Boys Vs Girls...no fair

sweetyJ

At the risk of sounding like a whiner, how come it is so much easier for guys to lose weight than girls. Yes, I know they weigh more, and more muscles, thus they will burn more calories in a shorter amount of time. I get (just a tad) annoyed when you get some guy losing 100 lbs in 5 months and I am working my butt off to lose 10 lbs in 4 month.

JULIEISCRAZY

I AM VERY FAT MAN!!!!!111

MaraDiaz

I think the theory is that women store extra because we're the ones who lug the babies around for nine months. Starvation and pregnancy really don't go well together, so we get the joy of extra fat and less muscle.

Yay us.

Blech. I agree, I'm whining right there with you. Men are lucky.

joanneeee

because we spend too much time in the kitchen making sandwiches

Classalete

because we spend too much time in the kitchen making sandwiches

I thought I would never find you. <33 lol.

rileamoyer

I think the theory is that women store extra because we're the ones who lug the babies around for nine months. Starvation and pregnancy really don't go well together, so we get the joy of extra fat and less muscle.

Yay us.

Blech. I agree, I'm whining right there with you. Men are lucky.

Damn hormones

HarlCarl

MMMMMmmm....I need a sandwich. :bigsmile:

saraannefrazer

because we spend too much time in the kitchen making sandwiches

lol

koosdel

At the risk of sounding like a whiner, how come it is so much easier for guys to lose weight than girls. Yes, I know they weigh more, and more muscles, thus they will burn more calories in a shorter amount of time. I get (just a tad) annoyed when you get some guy losing 100 lbs in 5 months and I am working my butt off to lose 10 lbs in 4 month.

Well, I would think that staying in the kithen all day must be difficult. All the food just right there, tempting you. Maybe you could do more ironing, or vacuuming? Cleaning counts as excersize.

caveats

Just turn a negative into a positive ... at least we don't have any danger of thinking with the wrong heads.

Cr357

Probably the hormone difference. The more muscle you carry the faster your metabolism. And we have more testosterone to do so.

3GKnight

You ladies have much cuter butts to work off. Just sayin'.

rochey1098

because we spend too much time in the kitchen making sandwiches

Too funny

acasey0123

because we spend too much time in the kitchen making sandwiches

I thought I would never find you. <33 lol.

ahahahaha

BigDaddyBRC

Testoserone....now, go make me a sandwich

drog2323

because we spend too much time in the kitchen making sandwiches

don't forget mustard on the sammy...and my cold beer as well! thanks....

AnneGenevieveS

I hear you!!!

After having kids I had like 70 pounds to lose. My husband dieted with me and lost 40 pounds easily in no time without feeling hungry, blah blah blah and got to his goal. It took me 3 years of struggling to get to pre-pregnancy weight. I wanted to punch him in the face! haha.

oh and he's making me a sandwich right now. Yeah, I wear the pants. haha

1234IWORKOUT5678

It is no fair! But rather be chubby my whole life then live in a world with out babies!

jhardenbergh

I don't know if I agree with you on this, I'm down 173 lbs and my wife 123 lbs, but percentage wise we are pretty close +/= 5 percent and only recently when I started working out more ferociously did I overtake her.

CharityEaton

Just turn a negative into a positive ... at least we don't have any danger of thinking with the wrong heads.

haha, this is too funny!

jhardenbergh

At the risk of sounding like a whiner, how come it is so much easier for guys to lose weight than girls. Yes, I know they weigh more, and more muscles, thus they will burn more calories in a shorter amount of time. I get (just a tad) annoyed when you get some guy losing 100 lbs in 5 months and I am working my butt off to lose 10 lbs in 4 month.

Well, I would think that staying in the kithen all day must be difficult. All the food just right there, tempting you. Maybe you could do more ironing, or vacuuming? Cleaning counts as excersize.

This is fantastic and a great idea, why doesn't MFP have a like button

Bellyroll

I know its so unfair. Same goes for my boyfriend he loses the lbs so fast.

Saruman_w

Yea.. it can still be done though. Just at a slower rate. Gotta have that patience to go with it, it'll come off in time.

Jeff92se

BS! I lift weights, watch my diet, do my cardio, the weight is ever so slightly creeping off.

CharityEaton

my husband stops eating fried food and drops 15 pounds while he still drinks beer too! I work my butt of and eat healthy...no drinking since July to lose my 15 pounds. Grr! so not fair, but like someone else said....better to have a bit of extra fat then no babies! Love my little girls to pieces.......even if they made me fatter!:laugh:
It's not my fault I gained to much weight....I was growing babies!:bigsmile:

myofibril

You seem to be forgetting the fact that women can have multiple orgasms?

Seriously though, this is from a longer article by Tom Venuto (full article here: http://www.fitwatch.com/weight-loss/why-women-lose-weight-more-slowly-than-men-650.html)

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You may have heard (or, heh, realized), that it’s more difficult for women to lose fat than men. Immediately most people think it must be estrogen or hormonal issues. But perhaps the biggest factor is NOT hormones, but the simple fact that women are usually smaller and lighter than men.

When you have a smaller body, you have lower calorie needs. When you have lower calorie needs, your relative deficit (20%, 30% etc) gives you a smaller absolute deficit and therefore you lose fat more slowly than someone who is larger and can create a large deficit more easily.

For example, if my TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) is 3300 calories a day (I’m 5′ 8″ and moderately to very active), then a 20% deficit is 660 calories, which brings me to 2640 calories a day. On paper, that will give me about 1.3 lbs of wt loss per week, rather painlessly, I might add.

If I bumped my calorie burn up or decreased my intake by another 340 a day, that’s enough to give me a 2 lbs per week wt loss.
That’s hardly a starvation diet (Ahhh, the joys of being a man). For smaller women, the math equation is very different.

If your total daily energy expenditure is only 1970 calories, even at a VERY high exercise level, then a 20% deficit for you is only 394 calories which would put you at 1576 calories a day for (on paper) only 8/10th of a lb of fat loss/wk.

If you pursued your plan to take a more aggressive calorie deficit of 30%, that puts you at a 591 calorie deficit which would now drop you down to only 1382 calories/day.

That’s starting to get fairly low in calories. However, you would still have a fairly small calorie deficit. In fact, I would get to eat almost twice as many calories as you and I’d still get almost twice the weekly rate of fat loss!

What this all means is that women who are petite or have a small body size are going to lose fat more slowly than larger women and much more slowly than men, so you cannot compare yourself to them.

It’s great to be inspired by our success stories, but if you’re looking for someone to model yourself after, choose one of our success stories of someone your body size and wt, rather than the folks who started 100 lbs overweight and were therefore easily dropping 3 lbs a week.

ONE POUND a week of fat loss is much more in line with a realistic goal for someone of a smaller body size. Overweight people can lose it faster. The best thing you can do is to be extremely consistent with your nutrition over time.

shanolap

I lose weight way faster than my husband, because I am way more motivated to do so. Hard to lose weight when you're not working out or watching what you eat.

Jeff92se

This is why it's so important for women to get off the treadmill an onto the free weights!

it_be_asin

A woman's lower weight of weight loss due to hard to shift fat in the hips, thighs and bum is thought to be cardioprotective - at least until menopause hits. Value that and you may be less annoyed at the slower weight loss.

MaraDiaz

So it's hormones to blame, hm?

Too bad I'd go bald on my head and probably all hairy everywhere else if I started taking testosterone.

sweetyJ

Thanks for all the responses.

1) Can't complain about the lack of testosterone...I do like my booty still.
2) Only if we live in a different era, where fat = attractiveness & fertility. Although, I still think media has got to tone down all the skinny images out there. Underweight is not healthy
3) At least women are more supportive of each other. :laugh:
4) I make my own sandwiches :laugh: somebody can buy me a beer :drinker: