Hi everyone....especially the athletes amongst you!

I'm looking for some high protein sources that help me to pack muscle on. Before I was raw, I used to use protein powders like Aussie Bodies and they were fantastic for me in terms of building muscle.

I've just bought some more mesquite and my body is loooving it, I am practically craving the stuff. I also use spirulina daily but I'm not crazy about the taste so I only use 1 tbsp, whereas I can use 4 tbsps of mesquite in a smoothie.

Other than greens, what other sources are there??? I've heard that hemp powder is great but illegal as a human source. Any thoughts on that? What do you athletes do for high protein?

I've been training quite a lot the last 3 months since I've been raw but I'm not muscling up like I used to, hence these questions!!! Perhaps it's just a transition thing but I realy do feel my body wants more good quality protein.

All wisdom gratefully accepted. :-)

Lovespirit   

Hi Rudy

It's great to hear from you - I hope you're well! :-)

I don't understand your response at all though. Why is it the 'wrong time' and what is not 'politically correct' about my question?!

There are plenty of well-muscled athletes on this site....and I know there are RV body-builders....it's a perfectly valid question to want to know how best to give my body extra protein when I'm increasing my training???   

Hi Sharon


Thanks for explaining, that's very sweet of you. I know Rudy wouldn't be rude, he's just not that kind of person. I just had no idea what he was on about! Clearly I haven't read the eggs post as I'm not interested in eating eggs. Thanks again and hopefully I'll hear from some athletes at some point. :-)

   

Many thanks Steve. All input gratefully received. :-)

Ooh thanks Jen, sometimes I don't enjoy too much sweet fruit so the chia seeds sound great. 

Great tips Jen. So far I have not soaked anything as I'm pretty spontanous with my food. But I could cope with soaking some chias in some OJ while I run ;-)   

I was having a flick over my caloronutrient charts and was interested to find that most of the sweet fruits that are in season now are lower in protein and fat than the average sweet fruits.  Apples, bananas, figs, pears, grapes, persimmons and dates are all between 1-4% fat & protein.  Average for sweet fruits is about 6%.

I find this interesting because now is also the time that nuts (high in fat & protein) are falling from the trees.

Coincidence?... Or divine planning?...

I've bought hemp seed protein powder from happy planet
http://www.happyplanet.com.au/page.php?PageID=4
They can sell it here through the front 'Dr Skoobies' is a nice name .... that you can feed it to your pets but you as a human can't consume unless you have bought it from overseas from them -but yes I can only 'admit publicly' to have only fed it to my pets 

This is what is says for the flour, not the protein powder (i couldn't be bothered finding the page for it)
NOT SOLD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION IN AUSTRALIA OR NZ

Otherwise, where hemp foods for people are legal, use like as a flour replacement (up to 25% of ANY flour can be replaced in a recipe with Fine Hemp Seed Flour). Or it can be mixed into smoothies, juices, yoghurt, sprinkled on cereals, salads or whatever your tastes fancy.

I've added it to green smoothies that I have fed to my 'pets'   lol

However, if protein or food had anything real major to do with building muscle then people would be in kitchens not gyms.  muscles will grow and adapt to overload - if you eat sufficient calories - even in 811 proportions your body will get enough protein from it to build the muscles.

people worry that they are losing muscle when they drop weight on raw food, its just they are dropping fat and water and they dont want to admit they never had the muscles they thought they had.

sure I am thin and 63kg, however when I ate cooked food I was 72kg and puffy. now my body is rock hard - I didn't lose any muscle, i just lost the other stuff.  In fact if I wasn't training as hard as i've been for the last 12 months, when i was 72kg I would have probably been around 55kg in terms of leanness at the time if I had been raw.   I've increased my muscle mass significantly since going raw.  However its going to take a LOT of years to look the size of the muscle meatheads going around - but I know when it comes down to pound for pound lean muscle strength I am probably stronger than they are.