I had written a reply contradicting post #4 and deleted it. Here is what survived.
Self-reported intake is optimistic by a consistent margin in the published comparisons, which is worth applying to your own numbers.
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Tracking intake honestly when appetite is absent
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k.kimani, post #3: The opening post is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit. Liquid sources are tolerated better than solid ones by many people here, and that is a practical observation rather than a nutritional principle. Flagging that the sources on this are thinner than the confidence in the thread suggests. Go to post
Answering the question post #8 raises rather than the one it answers.
Renal considerations around higher protein intake apply to people with existing renal impairment and are frequently generalised beyond that population.
That is all I can say without guessing.
t.varga, post #14: Micronutrient adequacy becomes a real question at very low total intake and is much less discussed than protein. Reading it back, the second half matters more than the first. Go to post
Meeting protein targets on suppressed appetite: this is where the practical difficulty lies. Eating more protein when appetite is suppressed is genuinely hard. Front-loading the day, prioritising density over volume, and accepting this is a problem worth solving all help.
The answer changed when I changed how I was measuring, which was informative.
sterile_file, post #1: On the subject in the title: Tracking intake honestly when appetite is absent Working notes rather than a conclusion. I have spent a fortnight trying to pin tracking intake down and I want to set out where I have got to, because I suspect the honest answer is duller than the thread this will produce. What I have: a consistent… Go to post
An honest declaration on tracking intake: I have a prior here and it is strong enough that you should weight what I say downward. Stating it rather than hiding it.
isotonic_sheet, post #39: Adding the boring version of tracking intake, because the interesting version keeps getting posted and the boring one is usually right. Check the ordinary explanations, in order, and stop when one of them accounts for what you are seeing. Most of the time the second one does. Go to post
Post #64 is the version of this I will quote in future. One addition.
Where somebody reports losing strength, intake and training stimulus are the first two things to look at rather than the compound.
Where I would look next, rather than where I would stop.
Self-reported intake is optimistic by a consistent margin in the published comparisons, which is worth applying to your own numbers.
That is what the documentation says. What happens in practice is usually close.
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f.fonseca, post #85: Taking post #82 at face value and following it one step further. Where intake has fallen a long way, protein is usually the first thing to fall because it is the least appealing macronutrient when appetite is reduced. The confident version of this sentence would be wrong, so here is the hedged one. Go to post
Clear enough that I do not think I have a follow-up, which is unusual.
t.steenkamp, post #62: Timing of protein: spreading protein intake across the day, with some at each meal, is more practical than trying to hit the whole target at one sitting on suppressed appetite. The reasoning is more useful than the number, which is why I have shown it. Go to post
Post #110 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.
Meeting protein targets on suppressed appetite: this is where the practical difficulty lies. Eating more protein when appetite is suppressed is genuinely hard. Front-loading the day, prioritising density over volume, and accepting this is a problem worth solving all help.
Two sources, same conclusion, and I could not rule out that one copied the other.
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