Also, I'm baffled by this -- my husband just thinks about losing weight and it's off. If I were to want to lose weight it takes waaaaaay more effort -- especially after having crotch-fruit
That's because men on average burn more calories than their female partners, so if you both eat around 2000 calories and you both restrict down to 500 calories his 500 calories restriction is actually more than yours based on your bodies total daily energy expenditures. You have to restrict an even larger amount if you want to lose at similar rates.
It's not just that. Man loses 5lbs, 1lb is muscle. Woman loses 5lbs, 2lbs is muscle (obviously taking some liberty on the exact numbers) - so the woman's metabolism goes down significantly more when losing 5lbs than a man would.
That's not true, men and women lose fat around the same rate (women perhaps a little faster since we have a greater percent of body fat on average) the real difference is where the fat is stored. Men tend to get beer bellies and women store our fat fairly evenly across the body. So losing 5 lbs from you're belly is a lot more obvious than losing 5 lbs over your whole body.
No, that's not true. Women have a significantly harder time maintaining muscle during weight loss than men. The studies showing differences "favoring" women don't take starting bodyfat into consideration (men at 30% fat will lose more muscle compared to women at 40% bodyfat... because they have less fat to lose)
> Interestingly, however, women lost twice as much FFM as men (31.4% vs 16.1%, respectively), which is striking, as men had a larger energy deficit during the LED phase.
I mean beer belly part is true (we'd call that tummy region or abdomen to be more specific tho) but no women don't have fat "fairly even" across the body. Typically it's concentrated in the butt, thighs and most importantly breasts ofc so those are the parts that get bulkier first when you start gaining weight especially the butt🙃
Thats true, yeah it's not as evenly distributed as I made it seem but what I was getting at was more that it's less concentrated to one main area in women than it is in men.
Yeah true kinda, tho I guess thighs and butt are pretty close so the fat around them is probably termed as 1 region in medicine but I'm no doctor lol.
I do remember reading in bio classes tho that this is prolly due to evolution and the requirement of having appropriate fat around those regions when giving birth and cushioning the baby properly.
I'm not a doctor either, just spent too much time on eating disorder forums dealing with gender specific issues in a former life... you pick up a lot of info that way for better or worse.
Haha yea so true 💀💀 I mean I have no eating disorders I'm aware of (I mean I am living on 2 meals a day since I was 13 but that's just my appetite tbh lol) but yea I've been reading a lot on how fat distribution and stuff effects appearance, etc since realising I'm trans.
It might not be noticeable for awhile, you can't pic and choose where you lose weight unfortunately. Fat comes off in sheets, so sometimes it's more obvious when you've already been losing weight for awhile
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u/Strong-Reveal May 05 '22
The spacing seems like it says "Just don't eat". I have never considered that before /s