Mark OttobreFounder, Enterprise Fitness · Results Driven Coaching

The Best Sources Of Protein (Weight Loss)

2 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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In this nutrition talk, the speaker argues that animal-based proteins are generally more effective for achieving desired body composition, especially for people with limited time. While acknowledging that vegan or vegetarian diets can work, they are described as requiring more planning and supplementation because plant proteins are incomplete. The speaker emphasizes selecting high-quality animal sources—organic, grass‑fed, free‑range, and preferably local. A range of animal protein options is listed, including chicken, turkey, fish, hunted game, and farmed meat, with regional examples such as kangaroo in Australia and buffalo or venison in the United States. The overall message is that incorporating quality animal proteins simplifies weight‑loss and body‑composition goals.

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Food sources can change, certainly. Like, when we look at protein food sources, you want to think of animal meats. Now, I know there's a lot of people who may be thinking, what about a vegetarian diet? Well, vegetarian sources will always be incomplete proteins. You're going to supplement with it. They are not superior. The jury is certainly out on that. You can be a vegan and still achieve really great body composition, but what you should know is a lot more work. And especially if you're going to include animal products, you've just got a lot more choice. It does become a lot more easier. And let's face it, in a world that is really time poor, and when you have so many delicious options available to you, if you're looking for body composition, it's definitely one that includes animal sources. And in that, you obviously want to be selective about the animal sources, like organic is best, grass-fed, free-range. If you can buy local, absolutely buy local. Now obviously we can get things that are fished, hunted— they're our main ones— and obviously farmed, because cows are farmed. But we're looking at chicken, we're looking at turkey, we're looking at game meat. So if you're in Australia, things like kangaroo. If you're in America, things like buffalo or venison.