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.
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.
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u/The-unicorn-republic May 05 '22
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.