You just gave me a stroke.

Me too, or did he just have a stroke?

Week one of the new diet and lift routine and I have figured out a couple things.

One, it is really hard to eat 146 grams of protein. I've been doing greek yogurt with fruit and granola for breakfast, Chicken Salad/Tuna Salad/leftovers for lunch, and either beef roast/pork roast/chicken breast for supper and I am lucky to get 120g. I've just found it's really hard to eat that much meat. My TDEE says I should be around 2050 calories and I can get there, but some days, with all the meat consumption, I am struggling to push over to make sure I am not at a deficient. Would it be better to eat some additional "emptier" calories than not hit my calories for the day? As I said in my previous post, main goals are to get stronger and gain more endurance. I went ahead and ordered some Optimum Nutrition Protein Powder and plan on using it for days when I am coming up short. First time I've used a protein powder so I'm a little nervous about that.

Two, damn I forgot how much I loved to lift. :)

Maintenance....sweet maintenance.

Woohoo! Lost my vacation gain, plus some!

Struggling with 146 grams? LMFAO

Dude, drink a protein shake or two if you can't eat it.

2 scoops of ON Whey = 50g protein

Easy man, I'm a chick and I just never paid attention to my protein intake before. Eating a pound of beef for dinner is a challenge. Based on what I am cramming down my mouth now, I was probably getting 50g before watching. I've never done protein shakes before and was trying to get it all just on diet, but I see now that I have to get it in protein shakes if I want to get there.

Tried a sample of ON's Casein protein.

Shit is grainy as all get out. Nasty.

Stick with whey, brah.

You really need to stop giving advice. ;-)

Drop a scoop of protein powder in your morning yogurt.

Instead of chicken salad at lunch have straight chicken. A 4oz breast is about 36g of protein.

Have a scoop of protein mid afternoon and then your lean meat dinner and you are basically there.

Just saying it tastes like shit.

Extreme Milk chocolate Optimun gold standard. Mix with a little water, little vanilla almond milk= yesssss

Why are you saving it all for dinner?

Pen is right -- you're eating too much other stuff. 146g of protein is less than 600 calories. That should be way less than half your intake.

I'm not trying to save it for dinner and I'm not getting enough calories. I eat 4oz greek yogurt with fruit and a little granola for breakfast (~22g), 5-8oz chicken/tuna/pork with fruit for lunch(~40-50g) and then try to eat whatever will get me all the way there for dinner(~50-60g). I added some cheese and other stuff for snacks but the portions for meals fill me up more than I thought they would and I'm never really hungry. Before I would have pasta or something with dinner that added calories easily, but the plan was to do fruit and veg intead. Right now, I eat as much of the protein as I can and only eat a little of the veg before I feel really full.

I'm not trying to make excuses or anything. I never thought it would actually be hard to eat food. I was on a intermittent fasting routine before this so I don't know if that is part of the reason I fill up so fast. I'm gonna get the protein powder and do something like pen is saying.