Todays eats about 1,290 calories and 184g of protein

182 is an absurd amount of protein! Twice what most folks likely need. You are literally pissing money up the wall

You don’t need 1g per lb. Multiple scientific studies recommend 0.8g-1.2g per kilo to maintain muscle mass. If you’re working out you need more protein to build muscle, but even then it’s not 1g per lb. Your body can’t store protein so whatever it doesn’t use is converted to fat or energy and filtered out. If you’re building muscle you also need more than 1300 calories a day.

[This study](https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/6/376) has data from 49 controlled studies with 1,863 participants and shows that there are no further muscle gains on participants who ate more than 1.62g/kilo. And that’s using data people who are lifting weights, not people maintaining muscle mass.

There’s another study I don’t have the link handy to that you could search for that measures the protein intake for people losing weight to maintain muscle mass that shows 1.2g per kilo to be the sweet spot for maintaining muscle while losing fat. This one was very detailed and had the participants do multiple mri’s throughout the study and showed there was no added benefit to eating over that amount if you’re only losing weight and not building muscle. It was on pubmed.

A good recommendation would be not to take dietary advice from influencers or bloggers who are trying to sell you stuff. Almost all the 1g per lb recommendations come from those types of sources or training websites that then sell you advice on how to get that much protein in a day. I haven’t seen one legitimate scientific study that backs that up.