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I don't know about ideal, but I shoot for 1g/lb of lean body mass (I.e. the fat doesn't count as you're not "feeding" it).
If you're gaining muscle while losing fat, you're probably close to where you need to be and don't need to worry about fine tuning, at least not yet.
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I think that one gets overlooked a bit, and probably why it's recommend a lot to use 0.8g/lb, to account for the fact people won't figure out how much fat they have.
I approach it like this. I try to make my macro ratio protein heavy, muscle synthesis takes time. If you consume 2 lbs of chicken you aren't going to build two lbs of muscle, you probably get a pretty similar outcome from 1.5 lbs of chicken, or 1 lb of chicken and a big glass of milk.
As long as you are consuming enough to keep growing, it seems like a waste to overload on it, at least until you are very advanced and/or using drugs to speed up recovery and synthesis.