also drink an Advocare Meal Replacement Shake every morning which has 24 grams of protein and tastes great. I can give you more info if you want. 

You make your own proteins - that is the only way proteins work in your body - except for toxic proteins from foods (see allergies). You want big muscles or strong muscles - lift weight - eat some carbs for fuel and then lift weight - your body will then synthesize the proteins that work in tandem with the muscle tissue - that is how muscles are made, not from eating or drinking anything that has some idea of protein molecules in them - molecules that won't make it past the hydrocloric acids. 

Oh Ollie, my friend. This nice woman simply wants some ideas of how to add protein to her program, not a science lesson...almonds, yogurt, cottage cheese, quinoa, protein shakes all could help if you do not like eggs. There are a few essential amino acids we all need that come from food sources. 

thanks  

Science is essential - all we are talking about is science - proteins are the stuff of chemistry and only chemistry - atoms, molecules, compounds. And when you have the math wrong, when you don't grasp that two plus two are not five - you can't proceed further, not with any success anyhoo. When you understand some base chemistry you will know that we don't in fact need those essential amino acids - that they are in fact not essential at all and if we never ever got them in our bodies - nothing will happen - nothing at all. Now I could explain that to you and everyone - but then people clam up, they shy away - as if I was about to explain War and Peace. the book, in detail. No, it is easier to understand and learn than so many think - I can show you in two pages just why essential amino acids were based in false science from the last decade - and then provide you with a government link of this decade that says ollie was in fact right... it is important to get the science right - our lives depend on it. And it frustrates me that so many would rather read so much about everything else but when asked to read one tiny book about molecules - people run for the hills. Protein products are expensive and don't work - it is chemically impossible for them to work. Foods we think are higher in proteins, meats, which are not, are more expensive as well - and provide much more health risks (toxins etc.) than a carrot say. And when a doctor tells you to eat more proteins, that is faulty and shame on him/her for falling in line with common misconceptions.