Is it advantageous to trigger MPS with every meal?

[Awk1993]

You do not understand how this works. Eating without triggering MPS, but introducing calories, extends the refractory period. So you're just compromising your outcomes. There are not benefits to eating a low protein meal and unfortunately, getting strong requires some thought about your diet most of the time. If you find that eating a palm sized portion of protein at each meal sucks up too much mental bandwidth to be dealt with, I'm not sure what to tell you.

Well thanks for taking the time to try to explain. I guess there's not much value in continuing this . However, I can't resist one final example. Feel free to ignore it, although I hope you can approve the post.

Austin says he weighs in at night and if he's too light, he'll eat some extra calories so he doesn't lose weight (and gradually gains over time). Question: is it SUBOPTIMAL if he doesn't trigger MPS with that meal? Is it suboptimal if it's only been 2 hours since dinner, or if it's a low-protein meal? I don't think so, but maybe you disagree.

[Jordan Feigenbaum]

Well thanks for taking the time to try to explain. I guess there's not much value in continuing this . However, I can't resist one final example. Feel free to ignore it, although I hope you can approve the post.

Austin says he weighs in at night and if he's too light, he'll eat some extra calories so he doesn't lose weight (and gradually gains over time). Question: is it SUBOPTIMAL if he doesn't trigger MPS with that meal? Is it suboptimal if it's only been 2 hours since dinner, or if it's a low-protein meal? I don't think so, but maybe you disagree.

Is it not clear yet? I'm not sure how many more examples we need, ya know?

For your example, it would be better if it stimulated MPS than if it did not (duh, right)? It is better to eat more calories to produce weight gain (when indicated) than not, but if you could do both- why wouldn't you?