We’re not going to add more and more
protein, either. We want you to eat only as
much protein as you need to maintain muscle
mass and support recovery from activity.
(And it’s not like doubling your meat
consumption will double your muscle mass.)
Too much protein might be just as unhealthy
as not enough, so we’ll outline just right
protein recommendations in the next section.
So what’s left?
Fat, that’s what.
We’re going to supply energy with good,
healthy fat sources. And that’s easy to do,
since fat has more than twice the gram-for-
gram calories as carbohydrate and protein.
See—it really is a great source of energy!
ENERGY COMPARISON
As we mentioned in Chapter 5,
our capacity to store carbohydrate
in the liver and muscles is quite