How Women Can Lose Weight Like Men

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Do Men Really Lose Weight Faster Than Women?
Yes-but it’s much deeper than you think.
According to Katherine Tallmadge, Registered Dietitian author of Diet Simple. "Men typically love their meat, and most women are attached to carbohydrates. Which is a good place to start.
On average, women have between six and 11 percent more body fat than men, an assumed evolutionary adaptation to help during pregnancy. From puberty to menopause, women maintain more average body fat than men -- even when they take in fewer calories.
study went one step further to show different metabolic effects of the diet in men when compared to women. Men typically have more weight in their midsection, known as visceral fat, which surrounds the internal organs. Scientists confirm when people lose visceral fat, it improves their metabolic rate, helping them to burn more calories.
Women, on the other hand, typically have more subcutaneous fat, which is fat around their thighs, rear and hips. To no fail of their own this is important to the female anatomy to allow for childbearing. The issue is when people lose subcutaneous fat, this does not improve their metabolic rate.
If you’re a guy, you can thank the testosterone you have - for your weight-loss edge. Also men tend to lose weight where they need it most, so it's often more immediately noticeable. Meaning when most men’s start working out they tend to reduce abdominal obesity even if guys don’t technically lose weight. So by sheer perception men look like fat is just melting off after a few weeks in the gym. When really it’s mostly just the mid section.
For women fat stores are typically more spread out, which is partly why they tend to lose weight at a slower pace than guys.
Women have weight-related advantages, too. They tend to carry more body fat on their thighs and backsides (the so-called “pear” shape), which are much healthier places to hold weight than men whose bodies naturally carry fat around the middle where you’re are at a much higher risk of developing heart disease. This may be one reason why recent studies show women live longer than men.
In one study out of England, men and women were each put on commercial weight-loss programs. Two months in, the men had lost twice as much weight as the women -- and three times as much body fat. But by six months, the rate of weight loss had evened out between the genders.
More importantly remember that "fat" doesn't mean "unhealthy." Yes, women have larger fat stores, but it's part of their physiology, meaning it's not extra weight. So if a woman has 11 percent more body fat than a man, it doesn't mean she's 11 percent "fatter." A perfectly fit woman will still hold six to 11 percent more body fat than a perfectly fit man.
"Most men are genetically designed to have a higher percentage of muscle and less fat -- which works in favor of keeping them fit and allowing them to eat more calories, the good news is women can even up the odds by building more muscle. An increase in muscle mass through strength training at least twice a week, helps decrease your fat stores.
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