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Old December 13th, 2012, 08:30 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb
Doug Freyburger
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Default Benefits of ketogenic diets

Walter Bushell wrote:

One may also have to limit protein which can be converted to glycogen.


This is yet another reason that low carbing is low carb, medium protein,
high fat not low carb, medium fat, high protein. At least when
optimized for loss.

The body can't store much protein or is slow to store protein. it has
to grow new lean mass to store protein. So when we eat excess protein
grams, a tiny amount of it goes to growing new lean and the rest of the
excess is burned into glucose at very roughly 50% efficiency.

Let's say your protein minimum is 100 grams, however you calculated it.
Let's say you ate 150 grams of protein today. The best guess is those
extra 50 grams of protein count as if they were 25 grams of carb.

Reading food reports of a number of people it's been my impression that
folks tend to near protein grams near a specific level most days. Some
higher, sme lower but clustered around a number. So the carb
contribution from protein becomes a part of the background. It only
effects their carb counts when they want to work very hard to optimize
their results.

Protein over eating to the point of gain is not a frequent problem that
I can see. Protein over eating as a percentage compared to fat calories
seems common is newbies not so much among seasoned low carbers. I think
partially because we gradually lose fear of fat plus as we lose our
calorie quota goes gradually down and the way to reduce calories is by
reducing our intake. Counting carb grams seems to work better than
countng carb percentage. Counting protein grams seems to work better
than counting protein percentage. Both for most plan types anyways.
That leaves fat grams as what remains to reduce as we lose and need to
less.