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[quote=Anonymous]Two factors:

- Women often do little to no strength training when they are young. They have recently started discovering that strength training and weight lifting is hugely helpful in middle age to control weight. But it's an uphill battle because they have to start from scratch. And women start out with less muscle mass generally, so it's even harder.

- Men are much more likely to do strength training in their youth. They might lose that body, but the muscle memory of that training holds on and it's much easier to build up strength again if you've had it before. Men also have more muscle mass to begin with due to the way our bodies develop and how our hormones work.

- Women are also often at a huge disadvantage due to years of yo-yo dieting and restrictive diets. It's screws with how your body processes calories and can lead to weight gain because deprivation combined with increase exercise is actually a recipe for weight gain, longterm. Men eat more normally and intuitively, and thus their bodies are more primed to respond to a regimen of healthier eating (not even necessarily lower calories, but shifting from high fat, high processed foods to more lean proteins and vegetables) and increased exercise, especially strength training.

I am a woman and I have never dieted and I did a lot of strength training in my 20s and 30s. Right now I'm mid-40s and had gotten out of shape post kids, as had my DH. We've both been working to get in shape and we are on the exact same trajectory in terms of weight because I took strength training seriously in my youth (instead of just doing cardio obsessively to "burn calories" as many women of my generation did) and because I didn't screw up my body with a bunch of BS restrictive diets in an effort to slim down for wedding season or bikini season or some BS.[/quote]

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