Protein and Age?

[English-David]

Hello fitbit world,

As a verteran trainer now in my mid 50's, my body building days are over, and now all i seem to be able to grow well is my waist line!

Whilst trying to cut down on meat (i am not a veggie) the thought of half a chicken or tins of tuna can be a turn off. The old books seem to suggest 1 gramme of protien per kilo of body weight! that for me is 110 grammes of protien which seems an awful lot.

If i do not take shakes and the amount of protien, would i be going down the route then of burning mucsle when training hard as apposed to fat? Not too much out there in www land for seniors and nutritional needs for the 50+ gang!

Regards and Best wishes

PS would love some freinds on here please got just one 

[Colinm39 · Accepted solution]

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@English-David wrote:

Hello fitbit world,

As a verteran trainer now in my mid 50's, my body building days are over, and now all i seem to be able to grow well is my waist line!

Whilst trying to cut down on meat (i am not a veggie) the thought of half a chicken or tins of tuna can be a turn off. The old books seem to suggest 1 gramme of protien per kilo of body weight! that for me is 110 grammes of protien which seems an awful lot.

If i do not take shakes and the amount of protien, would i be going down the route then of burning mucsle when training hard as apposed to fat? Not too much out there in www land for seniors and nutritional needs for the 50+ gang!

Regards and Best wishes

PS would love some freinds on here please got just one 

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@English-DavidI have just been researching that for a 70 yr old whom I'm looking after and the recommendation was 70 gms/ day for him because he is malnourished, but the CDC Guidelines are a great help (Fitbit base their strategy on the CDC Guidelines) here is the link read this

[pappab]

Hi David!

Visit http://www.styrkelabbet.se and ypu will get some good information about training/weight loos. Keep on training and you have still 21 year to be in my age, and I´m still in good shape.

Go on rocking Dave.

Bernt

[frankie-uk]

Hi 

I have just bought my fitbit and am looking forward to losing around 30 pounds of body fat. I live in Manchester and saw that you are English too. I am hoping to track what I eat but notice that the database is full of US restaurants and measures in cups. Are you using the database and if so how do you get round this?

[English-David]

Hi, 

I know what you mean, the good part of the food log is you can customise it for your own food logging. It doesn't have to be cups - you can use grams etc.  To be honest though I got my wife to enter the data (and this response!) off the foods I use most often like salmon, tuna, rice etc.

for other foods which you will not eat all at once, like a box of muesli if you enter the values for 100g (which are usually on the back of the packet/box) when you enter it as an entry you are given the opportunity to put how many grams you  have had - it then works out the calorific values for that quantity automatically.  It is time consuming initially but once the majority of your regular "diet" meals are entered they are all stored for use later.

Hope that helps a little?

[Colinm39 · Accepted solution]

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@English-David wrote:

Hi, 

I know what you mean, the good part of the food log is you can customise it for your own food logging. It doesn't have to be cups - you can use grams etc.  To be honest though I got my wife to enter the data (and this response!) off the foods I use most often like salmon, tuna, rice etc.

for other foods which you will not eat all at once, like a box of muesli if you enter the values for 100g (which are usually on the back of the packet/box) when you enter it as an entry you are given the opportunity to put how many grams you  have had - it then works out the calorific values for that quantity automatically.  It is time consuming initially but once the majority of your regular "diet" meals are entered they are all stored for use later.

Hope that helps a little?

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@English-DavidA couple of weeks ago a Fitbitter posted this wonderful link on portion sizes.

http://blog.photocalorie.com/portion-sizes/

[English-David]

Thanks Colin,

The PhotoCalorie is a good tool as a visual. Just laughed when i compared my "shovel type" hands to my good laides hands "tiny" but guess we wold take an average. One assumeds the average plate size would be around 10 inch?

Love the idea and the feedback is excellent.

Have a great day and with best regards

Anon 

David

[NewDawn]

A plant based diet requires less protein than one with meat/fish/fowl. Seeds and nuts are whole foods and provide almost all of the nutrients our bodies require. Read all you can and depending on your choice of foods and needs today (I too am in my 50s at least for another year lol) and nutritional needs do change as we age, as we change our exercise.  I prefer to eat as a raw vegan and felt best when I dehydrated my own foods and kept the flesh out of my diet. But all things change, I fell and was forced to adjust my eating style and hope to get back to 90% raw 10% cooked vegan. I read so many books and opinions and it all comes down to what is best for you. Also gained weight while unable to eat raw. Keep asking and reading till you find your comfort zone; best of luck to you.