What the Heck are Secondary Protein Sources + Why Should You Eat Them?
Embrace Your Real
Julie Ledbetter
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🗓️ 24 March 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Did you know I am aim to eat 140-150 grams of protein a day?
I know that may seem like a lot for you, right?
Protein seems to be the hardest macronutrient (amongst carbs and fats) to consume enough of daily. Carbs and fat are easy, they are in abundance in our diet, and they are also the tastiest and foods we crave most.
But no one ever has protein cravings. If they do, it's rare. It's not like you're on your period and thinking "Oh my gosh I'm seriously craving chicken right now" the way that we do with carbs and fats.
Now, I'm not saying everyone needs to be consuming 140-150 grams of protein every single day. This is just how much my body needs. You need to figure out what your body needs. And once you do figure it out, you need to figure out how to hit that goal.
I know it seems like a daunting goal and maybe even impossible to do daily, and that's why I want to introduce you to secondary protein sources.
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Basically, I calculate your macros for you, educate you on how I calculated them, and then give you all the tools you need to continue macro counting. You can get access now by heading over to macrocountingmadesimle.com.
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| 0:37.4 | Hello and what? Hello and welcome back to you another bonus episode of the Embrace Real Podcast. I recently talked about secondary proteins on my Tik-Toc and I |
| 0:42.1 | also shared it to my Instagram. So today we're talking |
| 0:44.6 | all about what the heck our secondary protein sources and why you should eat them because so many |
| 0:48.7 | people had questions in the comments and I wanted to just make a quick episode on this so that I can point you |
| 0:54.0 | back to this resource whenever you need it but I personally in that video said that I |
| 0:58.2 | aim to eat around 140 to 150 grams of protein a day and I personally find it super easy based on my |
| 1:05.8 | experience and just finding foods that are higher in secondary protein so |
| 1:10.7 | really focusing on my core protein sources and having that be a |
| 1:15.1 | base for each of my three meals, but then also getting super creative with my |
| 1:19.2 | secondary protein sources. And I know just working with thousands of women over the last eight or nine years that protein honestly is one of the hardest |
| 1:26.9 | macro nutrients for many people to reach especially when it comes to them trying to build the body that they want and then they see this |
| 1:34.6 | protein goal but if they're not strategic or if they don't really know how to |
| 1:38.0 | utilize secondary protein sources it can feel very overwhelming and I just wanted to flat out say that I don't believe |
| 1:45.6 | everyone should be consuming 140 to 150 grams of protein every single day. |
| 1:50.2 | I personally feel my best when I have about 1 gram to 1.1 grams of protein per |
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