2006-07-07 12:24:09 · 7 answers · asked by Karen W 2 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
A number of reasons:
1. By virtue of what it takes just to move the extra weight, they have a fair amount of muscle and muscle burns more calories than fat, so their base metabolism is temporarily higher.
2. As you get closer to a healthy weight, your body starts to protect itself from starvation making it harder to actually lose weight. Your metabolism slows down.
I also suspect that at least in the early weeks, a lot of water is lost. If our bodies are 98% water, then it makes sense that bigger people have more water to lose too.
2006-07-07 12:29:35 · answer #1 · answered by Lori A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they have more to lose. Once they get down to the "skinny" persons weight, they have a harder time too.
2006-07-07 12:27:53 · answer #2 · answered by Holly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The more you need to lose, the faster it comes off!
2006-07-07 12:27:35 · answer #3 · answered by Janet K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'the bigger they are the harder they fall' its true. skinny people have lesss fat to lose and they generally live healthier lives. larger people eat a lot of caories a day and hardly excersise so when they do it works wonders.
2006-07-07 12:29:49 · answer #4 · answered by Shelbzz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just introducing minimal exercise aids in speeding up metabolism. they are initially losing a lot of water and fat plus skinny people are mostly muscle.
2006-07-07 12:32:52 · answer #5 · answered by cesgv 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because larger people have more weight to loose, and have more modivation to loose more weight.
2006-07-07 12:28:42 · answer #6 · answered by Desi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because there's more to lose
2006-07-07 12:27:06 · answer #7 · answered by FirefoxFan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋