For individuals employing time-restricted eating for caloric restriction, focusing heavily on protein intake may be counterproductive if it leads to excessive calorie consumption.

“but when you have people that are going about it via dietary restriction or time restriction as their strategy for cutting Calories it can become a little overwhelming and when you force high protein you sometimes end up getting high calorie with it so that's where we would say just don't pay attention to it as much just focus on the the drtr approach”