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Originally Posted by mikitta  You forgot the blah blah blah, PMS give me salt and chocolate and I won't rip your head off and don't even THINK about the scale right now or I will make you listen to me as I disparage myself about my fat 
Darth Pooh - actually, there are real, hormonal reasons why a woman's body looses weight more slowly than a guy's. Sure the law of energy balance applies, but a woman's body is more adapted to hold on to fat for reproductive and infant rearing purposes. Also, when a woman hits peri-menopause and full menopause, the imbalance in the hormones really slows the process down.
It's not so much a matter of harder to loose weight - but women definitely are the tortoises in the weight race, not the hares  It can be very discouraging to be doing the same things as your male counterparts(creating a calorie deficit in keeping with your body's needs, observing good nutrition and doing several hours of cardio and strength training exercises each week) and only seeing a fraction of the results they see. It isn't that the principles don't apply to us, it's just that we don't respond as quickly as the guys do when we put those principles into practice.
Not smacking you down, just adding my 2 cents
God Bless,
mik |
Didn't think you were smacking me down at ALL... you added very good points, and I do agree with the hormonal issues, however, they have been found to be negligible when someone actually alters their daily life style to create a deficit. People in general do not properly educate themselves so without the proper tools, they tend to fail at most things. However, I am comparing the people who are equally educated in the balance of diet and exercise. Not the casual dieter either... they throw off results like a champ.
If things are done proportional to men vs. women, the weightloss can be just as dramatic in both. But you are right, I won't deny the hormonal inbalances at all between the two genders, thanks for keeping me straight there.
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