1 Reason For Slow Female Fat Loss... And 5 Tips To Fix It You may have heard (or realized first hand!), that it’s more difficult for women to lose fat than men. www.bodybuilding.com Differences in male and female hormones are certainly involved - both in the fat loss process as well as in the patterns of fat storage on the body. But the biggest obstacle is NOT hormonal issues, it’s one little fat loss relativity factor that almost all women overlook… That factor is the simple fact that women are usually smaller and lighter than men, yet they err by setting their goals and designing their nutrition plans like men or larger women. This especially applies to short and petite women who still have body fat to lose. Case in point: Last week I received an email from a female reader who told me she was doing 3 weight training and 6 cardio sessions per week and the cardio was 45 minutes at a clip. She said she weighed 111 lbs at 4 feet 11 inches tall, but even though s...