What do you do when it’s noon and your protein is done already?

#1

What do you do when it’s noon and your protein is done already?

#2

Oh this happened to me sooo many times!

I eat the lowest protein fat that I can. Salad greens smothered in dressing, cream cheese and avocado rolled in seaweed (or just one or the other), Chocoperfection dark chocolate (sugar free). Ghee with coconut butter. Ghee with a little almond butter, cheese (I know, protein, but you gotta do something!) with butter on it. Stuff like that. Veggies in mega-butter works as well

#3

great suggestions! thanks! this problem is way too common for me - I need to figure it out!

(Doug) #4

Want to do some shots of olive oil? :slightly_smiling_face:

(Duncan Kerridge) #5

Try not eating before noon :wink:

#6

How many meals a day are you having?

I dropped breakfast the day I stopped and counted how much protein I was eating in a day, and decided to try reducing it to halt a weight loss stall (it didn’t break the stall, but it did reduce my protein! :grin: )

By replacing breakfast with bullet proof coffee, later a coffee substitute with cream in it, I effectively reduced my protein by a third.

Later on, I switched to lower protein lunch options too, in the form of baked chorizo slices with cream cheese on top, salad with mayo and token protein portion, egg mayo with minimal egg, and so on.

I think I could run indefinitely on bulletproof drinks as meal replacements - coffee, coffeesubstitute, bovril, marmite, cocoa powder/erythritol hot chocolate, all made with cream, butter or coconut oil. They are my go to options if I am driving for several hours and don’t expect to find anything decent en route. Am going to have to make a few adjustments to that, now I am ZC.

(Edith) #7

Also, make your protein portions smaller. I’m just now learning I don’t need quite so many ounces of meat per meal. It’s taken me 9 months to realize that.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #8

Don’t forget to drink the bacon nectar (no, no! once it cools!). :bacon:

Heavy cream in coffee or on blueberries will help. Buttered cheese is a great idea; I do that too.

Richard gave a lecture on “Too much protein?” at Low Carb Gold Coast last year (which LCDU just posted on their YouTube channel), and his research suggests that up to about 3.5 g a day per pound is probably about the limit before ammonia toxicity sets in. So you won’t hurt yourself unless you really overdo it. But it’s probably a good idea to plan your meals more carefully, so that you can divide your daily protein between them, and then eat enough fat so that you’re not experiencing hunger between meals.

#9

Thanks for all of your responses here. Is it ok to drink a couple tbs of heavy cream or eat plain pats of butter to make up for my lack of fat early on when I screw up my protein early on?

#10

Yes!! Have some butter, that will work just fine!:+1:

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #11

Yeah, and heavy cream is yummy, too!

(Vivienne Clampitt) #12

Heavy cream seems to work for me!

(Stacy Blanchard) #13

I started Keto in December. Since then I have been on a quest to find out everything I can. The more I learn the more I am able to tweak the Keto diet to fit me and my life better. There are great resources between podcasts, books, documentaries. I say keep learning. Maybe your body can handle and needs more protein. Dr. Ben Bikman is a part of the LCHF community and his research is shedding new light on how protein reacts differently with people in ketosis vs thsoe eating a standard diet. They are not the same. Good luck figuring out what is best for you.

(Valerie) #14

Sort of repeating some of what is here. But my suggestions:

  1. start you day with bpc (bullet proof coffe/keto coffee): this should carry you through until after noon with no protein consumed
  2. alternatively switch to bpc after you “use up” your protein
  3. fast for 16:8 (only eat between noon and 8:00 pm)
  4. not worry about it that much

Good luck! :blush::+1:

#15

If you are able to consume enough protein for the day by noon I’d be interested to see what numbers you are working with. Regardless of the number you have arrived at it’s important to remember that protein is the most satiating macro (fat is the least) so including some protein in every meal is going to keep you feeling fuller than eating all your protein at one meal and then surviving the rest of the day on butter and cream.

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #16

I eat more protein.
It is not a problem for me.

(Diane) #17

I find both protein AND fat incredibly satiating.

I would add to the list of “fat” foods, cream cheese; either alone or on pork rinds (though pork rinds also have protein), olives, macadamia nuts, avocados. My choice usually depends on how many grams of carbs I have left for the day.

And yeah,