Twenty-somethings losing weight with Athletic Build?

Are you strength training? Weights?

I have an athletic build... my version though is thick legs... I have larger hips, thighs, and calves. I run my *kitten* off and do leg work outs. My legs have never shrunk but the have toned up. I just live with it... im not really a skinny jean candidate. but its ok. I do want to drop about five pounds we shall see where it comes from.

I am right with you, I am 29 yrs old and losing weight and I am a fit person so it comes off a lot slower. I have a lot of muscle mass on some of the calculators I have 140 pounds of lean muscle and all that other stuff. I have very strong calves and such, what I find works is to not do WEIGHT TRAINING or Resistance Training unless I want to bulk up or cut fat , I instead run or do my elliptical or walk and that builds lean muscle and makes my legs smaller. The moment I build resistance I gain muscle and bulk up again...Yes, muscle burns fat and if you have fat then that is a great way to look smaller but if you don't then try a different form of exercise.

I feel your pain…I inherited my mothers fatty flanks. Diet didn’t help them because it was a shape/proportion issue, not a weight issue. I could be as skinny as a rail and there were those flanks, making me look like a wide load. I finally decided I’d had enough and got lipo. Lipo is about proportion improvement, not weight loss per se. It is about treating an area that is out of proportion with the rest of your body. Anyway, most women will never admit they had it done, but I tell people because it made such an enormous difference in my life and I want women to know that they have options. I was SO self-conscious about my body and couldn’t wear any cute clothes because everything was super tight around my hips (and therefore loose everywhere else). A healthy lifestyle comes first, but if you are still haunted by a frame that seems disproportionate (like I was), then from one girl to another, I’m just saying that it really changed the way I view my body. Waited until I was 27 to do it. Wish I had done it years ago.