protein questions

[diecast747]

i have another question that I here opposites about...

how much protein (on average) can one's body metabolize each meal......assuming you eat every two hours.

plus, will access protein turn to bodyfat?


the reason I ask is someone was telling me you can bulk up on "clean food" and not gain any bodyfat....even with raised calories!


I here so many different things, if someone knows please let me know....thanks

[Tim Wescott]

In my opinion the amount of protein one can utilize at one sitting is dependant on quite a few variables but to simplify it a bit ,a 250 pound person will be able to handle more per sitting than a 150 pound person.

Any excess calroes can be stored as fat,glycogen,or excreted by the body.
You can bulk on clean foods but you`ll have to eat like a monster and still if you take in more calories than you can utilize ,you can add excess bodyfat!

[diecast747]

so in other words shoot for around 500 more a day....I thought the more calories you take in....that is "bulking"

[Troyster]

diecast747 said:

so in other words shoot for around 500 more a day....I thought the more calories you take in....that is "bulking"

No, eating a bit over maintenance (maintenance being the number of calories it takes you to maintain a weight as is) is bulking... overdoing it is "fattening up".

Not sure, but I think there might be a bit of confusion here. Tim is talking, specifically, about the number of calories of protein only that a body can digest and utilize in one sitting (this applies to bulking or cutting).

Bulking refers to looking at your TOTAL calorie intake for the day (carb calories, protein calories and fat calories).

Further, you can only judge the result or effect by looking at a longer time period (say total calories across the week -- or weight gain/loss at the end of the week).

So, in other words, if you know your maintenance cals for protein (as you asked about), he's saying you can't just sit down and eat all your protein cals (or expressed in grams if you like) in one or two sittings. This will produce an effect BEYOND your diet... does that make sense?

So, when we're talking about dieting (bulking or cutting), we presume you're eating roughly every 2 to 3 hours (or evenly spreading your calories roughly evenly across the day)... if not, you COULD produce an effect that overrides your "diet". Eating excess in one or several sittings can possibly produce an undesireable effect (a special situation) beyond the effect you expect to get from your diet.

Hope this makes sense and isn't even more confusing.

T

[diecast747]

I do eat every 2 hours....or I try to atleast.......and what I do eat normally is jam packed full of protein.

I am 204 lbs......according to my calculation my calories expenditure on a sedentary day but still a hard training day is around 2880 calories.....so by upping this to about 3500-4000 with clean foods that should be a clean bulk I persume?

I get in over 1.5 grams of protein/lb of body weight
my carbs are pretty high to...but I taper those off towards evening

thanks for all the help

[Maximum6]

well..if you have a fast metabolism...3500-4000calories a day is right.

if you have a normal.3000-3500...

go with fast metabolism just incase. ;D

And you weight 204lb...so each of your meal should be about 35g of protein if 6meals per day. If 5meals..each of your meal should be around 42g of protein at least.

But thats just matching about 1g of protein per lb of bodyweight...i suggest doubling it up just incase.