Whether protein timing matters at a large deficit — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable.
A follow-up question about Whether protein timing that I did not know to ask the first time.
The earlier thread answered what I asked. What I should have asked is below, and I think it is the one that matters.
Eating anything at all: on substantial appetite suppression, eating enough total calories to maintain lean mass is the priority. Protein comes second to total intake.
Renal considerations around higher protein intake apply to people with existing renal impairment and are frequently generalised beyond that population.
Adding it because I spent an afternoon working it out and nobody should have to twice.
Narrowing post #3, because the general version has more than one answer.
Density matters more than quantity when total intake is limited. The same protein in a smaller volume is the whole game.
The claim is narrower than it sounds, and deliberately so.
Protein sources: animal sources (meat, fish, eggs, dairy) are denser and easier to hit targets with. Plant sources require higher volume. Neither is nutritionally superior; volume and personal preference matter.
Correct me on the arithmetic if it is wrong; I would rather know.
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I read post #3 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite.
Fibre and fluid tend to fall alongside protein when intake drops, and the constipation reported here follows from that as much as from the mechanism.
I would call that likely rather than established.
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Post #6 answers the question as asked. The question underneath it is different.
Targets in the literature are usually expressed per kilogram of body mass and are higher during a deficit than at maintenance. Which body mass is used matters.
None of the above is medical advice and I am not qualified to give any.
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