What's something you wish you started doing sooner/knew earlier in your fitness journey?

[nart]

@wintermint This is mine too. I’m also CrossFitter who was eating half as much protein as she needed....

 

[brianhex]

@nart Yeah I've done crossfit for over a year and made almost zero progress. I'm sure eating more protein would've made a massive difference. I'm vegan and don't think it's hard to get enough protein now, but I just wouldn't go for it without tracking.

 

[ramin]

@nart Same!

 

[wintermint]

@nart I was eating peanut butter toast for breakfast and rice and veggies for lunch every day no wonder I was so sore and hungry!

 

[nart]

@wintermint It’s amazing how few snacks I want when I’m actually emphasizing protein with EACH meal!

 

[shardul007]

@nart Any snack tips? I can never get enough protein. I max out at like 75 grams daily and that’s with a protein bar and shake!

 

[nart]

@shardul007 I do two shakes a day... I don’t completely love it but I love the results. I’m getting 100-125g per day by my estimate (I don’t track macros... yet.) For breakfast I eat two hardboiled eggs (12g P) and 40g oatmeal (5g P), and for lunch and dinner I weigh out 6 ounces portions of my protein before I cook it. 6oz (170g) is a LOT more than what I used to serve myself, so I’m just full a lot of the time. Greek yogurt is my before bed snack if I’m still hungry. It all adds up!

Edit: to delete a weird partial sentence that somehow got rearranged to the bottom of this post :/

 

[rsmdstms]

@nart That's how much protein I am trying to hit. How much do you weight if you don't mind answering.

 

[nart]

@rsmdstms 130lbs, and I’m 5’2

 

[rsmdstms]

@nart Woaaaaah. I am the same weight. Gonna eat the same protien as you since you are seeing gains. I have been eating 100 g of protien and not much improvement.

 

[yusha]

@wintermint So many of the "I've been working out for a year and I look the exact same, what am I doing wrong" posts could've been prevented if OP prioritized eating enough (protein and/or calories) from the start.

 

[cerufrost]

@wintermint Same. I was vegan for years and also wasn't getting enough protein.

 

[deathbeforedishonor9453]

@cerufrost I've been vegan for years and have been getting plenty of protein. Helps a lot if you use a tracker like cronometer. In the ~3.5 years I've been vegan, I think I've ended only 3 days with less than 100% of my daily protein needs, and those were because I was traveling and have food allergies I have to navigate, so food was abnormally hard to find those days. With minimal effort, getting enough protein shouldn't be hard. On the rare occasions I'm worried I'm going to be low on protein from meals, protein bars or protein shakes are pretty great options, as are mock meats, which are usually about at high in protein as regular meat, but often with much less fat.

 

[colwyn]

@wintermint I swear I was reading about protein intake at least once a day when I first started, but somehow "successfully" ignored it until a few months ago smh