Harder for Short Women?

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  • seansquared
    seansquared Posts: 328 Member
    Plus, I agree, it's not more difficult to lose if you can get past the BMR/less calories factor, our weight just looks different.

    This is what I tried to say earlier ;)

    150lbs is 150lbs, it just is what it is and no height doesn't matter with regards to weight loss or weight gain. Where it does matter? The mirror. Given the same weight, BF%, and therefore TDEE you will still look completely different at 6'2" than at 5'5" or at 4'11"! :)
  • fteale
    fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
    If you are tall with a big build you just do have a lot more of you to fill out. A 150lb person who is 6ft will look thin. A 150lb, 5' person will look stocky, even with 15% body fat. most people don't want to look stocky, they want to look lean.
  • lauz45
    lauz45 Posts: 243
    I still think us shorties need less calories..on Supersize vs Superskinny (a tv show here in the UK) they always say the average woman should have 2000 cals a day..I would pack the weight on eating that much! I'm 5'3, high body fat, yes, but BMI of 25.5.
  • HaleyAlli
    HaleyAlli Posts: 911 Member
    Yeah, everything I'm seeing seems to indicate that we "need" less calories. But I'm still ALWAYS HUNGRY. It's so frustrating! Sometimes I wish I could just stretch my body up to a taller height because I am almost at ideal weight for some heights, just not MY height, lol.
  • kathyhull
    kathyhull Posts: 327 Member
    Yep, I've always said - I'm just a tall thin person who got squished into a short fat body!
  • HaleyAlli
    HaleyAlli Posts: 911 Member
    Yep, I've always said - I'm just a tall thin person who got squished into a short fat body!

    Hahaha!! Me too! Especially since people always compliment my face, I've heard a couple people say before that I have the face of a model. If only my body matched it! :P
  • MiniMichelle
    MiniMichelle Posts: 801 Member
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