Thursday, February 26, 2015

Battle of the sexes when it comes to weight loss

The other night I was talking to my husband about my weight loss struggles. He recently has reached a weight loss goal that turned body fat % goal and I was JEALOUS! I’m not even going to sugar coat it for you!





WHY ME??!?!?!?

How come I can’t lose the weight.

Damn pregnancies

Damn hormones

I have done it before

Why is it so hard now??



Yeah I was a pretty sad sap. My husband is soo good to me though. He looked at me and told me he used to think that women were just being dramatic and that they really were not trying, but watching me over the course of the last 8 months has got him thinking differently. My initial though was- Well what about when I was trying after we had baby #1. But I kept my mouth shut.

It got me to thinking though- Why is it easier for men vs women when it comes to weight loss/fat loss. Everything I read keeps pointing me to MUSCLE. I knew I like getting buff for a reason.

So now the breakdown and slight technical for muscle. Easy for me to gain…why… testosterone. In comparison the women- men can gain muscle a lot easier and in more bulk because of the big T. That does not me we cant gain it- we just cannot gain it as much or as quickly unless your going to “supplement.”

 Anyway with all that said muscle is a huge contributing factor to weight loss- I can personally attest to it-that’s how I lost over 40lbs after baby #1-I focused on building muscle and the weight loss was an amazing side effect to it!!