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Originally Posted by Thighs Be Gone
Oooh girl, don't EVEN get me started on thighs! Thus, my screenname! I don't know why yours would have gone UP an inch though with the rest of you shrinking. When my waist and hip generally will go down a full inch, my thighs will only go down .25 of an inch. I run everyday and still have this issue. I am at a perfect 22" right now for both thighs.
ETA: I think measurements also depend on where you are on your cycle. Charting is a good bet so you can see what it does monthly.
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Yea, I'm thinking that's why the others went down so much in such a short amount of time. I'm glad someone else out there feels my pain.
Nellie, I have a feeling that's what's going to happen to me. In the beginning, I was thinking one day I'd be able to buy clothes off the shelf that would fit in both the waist and the hip/thigh area. Ha! Never going to happen.
I was running, then it got slushy and slippery out, so now I go for a walk every day, and do these leg exercises I found on tv with someone named Tamilee. It's like a series of lunges. I guess it'd be considered aerobics. I don't have any weights but do push ups, and a Pilates exercise thing on TV. The tv exercise things are 10 minutes long, and I try to do two of those a day, and the push ups every other day.
How much actual weight have you lost and in how much time? About 35 lbs, and it probably took about two years. I took it really slow, and sometimes I was more serious about it than others, but my weight takes a really long time to change in either direction. I didn't really start out
trying to lose weight - the new dog needed exercise, and I wanted to eat more vegetables. The weight loss was a side effect, then later I was counting calories for awhile and tracking carb/protein/fat percentages etc. So, I'm not 100% sure exactly how much time everything took.
How much more weight are you looking to lose? 15-20 more. I've been overweight since I was 18, so I don't know exactly where my healthy adult weight is.
I know measurements can never be 100% exact, but I did them over and over on both days and was very careful about trying to figure out how much tension to use, and choosing the largest part of me to measure, so I'm fairly comfortable with them.
Quilter, I've been measuring often because it's for a challenge where you check in once per week.