I've been taking Relacore since Monday and have lost 3 inches of my 'gut'. Maybe that's something you can consider.

www.relacore.com

Good luck.

in a week? awesome!

I suffer too... I am underweight for my height, the docs say I should be around 145-155 lbs. somewhere around there. The thing is, my thighs are my trouble spot. Being 128 pounds and having your thighs still rub together slightly is very annoying. x_x I exercise occasionally but mainly don't because it causes the muscle to build in the inner thigh and make it worse. My body tends to want to build muscle when I want to have a thin (runner, biker) only type body. Not easy.

People who earn their way to their goal weight should also be aware that their body will continue to redistribute the fat for at least 6 months. Amazing as it seems, your shape will change during this next 6 months. So work on your exercise program and keep on the low carb maintenance levels for your plan and things will change. Keep drinking lots of water too.

The scale is never the best measure of how you are doing, so take measurements or choose a pair of tight pants to try on every couple of weeks. DO NOT measure every day, or even every week. This is the way to drive yourself nuts.

Be patient with your body. It took you a fair while to get from starting weight to goal and it will take some more time to see the changes that are still to come. Don't despair.

Maybe i'm destined to need liposuction in my inner thighs since exercise bulks them up and losing weight leaves hanging fat that won't go away. The main reason I wanted to lose weight was my thighs, i'm not 'chubby' anywhere else on my body, in fact, people say I look anorexic. My thighs make me feel fat though. Urgh...

I understand what you are saying. I am now wearing a size 4 and I can still see the extra weight on my stomach and upper thighs and yes butt. But I have also come to realize that this is not so much extra weight as it is extra skin. If I grab hold of my side and up it up like a loose pair of pants, I look great . Never seen my thighs or stomach look so good. Dam, then I let it go . I am hoping time and exercise will help tighten everything up. OR at least transfer it up to my chest which is no longer there.

i hear ya talking girl. I too have 23 inch thighs and a 27 inch waist (does that sound like a pear shape or what?) I think once I hit goal, tone up and I still can start a fire with the thighs (due to the rubbing) I will have the fat sucked out! I think after the hard work I've done to get to this point I deserve it.

Maybe I will try the pills Lily is taking for my gut. I have the start of a 4 pack. I would have a six pack if it wasn't for that darn GUT!

I can vouch for this from experience, since I was still really unhappy with my shape when first got down to about 130 last fall. I was pretty bony through the rib cage and hips, and all of my remaining fat seemed like it was concentrated in my upper thighs. Over time, though, the thigh fat has finally seemed to shift, and now my saddlebags are pretty much gone and my thighs don't touch at the top any more. I've also seen some major improvement in my arms and in the loose belly skin. The changes in my body have been more significant than I'd have expected from a 2-lb fat loss, and I'm feeling so much better in my skin these days.

I know how you feel, because it's a letdown to reach your goal and realize you STILL don't look like a supermodel. In some ways, it's something you're going to have to come to terms with, because Victoria's-secret-model bodies aren't all that realistic an expectation in the first place for most of us. After a certain point, it comes down to genetics, regardless of body fat levels or fitness; we're just predisposed to be thicker through the waist or hips or thighs, and that's where we're going to carry more of whatever fat we have. However, time and exercise *will* improve matters, if you can hang in there and be patient. It helps a lot to focus on maintaining your lean body mass and shaping your muscles, and to take the attitude that the fat will eventually take care of itself. Also, this is a good time to do some self-image work -- pretty much anyone who's lost a lot of weight has some body issues to work through, and you may find that your fat problem has as much to do with your head as your hips!

Thank you so much for posting this, it's very comforting . The way you describe your body is very similar to mine - extremely bony upper body, ribs poking through, shoulder bones poking through skin, can feel my spine, etc... on one hand it's kind of cool to pretend to be so thin (even though I know I'm not that thin, just unevenly distributed ) but then again I want to look well proportioned .
Even my once horribly huge hips are now kinda narrow (waist/hip ratio has actually decreased... before my waist was much much smaller than my hips)... but the THIGHS, omg they make me look so fat. Huge saddle bags!

It's good to know that you were the same way and your body changed. Gives me hope .

That's the thing with me too, I look great in tight clothing and such, like when I am standing I look really good, it's just kinda hanging there on my thighs. Could it be just extra skin then? Pfft. I don't want it. :P

I think alot of mine is loose skin from 4 pregnancies. I look great with clothing on, but undies or a swimsuit, yikes. Tofi made a great point above though, about our bodies redistributing fat for up to 6 months after you reach goal. I never knew that!

Yeah, thighs and hips are always a problem for me. For women, it truly is a genetic thing. That is our fat that our body hoards for nursing babies. Unfortunately, my body hasn't heard me telling it "You don't need it, we aren't going to have any babies".