Eating more protein and fewer carbs after losing weight makes your body burn more fat and less sugar for energy, helping you stay in a calorie deficit.

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High Compared with Moderate Protein Intake Reduces Adaptive Thermogenesis and Induces a Negative Energy Balance during Long-term Weight-Loss Maintenance in Participants with Prediabetes in the Postobese State: A PREVIEW Study

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2020 Mar 1

This study found that when people with prediabetes who lost weight ate more protein, their bodies started burning more fat and less sugar, which helped them stay in a calorie deficit — just like the claim said.

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High Compared with Moderate Protein Intake Reduces Adaptive Thermogenesis and Induces a Negative Energy Balance during Long-term Weight-Loss Maintenance in Participants with Prediabetes in the Postobese State: A PREVIEW Study

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DOI: 10.1093/jn/nxz281

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