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What would be a natural way to find if you're taking enough protein? If my sleep patterns, digestion, stomach, bowel movement, muscular recovery are fine, am I taking enough protein in accordance with my workout regimen? Or could it be that I may be absolutely fine but still taking less protein than the one my workout requires and hence building up less?

Edit: by natural I mean without using scales, going just by how I'm feeling and body is doing.

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From: https://examine.com/nutrition/how-much-protein-can-i-eat-in-...

That being said, since fecal losses of protein and short-chain peptides tend to smell incredibly bad one can use a 'sniff-test' after bowel movements to assess if protein is being lost in the feces and thus not taken up by either the intestines or the muscle.

Not pleasant, perhaps, but should be effective :-)

The link was unbelievably informative. Thank you.

Define "natural" - meaning you don't want to track what you eat? If that's the case, if you simply eat 4-8oz of some sort of lean protein with every meal, 3-5 meals a day, your protein intake will be adequate.

Yes but protein is expensive and I don't want to take excessive either. (assuming I'm financially constrained)

Eggs are pretty cheap and each one contains about 6 g of high-quality protein.

pea and whey proteins are cheap, less than $1 / serving

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