Hi Jordan, I thought this study was really interesting because of the way that increased levels of protein produced increased fat loss in the face of fairly caloric deficit. https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/103/3/738/4564609
As far as I can tell they gave the study group 33 calories per kg LBM per day, with 2.4 g of protein per kg body weight per day. (Or possibly 2.4 g of protein per kg LBM per day.) But they also said they gave 35% calories from protein.
I was hoping you might be interested in looking at it and giving your thoughts.
As an experiment I ran the numbers on myself but it didn’t really work because at a weight of 75 KG and a LBM of around 50 KG (I think I’m around 33% BF) that would mean 1650 calories per day, which would be 577 calories from protein, or 144 grams of protein, but 2.4 grams per KG per day would be 180 grams protein per day.
Anyhow, the interesting result was that both groups increased strength and lost fat but that the 35%-calories-from-protein group lost more fat.
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There was substantial weight loss in both groups from pre- to postintervention, but there were no differences in body weight loss between groups (P > 0.8) (Figure 2). During the intervention, LBM remained unchanged in the CON (control) group (0.1 ± 1.0 kg; P < 0.45); however, LBM increased in the PRO (high protein) group (1.2 ± 1.0 kg) compared with preintervention, and this increase was greater (P < 0.05) than in the CON group. Both PRO and CON groups showed a decrease in fat mass after the intervention (P < 0.001); however, fat mass losses were greater (P < 0.05) in the PRO group (−4.8 ± 1.6 kg) than in the CON group (−3.5 ± 1.4 kg)