text: how much protein should you eat a day? and what happens if you have too much?   here is what you need to do, if you are serious about losing weight and keeping it off. eat 6 small meals a day about every 4 hours. here what that will do for you, your metabolism will increase (i.e. loose weight) and you will have  more engry. if you go on a diet and eat less, your metabolism will slow down and store to fat. that is why diets dont work. only the size of your fist, carbs (examples:baked potato, pasta, oatmeal, beans, corn, melon, apples, fat free yogurt, whole wheat breads)in one and protien (examples:chicken breast, swordfish, shrimp, turkey breast) in the other. you can also eat vegetables and salads with any meal, they dont have none or little fat). 30min cardo exercise every day. any of these(examples: walking, jogging, swimming,running, biking, ect), monday cardo, tues upper body, wed cardo, thurs lower body, fri cardo, sat upper. sunday eat anything you want and dont exercising, you do this on sunday so your body doesnt go into starvation mode. you need to take sunday off. if you stilck with this you will have a great body. also drink aleast 8oz of water daily! stay away from mcdonals, wendys, ect because there is nothing good for you on the menu's even the salads are bad (beaon bits, cheeze, dressing, ect) good luck :)