Do men seem to lose weight faster than women do?

This was a recently asked question by a lot of women who are frustrated by their husbands or any other male in their lives losing weight a lot faster than themselves. Men have more of a particular hormone called testosterone, which promotes lean mass and tissue, decreases body fat, and has many other health benefits and detriments as well. Women obviously have more estrogen as the main hormone in their bodies, which promotes adipose (fat) tissue, leads to diseases, sicknesses and cancers (in excess amounts), and also obviously has a lot of good things associated with it including helping the female to maintain homeostasis (balance) in order to reproduce and have children. Men also have estrogen but not a lot of it, while women also have low amounts of testosterone. These two hormones keep a certain balance within both male and females and change as the other hormone changes. One way to decrease the amount of estrogen present in the cells, is to drink soy milk or ingest some sort of soy products, due to the fact that soy isoflavones are the only other thing beside estrogen itself that can bind to an estrogen receptor site, thus allowing the excess estrogen in the body to be eliminated via excretion through the excretory systems of the body (sweat, urine, feces).

Do not always look at the scale as this is one of the most common mistakes. Look at the way your clothes fit and the way you feel. When starting an exercise program, especially with resistance training, you will actually see the scale go up because you will be gaining muscle and losing fat. Muscle weighs more than fat, so if you are gaining muscle and losing weight at the same rate, you are going to see the scale go up. This frustrates a lot of people, but you want to gain lean tissue because it is going to increase your metabolism and you will eventually see the turnover (which is different for different people) where you will start losing pounds, although you may gain a few good pounds first. Although you won't burn a ton of calories while you are doing the resistance training, your body's metabolic furnace will continue to burn those calories for you later and throughout the day. Men can jump start and lose weight a little faster, but stay consistent and true to your routine, and you will see over time that you too can change you body and feel and look a lot better than before! Always be your hardest critic, but keeping these things in mind so you don't get frustrated, and most importantly, stay focused and consistent on your goals! Make sure you set goals, because without them what are you working towards!