Should thighs rub?

Everyone's body is different... My sister is 5 pounds more than me, but an inch taller... Her thighs rub and are much larger than mine. My thighs are always thin, even when I was technically "overweight" by BMI standards, I had a full thigh gap. Everyone is different, there is no "supposed to
or "not supposed to"
How YOUR body ends up looking after you lose weight can not be controlled, you just have to find out when you get there...

ETA: I am 5'5", my thighs personally stopped rubbing at 170 pounds, and I had a visible thigh gap when wearing shorts, etc... when I was morbidly obese, they rubbed and chaffed and hurt...

It's completely normal. Thigh gap is only achieveable for people with wide-set hips - or people that are dangerously underweight.

This.

Nope, not according to Chive.

And there is a difference between what women and men each think what the thigh gap really is.

Because we ALL know that The Chive is where super reliable scientific studies come from! :laugh:


Yeah most guys call it the little triangle below the *ahem* and other people it's more of an anorexic thing it seems.

Just jumping in, but I have very small hips, not wide set by anymeans, (36" at the largest part of my butt) and I have a thigh gap, all the way up. I am far from anorexic, also. So no, not only there because of being anorexic or having wide set hips...

Oh I didn't mean to imply that having a thigh gap meant you were anorexic.... I was just saying the MAJORITY of internet crap if you GOOGLE thigh gap you get "thinspiration" boards and anorexic loving crap

BTW Awesome weight loss!:bigsmile:

Well, before i lost weight, if i wore a dress without tights I would get chafing to the point of drawing blood. I hold a lot of my weight on my thighs. Only recently after losing 54lb can I walk with bare legs without rubbing. But I have size 9 feet (big feet can indicate a wide pelvis) so I do think a gap is possible for me

It's completely normal. Thigh gap is only achieveable for people with wide-set hips - or people that are dangerously underweight.

This.

Nope, not according to Chive.

And there is a difference between what women and men each think what the thigh gap really is.

Because we ALL know that The Chive is where super reliable scientific studies come from! :laugh:


Yeah most guys call it the little triangle below the *ahem* and other people it's more of an anorexic thing it seems.

Just jumping in, but I have very small hips, not wide set by anymeans, (36" at the largest part of my butt) and I have a thigh gap, all the way up. I am far from anorexic, also. So no, not only there because of being anorexic or having wide set hips...

Oh I didn't mean to imply that having a thigh gap meant you were anorexic.... I was just saying the MAJORITY of internet crap if you GOOGLE thigh gap you get "thinspiration" boards and anorexic loving crap

BTW Awesome weight loss!:bigsmile:

No, I knew what you meant! I see that a lot (associating to anorexia), and have seen so much negativity surrounding thigh gaps. At first, it made me feel REALLY BAD about myself, like OK now I have lost all this weight and worked sooo hard, and I STILL don't have a good enough body, or "the right body"... Over time, i realized that I cant change how I am shaped, etc, and got over it. But the expression "thigh gap" still gets me going :laugh: I just wait for thos comments to start, about how "gross" and "unnatural" it is, when that is just NOT the case

But I knew what you meant, I was thinking I should have quoted another reply, but I just posted it that way anyway LOL

Are people talking about thighs rubbing so that they become sore here?

Pepole get up in arms about the thigh gap thing because WHY IS THIS A THING????

You either have the genetic make-up to have one or you don't. We don't understand why this is a beauty standard. People who have one naturally look great. People who don't have one naturally look great.

Get yourself the best body you can for your build and stop trying to make something happen that can't.

I have wide hips and small waist. There is nothing I can do -- I don't even think there is a surgery for it -- to make my hips narrow and my waist wider (in comparison). How ridiculous would it be for me to start posting threads asking pepole what I can do to make that happen. And I'm not going to be all down and out because some women have straight hips/waists and I don't.

Umm... I should not be able to see the world through your legs as you walk towards me!

I like full thighs. Mine have always touched. Always will.

yep my thighs rub, and definitely the anti chafe works when I was training for a marathon!

WHAT KIND OF EXERCISE DO YOU DO TO SLIM DOWN UPPER INNER THEIGHS TO KEEP THEM FROM RUBBING?

The changing "styles" for women's bodies are just fascinating sometimes.

When I was a teenager in the late 80s, the "ideal" was that your legs should touch in 4 places: the upper thigh, the knee, the calf and the ankle. You were supposed to be able to stand with a quarter between each spot. That was the ideal leg.

It depends on the hips. People envy those with thigh gaps, for some reason, but I don't know why. So it's just going to depend on what kind of hip bones you have, but it's fine if your thighs rub together. Even at a weight that was considered under, mine still rubbed together. I can't wear skirts without shorts underneath, and never have been able too, because of the friction burn.

Another thigh gap thread? Thigh gaps are largely dependent on genetics and bone structure.

It depends on yoir bone structure. I have a thigh gap.