Question:
Do people with lower BMI's lose slower? I need to lose less than 100 pounds.

Anyone short and have BMI 40 need to loose under 100#s If one is short w/ BMI 40 do we loose slower than our larger friends?200+    — Cindee A. (posted on March 2, 2001)

March 2, 2001
Cindee, there are many factors in determining a person's weight loss. However, if EVERY OTHER FACTOR were the same between two people (age, sex, metabolism, adherence to diet, exercise, etc), then yes, the person with the higher BMI would almost certainly lose (absolute) weight faster. But in my opinion, "absolute weight" is not what is important - to me "percentage of excess weight loss" is a much fairer standard of comparing the weight loss between two people. And I would suspect that two people described above would likely lose weight at the same rate. (of course, I'm one of those who believes strongly that this is not a contest - just relax and enjoy the NEW YOU !!!) Good Luck !!! Kevin
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