eating too much protein at once stores to fat?

graciesparklesgrace

For the past few months, i’ve basically been consuming all my day’s worth of protein (90 grams) within 4 hours. i’ll start at 8am and usually hit 90 grams of protein by 12pm-ish. I am 5’6 & 113 pounds(i have a very high fat percentage) I’ve just been told that doing this causes your body to store the excess protein as fat. i’m kinda concerned with this since I am trying to lose fat. Is this keeping me from my goals?

GottaBurnEmAll

We are burning and storing fat all day. Overall NET fat storage (or loss) is determined by your caloric intake. If you're not consuming excess calories, you won't store excess fat.

Don't worry about it.

kami3006

If you're in a calorie deficit, you're going to use fat stores, not gain them.

*better to post in one thread all of your macro concerns as there are rules against making multiple thread on the same topic.

Duck_Puddle

If the 5’6” and 113 lbs are correct, you are already underweight, and it’s going to be exceedingly difficult and likely exceedingly unhealthy for you to lose fat.

seska422

You don't have a very high fat percentage. You are underweight.

Don't lose more weight. If you want to have more muscle and less body fat, look into body recomposition (recomp).

Protein is best utilized if you spread it out over the day rather than eating it all at once. Here's a link to some info: How much protein can the body use in a single meal for muscle-building? Implications for daily protein distribution

snickerscharlie

graciesparklesgrace wrote: »

For the past few months, i’ve basically been consuming all my day’s worth of protein (90 grams) within 4 hours. i’ll start at 8am and usually hit 90 grams of protein by 12pm-ish. I am 5’6 & 113 pounds(i have a very high fat percentage) I’ve just been told that doing this causes your body to store the excess protein as fat. i’m kinda concerned with this since I am trying to lose fat. Is this keeping me from my goals?

Duck_Puddle wrote: »

If the 5’6” and 113 lbs are correct, you are already underweight, and it’s going to be exceedingly difficult and likely exceedingly unhealthy for you to lose fat.

^^^This.

OP: Please reconsider attempting to drop more weight. Look into recomp if you're unhappy with how you look. Your post is concerning.

collectingblues

And OP, changing your username doesn’t mean that people will forget who you are. You’ve continually been encouraged to get help. Please do so.

TavistockToad

graciesparklesgrace wrote: »

For the past few months, i’ve basically been consuming all my day’s worth of protein (90 grams) within 4 hours. i’ll start at 8am and usually hit 90 grams of protein by 12pm-ish. I am 5’6 & 113 pounds(i have a very high fat percentage) I’ve just been told that doing this causes your body to store the excess protein as fat. i’m kinda concerned with this since I am trying to lose fat. Is this keeping me from my goals?

No

psychod787

I don't think it's optimal, but Layne Norton states that's its BS we can't use only so much protein at a meal. If we could only use so much protein, humans probably would have gone extinct!

mmapags

I think the OP has some other issues that need to be addressed. But, as I understand it, how our bodies store fat is in a hierarchy. The primary macronutrient that gets stored as fat is....fat. In a calorie surplus, the first form of excess energy to store is fat.

Then carbs through denovo lipogenesis, but only of there is not more fat to store and glycogen stores are full. Not the prefered pathway for fat storage.

The last thing to be stored as fat is protein. It is a metabolically expensive and stressful process for the body to store protein.

psychod787

mmapags wrote: »

I think the OP has some other issues that need to be addressed. But, as I understand it, how our bodies store fat is in a hierarchy. The primary macronutrient that gets stored as fat is....fat. In a calorie surplus, the first form of excess energy to store is fat.

Then carbs through denovo lipogenesis, but only of there is not more fat to store and glycogen stores are full. Not the prefered pathway for fat storage.

The last thing to be stored as fat is protein. It is a metabolically expensive and stressful process for the body to store protein.

It has to be converted to glucose in the liver and then stored or used. Tef like 25-30%. Compared to 4% for fat and 8-12 for carbs.

mmapags

Some additional info on the storage of micro nutrients.

https://bodyrecomposition.com/nutrition/nutrient-intake-nutrient-storage-and-nutrient-oxidation.html/

"Storage should be fairly clear and the nutrients (with the exception of alcohol) can be ‘stored’ in the body for later use. Carbohydrates can be stored as liver or muscle glycogen, under rare circumstances they are converted to and stored as fat. Dietary fat is stored either in fat cells or can be stored within muscle as intra-muscular triglyceride (IMTG). Under certain pathological conditions, fat gets stored in places it’s not supposed to go, a situation called ectopic fat storage. In a very real sense there’s no true store of dietary protein although amino acids from protein digestion are used to make various proteins and hormones in the body. Skeletal muscle is, in essence, a ‘store’ of protein in the body. There is no store of alcohol in the body."

mmapags

psychod787 wrote: »

mmapags wrote: »

I think the OP has some other issues that need to be addressed. But, as I understand it, how our bodies store fat is in a hierarchy. The primary macronutrient that gets stored as fat is....fat. In a calorie surplus, the first form of excess energy to store is fat.

Then carbs through denovo lipogenesis, but only of there is not more fat to store and glycogen stores are full. Not the prefered pathway for fat storage.

The last thing to be stored as fat is protein. It is a metabolically expensive and stressful process for the body to store protein.

It has to be converted to glucose in the liver and then stored or used. Tef like 25-30%. Compared to 4% for fat and 8-12 for carbs.

And as stated in the above post, that virtually never happens. Denovo lipogenesis is rare also. So, carbs rarely get stored as fat. The primary macro that gets stored as fat is fat. For protein to get stored as you suggest above, it would have to go through 2 non preferred pathways. First to convert to glucose and then to convert to fat.