Fat thighs?

seven_eleven

Hi everyone. Im male in my early 20's, I weigh 10.5 stone, and was at about 9.9 stone back around May, waiste size 32, maybe a bit less.
Im 5ft 7 inches.

While I think I'm fairly skinny, I have this horrible problem of gigantic thighs. Its nothing but fat, and they're really big. So big that wearing pants at my current waist size are only too small for my thighs.

Is there any way to slim the thighs in particular? I've been doing a lot of squats recently but I'm not sure how much is enough. My diet is alright, I eat light about 4 times a day, any more and I just seem to pile on the weight.

I used to A LOT of jogging, but have since stopped and now just do squats every night and swim once a week. I still do an average bit of walking every day around the town.

RidleyRider

I thought you said male in there mid 20's worrying?

Get yo ass under the squat rack and muscle those f*cks up!

deadlybuzzman

seven_eleven wrote: »

So big that wearing pants at my current waist size are only too small for my thighs.

At that height your weight sounds perfectly normal, the problem is alot of jeans you get now are for genuinely underweight fellas with the frames of underfed teenage girls.
Even when I was smaller than am now I had the same problem as you and I was neither fat nor huge so dont go on some diet just shop around more

Arthurdaly

RidleyRider wrote: »

I thought you said male in there mid 20's worrying?

Get yo ass under the squat rack and muscle those f*cks up!

Oh yeah, great feedback! My advice to you is lay off the sauce!.

POSSY

Arthurdaly wrote: »

Oh yeah, great feedback! My advice to you is lay off the sauce!.

It may not have been nicely said but if you want to tone up your tighs then you need to squat. I'd say do back and front squats, that'll produce good, solid, tight legs

deadlybuzzman

you're not alone, at the same time Im not having a dig but you should be aiming to burst out of the clothes not stay squashed in them, especially if you're a guy
http://www.sugdenbarbell.co.uk/forum/Strong-man-problems-101-17374

Burkatron

POSSY wrote: »

It may not have been nicely said but if you want to tone up your tighs then you need to squat. I'd say do back and front squats, that'll produce good, solid, tight legs

Oh right,I see squatting now spots reduces fat! This forum is going backwards!

OP, if you have fat anything you need to lose weight to get rid of the fat.do all the squats you want unweighted or under a bar but if your diet isn't up to scratch you can forget about losing fat. Eating "light" 4 times a day is where I'd start looking, this sounds like (I could be wrong) you don't really know about nutrition! Post up your typical daily diet.

Mellor

POSSY wrote: »

It may not have been nicely said but if you want to tone up your tighs then you need to squat. I'd say do back and front squats, that'll produce good, solid, tight legs

How are squats supposed to help?

Gummy Panda

Burkatron wrote: »

Oh right,I see squatting now spots reduces fat! This forum is going backwards!

OP, if you have fat anything you need to lose weight to get rid of the fat.do all the squats you want unweighted or under a bar but if your diet isn't up to scratch you can forget about losing fat. Eating "light" 4 times a day is where I'd start looking, this sounds like (I could be wrong) you don't really know about nutrition! Post up your typical daily diet.

But I was told squats cure everything... even aids

Burkatron

Gummy Panda wrote: »

But I was told squats cure everything... even aids

"Squats! The cause of and solution to all of life's problems"

POSSY

Mellor wrote: »

How are squats supposed to help?

My legs were fatty/flabby. I started to squat. Suddenly my legs weren't flabby.

RidleyRider

Before I started to squat, I had fat legs. Flabby and not one bit toned. I've been off the bike now since September and lost what muscle I had from that till I started squatting. Now I have firmer legs.

So you get where I'm coming from?

-Burkatron, it worked for me why wouldn't it for him?

alienacademy

just skipping it really help

Burkatron

POSSY wrote: »

My legs were fatty/flabby. I started to squat. Suddenly my legs weren't flabby.

RidleyRider wrote: »

Before I started to squat, I had fat legs. Flabby and not one bit toned. I've been off the bike now since September and lost what muscle I had from that till I started squatting. Now I have firmer legs.

So you get where I'm coming from?

-Burkatron, it worked for me why wouldn't it for him?

Right so, you're both telling me you had fat, flabby,untoned (whatever term you use) thighs, nowhere else on your body was carrying fat & the only thing you changed in your life at the time was you did squats? No dietary change, no other activity change etc?



Anyway, the point is, you can build muscle under layers of fat but if you're continually eating a poor diet that fat will stay covering the muscle! Your legs might get bigger stretching the fatty tissue out but it's still there until you burn that fat off. Think of overweight people doing situps & ab crunches all the time! By both your logic they should have six packs, so why don't they? Correlation does not imply causation.

The Simpsons:
After a single bear wandering into town has drawn an over-reaction from the residents of Springfield,



Homer stands outside his house and muses, “Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol is working like a charm!”
Lisa sees through his reasoning: “That’s specious reasoning, dad.”

Homer, misunderstanding the word “specious”, thanks her for the compliment.
Optimistically, she tries to explain the error in his argument: “By your logic, I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.”

Homer is confused: “Hmm; how does it work?” Lisa: “It doesn’t work; it’s just a stupid rock!”

Homer: “Uh-huh.”

Lisa: “… but I don’t see any tigers around, do you?”
Homer, after a moment’s thought: “Lisa, I want to buy your rock…”

POSSY

Burkatron wrote: »

Right so, you're both telling me you had fat, flabby,untoned (whatever term you use) thighs, nowhere else on your body was carrying fat & the only thing you changed in your life at the time was you did squats? No dietary change, no other activity change etc?



Anyway, the point is, you can build muscle under layers of fat but if you're continually eating a poor diet that fat will stay covering the muscle! Your legs might get bigger stretching the fatty tissue out but it's still there until you burn that fat off. Think of overweight people doing situps & ab crunches all the time! By both your logic they should have six packs, so why don't they? Correlation does not imply causation.

The Simpsons:
After a single bear wandering into town has drawn an over-reaction from the residents of Springfield,



Homer stands outside his house and muses, “Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol is working like a charm!”
Lisa sees through his reasoning: “That’s specious reasoning, dad.”

Homer, misunderstanding the word “specious”, thanks her for the compliment.
Optimistically, she tries to explain the error in his argument: “By your logic, I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.”

Homer is confused: “Hmm; how does it work?” Lisa: “It doesn’t work; it’s just a stupid rock!”

Homer: “Uh-huh.”

Lisa: “… but I don’t see any tigers around, do you?”
Homer, after a moment’s thought: “Lisa, I want to buy your rock…”

I for one never said "squat and **** everything else"... it's pretty obvious if you are carrying fat you need to loose it, so sorting diet out is important. I'm going to guess like others that the OP was looking for exercises for toning up legs assuming he wasn't hitting dominos and having the the Family deal to himself.

And while correlation doesn't prove causation I have yet to meet someone with any bit of a decent diet who squatted regularly and didn't have toned legs.


But since youv'e an issue with people suggesting squatting... what would you advise?

Stench Blossoms

POSSY wrote: »

But since youv'e an issue with people suggesting squatting... what would you advise?

I don't think he has an issue with squatting. He is saying that squatting alone won't help the OP.

He has already asked the OP to post up their diet.

28064212

POSSY wrote: »

And while correlation doesn't prove causation I have yet to meet someone with any bit of a decent diet who squatted regularly and didn't have toned legs.

Squatting on its own will only, if anything, increase the size of his thighs (more muscle mass). However, the vast majority of people who start squatting do so while changing other parts of their life, namely their diet. If the OP continues to eat maintenance/surplus calories while squatting, their thighs will not get smaller

Burkatron

POSSY wrote: »

I for one never said "squat and **** everything else"... it's pretty obvious if you are carrying fat you need to loose it, so sorting diet out is important.

You never mentioned diet in your advice earlier on. Diet > excercise for losing fat. The OP didn't ask for excercises.

I'm going to guess like others that the OP was looking for exercises for toning up legs assuming he wasn't hitting dominos and having the the Family deal to himself.

Why guess? The OP never said that and while at 5'7 with a 32inch waist isn't big it's not small either & has fat to lose. I'm 5'6 11 stone with a 30 inch waist & I still have body fat to lose!

And while correlation doesn't prove causation I have yet to meet someone with any bit of a decent who squatted regularly and didn't have toned legs.

Everyone's legs are toned under fat. I see you've met Jeff lewis then!? He squats over 1000lbs. Amazingly fat thighs

But since youv'e an issue with people suggesting squatting... what would you advise?

I already gave the OP the correct advice.

Yes, that's exactly what I said. NEVER SUGGEST SQUATTING, EVER! :rolleyes:

I don't have a problem with squatting or advising people to squat, I have a problem with bad advice (not saying you gave bad advice) & the half truths that are spouted on here in nearly every thread these days.

POSSY

Burkatron wrote: »

You never mentioned diet in your advice earlier on. Diet > excercise for losing fat. The OP didn't ask for excercises.



Why guess? The OP never said that and while at 5'7 with a 32inch waist isn't big it's not small either & has fat to lose. I'm 5'6 11 stone with a 30 inch waist & I still have body fat to lose!



Everyone's legs are toned under fat. I see you've met Jeff lewis then!? He squats over 1000lbs. Amazingly fat thighs






I already gave the OP the correct advice.

Yes, that's exactly what I said. NEVER SUGGEST SQUATTING, EVER! :rolleyes:

I don't have a problem with squatting or advising people to squat, I have a problem with bad advice (not saying you gave bad advice) & the half truths that are spouted on here in nearly every thread these days.

Ah come on now ya shnake ya edited out "diet" :cool:

"And while correlation doesn't prove causation I have yet to meet someone with any bit of a decent diet who squatted regularly and didn't have toned legs."


Can we agree that the OP should sort his diet out and squat?!

Burkatron

POSSY wrote: »

Ah come on now ya shnake ya edited out "diet" :cool:

Eh??

And while correlation doesn't prove causation I have yet to meet someone with any bit of a decent diet who squatted regularly and didn't have toned legs.

Yeah but just to throw this in the works I've met plenty of people who don't squat & have a good diet that have toned legs!

Can we agree that the OP should sort his diet out and squat?!

That's more like it!!

POSSY

Burkatron wrote: »

Eh??


Yeah but just to throw this in the works I've met plenty of people who don't squat & have a good diet that have toned legs!



That's more like it!!

Well then I can only assume if they squatted they'd have fantastic legs :pac:

28064212

POSSY wrote: »

Well then I can only assume if they squatted they'd have fantastic legs :pac:

But if they had a bad diet and squatted, their legs would be huge. So:

• good squatting => fantastic legs (diet good) or fat legs (diet bad)
• good diet => good legs. Can be improved by squatting, but smaller legs regardless

OP wants smaller legs, so diet is absolutely the first thing to be looked at

POSSY

28064212 wrote: »

But if they had a bad diet and squatted, their legs would be huge. So:

• good squatting => fantastic legs (diet good) or fat legs (diet bad)
• good diet => good legs. Can be improved by squatting, but smaller legs regardless

OP wants smaller legs, so diet is absolutely the first thing to be looked at

Personally, I found my legs got a little bit smaller when I started squatting as the looseness "tensed up". Just my experience. Did he say he wanted smaller legs or less fatty legs?

Edit: Just saw he said slimmer legs... a good diet and squatting (not massive weights for massive legs, and possibly not front squats as he probably doesn't want to develop his quads massively) should help him.


OT: I cant help but think that about 90% of the "help me" posts on this forum can be answered with "eat healthy and exercise".

brownej

POSSY wrote: »

OT: I cant help but think that about 90% of the "help me" posts on this forum can be answered with "eat healthy and exercise".

They should put this in a sticky or something.;)

Stench Blossoms

I have a good diet and I squat. Eating at a calorie deficit. I weight more now than what I did at Christmas. My waist is an inch smaller but my thighs are half an inch bigger.

Just thought I'd throw that in there.

seven_eleven

Im eating at a calorie deficit. While what I eat isnt SUPER healthy and fruit all day etc, its still not much.

Breakfast, bowl of ricekrispies or 2 wheatabix with 200ml low fat milk, 200ish calories?

Lunch, 350 calorie chicken wrap from tesco

Dinner, 2-3 portions of greens, 1-2 portions of meat, typical Irish dinner and not over sized.

evening time, I have a cup of tea and 3-4 tea biscuits, 200 calories max.

Drink about 3 bottles of tap water through the day.

I swim once or twice a week, 20 lengths maybe a bit more if the sauna doesn't distract me :pac:
Walk a fair bit every day, do unweighted squats every night.

As I said, I'm not super healthy, I'm not looking to get huge muscles or become a fitness freak. I just do all this because its what should be done to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
I'm sure some of you are going to slate my diet, but it isnt "domino's every night" as some would suggest. My diet is well within moderate eating. Hell, I feel hungry most of the time but put up with it because eating anymore will go over my calorie requirements.

Stench Blossoms

seven_eleven wrote: »

Im eating at a calorie deficit. While what I eat isnt SUPER healthy and fruit all day etc, its still not much.

It's actually not healthy at all and eating 3-4 biscuits a night is not moderate eating.

You are probably feeling hungry because there is very little protein or fat in your diet.

Have you read the stickies?

seven_eleven

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

It's actually not healthy at all and eating 3-4 biscuits a night is not moderate eating.

You are probably feeling hungry because there is very little protein or fat in your diet.

Have you read the stickies?

Had a brief look at them but it didnt seem to offer much in terms of nutrition. I mean, the average person would look at my diet and say its fine. Well, at least I wold considering most people I know eat twice as much in terms of biscuits, sweets, etc and don't seem to have these problems.

Stench Blossoms

seven_eleven wrote: »

Had a brief look at them but it didnt seem to offer much in terms of nutrition. I mean, the average person would look at my diet and say its fine. Well, at least I wold considering most people I know eat twice as much in terms of biscuits, sweets, etc and don't seem to have these problems.

Just because an average person says it's fine doesn't mean it is and so what if someone else can eat more biscuits and sweets than you? Just because they can doesn't mean that you can.

The stickies are full of info. Re-read them.

You need to work out how many calories you should be eating a day. Usually this is body weight in lbs x 14 for maintenance, 12 for weight loss, 16 for weight gain.

Few tips

• Stay away from processed food such as rice crispies etc.
• Base your meals around a source of protein.
• Make your own lunch.
• Snack on healthier food such as nuts if you need to.
• Eat vegetables. I find greens the best. Low calorie and very filling and nutritious.

28064212

seven_eleven wrote: »

I mean, the average person would look at my diet and say its fine

The average person is overweight

Col_Loki

Im eating at a calorie deficit. While what I eat isnt SUPER healthy and fruit all day etc, its still not much.

Breakfast, bowl of ricekrispies or 2 wheatabix with 200ml low fat milk, 200ish calories?

Lunch, 350 calorie chicken wrap from tesco

Dinner, 2-3 portions of greens, 1-2 portions of meat, typical Irish dinner and not over sized.

evening time, I have a cup of tea and 3-4 tea biscuits, 200 calories max.

Drink about 3 bottles of tap water through the day.

I swim once or twice a week, 20 lengths maybe a bit more if the sauna doesn't distract me
Walk a fair bit every day, do unweighted squats every night.

As I said, I'm not super healthy, I'm not looking to get huge muscles or become a fitness freak. I just do all this because its what should be done to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
I'm sure some of you are going to slate my diet, but it isnt "domino's every night" as some would suggest. My diet is well within moderate eating. Hell, I feel hungry most of the time but put up with it because eating anymore will go over my calorie requirements.

Ok so you have extra weight to lose & you feel hungry most of the time, clearly there is a problem with your diet. If you make better choices with what you eat things get a whole lot easier, you should be able to lose weight and stay feeling full.

Ricekrispies, not the worst but definitely not the best. Would you try Porridge or Eggs? (keep you fuller for longer, far less sugar)
Tesco Wrap, not great. You could try an Asian Bean Salad, Bring some left over dinner from the day before, Chicken Salad etc.
Dinner, Lean Meat & Veg is good. Do you eat Potatoes/Rice/Chips etc with it...big servings of these = high kcal's.

Your Diet is High GI, fast burning Carbs (Ricecrispies, Wrap, Biscuits etc).
As people have said if you base your diet around getting more protein & healthy fats things become a hell of a lot easier.