Sport Planning a New Diet. To Much Protein?

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So I need some advise regarding my diet. I'm 5'11 and currently 167 lbs. I use Fitday PC and input all the food I buy as custom so I get a pretty exact calorie count for the day. Now the past month I was eating pretty clean, usually my macro-nutrient breakdown was about 40% protein 35% carbs 25% fat. Thats on a 1700 calorie a day diet. I planned a low-carb diet for this week to see how I like it and how it effects my body. Now I pretty much eat the exact same thing for the entire week. Its just easy for me to buy food for the week and eat the exact same meal everyday. Now I know your suppose to eat around 1 gram of protein per 1 lbs of body weight. With this new diet I will be eating around 30 grams of protein over my body weight. Now I read that to much protein in your diet can be harmful for your kidneys and possibly your bones. So i've taken measures to counter both. I'm constantly drinking water at work and through out the day, I don't drink sodas or fruit juices. So all the water should flush my kidneys pretty well. As for my protecting my bones, I read that to much protein can cause a calcium deficiency and that your body may steal calcium from your bones. So after you read through my diet and don't think I get enough calcium through my diet I'll search out a supplement. OK here we go with my diet for the week.

Average Calorie Intake per day: 1500-1700

Protein: 200-210 grams 54% of daily nutrients
Carbs: 70-80 grams 18% of daily nutrients
Fats: 30-50 grams 23% of daily nutrients

Foods:​

Breakfast: 2 x Jumbo Eggs & 3 slices of Turkey Bacon

Post Workout: 1 scoop ON WHEY shake w/water & Medium Banana

Lunch: Grilled Chicken Breast & Canned Green Beans

Work Snack: 1 cup of Cottage Cheese & 100 calorie Almond Pack

Dinner: Large Salad w/ Chicken Chunks & Light Tuna Pouch. I use salad spritzer as dressing

Before Bed Snack: 1 scoop ON WHEY shake w/ water

Ok now right now with these foods i'm only getting around 1500 calories a day. I need about 200 more so im not starving to death. I was thinking maybe some peanut butter or a big mac (just kidding). As far supplements go, as I mentioned in my diet I use 100% ON WHEY but I also take a mens multivitamin and kelp supplement (iodine). So please take a look over my upcoming diet and please add some input. I think i covered all the basics, I did not post my work out routine but if I need to I can.

Thanks for Reading!!
 
What are you goals as far as weight loss/gain, look (how defined do you want?) and how much do you workout? This will actually have some impact on what you need as well. How long do you plan on being on this low carb diet?
 
Well my goals are to drop around 20 lbs. I'm looking at doing some amateur boxing and my target weight is 147-150 lbs. Now I won't lie I would love to look just cut as hell, but its all about performance in the long run. As far as my work out goes its mostly tons of cardio: lots of mit work bag work and sparring along with a abs class and medicine ball workouts. I run alot, around 3.25 miles mon wed friday and a then i run ramps at our stadium which is about 5 miles on sundays. As far as my weights go I do heavy lifting upper body tuesday and a lower body weights on thursday, so i dont lose to much of my strength. Well I was just going to try this diet for a week see how it effects me, I honestly wanted to try it for 3 weeks.
 
you're pretty low on fat, IMO, so if you need 200 more cals, I'd put them towards fat. It's a lot of protein compared to the other macros, but it's not like it's way too much compared to your weight (thought that can be discussed a lot, according to some recommendations you'd be way above)

Protein damaging the kidneys hasn't really been proved. Most studies on protein and kidney function are done with people who have some kind of kidney dysfunction, so the results can't be transfered to healthy people.
 
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