Same views more or less. You def need to up protein as you cut and get leaner and leaner. But maintenance wise, you really don’t need a crazy amount and can scale back.

Fantastic post! Would be interesting to see what your progress is now.

Here are my updated thoughts since I wrote this:

– 0.6 is totally fine for MAINTAINING.
– You need less protein if you have less muscle and a significant amount of weight to lose. In this case 0.6 is still fine.
– 0.8-1g is better if you’re cutting and you have more muscle mass and you’re cutting to low bf level (12% or lower).
– I don’t think anyone ever needs more than 1g per lb bw.
– Focus on averages instead of stressing over hitting an exact number each day. If your goal is 0.8g/lb per day, some days you might be at 0.6, some days at 1g, some days you might fast the entire day. But it should average out to 0.8 over the course of a week or whatever.

If you’re 140, you absolutely don’t need 150g. You need to fire that coach. Here’s what I’ve found with protein…if you’re trying to build muscle or lose fat, higher protein is great (0.8g/lb bw is fine for 99% of people). Less protein is fine if you have A LOT of weight to lose initially. But if you’re trying to maintain, you can get away with less protein.

I don’t worry about splitting it, but I will try to get some protein after I workout.

Numerous studies and even a meta analysis by Menno Henselmans concluded that there is ZEROOOOOOO benefit beyond .82g per lb of bodyweight, and that’s already inflated due to a double 95% confidence rate.

Realistically, .75g per lb is more than enough for 99.9% of the world’s population, even .82 per lb is being overly ‘safe’.

More is not always better.

You’re probably thinking of this

https://mennohenselmans.com/the-myth-of-1glb-optimal-protein-intake-for-bodybuilders/