Asked and answered upthread- ASP stores fat in the complete absence of insulin which came as a rude surprise to Taubes, Eades, Wolf and several other carb-phobes who keep trying to reduce a complex problem with complex causes to a single cause-and-effect variable to justify their disordered eating pattern. Satiety effects and protein metabolism are separate issues that goes to the psychology of dieting, but as metabolic ward studies have repeatedly shown, macronutrient composition of diet is completely irrelevant to weight loss, only calories in and out matter.