After reading about your personal experience, I felt some nagging doubt. I went back to my database to see how much my food would weigh if I set the protein rat

After reading about your personal experience, I felt some nagging doubt. I went back to my database to see how much my food would weigh if I set the protein ratio of my diet to 1.4g/kg body mass by increasing the protein-rich bean and grain meals. The total mass of food eaten per day would come to 2840g. That would be sufficient protein for hard weightlifting, and it sounds doable. But my experience was different. At 1.1g/kg I found it too hard to eat the amount of food my diet prescribed. I would just stop salivating. Then maybe the underlying problem isn't the amount of food but my lame-ass cooking.