You've undoubtedly noticed anything strange while at the gym. Perhaps you even talked about it with your exercise partners.
There is a misconception that men can maintain their junk food diet and lose weight more easily. But is it really true?
Despite working out at the gym really hard, do men burn calories more easily than women?
Yes, physiology, including hormones and body fat, is the key to understanding everything. Moreover, time.
More muscle mass translates to greater calorie expenditure compared to body fat. Women often have less lean muscular tissue, as we all know.
Men lose more weight when they burn the same amount of calories as women – over a shorter period of time.
For study purposes, a group of men and a group of women had to go on some popular diets, like Slim-Fast, Atkins and Weight Watchers. In two months’ time, the men ended up losing twice as much weight as their fellow women dieters, and three times the body fat. There is an important but coming: but after six months of keeping the diet regime, the weight loss difference was non-existent between the genders.
Men have a different hormonal balance (less estrogen, more testosterone), and women have more body fat to help them during pregnancy. Those factors change the way each gender handles weight loss and burning of calories.
Women’s fat stores are usually more evenly spread out, especially in the areas like legs and buttocks, which contributes to losing weight less rapidly. Meanwhile, men’s results may seem more noticeable since they tend to lose weight around the belly, especially the changes of overweight men with a considerable amount of belly fat.
So we’d say it doesn’t really matter if you’re a man or a woman. When it comes to getting rid of those extra-extra pounds and calorie burning, patience, persistence and laborious work at the gym or at home is what should matter to you most.
