I had 66g via 2 liters of milk.

I've gone as high as 200-250g with red meat and eggs combo. Personally I think it's a mistake to eat that much protein as it creates skewed amino acid profile if your not eating other things besides muscles. Even then muscle meat compared to things like eggs and milk is sub par in my opinion.

I'm a professional athlete, I train run over 2-3 hours a day and additionally do hi weight low rep weight training. I can say for certain that I always feel best when I keep my protein down and keep the quality up.

Danny Roddy, the dude who wrote the healthy hair diet ebook, just wrote a post with some of Ray Peats ideas about tryptophan. Ray Peat gives me a hard on.

i usually have between 130 and 170 grams of protein a day. yesterday it came from eggs, grassfed beef steak, bacon, and some ground deer meat. maybe a total of 1-1.5 lbs of meat and 4 eggs. im 5'6, 140lbs, athletic build.... my average ratio is 60% fat, 25% protein, 15% carb.... this seems to work really well for me.

I'm at 50-70 grams per day, being a male at a bodyweight of 165.

In days of yore, when intensely bodybuilding and deadlifting 400+ pounds, I was at 180-200 grams.

But this seems more natural to me. I don't usually feel like gorging on meat in lieu of gorging on fat. I'd rather eat a ton of butter and cream and some fruit and tubers than lots of muscle meat.

And the Jaminets, Peter from Hyperlipid, and others advocate a lower protein intake. I believe part of the reason is the body's limited capacity above 200 grams to eliminate nitrogenous waste products efficiently. Also, your body (read: liver) does not absolutely love using protein for fuel, and I cannot see cavemen eating tons every single day of the year.

1 lb ground beef: 80 g

Two chicken legs and thighs: 92 g

1 can coconut milk 14 g

186 grams total. (From nutritiondata.self.com)

Lamb 30 Fish 20 Gelatin 30 Vegetables 10

90g

You ask how you could eat paleo and not eat as much meat. Two things come to mind.

Try falling back onto other high fat, non meat options. Macadamia nuts are the first thing that comes to mind, but other appropriate cheeses, oils, and tallows could also work.

Try to eat more greens and cruciferous vegetables. They provide a nice vehicle for the delivery of those other fats listed above (butter loves brocolli).

Travis, I have noticed similar issues. When I eat as much meat as I want, or feel like I need, it's clearly more than most recommendations whether it be the PHD, OD, what have you. I have tried the higer fat (over 200g), lower protein route (say 75-125g) only to feel weaker, slower and notice an increase in fat gain. When I go medium fat (50 - 150g) high protein, I feel stronger, more alert and have more energy.

I am 28 (M) Athletic build. Play soccer 2 times a week, heavy weights 3 times a week. 20-30 min walk daily.

I have been averaging 60 g per day over the last six weeks.

Started tracking my food in fiday pretty closely as I am trying to lose 10-15ish pounds while improving body composition.

This is putting me at 67f-18p-15c for ratios. I plan on sticking with that for another six weeks and then dropping to to 50g protein if I don't see any progress. I find it unlikely that small change will make a difference, but that would be the lowest range of protein for me that I have seen recommended. That should end up about a 65f-15p-20c ratio

I like to eat a lot of protein, and I can easily eat more than I need at one sitting. I have followed a higher protein diet for the most part for many years, so I am experimenting with lower protein to see if it makes a difference. Coming from an Atkin's type diet for many years this all seems like a bunch of micro management to me but I am keeping an open mind. Not tracking anything and eating all of the bunless burgers I wanted stopped working for me a while back :)

I probably have between 140-200g in a given day, I'm going to try to track a week, never done it before, but it'll give me a better idea of portions. I'm REALLY trying to stay under 1.5lbs of meat in a day(not counting eggs). Food is catching up to me though, haven't been able to run due to a knee injury, yet I haven't scaled back the calories.

Wow, that is a ton of protein Travis. I usually only get about 100-130 grams daily, and yes sometimes I have to eat fat straight out of the jar to keep calories up. Most bloggers suggest to limit protein for longevity.

According to Fitday, I ate 213.6 g yesterday. My average over the last 2 months is 210.9 g per day. I too just eat 2 or 3 times per day, when I'm hungry. I'm also active with running, lifting weights, chasing my kids around, and household chores.

This is working for me and I'm unlikely to change it. I consume adequate amounts of fat too. I'm 5'10" and currently 187 pounds.

I personally aim for about 0.5g/lb bodyweight a day (70g-ish). On the weekends I try to get majority of my protein from gelatinous bone broths.

Could be a placebo effect from the Danny Roddy/Perfect Health Diet stuff I've been reading, but I tend to feel slightly "off" when I get over 100g/day protein from solely muscle meats for several days in a row.

I go for the absolute fattiest cuts of meat, and get a lot of my calories from coconut products, macadamia nuts, and butter. I'm also a moderate carb kinda guy, so that fills out calories too.

I'd say go for whatever makes you feel good. The possibility of slightly increased longevity on restricted protein is probably not worth the decrease in quality of life by avoiding adequate amounts of tasty meat that make you feel good and healthy.

I am currently averaging about 50/80 grams of protein per day, which is about 15/20% of my intake.

This is low for me, but I've been improvising lunch a lot with coconut based trail mix and melon/berries just because it's quick.

I am not liking the affect of lower protein, I used to average 75/100 grams and I think it just works better for me. It gives me more energy and makes me feel stronger than when I eat more fat. I am trying to make time for eating a good lunch due to the difference I am noticing with lower protein.

I never count, but I do have very meat-heavy days... I guess I should eat more "fillers" like veggies and eggs (lower protein). I often eat a pound of beef at one meal, with beef franks for breakfast. I guess that's what's good about IF and skipping meals ;-) But I do feel good, my muscles grew, and I lost some in my waist...

Can we "see" that we eat too much protein? Or is the possible damage hidden and can only be realized in years to come?

I had ~100g of protein, that is the value I actually normally go for.

Evidence is very mixed on the "how much protein is good..." (unless your in kidney failure, etc). So I try to stick with what I think is reasonable someone would get eating fatty meat without going overboard on having the body generate glucose from protein. Seems to help avoid off BO as well.

I would say I'm averaging about 100g of both protein and fat and 50g of carbs daily :)

Here are numbers from today counting back through 3/1 in terms of g/day protein consumed (for a nursing mother):

132 ~ 167 ~ 86 ~ 137 ~ 85 ~ 123 ~ 104 ~ 130 ~ 173 ~109 ~104 ~ 128 ~ 115 ~ 164 ~ 132 ~ 120 ~ 112 ~ 120 ~ 156

Protein is about 20% give or take of my daily calories.

I wouldnt bother counting how much protein you wat unless you can apply it to something. From what I learned and have read is that a person should eat based on their goal weight of lean tissue. My goal lean tissue is 150-160 lbs so I eat just under 200g a day. based on my diet I shoud be around 176lbs with approx 10% bf or less.