What can I do so that I lose weight in my inner thighs so they don't touch and a TINY butt!?

I really need help! I've been going to my local gym and eating healthy outside of the gym. I eat fruits and yogurt, and then go to the gym. I do the bike but I'm starting to find that the bike is starting my make my legs bigger and it's not doing much to lose the inner thigh fat so they don't touch. I just don't understand I am eating right (i think) but I seem to not to see a big difference in my legs. WHAT CAN I DO SO THAT MY LEGS DON'T TOUCH! I have quite a bit of fat on them now, my thighs touch up until half down and a little above my knees I just don't want them to touch please help me tell me what I can do! I'm more focused on this than my tiny butt that I dream of because I will lose the access fat during the proccess. Just please someone help me give me tips, what I should do at the gym, anything.

keep in mind I DON'T WANT TO BUILD OR GAIN MUSCLE I WANT TO GET SMALLER NOT BIGGER!

thank you so much!

I don't know enough about different excercises to help you.  But I do know that the kind of exercises you do does impact your shape.  But genetics has a lot to do with it.  Even when I weighed 96 and looked like a skeleton my inner thighs touched.

Not from fat - but because I have a narrow pelvis that naturally makes my legs closer together.

Even still - the bike is great excercise but you can get a really good,, fat burning workout just walking.  You wont add bulk to your legs. 

The real key is in varying your work out routine so that many of your musces are worked, not just the muscles specific to biking.  Mix it up.  Spin one day and walk the next.  Try yoga (its harder than it looks), try kick boxing.  By working different muscle groups in your legs you will see more imporvement in the shape than doing one excercise alone.

Unless you are taking supplements/eating a ton of protein, you probably don't need to worry about the bike building huge thighs.  Unfortunatly, there is no magic fix for any one particular area.  Fat  burns off your body in ways that don't always make sense, so there are no exercises that will take fat off your thighs.  The best strategy is to keep track of every calorie you take in, the time you spend in the gym and work to create a calorie deficit (burn more cal than you take in). 

Try yoga for some strength building, and incorporate other kinds of exercise so you don't get bored/burned out.  Stay focused and you will see results!

Original Post by madamq:

I don't know enough about different excercises to help you.  But I do know that the kind of exercises you do does impact your shape.  But genetics has a lot to do with it.  Even when I weighed 96 and looked like a skeleton my inner thighs touched.

Not from fat - but because I have a narrow pelvis that naturally makes my legs closer together.

Even still - the bike is great excercise but you can get a really good,, fat burning workout just walking.  You wont add bulk to your legs. 

The real key is in varying your work out routine so that many of your musces are worked, not just the muscles specific to biking.  Mix it up.  Spin one day and walk the next.  Try yoga (its harder than it looks), try kick boxing.  By working different muscle groups in your legs you will see more imporvement in the shape than doing one excercise alone.

 

Wow - that's confirmation of a good idea there!  I hadn't even read yours yet. :-)

When I complain about my inner thighs everyone tells me to do weighted squats and lunges.

I say try Bikram Yoga. It makes you more lean, i tell you when i was taking it the students in that room were in shape! They were long and lean, not at all muscular.

Original Post by jblarghp:

When I complain about my inner thighs everyone tells me to do weighted squats and lunges.

That's what's worked for me.  I'm down 2.75" on each thigh, having managed to lose 30 pounds of fat while maintaining pretty much all of my lean mass.  Weights can't make a woman bulky unless she's eating a pretty hefty calorie surplus.  If you're maintaining a deficit - or even eating maintenance - they just help strengthen our legs and make the muscle more metabolically active (while convincing our body that fat is more expendable than muscle).  The split squats, in particular, seemed particularly effective at working my thigh muscles.

Fairydust, can I assume you're using the word muscular to mean bulky?  Because lean muscular women look plenty thin.  It's when we have a layer of fat over the muscle that we can look bulky/stocky.

Adductor exercises. (look for the machine that makes you spread eagle at the gym) and squats.  Like susiecue said- you aren't going to turn into the incredible hulk unless you are going to extremes or supplementing testosterone.  You cant choose where you loose fat, but you can tone your adductors.

Your thighs may always touch though, it honestly depends on how you are built.  Is it like a chafing issue? Or just a vanity thing?

Original Post by haileyy51:

WHAT CAN I DO SO THAT MY LEGS DON'T TOUCH!

Stand with your feet further apart.

But seriously, folks - like susie said, you can't control where the fat comes off. And I'd skip the adductor machine (isolation, plus it's a machine, which should be avoided) - it's nothing compared to squats, lunges, and step ups.

Sorry but no exercise will actually make you lose weight in your thighs.  Your body decides where you lose weight when there is a calorie deficit. Unfortunately for most women, the thighs are usually the last place for the fat to disappear from.  So basically, keep up the cardio and you will eventually get there!  I always tell myself, I didn't put the weight on overnight, so why am I expecting it to come off overnight!  On the other hand, it is still good to adductor exercises and lunges or squats so when you lose the fat, you will see nice sculpted muscles. 

I recently asked my cycle instructor what I should do because I am not losing any weight and I have been keeping my calories between 1200-1300 and working out 6 times a week for at least an hour. 4 days of interval/cardio workouts, and 2 days on intense weight training with a 30 min cardio warmup.   He first asked me what I ate... I was proud to tell him about all the fruits, vegetables, yogurts, soups, lean cuisine (when Im lazy) whole wheat and grains that I eat.  Thinking he would be as confused as I was, I told him a typical day menu.  He started breaking everything down.  Basically what it came down to was that I was consuming too much sugars (which will convert into fat easier) and salts (which retains all my water weight).  I started looking back at my food logs and noticing how much sugar and salt I was actually consuming. It was an insane amount.  He said that fruits are good but only right after a workout or something.  I guess I thought I was always picking the best choice by grabbing an apple or banana when im a little hungry.   Now I go for sliced cucumbers, sugar snap peas, carrots (which I hate but force myself to eat), celery sticks, and fresh broccoli and cauliflower.  He said NO to any lean cuisines or canned soups.  He also said that I should have at least 20g of protein at each meal.  I am now eating a hard boiled egg white with almost everymeal to reach that 20g.   Also, he said to be aware of high fatty foods like peanut butter and mixed nuts because it is REALLY easy to over eat.  Basically, if it is too tempting to overeat, just avoid. 

Sorry for the long answer.  Hope this helps a little!

I hate my inner thighs as well.. my dad used to say my legs were like ostrich legs ahahaha thanks dad but still haev them,.. even when i was a teen ager doing many different sports (at least 2 hours a day) i still had them... i guess that my chance to get rid of them once i loose the weight if they are still there is lippo..well thats not gonna happen ahahah... so i guess im stuck with ostrich legs =)

I do understand how you feel, believe me!

ma1130: thank you for the info about the high sugar, will try to change and incorporate more carrots in the regime and less pineapple or papaya. When did dieting become so complicated?

Thank you so much for that answer ma1130. I always thought I was picking the best choice also when i pick an apple or some fruit hahaha

Original Post by lev2:

Unless you are taking supplements/eating a ton of protein, you probably don't need to worry about the bike building huge thighs. 

Even if you were taking more steroids than Mr. Olympia, you wouldn't have to worry about a bike building huge thighs. 

Original Post by haileyy51:

I really need help! I've been going to my local gym and eating healthy outside of the gym. I eat fruits and yogurt, and then go to the gym. I do the bike but I'm starting to find that the bike is starting my make my legs bigger and it's not doing much to lose the inner thigh fat so they don't touch. I just don't understand I am eating right (i think) but I seem to not to see a big difference in my legs. WHAT CAN I DO SO THAT MY LEGS DON'T TOUCH! I have quite a bit of fat on them now, my thighs touch up until half down and a little above my knees I just don't want them to touch please help me tell me what I can do! I'm more focused on this than my tiny butt that I dream of because I will lose the access fat during the proccess. Just please someone help me give me tips, what I should do at the gym, anything.

keep in mind I DON'T WANT TO BUILD OR GAIN MUSCLE I WANT TO GET SMALLER NOT BIGGER!

thank you so much!

 hey...how much do you weigh? i'm 5'2 and i currently weigh 114...but even when i weighed 96lbs my thighs still touched...it's just in your genes, everyone says there's ways to lose it, but i've tried them all and when i run, or do the recommended exercises, i build muscle & get bigger.....hope this helps..

I second the poster who mentioned the lunges and squats.  I am a gal who carries nearly all of my weight in my thighs (even when I am rediculously thin), but I have seen a marked loss in my measurments since starting to do wieghted lunges and squats.  I started with a 2.5 pound kettle ball, moved up to the 5 pound, and now use a ten pound kettle ball at the gym.  I, personally, love the abductor machine and am very pleased to see my inner thigh muscles developing for the first time in my life.  I think whether or not you use the machines is a personal preference.

I also agree with the commentor who recommended doing different activities to use different muscles groups.  My husband, who was a Navy guy (and who still has a GREAT body) recommends long and slow cardio.  Instead of thirty minutes going full throttle, I do 60 minutes quite a bit slower (ie. I can carry on a conversation, but my heart rate is still up around 130 and I am sweating).   Since changing to this approach I have seen much better gains, er, losses!  Bottom line, as long as you're burning more than your taking in, you're headed in the right direction!

If you have a body type where you gain weight around the hips, thighs, butt area, than the only thing you can do is lose fat. If you keep working out your muscles, you are just gaining more muscle mass. The only way to lose that inner thigh fat is to do cardio and lose more body fat. I gain weight like that, and my thighs are currently touching. Basically, when you do a bunch of cardio, you burn fat, and your body will choose to lose fat from those three target areas. It will happen, it just won't happen right away. Your legs will lose fat probably after you lose fat everywhere else. Even if your stomach looks more toned that it did, your thighs may still touch until you get to that proper goal weight. I know it's a totally lame deal, but I am in your same boat. My thighs make me sick and I wondered the same thing as you, because I definately don't want to bulk up my thighs, and my sister (a fitness expert) explained this to me, so it made me feel better and worse at the same time. Better because I now know it will happen and im not some freak, but worse because it will come near the end of my weight loss journey. I hope this helped.

Original Post by tortoisewins:

Adductor exercises. (look for the machine that makes you spread eagle at the gym) and squats. 

Squats, yes. That other machine isn't worth even pissing on. It's 100% useless.

thank you so much emilycoolface! You really helped me a lot and basically told me it isnt impossible for my goal thank you so much! So what cardio should i do currently i walk ive tried something knew instead of the bike because i found that it built my thigh muscle up causing it not to help my thighs touch! Could you possibly give me some cardio exercises? please and thanks so much again!

I've been doing the cycle at the gym but it has built up muscle mass and I don't want that so I switched to jogging and walking ALL I WANT IS FOR TO HAVE SKINNY LEGS SO THAT MY THIGHS DON'T TOUCH AND I BE REAL SKINNY ABOVE THE KNEE UP. NONE OF THAT, IT GETS LITTLE AND THEN BULKS OUT! I hope you can help me! what jogging and walking help do ?

i think you need to calm down about wanting tiny legs.  if you are getting healthier, then let your body do what its doing.   you cant spot reduce and i highly doubt its healthy to want the muscles in your legs to break down and get smaller.

Thighs are supposed to be thicker on top than down by the knee. You have more muscle at the top. You sound totally normal to me.