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Originally Posted by Renton555
Totally disagree and this is almost along the same lines as "women shouldn't lift weights or they'll bulk up". Everyone, including casual non lifting women, should be interested in retaining what lean mass they have during weight loss.
Yeah, I agree with this too. I don't know why you would think I don't.
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The goal is to lose fat, eating more protein increases the rate of fat loss relative to lean mass.
Sure. But you want to show your work here on this one? Aragon has published some stuff showing that you can achieve positive nitrogen balance on much less than 1 g/lb.
This girl wants to lose 20lbs. I just don't think that eating 80g vs 160g is going to make a significant difference in how she ends up looking when she ends up there. Just because she eats 80g more protein per day, that's obviously not going to translate in to 80g more muscle conserved.
It's going to be much less. I honestly don't know how much it does translate into, but if you do, I'd be interested in seeing the calculations.
To be clear, I'm sure that 160 is better than 80. I'm just not sure it's significantly better than 80. I think the difference is likely to be marginal.
I actually think in her case lifting would be better than eating more protein. I'm fairly sure she would do better lifting and eating 80g/day than she would eating 160g/day and not lifting.