Even though eating more protein every day makes you burn more calories at rest, it doesn’t make you burn more calories after meals over the long term—your body gets used to it.

Even though eating more protein makes you burn more calories right after a meal, your body gets used to it over time — so after weeks, that extra calorie burn disappears.

Eating a meal with more protein makes your body burn more calories right after eating — but only if you’re not overweight; if you are, this calorie-burning boost doesn’t happen.

Eating a meal with more protein makes your body burn more calories right after eating — but only if you’re not overweight; if you are, this calorie-burning effect doesn’t happen as much.

Eating more protein makes your body burn a bit more calories just to digest it, compared to eating less protein.

Chronic elevation of protein intake above optimal levels for muscle synthesis does not sustainably increase diet-induced thermogenesis, despite acute thermogenic effects.