Continued from Calories for Men.

What is so special about women’s weight loss? Or maybe a better question is: Is women’s weight loss different from men’s weight loss?

And what is the difference between women’s weight loss vs. men’s weight loss?

As with many things in life, men and women view weight loss differently and tackle it in gender-specific ways. Far more women than men put weight loss at the top of their to-do lists. Women tend to approach weight loss as a self-improvement task and berate themselves when they fail to reach their goals.

Women and men even use different language when they talk about weight loss. “Women tend to talk about losing weight and going on diets and men talk about getting fit,” says Miller-Kovach, author of She Loses, He Loses.

Women, more often than men, view themselves as emotional eaters and list stress, boredom, anger, and depression as triggers for overeating. They welcome unsolicited feedback from a variety of sources for emotional and physical support.