How Protein Helps Weight loss and Muscle Growth
Two really good reasons to eat more protein are weight loss and muscle support. These two things are connected!
💪 Eating protein helps you build and maintain lean body mass––and the more lean body mass you have, the more calories you burn at rest. (Love that “at rest” part!) There is also one particular amino acid called leucine that helps you lose fat rather than muscle when you lose weight. (More on leucine later!) Leucine is the key to adding muscle and with the other amino acids does the job much better and more efficiently with exercise, shall we say, intentional movement. Without the stress of movement not much will happen.
🍽 Protein significantly increases satiety, which means you feel fuller despite eating less. Eating more protein often causes people to eat less overall.
🔥Just by having more protein in your diet, you burn more calories. Why? Because your body has to work harder to digest protein than fats or carbs, giving you more potential to burn calories and body fat. This is called the thermic effect of food.
Have you ever noticed that you feel fuller longer when you have plenty of protein in your meal?
