Losing lean muscle is spooky business something I don't want, and yet (lol the kicker) I don't like strength training... yet. I've been told that everyone needs strength training and read it and heard it, but have ignored it. I think I needed spookered into it lol I'll get on that!

And eat adequate protein. Both strongly influence protein metabolism, which in essence, is the heart of muscle maintenance.

So if I'm reading the right research I should be eating .37 grams of protein for every pound I weigh, roughly? Like 56g of protein daily? Um.. crap?? That seems like a lot for a person who isn't fond of meat. I like eggs though lol that's about 13g of protein right there today!

This has nothing to do with beach running, I apologize to anyone that comes across this lol.

The RDA for protein is extremely conservative. If you're lifting weights and dieting, you should aim for 1g of protein for every pound of bodyweight - or at least per every pound of your goal bodyweight. Or you can look at it as a factor of the percentage of your calories - for example, I try to get my macros to balance out to 40/35/25, which means I get 40% of my calories from carbs, 35% from protein, and 25% from healthy fat.

When I do that, I get very close to 1g of protein per pound of goal bodyweight: 135g (or so) of protein.

Nutrition is KEY when you're losing weight and working out. And protein will help you feel full for longer as well, so it will help with the cravings and empty feeling that you'd have if you load up on carbs.

Here - read this thread:

http://weight-loss.fitness.com/nutri...ion-101-a.html

This is one of the stickies in the Nutrition area of the board. The other stickie threads are good ones too, but this will answer a lot of your protein questions.

Amazing, thank you for point me in the right direction