A previously unnoticed cause of husband murder — 6 Comments
You’re kidding, right? I was first told about, and experienced, that in 1984, when I dieted with my ex. (No, that’s not why we divorced.) Since then my advice to women has been, “Never diet with a man.” Back then they said it was because of hormones.
As to whether it’s hormones or the peppier-on-average than female male metabolism, the answer is “yes”. Testosterone tends to encourage muscle, estrogen tends to encourage fat. Then men wind up with more muscle mass, and therefore faster metabolism…
Encouraging women to “tone” and march away on treadmills and stair-steppers like hamsters in wheels rather than hitting the weights as men tend to do has not been especially helpful to women.
Heck, I knew that. My husband can skip lunch and lose weight. When he came back from Iraq for leave he was decidedly bloated. All the fried foods he was getting didn’t agree with him, plus he could choose as many entrees as he wanted. So in one meal he might eat chicken nuggets, a steak and some shrimp. Basically he was popping out of his civilian clothes and we had to buy him new stuff to wear. When he returned to Iraq, he cut down to one entree, added fruit and in a months time he lost it all, probably 10 pounds at least.
I’ve been attempting to lose a measly 5 pounds. I’ve been running, exercising, cutting way back on food and have lost 3 pounds in 3 weeks. I may add another run to my night time routine. I’ve got a cruise to get in shape for!
Greetings:
Every time my wife goes on a diet, I end up losing 10 pounds.
Yeah, I’m reminded of that regularly. Best I can do is tell her Life isn’t fair.
> Men lose weight more easily than women when they diet.
Of course we do. “Duh”
Men have far more muscle mass, and we put muscle mass on more easily as well.
So not only can we lose weight faster (every pound of muscle burns 100 calories a day — so if we put on five extra pounds of muscle, that’s an extra 3500 calories a week we burn off), but we also have the added advantage that “more muscle” is generally considered to look good on a man within pretty extreme limits, while women can only put on a certain amount before they are considered to look “too butch”.
So women not only can’t lose it as fast, they are far more limited than men to doing it in their technique — they have to diet more and do more aerobic work than men do, which takes more time. Once you build up muscle, you don’t need to work as hard to retain it, and it continues to burn off calories without anything more than the maintenance effort.
OTOH: Ladies, this may be annoying to you, but there are certainly counterbalancing benefits for you as a woman which you don’t think of.
So stop yer whining and consider how much easier it is to be a woman in our society (and if you don’t believe that’s at all so, then you need to read some Warren Farrell)
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BTW — this also ties to why it is that women can feel cold in a room while a man is totally comfortable.
There’s a rule applicable, called the “Cube/Square Law”, which is that body heat produced goes up with the cube, while the surface area of the individual goes up with the square. So if person A is, say, 25% larger than person B, then A’s surface area has gone up by 56% (1.25*1.25), but their volume has gone up by 95%(1.25*1.25*1.25).
So the ratio of heat generating volume/square inch between A and B is about 80% (A radiates 80% of their heat per square inch for every 100% radiated by B).
This is even more significant when A is male and B is female, since A’s muscle mass (almost all warmth comes from muscle use, hence shivering when cold) is substantially higher per unit volume than B’s. A Man produces much more heat for his body weight than a woman does for hers.
So copy the above down and print it out — and if you have some boorish lout making fun of you for being cold when he’s not, ram it down his throat that it’s not “all in your head” — you really ARE colder than he is, there’s an actual physical reason for it, and if he weren’t a completely idiotic jackass he’d be more sympathetic to your plight.
😉
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You’re kidding, right? I was first told about, and experienced, that in 1984, when I dieted with my ex. (No, that’s not why we divorced.) Since then my advice to women has been, “Never diet with a man.” Back then they said it was because of hormones.
As to whether it’s hormones or the peppier-on-average than female male metabolism, the answer is “yes”. Testosterone tends to encourage muscle, estrogen tends to encourage fat. Then men wind up with more muscle mass, and therefore faster metabolism…
Encouraging women to “tone” and march away on treadmills and stair-steppers like hamsters in wheels rather than hitting the weights as men tend to do has not been especially helpful to women.
Heck, I knew that. My husband can skip lunch and lose weight. When he came back from Iraq for leave he was decidedly bloated. All the fried foods he was getting didn’t agree with him, plus he could choose as many entrees as he wanted. So in one meal he might eat chicken nuggets, a steak and some shrimp. Basically he was popping out of his civilian clothes and we had to buy him new stuff to wear. When he returned to Iraq, he cut down to one entree, added fruit and in a months time he lost it all, probably 10 pounds at least.
I’ve been attempting to lose a measly 5 pounds. I’ve been running, exercising, cutting way back on food and have lost 3 pounds in 3 weeks. I may add another run to my night time routine. I’ve got a cruise to get in shape for!
Greetings:
Every time my wife goes on a diet, I end up losing 10 pounds.
Yeah, I’m reminded of that regularly. Best I can do is tell her Life isn’t fair.
> Men lose weight more easily than women when they diet.
Of course we do. “Duh”
Men have far more muscle mass, and we put muscle mass on more easily as well.
So not only can we lose weight faster (every pound of muscle burns 100 calories a day — so if we put on five extra pounds of muscle, that’s an extra 3500 calories a week we burn off), but we also have the added advantage that “more muscle” is generally considered to look good on a man within pretty extreme limits, while women can only put on a certain amount before they are considered to look “too butch”.
So women not only can’t lose it as fast, they are far more limited than men to doing it in their technique — they have to diet more and do more aerobic work than men do, which takes more time. Once you build up muscle, you don’t need to work as hard to retain it, and it continues to burn off calories without anything more than the maintenance effort.
OTOH: Ladies, this may be annoying to you, but there are certainly counterbalancing benefits for you as a woman which you don’t think of.
So stop yer whining and consider how much easier it is to be a woman in our society (and if you don’t believe that’s at all so, then you need to read some Warren Farrell)
=====================
BTW — this also ties to why it is that women can feel cold in a room while a man is totally comfortable.
There’s a rule applicable, called the “Cube/Square Law”, which is that body heat produced goes up with the cube, while the surface area of the individual goes up with the square. So if person A is, say, 25% larger than person B, then A’s surface area has gone up by 56% (1.25*1.25), but their volume has gone up by 95%(1.25*1.25*1.25).
So the ratio of heat generating volume/square inch between A and B is about 80% (A radiates 80% of their heat per square inch for every 100% radiated by B).
This is even more significant when A is male and B is female, since A’s muscle mass (almost all warmth comes from muscle use, hence shivering when cold) is substantially higher per unit volume than B’s. A Man produces much more heat for his body weight than a woman does for hers.
So copy the above down and print it out — and if you have some boorish lout making fun of you for being cold when he’s not, ram it down his throat that it’s not “all in your head” — you really ARE colder than he is, there’s an actual physical reason for it, and if he weren’t a completely idiotic jackass he’d be more sympathetic to your plight.
😉
.