What happens if you take too much protein?
It can only be bad if you consume mass amounts of it all of the time. Taking too much protein does not help you as much as you think. Your body can usually only digest about 50g of protein at a time. Taking 177g on one given day will not harm you, however you need to watch taking too much all of the time because your body has to get rid of it somehow and it has to work extra hard to get rid of it. Just keep working out and taking protein in normal amounts and you WILL build muscle.
Is too much protein a bad thing?
i have been recently eating a protein bar everyday. and my friend who runs on the XC team with me (who is the #1 boy on the team, i am the #1 girl) is drinking a special protein drink. my coach recommend me drink a protein drink, but eating a protein bar and drinking a protein drink a day a little too much protein for a girl, well let alone anyone? or should i just stick to the drink, except after a race, where i would eat both to replenish my mussels. but i am an avid runner, and more muscular than most girls. what do you think? my parents are not athletes at all, and have no clue, and i don't want to go to my coach, knowing she will tell me the wrong thing. she has been known to do so. thanks!
What will happen if I eat too much protein?
In extreme situations, you might develop kidney stones, liver problems and gout. But unless you are relatively inactive and are suffering from preexisting conditions like kidney disease or cirrhosis of the liver or are eating ridiculously high levels of protein (600g+ daily) for extended periods of time, the odds of serious deleterious effects are rather remote.Vegetarians, macrobioticists, readers and proponents of The China Study will have you believe that high protein diets are unhealthy and lead to certain chronic conditions. However, association cannot predict correlation or causation, a comment that we have all heard before.Other confounding factors such as contamination due to antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, additional processing chemicals and cholesterol associated with animal protein sources are much more likely areas of concern than the high intake of protein itself.
Can eating too much Protein cause you to smell?
Hi I started to exercise January of Last year and I ate chicken, whey protein and oat meal everyday for four months. I began to notice my friends and classmates saying that I smell bad around April. I did everything possible to have a good (God like) hygiene, and stopped eating protein all together. But even today I have a funky smell to me (like sweat even about an hour after taking a shower) So can eating excess protein (Everyday) cause body odor? APPRECIATE Your Input>>>
Oops! I ate too much protein BEFORE exercising, is this bad?
well, call me a pig, but i ate an entire 14 oz. package of tofu. it was reduced fat, so i really only ate about 360 calories (plus another 100 for the oil / sauce) i know tofu is mostly protein, and you're really supposed to eat more protein AFTER exercising. my exercise wasn't anything rigorous mind you. my dad spontaneously asked me to go to the gym with him after i ate. all i did was go on the treadmill- a brisk walk, but at the highest incline, for 30 minutes. i'm probably getting worried for nothing, but did eating all that protein BEFORE going on the treadmill hinder my body's performance in any way?
I ate a protein bar with 17g of carbs. Can that kick me out of ketosis?
The intake that kicks you out of ketosis was called CCLL by Dr Atkins. They range from 15 to 150 grams per day and are different for everyone. CCLLs cluster around 50 though.If it didn’t take your intake to 50 chances are you will stay in ketosis. For a long list of reasons lower is not better.In a comment you mentioned that excess protein turns to carb. It’s true. Protein in excess of metabolic needs is burned for fuel and roughly half of that energy comes as glucose. This is why not one low carb plan in the world is high protein. They are all, without exception, high fat not high protein.The calories in that bar would have been better as fat calories than as protein calories. But high fat bars don’t sell well because there are a lot of people ignorant in biochemistry who want to lower fat intake.
Is it OK to eat 3-4 protein bars a day if it is an easy way to add calories to my diet & help to stop me losing weight?
Yes it is ok to eat 3–4 protein bars a day, and it will indeed add calories to your diet and stop you from losing weight if not increase your weight if and only if the calories are higher than you need.You have to remember that at the end of the day it all boils down to “calories in vs calories out” or “energy spent vs energy gained”. You could eat 20 snicker bars and you wont gain or lose a pound if it fits your caloric maintenance. So all you need to really do is count your calories, eat calorie dense foods, and eat on a surplus.Now before you go and order 5 big macs or 1 lb of protein bars online, you also have to keep in mind what you eat, stick to healthy foods and don’t do too much cardio if you have them in your workout, as they will use more calories, specifically HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training).Also, if your workout consists of more cardio and less lifting, then you will have to lessen the cardio and increase the lifting. As even if you do want to gain weight, I don’t think you want to gain it via fats i.e belly fats (EWW).
I ate way too much protein this past week and gained 3 pounds. What should I eat to lose weight?
You ate way too much calories this week for the amount of work your body done and that’s why you gained 3 pounds (assuming you were not doing some serious resistance training and that weight gain is related to lean muscle gain).You can’t eat anything to specifically ‘lose weight’ (laxatives excluded!!). You can undereat (again assuming you do not negatively impact your body’s basic nutritional needs) and thereby force your body to burn stored fat thereby losing some weight.Weight gain/loss is never as straightforward as some think.Weight gain resulting from increased lean muscle is (by and large) a good thing. Conversely, weight loss from a reduction in lean muscle is hard to justify as lean muscle will usually equate to useful, functional strength.Weight gain resulting from increased body fat may not be desirable, depending on ones current body fat percentage.Your body’s size and shape and functional usefulness (are you fit/strong/healthy enough to live day to day and hopefully participate in activities without too much stress) are much better goals to strive for than weight alone.Good luck!