18-08-2012, 12:53 AM
If your diet is milk shakes, cheeseburgers and ice-cream. You will always fail at NBE because your gut will be 5x bigger than your bust.
I consume over 200 grams a day, and I am a guy. But I have a balanced diet. 40/40/20 is my framework. 40% cals from carbs, 40% from protein, 20% from fat. In my opinion this is the easiest to follow. I hate low carb or low fat diets and see the restrictions as unnecessary. At the moment I am at about 2800 calories a day.
If you have a bowl of cereal for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch and lets say meat and veg for dinner. You might get around 60 grams. But if you change that up and say eat pasta/noodles/fruit or something else that has no protein. Then you easily fall short.
Also as stated before, those recommendations were written like 60 years ago and many people have since changed their opinions. Also key work being required aka minimum. Minimum isn't preferable.
Eggs with breakfast..7grams per egg. I will say 20-30 grams. Sandwich with cheese. Again 20 grams (you need to stack the hell out of meat to get enough as they just put a few thin slices. Dinner, 20-50 grams depending on the meat type. I guess your maths is off too.
I consume over 200 grams a day, and I am a guy. But I have a balanced diet. 40/40/20 is my framework. 40% cals from carbs, 40% from protein, 20% from fat. In my opinion this is the easiest to follow. I hate low carb or low fat diets and see the restrictions as unnecessary. At the moment I am at about 2800 calories a day.
If you have a bowl of cereal for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch and lets say meat and veg for dinner. You might get around 60 grams. But if you change that up and say eat pasta/noodles/fruit or something else that has no protein. Then you easily fall short.
Also as stated before, those recommendations were written like 60 years ago and many people have since changed their opinions. Also key work being required aka minimum. Minimum isn't preferable.
Eggs with breakfast..7grams per egg. I will say 20-30 grams. Sandwich with cheese. Again 20 grams (you need to stack the hell out of meat to get enough as they just put a few thin slices. Dinner, 20-50 grams depending on the meat type. I guess your maths is off too.