How do you loose weight on the upper thigh area?

[captain_pillsbury]

You can't spot reduce.

[Deef1]

I feel your pain! lol...if you are like me, it's the first place I gain weight and the very LAST place that will lose weight, quite aggravating to say the least.

Walking, it took me a LOT of walking to tone my thighs and quite frankly, it wasn't until I added Zumba twice a week and weights (machines at the gym) specifically targeting my legs for about 6mos before I saw a difference. When my membership ran out and I went back to just walking...guess where I gained FIRST. UGGHHH! You guessed it!

Good luck to you! As I said, I feel your pain. People who don't have an issue there, just don't understand what we go thru. I like the Lipo idea! LOL

[London Girl]

I find that the best way to deal with the inner thigh area is to use the machine at the gym:


YouTube - Hip Adductor Video

And push out (abduction) to work on the hips.

This is the best method I've found for really trimming and toning the inner thighs.

[TXRunner]

No exercise will trim an area. You can strengthen the muscle that is already there. The only way you can make an area bigger by lifting weights is if you take in more calories than you expend, thereby increasing muscle mass. No exercise or weight lifting will bulk you up, you need extra calories to do that. Muscle also takes up less volume than fat, so if you are reducing fat and putting on muscle, you will still be thinner overall.

Losing weight is the only way to reduce the size of something and it doesn't matter which exercise you do for that. Your body will decide which fat it will get rid of first and which it will cling onto for dear life.

[Waianaegirl]

Originally Posted by runningncircles1

Liposuction.

I second that!

[LookinForMayberry]

As much as those selling books and products would like to have you believe otherwise, there is no physical way to spot reduce. I know, I was crestfallen to learn this while studying for my personal trainer certificate in the late 90s. Every body is a unique combination of features -- including where the body decides to store the fat. Some get to store it in their breasts -- to our envy, until is starts sagging to their navels.

Then there's me, who stores it in their thighs.

HOWEVER, there are things you can do. As it turns out, scientists have discovered that the body often -- not always, but often, stores fat where your ancestors needed it most (and your genes took notice). Fat is the body's storehouse of energy, and it turns out that the muscles use the fat stored nearest before it goes elsewhere. So, if you work the muscles closest to the fat, you have a chance to whittle those deposits down.

I warn you, though, that what your body senses as working may be different than your thoughts. You might do all the thigh exercises you can identify, and while you feel your thighs are getting exhausted and should be burning the fat, your body sees a greater need to your lungs and rib muscles, so it consumes more of that breast fat than that thigh fat. I know -- unfair!

So, before your body starts working on that thigh fat, you have to build up the strength in your upper body. Bottom line: fitness is a full-body workout. You cannot escape it.

In closing, I caution you away from fat-free diets, as a means to reduce your fat deposits. Your body needs fat, protein, and carbohydrates, in moderate quantities, to operate. If you reduce your fat, the body will convert the other two macro-nutrients to fat, so just eat a well balanced diet -- with fewer "treats", unless your treats are vegetables.

Be well -- and love your whole body.

[caroline22]

How can I lose weight for less the time? I don't really have the time to squeeze it in.

[irman]

Originally Posted by LookinForMayberry

As it turns out, scientists have discovered that the body often -- not always, but often, stores fat where your ancestors needed it most

Whoa .....
Looking at most Americans, why did their ancestors needed it *there* ...