Hello Everybody,
Losing thigh fat is one of those targeting problems, like losing belly fat. It is not easy to achieve. Your thighs have big muscles and thigh exercises will tone the muscles but not get rid of the fat. What you need to do is lose weight overall and your thighs will slim down with the rest of you.
You should eat a healthy diet of fresh fruit, vegetables, salads, grains, lean meat and oily fish using whatever recipes you enjoy. You must also take exercise. To tone your thigh muscles a brisk half hour’s walk in the morning and another in the evening every day will soon start to show results. Take whatever opportunity you can find to exercise your legs. At home, or out shopping, climb the stairs. Two steps at a time if you can manage it.
This way you will lose weight and tone your thigh muscles at the same time. But make sure you do not lose weight too fast. Fast weight loss is losing more than two pounds a week. You can do it if you really have to slim quickly for an event. But I would not recommend it as a healthy long term option. As well as possible fatigue, cramps and muscle wastage there is another problem with losing weight fast.
When you lose body weight quickly you will be shrinking. I say body weight rather than fat, as most of what you remove will be water, but you will still be thinner at the end of two or three weeks. The problem is that your skin will not have had time to shrink at the same rate and you will end up looking like a prune. Also without a lifestyle change to healthy food and exercise you will put the weight back on again anyway. So look at fast weight loss as an emergency measure and not as a long term way of keeping slim.
You are still likely to have some loose skin, even if you lose weight slowly, but it has more time to regain elasticity and tighten up as you get slimmer. There are a few things you can do to help it.
Use a moisturizer night and morning.
Give your body a good scrub in the shower.
Drink plenty of water - this will also help your continuing weight loss program.
In time your skin will adapt to your new body shape and all will be well.
Should you do all this and still not lose weight there is only one likely explanation. You are taking in, by eating, more calories than you are burning off, by exercise and normal daily activity. To lose one pound a week you need to have a deficit of five hundred calories each day. An hour’s walking will burn off about two hundred calories, so you need to make sure you keep up the daily exercise, eat less and have a healthy diet as well. Do this and not only will your thighs be slim but your arms, midriff and belly as well.
See you soon,
Peter Stockwell
10 July 2010
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