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Originally posted by Krsmith3302:
When I competeed in figure last year my trainer had me on a very high protein/low carb diet. I am 5'5 and was 115 lbs during contest. During my last 8 weeks I was consuming over 200 g of protein and less than 115 g carbs. I did whatever my trainer told me without question, but after researching protein I have found that your body can only use so much before it stores excess as fat. I have found that 0.8 x body weight (lbs) is the max grams of protein you should consume which would have put me around 92 grams. I was doubling that and then some!!!! During my last week of pre-comp I started to pee blood and thought my kidneys were not handling this high amount. Is this probably what happened? And is the 0.8 x body weight a standard in figuring out how much protein I need?? Please help, as I realize now after competing that I looked a little soft and maybe this is why...excess was stored as fat?!!