Wish I knew! Thats the spot I hate the most on myself besides my tummy. I refuse to wear short sleeves ever in public. I have to always wear a sweater or I just feel awful. I have *issues* :P but if you find anything that helps please let me know! =)

LOL!! Ain't that the truth! At my biggest, I was a D and now i'm inching my way back down to a full B or barely C ... LOL Terrible!

Same problem here.... we actually call it the Cole Curse. Big arms, huge calves. My sister, that's like.... 5'0 and 135lbs (she used to be a lot smaller) even has them! Her guy friends tease her all the time... tiny chick, huge arms.

*sigh*

My boyfriend thought he was being funny one night and informed me that he's okay going to scary bars with me because I have bouncer arms and can protect him. I could have hit him. *mutter* He's lucky he's so wonderful....... *mutter*

Yeah, my calves are a whole different issue. I was saying how I measure myself and my calves will NOT shrink, and my co-worker was like uh, you have JACKED calves, that's why.

That is why, but I'm a friggin girl. I shouldn't have calves Brad Pitt would be jealous of...

LOL! Damn genetics! Although, I swear there's got to be some way we can get to a place where we feel normal with our problem areas. I mean you see/read weight loss stories about so many different people with different body types (look at the people on all the seasons of the biggest loser!), and most of them manage to get magazine worthy physiques. Granted, they work out for hours and hours a day, but they do have a short time span to do it in, so shouldn't we be able to do it over a longer period of time? At least that's what I keep telling myself to keep me motivated.

Stellarosa, as for your calves, have you tried doing calf raises on stairs? Besides running and spinning, that's probably the best exercise to target them.

I don't know what a calf raise is, but if its going to increase the muscle mass, I don't wanna!

you should get some free weights 3,5,8 or 10 pounds (whatever you can handle) and start toning them up. If you tone them while you lose the weight you will see better results faster, and you will get ride of the flab and have nice solid tone arms.

P.S. don't use to big of weights or else you might end up bulking up

Right. I actually have hand weights and don't use them that often - I prefer to use the weight machines at the gym and use very low weight - just enough so I feel like I'm working and I target each of the different arm muscles - biceps, triceps, shoulders, etc.

arms arms ARMS. if you go to the photo album, you'll find a couple of pictures that include my arms, with the caption ARMS!!!!! because I HATE my arms.
But I've starting weight lifting with the machines at the gym using as much weight as I can while completing all my reps, and I'm beginning to see some definition and tone. The "bulking up" myth scares a bunch of people away, but really, girls can't bulk up. Not unless they eat a very regimented protein-saturated diet and put extensive, intensive work into building those muscles (which means lifting 150-300 lbs and more!)--believe me, I know, my stepmother is a woman body builder and you should see how hard she has to try to 'bulk up.' The reason a lot of girls think they are bulking up, I believe, is because when you begin to lift weights to the point where you're building a little muscle here and there (meaning lifting enough weight to produce the tears in your muscle you need to make them grow), your muscles will retain weight and if you have fat ontop of that, which most of us apparently do, you may look bulky for a short period of time. i didn't really notice it (except a little light bulk at the beginning).
Anyway, you know that muscle burns fat so if you're building muscle, you're burning fat, correct? And once you burn off the fat on top of the muscle (or a good fraction of it anyway), you will either see nice definition and tone if you've been working your muscles, or your arms will appear flabby for much longer because there is no muscle tone there, and you have to lose a whole lot of fat to have those Kate Moss arms!
Now, most of this is just personal experience (and not much of that!) and advice from the body building parents who know the difference between light lifting for tone and heavy lifting for bulk. I do incline presses, bent rows and pull downs for my arms, the inclines at about 30lbs resistance (that's all I can do so far) and the pulldowns/rows at 70lbs resistance, 2 sets of 10 reps if I can do all twenty. if not, I simply work to failure, and consider it a job well done. Weight training is really necessary for healthy weight loss, but doing 100 reps with 5 lbs of weight will simply burn what you'd burn on a treadmill, without developing any muscle. It's impossible to spot-train away fat, but it is possible to develop muscle tone in areas that will give your arms a much more shapely and defined look once the body fat is gone.
As for me, I'm only a few weeks in on weight training and I can already feel my tricep! which I haven't ever been able to do before. Believe me, it feels much better than flabby fat. And I'm not aiming at all for muscular arms in the least--I probably won't go much over 70-90 lbs lifting. Some muscle development is healthy and attractive though.
Good luck, I feel your pain!

I KNOW!! I have been up and down between 180 and 260 and my arms stay the same. My calves hust recently grew. My arms and calves are huge! I can't even wear capri pants. All my jeans are to tight in the calf. I can't wear button up shirts, or shirts with arm bands. The worst part is as big as they are, they are incredibly weak.

I hate my arms too. Especially the bottom when you hold your arm up and the fat swings on the bottom, Gross!!! I've recently started doing the 30 day shred and OMG my arms were killing me and hopefully they will look alittle better with some muscle and some weight loss. I still can't believe that I let myself get back up to this weight. I had lost 70lbs 4 years ago and slowly but surely I've gained 60 back :( and the huge arms.

munchievictim - 70 lb rows? You go girl.

As of late, I've been doing the following

Lat pull downs
Chest Press
Rows
Pull down machine for triceps
Lower back machine
Ab machine

I do all of these for 3 sets of 15 reps each, and the weight is the max I can handle for each machine while still being able to complete the set. (our gym just has the numbers on the weights, and I don't remember if they're in 5 or 10 increments).

I basically looked at all the machines and making sure I'm working all of the muscles in my arms and my back. My back isn't a problem area, but extra toning won't hurt and I'd really like to completely get rid of the little wings under my arms.

I shy away from any leg machines because my legs are really muscular, but recently I started doing the hip abduction, etc (the one where you swing your leg in like 8 different positions) to work my inner and outer thighs as well as my hamstrings. If my quads get any bigger I would cry. I know women can't bulk up, its just the building muscle under the fat that was getting to me. At one point the arms were getting bigger b/c I was doing weights. My biceps have a bit more definition now and my collarbones/shoulders are coming back (YAY) the triceps are just slow in coming.

/patience.

sounds like you're doing a great workout (better than mine)
I'm not sure what to tell you about your calves...I could do with a bit more definition but remember, muscle is beautiful so work it. :)
Of course, cardio is best for burning that fat away and make sure you're getting in enough protein to rebuild your muscles. that's the part I have trouble with, but I love scrambled eggs so egg whites help me catch up on protein without burning up a bunch of calories.
good luck to you dear.

I do a lot of cardio as well. One of my co-workers was a PT for a while and she has a master's in exercise science. She said the same thing, just do the weights and do plenty of cardio, and the fat will "go away" - she was like you have jacked legs, be happy about it!

I'll just get rich so I can get custom made boots :)

I bet those calves would look hot in a pair of knee-high leather boots. Like wonderwoman! :D