Can it be hurting me to eat too much protein when trying to lose weight, if I stay within my calories?

I am 26 year old female, 5'6. SW 270lb, CW 253lb, GW 175lb

I have been bigger my entire life. I've dieted many times before, lost and gained back weight several times. I reached my highest weight ever which was around 270lbs and now I'm committing myself to making the change for the long haul.

At first I just cut out fast food and junk food, cooking healthy meals and eating to satiety but not counting calories. Over a few weeks of that I grew satisfied with less food and now that I'm around 5-6 weeks in I have started counting calories. I'm eating about 1900 cal a day and using the Lifesum app with their macro counting as a rough guide.

I know this might be controversial in the diet world but something I've been doing that's really been working for me is replacing breakfast with a Premiere Protein shake and coffee. It's keeping me full for around 3-4 hours at which point I either eat a snack or I eat lunch.

This has really helped me in many ways when it comes to satiety, ease of preparation and time saving, and feeling like I'm still getting to drink a sugary milky coffee drink without it being 500 empty calories.

The problem I'm running into is because this drink is 30g of protein, I'm suddenly consuming way too much protein, according to the Lifesum estimates for macros. Lifesum has given me 95g of protein per day and with the shakes and eating an otherwise fairly normal lunch and dinner, I'm usually sitting 20-30g of protein higher than what I'm "supposed" to eat.

Fat, I'm usually right on target, and for carbs I'm a little under. I don't purposely eat too few carbs, but I've found over the years that for how it satiates me/makes me feel, I'd rather eat a little less carbs and a little more fat.

What I am looking to find out is, can I be hindering my goals in some way if I'm consistently going over on my allotted protein? I've been trying to cut back a little bit here and there so I can try and meet the 95g a big better (vegetarian lunch, smaller servings of meat) but it's been a little bit of a challenge.

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TL;DR I am eating too much protein and I want to know if this can hinder my weight loss goals.

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