Greetings,
I think I made a mistake here and I am willing to admit it. I think the measurement for the amount of protein was in ounces and not grams. And I think that was per day.
Please forgive my long term memory. I apologize for the confusion.
mickey
PS: I really enjoyed the discussion. It didn’t get nasty. Best regards to you all.
PPS: Just found this:
1 ounce = 28.3495231 grams
Yeah Ironfist,
I pulled my head out of the ground and I saw your entry.
I feel like a d o r k.
mickey
mickey – we forgive you. ironfist is well known for his problems with measurement conversions to/from metric, so we’re used to such mistakes. 
c’mon, to be fair there must have been some recommendation at one time that gave a maximum individual serving intake rate of 20grams.
Maybe mickey’s doctor did say it but was just not up to date.
Besides, 20 grams per meal for a sedentary adult would equal the USRDA of 60 grams a day for an adult male. Maybe it was an extrapolation of that given 3 meals a day. That is also equal to what mickey’s link give for a sedentary male.
I can’t remember where I saw it stated but I wanna say it was Bill Pearls book ‘Getting Strong’ circa 1994 edition. I know his book is considered somewhat outdated now.
1 ounce = 28.3495231 grams
that must be a weight equivilant and not a grams of protein per ounce statement.
:tooma:
Oso, yeah, that’s a conversion factor. As to the protein, IIRC it’s closer to 50g for your average (200lb-ish) male that should be your upper limit at one time. Obviously it depends on your individual parameters. In my protein shakes I have 1/2 whey, 1/2 calcium caseinate + a shitload of milk. Whey is absorbed quickly, so that goes straight in. CC is like a slow release fertilizer. IIRC it takes up to 8 hours to be digested - it forms a curd in your stomach - so you’re gunna be able to absorb more of it.
IME, I feel like crap if I eat much more than 40g at a time.
right now i’m hitting:
7am 30ish at breakfast
9am 12g
10am 12g
11am 12g
12pm 12 g
1pm 12g
2pm 12g
sometime between 4 and 5 I get another 30ish (pre class)
sometime between 8 and 10 I get 30-50. (dinner)
so, like 160-180 or so and i’m not lifting heavy or anything and I’ve just been back in this schedule for the last 5 weeks or so.
that’s just Mon-Fri too, I don’t follow as rigid a schedule over the weekend.
Originally posted by rubthebuddha
ironfist is well known for his problems with measurement conversions to/from metric, so we’re used to such mistakes.
Dude, whatever. I totally googled that conversion up there. I copied and pasted the entire text from the results page down to the very last digit.