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Originally Posted by flutter
What about other meats, like duck, venison, kangaroo..other seafood like oysters,prawns,calimari etc. Any of those appeal?
Go and grab Allan Broushek "Calorie King" pocket book. Or i think you can order it from his website www.dietclub.com.au
It lists every single food out there, and it says how many calories, grams of everything, like fat, protein carbs, fibre etc is in foods.
Its about $10, i buy the new one every year, you can find it at any aussie bookstore
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Got it and love it! Alan's book DOES have a section dedicated to protein, and according to that, I can reach the required 60 grams if I eat fish, cheese, vegies, grains, and the protein bars. I spose I might try and eat a little more bread (I only eat wholegrain bread) because the only place I'm getting grains from is my brekkie cereal every morning.
Flutter: my gym has this really cool system where they measure your body fat using calipers, then they enter it in and it calculates, according to your starting body fat, starting weight, current body fat, current weight, how much % of your body is LBM and how much is fat. After ascertaining your bodyfat %,you could sit and work this out yourself, for instance:
(Oversimplified example)
Starting body weight: 100kg
Starting body fat: 30 percent = 30kg fat, 70kg LBM
A number of months later ...
Current body weight 80kg
Current body fat: 25 percent = 20 kg fat, 60kg LBM
In that example, their body fat has gone down but so has their LBM ... that can happen too, as weight loss (especially without weight training) will diminish muscle mass. My example is more complicated, but in my case, my LBM is going up. (49.8kg up to 52.1kg) and my body fat went down (34.7 kg down to 27.7kg). Therefore, a total fat loss of about 7kg - muscle gain of 2kg = total weight loss of about 5kg. Well, at that time it was ... I have dropped a bit more since then.
LBM up and BF down is where you want to be
*LBM includes bones, muscles, organs. Take into account that someone increasing muscle mass will also increase bone mass.
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