- schnokobaer ( @schnokobaer@feddit.de ) English45•4 months ago
Eating 76 kilograms of protein seems slightly excessive, would change my body drastically no doubt. /s
- Guntrigger ( @Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz ) English18•4 months ago
I was going to say the same thing. I can’t imagine the shits that would give you.
- zero_spelled_with_an_ecks ( @zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ) English12•4 months ago
Probably wouldn’t get to that point, it would be like in Seven where Gluttony’s insides burst.
- TRBoom ( @TRBoom@lemm.ee ) English5•4 months ago
They might be referencing the rough math for daily protein consumption. It works out to about 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight for men and half a gram per pound for women.
Or they could be a bat
- UndercoverUlrikHD ( @UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev ) English5•4 months ago
A gram per pound is overshooting it quite a bit unless you’re a vegan not minding your protein quality intake. The maximum effective protein intake is ~1.6g/kg (0.72g/lbs), more than that will just go to “waste” (energy/energy storage). If you’re steroids the limit is higher, but there’s currently no exact number on it.
- DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ) English1•4 months ago
“Energy storage” generally meaning “fat,” for the Americans in the audience.
- TonyTonyChopper ( @TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ) English3•4 months ago
why did you mix grams and pounds
- TRBoom ( @TRBoom@lemm.ee ) English6•4 months ago
On US nutritional labels fats, carbs, and proteins are listed in grams, but we generally measure everything in pounds.
When calculating your macro nutrition for weight gain the general recommendation comes out to about 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight. This is just a coincidence, but makes finding out how much protein you need to gain muscle mass pretty easy if you know how much you weigh and given that all of our labels have that info in grams.
- Tlaloc_Temporal ( @Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ) English3•4 months ago
For the same reason they still use pounds for anything.
- Guntrigger ( @Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz ) English38•4 months ago
So I did a quick number crunch on this: To get to about 75kg of protein per day, let’s say you only eat lean turkey and drink protein shakes, you’d need 200kg of turkey and 200L of protein shake.
You could probably make this intake more efficient, but however it goes in, I don’t think my body would like me eating 370,000 calories per day.
- Gloomy ( @Gloomy@mander.xyz ) English53•4 months ago
But eating 370,000 calories per day WOULD change your body drastically.
- Guntrigger ( @Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz ) English21•4 months ago
You’re not wrong! I could probably eat 365,000 less calories and still drastically change my body.
- F04118F ( @F04118F@feddit.nl ) English6•4 months ago
5 kcal per day would change your body drastically? Oof.
- TonyTonyChopper ( @TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ) English8•4 months ago
I think the above poster meant 370,000 kcal so it’s a 5 Mcal difference
- F04118F ( @F04118F@feddit.nl ) English5•4 months ago
I was joking by taking him literally… I would say this does not come across well in text but IRL this kind of joke also fails to land regularly
- TonyTonyChopper ( @TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ) English4•4 months ago
I was joking by taking you literally
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English2•4 months ago
Are you defining literally as literal or as figurative? I literally do not know anymore.
- Guntrigger ( @Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz ) English3•4 months ago
Hey, I don’t do macros, it’s all about nanonutrition these days.
- Malgas ( @Malgas@beehaw.org ) English14•4 months ago
I wonder what he actually meant. 1g/kg maybe? That would be 125% of the RDA, which I don’t know if it’s a good idea but it’s certainly more reasonable than…that.
- meteorswarm ( @meteorswarm@beehaw.org ) English8•4 months ago
A common, reasonably evidence based, protein target for bodybuilding is 1-2 g/kg, with the cursed unit of 1g/lb being about the upper limit of what’s useful. That’s probably what this post is referencing.
- jobby ( @jobby@lemmy.today ) English11•4 months ago
Eat a single handful of Oleander leaves with a cupful of any drink you wish.
Your body will change DRASTICALLY.