If you've ever had with a friend in a weight loss program, you will have noticed that many people will be able to lose weight more easily than women together. Life sometimes seems cruel. People to maintain a metabolic advantage for women because they have more muscles, and muscles are the workhorses of the body.
Many women have experienced high in 35 years, is still the same weight now at 45 is considered "fat." No, this is probably not the social conditioning. Is moreProbably the truth, and in fact are more fat than it was. The stairs are not the only answer to understand what's happening in your body.
Take the case of Annette, who weighed 140 pounds at the age of 35 at this time, consisted of 23 percent of their body fat. (Experts estimate that 23 to 33 percent body fat in healthy women aged between 40 and 59). At that time, with 33 to 140 pounds fat Annette. The rest - 107 pounds - was composed of bones, muscles, water and internalBodies.
To reach the time when Annette age 48, became their body fat increased from 23 percent to 30 percent, but his weight had remained the same. His body now contains 44 pounds of fat, 11 pounds more fat than the age of 35 In the meantime, had lost about 5 pounds of muscle mass, Annette.
When women lose muscle and fat to maintain two things:
The fat is not as dense as muscle, so that no fat takes up more space to gain muscle. Although not weight on the scale of the organism may appear larger and may even increase.
Because muscle burns more calories than fat, their metabolism slows and you burn fewer calories, which can contribute to weight gain, if not make changes to your calorie intake. Muscle burns up to 7 times more energy than fat, so the effect on metabolism in May to become significant.
Annette is very careful about what they eat and not lose the ability to> Weight - with good reason. The amount of lean mass and is an important factor in determining the speed at which you burn calories. When it comes down to the lean body mass, decreases metabolism.
Every pound of muscle a woman loses reduces the number of calories you burn by as much as 30 calories a day. If you lose 10 pounds of muscle mass over 3 decades, you can burn 300 calories less per day, or a massive 2100 calories less per week.
While celebrating his 55th birthday, shemay be more than 15 pounds of muscle mass lost, and now burns 450 calories less each day.
This means for Annette - and other women in their forties and fifties - is that maintaining muscle mass as birthdays add up is fundamental. Lean problems.
Calorie-burning muscle represents about 40 percent of body weight a woman of normal weight - only 56 pounds for a 140-lbs woman like Annette - is an important factor of energy.
HereGood news: Because muscle mass is directly related to metabolism, the women give their engines metabolites stimulated by weight training and other forms of exercise that builds muscles. Secondly, eating a good source of protein, very thin, it can promote the development of muscles, as it is exercised.
