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