This is happening to me as well….sigh…I started getting in the gym regularly about 3 years ago, I shedded 50lbs in a little over a year, & I got down to 120lbs and a size 1/2 (I’m 5ft9 but very small framed and was always naturally thin my whole life until that one little time when I got heavy after an injury) so I have maintained my weight loss for over 2 years now and I’m continuing to go to the gym about 5 times a week. I don’t even lift but I look like I do! Reply Freaking wish I had smaller legs so I can wear cute clothes. I hate catching myself in the mirror side-on because I am just made of thighs. My shorts and skirts keep riding up my ass, tights are stretched around the thigh and saggy at the knee. My quads stick out from the top of my hip to my knee and hamstrings stick out at the back, which just looks bulky and awkward. Being so short, the size of my thighs stands out, as they are about the same size as my entire upper body. My shorts wont fit suddenly when they did a few days ago. The second I exercise (and I can do *7 hours* of cardio in a session) I get bigger and heavier. I used to be anorexic and I’m really struggling with being a good 12kg heavier than I used to be since eating normally. I’m only 5ft and weigh 130 lbs because I am naturally muscular (23 ich waist, 23 inch thighs) My dad was a sprinter/pole vaulter and my mother was called thunder thighs at school so I have muscle and fat from both sides. So Mom, and everyone else out there… just stick it out. Yes, that layer of fat over your beautiful, shapely muscles-the layer that causes your clothes to not fit right, that embarrasses you in a swimsuit, that creates unsightly cellulite… that layer disappears. “But I don’t want to stay that way forever!” You say (and my mom says).īecause you know what happens after you put on muscle and stick out your training for a little while? And you know what muscle does? BURNS CALORIES! When you reach this phase in your training where you start to feel a little… bigger… that means you’re putting on muscle. (This happens to men, too, it just bothers them less.)īut here’s the thing, females (and overly concerned men)… Resistance training is good for you. I saw this same scenario with many of my own clients as a personal trainer-they were all ready to quit as soon as they felt their thighs getting closer together. “Lunges and squats make my thighs too big,” I told my trainer in high school, and stubbornly refused to do them. I’ll admit, back when I was first experimenting with weights, I got so scared when my thighs started to expand that I actually stopped working out. (Of course, if you’re working all of your muscles equally, this happens with all parts of your body, it’s just most noticeable on your thighs, arms and shoulders.) Your thighs grow, and you may have a harder time fitting in those skinny jeans you bought six months ago, not because you’re getting fatter, just because you’re getting… bigger.
Your strength and endurance gains start to slow, and you stop shedding the pounds as quickly as you were in the beginning.Īnd then… here’s the scary part for women… often certain body parts start getting BIGGER. This makes you happy and motivates you to keep exercising. You start to lose weight and gain strength almost immediately. Here’s what happens when you begin a new exercise program: It’s getting harder and harder to fit into my pants!” “Well,” she went on, “my waist is getting smaller and firmer, but my thighs are GROWING. “And that wasn’t exactly the goal,” she said, obviously freaking out a little. My mom then explained how after nearly five months of doing some type of resistance training four or five days a week, she was starting to notice her thighs getting bigger. My mom called me up the other day, noticeable worry in her voice.
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