Do men lose weight easier than women?

congrats on the weight loss for you this week. i don't know if they can lose faster than us. sorry i can't help you with that part.

I can tell you it's not easier for me. I'm VERY committed to what I do. No cheat days, watch my sodium, exercise every day, drink my water. I'm having really great losses, but I'm working my *kitten* off to do it and it's certainly not easy. Drastic results take drastic measures.

i calculated my BMR a few days ago, and out of curiosity switched it to male. A guy my size would burn 200 more calories a day than a female. Mind boggling... also leaves an opening for jokes about why?

losing weight is an unfair contest. now if it was based on percentage of weight lost, that might be a better indicator. I wonder if it might have something to do with testosterone levels?

IN general I think they do.... It may have something to do with the fact that women have babies and our biology causes our body to want us to hold on to additional fat.... blah, blah, blah.... I dont know if this is true or not. I think men in general have a faster metabolism and their muscles are more dense.

Yes, men lose weight more efficiently than women. They typically have more muscle mass which means more calories burned per day. Also, hormones have a LOT to do with weight loss. The hormonal makeup of women makes our bodies want to store fat. Men on the other hand have more testosterone which again means more calories burned. Just hang in there and try not to focus on the guys' successes. Slow and steady wins the race

By saying we do it easier, you do realize you're minimizing our efforts, right?

I found this on the net
1.Men have more muscle. This allows them to burn more calories, even when at rest.
2.Women are predisposed to store and retain fat. Women have higher levels of estrogen, a hormone that works works to keep the fat on a woman's body so it's easier for her to get pregnant. That means women have to work harder to lose weight at the same rate as men.
3.Men's bodies respond more quickly to exercise. Women's bodies, meanwhile, actually go into a sort of starvation mode, slowing the metabolism to hang onto more fat.
4.Women may have a lower tolerance for exercise. Women have smaller lung capacity than men, which can make women feel as though they are working harder than men even if the women are working at the same level. This can also make exercise feel harder in the heat or high humidity.
This doesn't mean it's impossible for women to lose weight and, when you think about, excellent reasons are behind a woman's tendency to store fat. After all, creating and nurturing a new life is nothing to sneeze at.

:grumble: I'm curious :noway:

It is true that men do lose weight quicker than women, although I don't know why this is.

less use of brain cells??? KIDDING!

HAH! My kinda girl!

A diet just like exercise needs to be shook up to keep the train moving along at a good pace, it can adapt to damn near anything given some time. a planned cheat day every few weeks will keep that train moving as much as you may not think it does, some say do it once a week, I do it when I feel I need it or I see the numbers (incl measurements) slow down. The scale does not tell the tale of how much fat you are losing, rather it tells you half the story. Look to the measurements as thats the true tale of what the body is doing. People get scale obsessed or as I call them sop's. These people only see the number on it and not what is really happening obsessing about it. Read my blog about meatbolic rate and boosting it, it works for both women and men. The successful weight loss needs to be an ever evolving workout routine and diet regimen, to strict will just land you in a plateau.

Listen...guys don't lose fat easier than girls. Muscles lose fat easier than no muscles or less muscles. You take a guy with a little girly frame like the one I have and you put me up against a chick who has some muscle mass, she is going to burn fat alot faster than me.

I am not at all slamming women here, so please don't take it as that, but my fiance is constantly mentioning how it isn't fair that I can lose weight so easily. I have to remind her that "easily" consists of eating mostly vegetables, nothing fried, no fatty meats, no candy or cakes, a reduced calories diet, and cardio almost every day and sometimes twice a day while she is adding sesame sticks to her salads and eating Burger King here and there. Her period rolls in and she eats chocolate. Her coworkers have a party, so she has a 'small' piece of pizza.

It has been my experience, just going off of the women that I have encountered, that poor food decisions are often justified as hormonal decisions, or as circumstantial necessity. It is also my experience, that often times some people overestimate how much they are working out and underestimate how much other people are working out. I am not saying that about anyone in here, just saying that I have experienced that.

Men have more muscle mass than women and muscle burns 10x more calories than fat. Their bodies are calorie-burning machines just on physiological make up. Thats why I don't think weight-loss competitions should ever be co-ed. It isnt fair. It's comparing apples and oranges. This doesnt even take into consideration hormonal differences and other things.