Had a talk today with a guy who was sort of offended for some reason about me not eating animal products and lifting weight. He said I’d never get enough protein (never heard that one before!!!). Because lentils aren’t a thing in a world of steaks.
Anyway he said that you need at least 200 grams of protein each day when you lift but that’s of course nonsense. Not saying you shouldn’t do it, but you don’t need to either.
I’m averaging around 110-140 grams a day and I’m doing fine at ±80kg body weight.
Also want to point out. You pretty much can’t over eat on protein. If you say, eat too much fat or carbs your body stores what it doesn’t use. Especially carbs. For example, if you eat say 15k calories of fat, you MIGHT absorb half of that before it all passes because fats harder to digest right? If you had the same amount as simple carbs/sugars you are looking at putting away almost all of it. But back to protein. The body doesn’t store protein. Any excess you have gets burned off as fuel. It you are 15k calories of actual protein ( it saying this is possible just as an example) you would take what you could for building muscles etc. Then burn the rest off as either exercise, as heat, or just poo it out. This is where the “meat sweats” comes from. So if you are trying to put on muscles and not bulk and gain weight… Just eat more protein.