A nephew of mine has just lost two stone. And it was easy-peasy. He just cut out bread, biscuits and sweets.
Easy as that – and it only took him three months. The weight just fell off.
Have you ever heard a woman say of her weight loss “the pounds just fell off”? Rarely, I’ll wager, for the simple reason that women don’t lose weight easily. It’s heavy going.
A study that compared male and female participants following a variety of diets, including Atkins, Slim Fast, Rosemary Conley and Weight Watchers, showed that men leave women standing when it comes to losing weight.
Why is it so easy for them and hard for us?
Well, firstly, men have more muscles than women – and muscle really burns off calories. So men doing the same kind of exercise will burn more calories than women.
In fact, a man’s muscle mass means he’ll burn more calories than a woman even while sleeping.
Plus, men, on the whole, are bigger and heavier than women.
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