I’m muscular but not lean. I’ve been eating 2 meals a day for years, with one meal a day 1-2 days a week. Used to do a ton of fasting, but haven’t done that in a while.
Here’s one of the tests I did. Forgot I did this after 37 hours fasting
Here’s what my blood sugar looked like back then, when I was testing higher protein:
I wouldn’t think so - but it’s individual. If you feel like eating 400-450g chicken in one go, it probably does good to you. I would be starving after this much but I have that with 1kg chicken too as it is one of my non-satiating items. 600g pork of beef, that happens sometimes, it’s a lovely sized satiating meal for me (and I probably don’t want much more food on that day). Some carnivores eat way more at once because they are hungry (usually in a nice, fat adapted way but still, they feel the need for nutrients) and their body says so. I tend to follow my bodily cues, it hardly brings me astray when I eat meat (except chicken as it can’t satiate me but if it’s not my main meat, that is okay too).
I don’t have links but Bikman talks about studies regarding protein not being a concern for insulin raise when it’s not paired with carbs. Most people on this forum eat a decent amount (or way more) protein, not a tiny one, having success and benefits from keto. So I wouldn’t worry about too much protein UNLESS the amount is really big and/or it causes problems. It’s quite rare to overdo it. some of us can’t do that. Therapeutic keto is different though.
I usually eat that much and get filled up especially if it’s served with 2 eggs. My body is much different I guess
Sure, we are all different. Even my meals are wildly different sized but if I can wait until some decent hunger, I need a lot of food. Some people are like this and some people often eat, even need really tiny meals. All is right if one does what suits them (or what they can and it works well enough). The same for timing. 1 meal a day can be just as perfect as 5-6, it’s highly individual and there are many other factors (it’s my actual diet and the time of the day for me, usually). A small meal or only 1-2 meals a day is only a problem if one can’t get enough nutrition during the day. We need that but the timing and mealsize should be whatever works for us, some people have lots of options, others not so many. Sometimes it’s zero good option on our current diet, I had that with keto. (Stupid plant carbs.) Carni is loads better when I manage to stick to it.
