After losing weight, eating more protein helps you keep it off because it keeps you full, burns more calories during digestion, and helps you keep muscle instead of losing it.

Protein shakes make your body burn a little more calories at rest and after eating, but this doesn’t help you keep the weight off.

If young guys eat more protein while working out hard and cutting calories for a month, they’ll gain more muscle and lose more fat compared to eating less protein.

After losing weight, people who eat very little carbs burn about 190 more calories per day than those who eat a lot of carbs, even when they’re eating the same amount of food and not exercising more.

Eating more protein while losing weight helps you lose fat instead of muscle and improves your blood sugar and cholesterol levels.

When people who lost weight eat more protein and fewer carbs, their bodies burn more calories at rest and end up in a calorie deficit, which might help them keep the weight off.