A Guide: How to Eat 200 Grams of Protein A Day
In 2018, I decided to stop being lazy and started going to the gym. The course to getting from 320lbs to 240lbs has been wrought by many setbacks (COVID, moving, new jobs, new gyms, rich, poor, lymphoma, iron toxicity, high triglycerides, and a slew of other zingers we will get to). But I was always fixated on two basic science elements: a. You need to burn more calories than you consume to lose fat. End of discussion. b. You need to build muscle, muscle maintenance increases the floor of your daily caloric burn. c. I wanted to do both a and b at the same time. So what did I do? Well I got on a treadmill. That was obvious. Then I started randomly using random pieces of equipment at the gym. This got my weight down to 296lbs in two months (for those doing math, that was 24 pounds in 8 weeks, or 3 pounds a week lost) in the same time I added virtually no new muscle growth. Something was wrong and I discovered it while reading those Men's Health magazines, something about consu...