Four months ago I was unhappy with how I looked and decided I needed to change.

I’ve been intermittent fasting and exercising and dropped about 10kg, so I’m down to about 70kg.

Now I’m looking at building muscle, but I almost certainly don’t get enough protein. When I looked up how much I should be eating, it’s about 1.6g per kilo, or for me about 115g.

I’ve been drinking a meal replacement shake for lunch which is advertised high in protein at about 14g, then eating a reasonably low fat dinner which is definitely not 100g of protein.

I need to get more in, but I just don’t know how, and looking online it’s lots of specific recipes but I’ll end up cooking 3 dinners a day for family which is a lot.

I’m looking at that Surreal cereal which is 15g a serving, which if paired with a protein shake I can bump up to about 35, but I’m still a way out.

How can I bump up the intake relatively easily?

  • Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I spent a while trying for 90 grams protein on a 1600 calorie vegetarian diet (small girl trying to lose weight without muscle loss). At that point I needed to supplement with powder and make only the right choices. It gets so much easier when you can eat more in total.