If You're Fatter, Is It Easier to Lose Weight?

anotheruser

Yeah, don't read too much into the words per se
I have been struggling in ways to write things a lot recently.

Perhaps the key word was not "easier" but "quicker"

Interesting thoughts though

InsideInsurance

anotheruser wrote: »

I've read many articles about rather large people losing lots of weight fairly quickly, yet people who are slightly overweight seem to take much longer, with more effort.

My question is, do you think if you're bigger, it's easier to lose weight as your body wasn't getting anything healthy before? Perhaps larger people have more motivation?

Dont think its a motivation thing at all.

There will inevitably be some people with underlying medical conditions, stupidly slow metabolisms etc who may defy the rule but if you weigh 200kg it is almost certainly going to mean you are doing minimal exercise and going way over your 1,500-2,000 calories per day.

Being 200kg also means that whatever you do do, even going us stairs, is using much more energy than someone who weighs 75kg (most people who weigh 75kg probably couldnt even pick up a 125kg weight and carry it up the stairs).

If you are used to eat mountains of rubbish and not move it isnt easy to either cut it down/ change for a more healthy alternative or start exercising more but you can make smaller changes and still see decent results. ie cutting you calorie intake by 10% when you are eating 5,000 a day will make you lose weight quickly. Cut it by 10% when you are eating 1,500 and you'll still lose but its much slower.

A cousin used to be absolutely massive, he had a heart attack and they advised they wouldnt do a bypass op until he lost weight. Initially he still ate like a pig but simply switching drinking gallons of energy drinks to sugar free drinks the weight started dropping off him.

Someone who's only 3 kg overweight is already doing things fairly good and so finding what to cut is harder. Indeed if they adopted my cousins new "diet" they'd pile weight on even with the sugar free drinks.