Turning fat into lean muscle

March 11, 2003

I read an article in " Physical " magazine today at the gym wherein a

man, weighing 195 at 5'10 " , asked how to promote the gain of lean

muscle mass and the loss of fat stores.

The advisor replied that he should up his protein to 1 gm per pound

of body weight, or 195 gm protein per day. This includes food

sources and protein drinks.

Doesn't this seem like an awful lot? I think I take in about 65 gm a

day. If I took in 1gm per pound of (ideal) body weight, I would have

to up it to 180 gm. I'd be drinking shakes all day!

Hmmm...I wonder if this advice is sound.

Vicki A.

March 11, 2003

I read an article in " Physical " magazine today at the gym wherein a

man, weighing 195 at 5'10 " , asked how to promote the gain of lean

muscle mass and the loss of fat stores.

The advisor replied that he should up his protein to 1 gm per pound

of body weight, or 195 gm protein per day. This includes food

sources and protein drinks.

Doesn't this seem like an awful lot? I think I take in about 65 gm a

day. If I took in 1gm per pound of (ideal) body weight, I would have

to up it to 180 gm. I'd be drinking shakes all day!

Hmmm...I wonder if this advice is sound.

Vicki A.

March 13, 2003

In a message dated 3/11/2003 5:09:21 PM Central Standard Time,

vickiang@... writes:

>

> I read an article in " Physical " magazine today at the gym wherein a

> man, weighing 195 at 5'10 " , asked how to promote the gain of lean

> muscle mass and the loss of fat stores.

>

> The advisor replied that he should up his protein to 1 gm per pound

> of body weight, or 195 gm protein per day. This includes food

> sources and protein drinks.

>

> Doesn't this seem like an awful lot? I think I take in about 65 gm a

> day. If I took in 1gm per pound of (ideal) body weight, I would have

> to up it to 180 gm. I'd be drinking shakes all day!

>

> Hmmm...I wonder if this advice is sound.

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Well, remember now, this is a guy trying to probably do some body-building.

But it's probably not too far off the mark. I do know that there are some

bariatric surgeons out there advising their post-op patients to do 180g of

protein daily ! That may be a bit excessive to my way of thinking, (a lot

depends on how distal you are) but I myself do 120g daily in protein shakes

alone. I don't bother counting protein grams from food bcuz I assume 120 is

probably enuf for me. I'm not body-building or anything. I do feel that 60g

is probably kind of low. The dieticians in the hospital program where I had

my surgery done recommended 60g a day as a minimum to shoot for. But I found

out later that a lot of the advice they were handing out was based on

" normie " nutrition and they didn't know a heckuva lot about post-ops like us.

They WERE recommending TWO multi-vitamins a day bcuz we don't absorb

everything we consume. So in MY pea-brain, it seemed like we should be doing

twice as much protein (just like twice as many multi-vit's), since that seems

to be what most think we malabsorb, middle of the road--justa about half of

everything. Now, you will find all KINDS of variations on this theme and lots

of people being very adamant on one side or another. So I try to go down the

middle and then season it with a bit of common sense and see where it gets me

when I have my lab tests done.

I'll betcha Vitalady has some answers on this; have you asked her?

Carol A

March 13, 2003