weight loss?

Question

i realy want to lose weight but only on my thighs coz they are huge and it cant be healthy to have such big thighs and i feel realy self consious because of them so how do you get thinner thighs

Answer 1

On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common question amounts to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.

Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


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Answer 2

It is easy to say 'calories in, calories out' and that is really the true way to think about it. You can't gain weight if you are exercising away more calories than you are eating, But it is also more complicated than that.....

Some people's bodies want to store calories, and they may be stored in just one area, like the thighs or the butt. So, you have to have to watch calories but you have to particularly work on exercising those areas that are the problem. It is going to be almost impossible to diet hard enough to reduce your thighs. You would have to starve yourself to an unhealthy level. Instead, you have to be careful about what kinds of foods you eat, and you definitely have to increase your exercise a lot.

I don't think you should be too radical in your diet - you should eat all kinds of food EXCEPT no fatty friend foods - no potato chips or french fries, no nacho chips, etc. And no sugary soda.... drink diet soda or better, orange juice or water!

And you have to start exercising. That means walking at first, and then after you have gotten in shape a little, running. You never see a cross country runner with fat thighs, or fat anything else! In order to take off significant weight and keep it off, you need to exercise at least three times a week for at least 40 minutes. By exercise, I mean you need to work hard enough so that your heart rate (pulse) goes up -- you should talk to your doctor about this, but a general rule would be that a 20 year old should try to get their heart beat up to about 170 and a 50 year old about 145 and a 65 year old up to about 135. There is a lot of good information on the net about how to stretch and warmup before you run...

Maybe at the condition you are in it might seem impossible to run for 40 minutes at a fast pace? But you can do it if you work slowly and steadily to get yourself in better shape. And once you are there, you are going to feel great, look great and be the person you want to be,.

It will take you one year to do this. Do you care enough to do it? Do you want it badly enough?

Answer 3

Excess weight comes from getting more calories into your body than you are burning, my suggestion would be to read up a little bit on it, then take action in the form of eating proper food and burning some calories.
You can start by reading all the articles here:
http://weight-loss-program.motoclassica.co.uk/

Answer 4

The best way to help your thighs is to do some walking on a treadmill.
If you only want to tone your thighs then it is best you walk on the treadmill on a incline and try to on a level where it is fast but not that you are running.
The harder the incline the better for your thighs and this is also great for your bum too...!

Alot of people think its so easy to just excersise or diet and bamm you will be Right but it is not, speak to a personal trainer at a gym , that is how i got help on my thigh areas.

Answer 5

Cardio exercise will work but you will probly lose weight all over. its really hard to target weight loss in just one spot but you can work on toning your thighs with weight exercises.

Answer 6

Don t go back to old eating habits even after you lose weight

Answer 7

Walk daily 30 mins in the morning

Answer 8

if your lifestyle or career includes a lot of socializing out at dinners or drinks start scheduling workout dates with friends co workers or even clients

Answer 9

cut your wine calories in half by opting for chardonnay the lightest option as a wine spritzer equal parts wine and soda water

Answer 10

Keep proper distance between meals