Disportionate body parts....

My calves are huge. I can't wear 99.9% of boots because I can't squeeze them in.

My arms are a trouble spot too... Here I thought that my gut would give me issues, but it's shrinking nicely, it's my dumb arms that make me look so huge !

My calves are huge. I can't wear 99.9% of boots because I can't squeeze them in.

Me too. I bought some plus size boots and even those are tough to zip up. I blame my small foot - but I really know it's my calves.

Tip: When getting in shape, please exercise properly by having push/pull for every horizontal/vertical exercises...have seen somany idiots walking in the gym doing random exercises and in a few months another quasimodo walks around with a big chest and under developed back muscles.

For example:

Push: Bench Press
Pull: Row

Push: Military Press
Pull: Pull ups/lat pull downs

I know the above might not be applicable to you but to anyone else reading this might benefit from this. Congrats on your weight loss though and keep at it, sure it all will even out.

As Shakira put it - my hips don't lie! My middle is waaay bigger than the rest of me. Clothes never fit right. Arms are also troubling so I try to do a lot of arm exercise through dancing.

Does anyone else look in the mirror and wanna barf? I was trying on a bunch of shirts today....and my arms look like thighs...no kidding! The rest of my body has slimmed down remarkably but these arms are ridiculous! I know I have lost some of them since I measured in the beginning of this journey but still....they look like they don't belong on my body! Do you have any body part that sticks out and looks like it should be smaller? I am still a big gal but my arms look like they belong to a 300lb person! :sad:

Don't worry, we all have parts we don't like. I for one dislike my belly area VERY much. I just took a picture of it and all its glory yesterday as a 'before' starting my 30 DS. Most women complain about their butts and thighs but seeing as how my belly looks like a bunch of biscuits I'd rather have the butt and thigh issue.

Anyway, you'll eventually lose the arm 'weight'. Maybe you should incorporate some push ups or some other kind of exercise into your regime? I started doing more 'ab' workouts in attempt to make my monster disappear!

my thighs i have lost mostly n m hips a bit on my waist but my thighs r still huge n in order to fit my huge thighs into pants i have to still wear them two sizes too big around soim constantly yankin my pants up cuz for some reason belts slide down too i have a few pairs of skinny jeans witha bit of stretch tht fit but thts it. . . also i have been doing belly dancing n it has toned myarms(not taken off the fat of course) jus made em not jiggly

i'm just generally not proportionate. size Medium tops now, and size 14 pants! uh. and yeah, 24 lbs down, arms are still the same. i feel ya.

thanks for the tips though, pbj, that'll help when i can work out again.

for me its my butt , I was looking in the mirror the other night and if i didn't have this huge butt sticking out i wouldn't look that bad

The best response I've ever heard when I complained about a body part that I "hated" was this: "Go to the nursing home/hospital and tell the person with only one arm/no legs/etc about it." It hit me right in the heart and I have never complained about hating a perfectly healthy "imperfect" body part since!

I'm sure even they laugh at themselves sometimes too.

My thighs are disproportionately large compared to everywhere else; it's always been this way, even when I was 120 lbs, my thighs for some reason or another always carried extra weight that never came off. It's annoying...

Right there with you, it sucks :grumble:

if you want to reshape your body you have to strongly consider weight training. cardio will make you smaller, but lifting can help a lot if you have a specific troubled area that you liked to change.

not only will it help with troubled areas, but the most muscle you have the more calories you burn through out the day. this is also why guys get in shape a lot faster than girls, they naturally have more muscle mass (and testosterone which helps them build more muscle faster as well).

My calves are really skinny and bony and my thighs are really wide but only at the top. I have chicken legs. Also, I have a 36" inseam which makes finding pants... interesting. My torso is super short for my height too.

For the people suggesting weight training, you cannot spot reduce. Those fat parts of us we hate will come off eventually, though. I hate looking in the mirror at the gym because my legs look great but someone else's body is attached to them. It's like two different people sewn together.