Healthy?????

Question

Ok, so I don't really need to lose any weight, according to my BMI, I'm a healthy weight, but skirting underweight. I have fat on my thighs and a bit on my tummy. I don't want to lose weight, I just want to stay healthy and not have fatness. I eat mildly healthy and exercise off and on, probably 3ish times a week... Do I need to do anything or should I just keep doing what I'm doing and accept that my legs have fat because I'm female? Thanks :)

Answer 1

BMI or scale doesnt tell you in what shape you are in - how much muscle mass or body fat percentage you have.
you can have high BMI but have really low body fat percentage like body builders do or be skinny and underweight but have relatively high body fat percentage.
So what you need is to decrease your body fat percentage and increase muscle mass - which you will achieve with healthy diet and exercise.
find daily calorie intake calculator on the net, enter all your stats and it will tell you how many calories you need a day to maintain, take off 300-400cal off that number and thats how much you need to lose.
eat 5-6 small meals a day (eat every 2-3 hours - it optimizes your metabolism)
5-8 servings of fruit and veggies a day
8 glasses of water
have complex carbs for breakfast - they give you energy
have protein (lean meat, legumes etc) for dinner - repairs muscle
cardio is the only fat burning exercise and burns fat all over your body (running, jogging, swimming, spinning, elliptical etc) 4-6 times a week for 30-50min (ideally 45min because the first 20-30min body burns carbs and only then starts burning fat), light weight training (more muscle=faster metabolism)
dont consume foods that are made of white flour (white bread, cakes, pasta etc.), sugar loaded foods (cookies, icecream, candy etc) and nothing fried, oily.
ofcourse you can spoil yourself once in a while with a little treat:)

Answer 2

Some ladies regardless of what you eat or how much you exercise will have some places on their body where it stores the fat. I suggest targeting those areas with exercise.