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I need to eat 6 meals a day @ 40g protein / 40g carbs / 20g fat in each meal.

This is why god invented excel. So you can eat real food. Just read the labels...

I've been trying to put on some muscle mass over the last 6 months, and simply trying to consume enough protein throughout the day is one of the hardest parts. I can certainly sympathise with someone looking for a simpler solution - it would interest me too.

This protein talk is BS, unless you're an elite athlete there's no way you are not meeting your protein intake with a normal diet. Whatever excess protein you take will be converted to energy (or fat), so you're just paying more per Kcal than carbs.

Did you ever see prisoners? They get huge and they don't drink whey in prison, they don't even eat a lot of meat. All they do is rest all day and, in the limited time they have to workout, they pull heavy weights.

And take steroids.

Prisoners have natural higher levels of testosterone already, and even for the ones on steroids, protein intake doesn't change so the point is still valid.

You really don't have to eat that much protein (maybe two grams per kg of lean body mass) just make sure that you are eating several hundred calories over your maintenance every day and you are lifting consistently, with good intensity and incorporating progressive overload.

A lot of this stuff (very high protein, high meal frequency) is out there because it keeps supplement companies in business.

Not to mention that when you find one particular solution that works (eg. 6 chicken breasts a day), it gets very boring, very quickly. Although I doubt that drinking Soylent everyday is going to help with the boredom!

For me it varies. There are some foods I can eat on a daily basis without ever tiring, but some others I go off very quickly. So far I've found one protein shake I can stomach for long periods of time, the others I get sick off after about 2 weeks.

> So far I've found one protein shake I can stomach for long periods of time, the others I get sick off after about 2 weeks.

Which is that, if you don't mind my asking on matters of personal curiosity?

I have similar eating habits insofar as finding some foods off putting if I eat them too regularly.

Gold Standard double chocolate. I tried their cookies and cream first, and was fine for a couple of weeks before I just couldn't stomach it any more. I've tried a couple of other brands and flavours with similar results.

I meant to thank you for sharing this. I'd been researching protein powders and found that many reviews were kinda iffy on most (and I'm not personally fond of vanilla, blech). It's good to see recommendations from someone else with similar eating patterns (i.e. getting sick of things relatively quickly); I find that recommendations based on similar behaviors tend to match my own preferences more closely.

Or it's a placebo effect. Who knows?

Thanks again!

1. Eat clean

2. Lift heavy

3. Sleep

4. Be consistent

Go on bodybuilding.com / reddit.com/r/bodybuilding and read posts about peoples diets and see what works for who. People usually post progress pictures in r/loseit, r/gainit, r/progresspics, r/brogress along with their routines and diets.

If you're looking for a more scientific approach: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/articles

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