Weight Loss for Women Over 40

If you are ever united with a male friend in a program of weight loss in May noted that men are able to lose weight more easily than women. Life seems cruel at times. Men have a metabolic advantage for women because they have more muscles, and muscles are the "workhorses" of the body.

Many women who felt slim at 35, the same weight at 45 hnow themselves as "fat." No, probably not the social conditioning. 'Most likely it's the truth and are actually more "fat" that used to be. The scales are not the only answer to understand what is happening in your body.

Consider the case of Annette who weighed 63 pounds to 35. At that time, 23 percent of his body consists of fat. (Experts believe that 23-33 percent of healthy body fat for women aged 40-59). Then, 15 Annette 63 pounds were fat. The rest - 48 pounds - made up of bones, muscles, water, and internal organs.

By the time Annette reached 48 years, his body fat was increased from 23 to 30 percent, but his weight had remained the same. His body now contains 20 pounds of fat, plus 5 pounds of fat to 35 years. At the same time, Annette had lost about 5 pounds of muscle.

When women gain fat and lose muscle, two things happen:

Fat is not as dense as muscle so that the fat gained space takes more than muscles. Even if you have not gained weight on the scale, your body may appear larger, and the size of clothing may even increase.

Because muscle burns more calories than fat, your metabolism slows and you burn fewer calories, which can contribute to weight gain if you make changes in your calorie consumption. Muscle burns up to 7 times more energy than fat, so the effect on your metabolism can be very significant.

Annette has been extraordinarily careful what he eats and has not been able to lose weight - with good reason. The amount of lean mass you have is an important factor in determining the speed at which you burn calories. Lean body mass, if the drops, the drops metabolism.

Every pound of muscle a woman loses the bar the number of calories burned by as many as 30 calories per day. If he loses 10 pounds of muscle over 3 decades, might burn 300 calories less per day, or a massive 2,100 calories less per week.

When celebrating its 55th birthday, may have lost about 15 pounds of muscle, and now burn fewer calories every 450 days.

What this means for Annette - and other women in their forties and fifties - is that maintaining muscle is essential because birthdays are additive. issues lean muscle, because there is so much of it.

Calorie Counts muscle wood for about 40 percent of body mass of a woman of normal weight - which is £ 56 for a woman like Janet to 140 pounds - so it is an important factor of energy.

This is good news because muscle mass is directly related to metabolic rate, women can give their engines a boost metabolism with weights and other exercise that builds muscle. Second, eat with the right sources of protein can stimulate very lean muscular development as an exercise .