All Protein created equal?

[Cash43]

Last winter I followed the Renaissance Periodization Diet templet, it basically lays out your macros based around when you train. When calculating each group of macros you only count the macro that your taking in. Example: if you do a serving of PB as your fat source you only count the fat, the protein DOES NOT count toward your daily protein macros.
Only protein you count is from lean animal sources and whey/casein.

So now I'm doing a IIFYM diet, my question is do I count ALL protein towards my daily total? If in a meal I'm getting 35g from chicken, then 5g in the whole grain bread, and 3g in the rice do I count the bread and rice protein towards my macros?

 

[MrRippedZilla]

Count all the protein towards your daily total.

The 2 issues with that template are:
- Inaccuracy, which is a major headache on IIFYM.
By purposely not counting certain macros your entire setup is flawed from the get go. Your either going to end up overconsuming calories to get enough macros or underconsuming macros to stick to your caloric intake. The PB is a good example here because the caloric number isn't based only on the fat amount - it's based on everything.

- Complete, unnecessary, OCD.
If the protein quality is really a major issue for you, and yes all protein isn't created equal, then you would need to breakdown the AA profile of each food source and make up for whatever happens to be missing/is overloaded. So you'll end up not only counting protein but also individual AAs.
This bypasses the inaccuracy issue but good god man, even pro bbers/athletes don't take it to this extent. Hell most worthwhile nutritional experts don't take it to that extent either. It's a hell of a lot time spent on counting stuff for a very minimal, if any, gain.

As long as your having normal, mixed, meals this simply isn't something worth wasting your time over.

 

[Sk8man101]

I would.

 

[Mayne]

Complete or incomplete does matter only if you consume only incomplete protein for a long period of time like only peanuts for 10 days. Layne Norton explained in an interview you can count your incomplete protein as long as you consume complete too or you can count 20g protein from 100g peanut butter if you would eat 100g of chicken later on in the day which is another 20g of protein. Also you can check nutritiondata I believe for combos so you know your food contains all amino acids you want.