My hips look huge :/

JustAGirl0916
JustAGirl0916 Posts: 1,020
in Fitness and Exercise
I'm not sure if they're really or if they just look it to me. I'm not even sure how you work on your hip/butt/thigh area but I need to do something!
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  • Emily_20x
    Emily_20x Posts: 175 Member
    Your hips look fine! :)
    Your figure looks perfect! Wish I looked like you!
  • JustAGirl0916
    JustAGirl0916 Posts: 1,020
    No really though...how do you slim your hips down? lol!
  • kfelux
    kfelux Posts: 34
    Your hips look fine! :)
    Your figure looks perfect! Wish I looked like you!

    Ditto this. x100000000 :wink:
  • JustAGirl0916
    JustAGirl0916 Posts: 1,020
    Thanks, I still feel like they're big!
  • Emily_20x
    Emily_20x Posts: 175 Member
    Well if you find out how to slim them down please tell me haha!
    Mine are huge! I darent post a pic because they're massive :p
  • JustAGirl0916
    JustAGirl0916 Posts: 1,020
    LOL ok I will when I find out the secret to it haha!
  • KWake1
    KWake1 Posts: 148 Member
    Ahhhh, welcome fellow pear shape!

    Seriously though, blame genetics for this one. Only thing I've found that works the "saddle bag" area is leg lifts, squats, and lunges. Basically anything that will work your bum and legs will eventually work it's way to your outer thigh/hip. But it'll take time. That's where your body likes to keep it's fat, so that's where it'll lose it from last.

    Good luck!
  • Fobado
    Fobado Posts: 1
    Hi,
    Thei'r fine, propotional to the rest of your body, and you cant do nothing to that, its genetics, you can lower body fat in that area by lower your estrogen levels, but im not into that area.
  • traceyfunk
    traceyfunk Posts: 86
    Squats and lunges. But you can do a million of them and still feel like your hips are "huge". What you also need is to look at yourself a little more realistically.
  • JustAGirl0916
    JustAGirl0916 Posts: 1,020
    I used to not have this problem. I swear I hit 30 and BAM there is was lol! :laugh:
  • lagiggles18
    lagiggles18 Posts: 8 Member
    you look fine now we all wish we looked like you but keep us posted on the hip slimming dilema:wink:
  • UrbanLotus
    UrbanLotus Posts: 1,163 Member
    Are you fishing? You're a woman with a feminine hot shape. Hips aren't a bad thing!
  • JustAGirl0916
    JustAGirl0916 Posts: 1,020
    I guess I have just never had hips like this. They seriously appeared out of nowhere!
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    1. You can't spot reduce fat. Lose fat in general and your body chooses where from.

    2. You're hips don't look that big.

    3. That's your natural body shape. It's sexy. Embrace it, don't fit it.

    4. My hips/*kitten* are 41".
  • KWake1
    KWake1 Posts: 148 Member
    I feel the same way about my belly. I've always had a larger bum and legs, but at least I had a GREAT waist. Now... not so much :(
  • cainie19
    cainie19 Posts: 126
    :noway: DAMN GIRL :love:
  • KCGettinFit2014
    KCGettinFit2014 Posts: 141
    Ahhhh, welcome fellow pear shape!

    Seriously though, blame genetics for this one. Only thing I've found that works the "saddle bag" area is leg lifts, squats, and lunges. Basically anything that will work your bum and legs will eventually work it's way to your outer thigh/hip. But it'll take time. That's where your body likes to keep it's fat, so that's where it'll lose it from last.

    Good luck!

    I'm a pear too and am very slowly and frustratingly realizing the above. Its where my body is happy keeping its fat and its a fight to get the fat off. I do squats, butt bridges, lunges, and donkey kicks every single day in an effort to try to "encourage" more muscle than fat in those areas. I can feel the muscle increasing under the fat so I can only assume its just a matter of time before I win the battle!
  • VorJoshigan
    VorJoshigan Posts: 1,106 Member
    Just as long as they don't lie, everything will be fine.
  • Trilby16
    Trilby16 Posts: 707 Member
    Are you fishing for compliments?
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    No really though...how do you slim your hips down? lol!

    Get different parents
  • JustAGirl0916
    JustAGirl0916 Posts: 1,020
    Nope not fishing for compliments. lol about as long as they dont lie. I just wondered if you could slim that area down is all.
  • chai_latte
    chai_latte Posts: 94 Member
    Mine IS truly huge. I am always very harsh on my self because of this - I eat very junky oily fatty food items and it piles on my hips ofcourse!! :) Also genetics play a factor and all the women in my family are very curvy.

    but I realized that through diet (very much through diet) it helps reduce the saddle bags and chunkiness from the hips

    :) I will do my best to eat healthy and exercise but instead of being harsh on myself, I will love my curves and work with it

    P.S - you shouldn't be complaining about yours hips :) they look very womanly and great!
  • FitandFab33
    FitandFab33 Posts: 718 Member
    I didn't have hips until I had the mini (he's 10 months now)... you don't look like you're holding excess fat in your hips- as PPs pointed out, you look like a pretty ideal pear.

    Strength training to tighten things up if you're really unhappy with your body comp, but you look great to me!
  • JustAGirl0916
    JustAGirl0916 Posts: 1,020
    Yes, I am working on toning and tightening that are up and gaining some muscle.
  • LaSuiza
    LaSuiza Posts: 56 Member
    Just as long as they don't lie, everything will be fine.

    Hahahahahaha....that one was really funny!!
  • JustAGirl0916
    JustAGirl0916 Posts: 1,020
    Just as long as they don't lie, everything will be fine.

    Hahahahahaha....that one was really funny!!

    I agree...cracked me up.
  • koing
    koing Posts: 179 Member
    1. You can't spot reduce fat. Lose fat in general and your body chooses where from.

    2. You're hips don't look that big.

    3. That's your natural body shape. It's sexy. Embrace it, don't fit it.

    4. My hips/*kitten* are 41".

    Exactly.

    JustAGirl0916, you need to lower your bf% and to hit deep squats and deadlifts. You need to work them and you will build muscle and lose fat with a solid diet. You won't spot reduce but you will lose fat overall.

    I think the OP just wants slimmer/ firmer legs. Doing the above will achieve this.

    Koing
  • JustAGirl0916
    JustAGirl0916 Posts: 1,020
    1. You can't spot reduce fat. Lose fat in general and your body chooses where from.

    2. You're hips don't look that big.

    3. That's your natural body shape. It's sexy. Embrace it, don't fit it.

    4. My hips/*kitten* are 41".

    Exactly.

    JustAGirl0916, you need to lower your bf% and to hit deep squats and deadlifts. You need to work them and you will build muscle and lose fat with a solid diet. You won't spot reduce but you will lose fat overall.

    I think the OP just wants slimmer/ firmer legs. Doing the above will achieve this.

    Koing

    Thanks alot...I have been working on squats. New to working out so will have to see what deadlifts are lol. Sad huh?
  • belligerent599
    belligerent599 Posts: 40
    What you should do is a lot of wide grip pullups and other exercises to work your lats so then you can have a really beefy upper body. Then your hips will look super narrow! It's all about proportions.
  • JustAGirl0916
    JustAGirl0916 Posts: 1,020
    What you should do is a lot of wide grip pullups and other exercises to work your lats so then you can have a really beefy upper body. Then your hips will look super narrow! It's all about proportions.

    Hmmm I never thought of that!

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