To "Built."
Take a look at a nutrition book that will explain how excess protein can be used as a energy source, and if it is not used at all, will be just another excess calorie that has to go somewhere.
Philmb, kindly re-read my post.
If it's protein in excess of what is required, but calories stay at or below maintenance, it won't make you fatter. In fact, if you do this while eating below maintenance, it'll help you drop more of the weight you lose in the form of fat.
If it's protein in excess of what is required, but calories go over maintenance, then yes, it'll make you fatter.
The goal of a minimum of 30 gm/meal is just that, a goal.
Why would it be a goal?
Say someone weighs 180 lbs and wants to consume 1 gm/protein per pound of BW. If they had a least 30gm/meal, that still would require 6 meals/day.
Some people prefer to eat six meals a day, but some prefer to eat two. There is no physiologic requirement for any set number of feedings - that part is purely personal preference.
(Protein is probably best targeted toward lean mass btw - obese people probably don't need a gram per pound bodyfat)
MY point was that it would be hard for the average lifter to consume enough protein if they consumed less that 30 gm/ meal. It is not an absolute. Of course they could have more, or less, and be fine.
There are actually some advantages - at least while bulking - to pulsing protein through the day, eating it in a few large servings with long-ish periods of time between protein-feedings.
Cutting, you're probably better off spreading it out a bit more. It's only in low-protein diets where there's a real need to spread out protein, to help spare muscle. In the typical high protein diet most bodybuilders consume, there's really no need for concern.