The article failed to mention another huge benefit of protein - it makes you feel full for longer. Eating 2000 calories of carbs is super easy. Eating 2000 calories of chicken breast is painfully hard.
If I know I'm going to be traveling all day, I load up on eggs for breakfast. It beats getting ripped off for crappy snacks at travel waypoints.
Is it? That’s about 10 cups of cooked plain boiled rice.
I think carbs only hit the “easy to hit 2k” mark when it’s sugar (maybe?) or when it’s added with fat, especially fried foods.
> Eating 2000 calories of chicken breast is painfully hard.
I think this is about 7 cups of boiled, skinless breast of chicken.
I think this gets back to fat, or lack thereof.
For me personally, lean proteins don’t really fill me up — I have knocked back a pound of chicken breast with fresh veggies and I was hungry a few hours later. It’s mainly fats that do the trick for me for feeling sated — nuts, fat in meat, cheese, oil (esp. for roasting vegetables), etc.
> Is it? That’s about 10 cups of cooked plain boiled rice.
Or two large milkshakes [1], or about 7 doughnuts or chocolate bars, such as Mars or Snickers, or about 500g of any random chocolate candies.
[1] https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca/product/triple-thick-milk...
Plenty of fat contributing to the calorie count in all of those.
I did mention sugar is probably the easiest carb to consume large quantities of, but 2000 calories of even something carb heavy like frosted cake would be challenging for many people. You have to get back into heavy fat “cakes” like cheesecake before the quantity becomes less of an issue.