Help Please! Weight Lose in Legs!!!

[disneylovin24]

Hello all

About 2 years ago I lost 40 lbs and since then I've done a pretty good job of keeping it off. Except, it seems that the little weight I have gained back has gone all to my legs! I want to lose the weight in my legs again!! Any tips to help with weight lose in legs?

I'm on a 1500 calorie a day diet and I try to walk everyday. Is there anything else I can do to help my legs?

TIA

 

[IWISHFORDISNEY]

Lunges or squats maybe a program like the Firm videos that focus on that.

 

[FireDancer]

Just about everything I have read has led me to believe that there is no way to target the area from which we loose fat. That is determined much more by body chemistry than by what we do to exorcise. It might be that by walking you are building a lot leg muscle which is causing your legs to look large because the fat is sitting on top of more muscle.

I have no idea what you caloric requirements are but if you go too low your boy will start to store fat. Just as important as how many calories you consume and expend is how you consume them and what they are. Calories spread throughout the day will be better handled by the body then the same amount being consume in 3 large meals. Another thing to think about is muscle memory and efficiency. If you walk the same distance at the same pace every day or week your body will get more efficient at that task. That means that over time you will burn less calories for the same amount of work. I would recommend changing up the routine. Walk faster or longer from time to time and throw in some strength training, cycling, or swimming.

Building muscle will help in the burning of fat. A pound of muscle will require more calories just to maintain itself at rest then fat. This means that replacing one pound of fat with one pound of muscle will increase the number of calories you burn per day doing nothing. By doing strength training you also burn calories longer after you are done with the workout. As you damage the muscle fibers lifting weights or peddling a bike your body has to rebuild them, making them stronger. This is a very simplified way of describing how muscles grow but those calories burned in addition to the extra calories burned just to maintain the muscle will help to burn away the fat if you maintain a steady caloric increase (don't increase your calories over what you increasingly burn).

My same advice goes for cycling, swimming, or strength training as for walking. You don't want to keep doing the same thing with the same intensity. If you are lifting the same 10 lb weight in 2 years as today it means not that you have made no progress, but technically that you have lost some ground.

Good luck.

 

[rubato]

I have to agree with Firedancer. You cannot spot reduce. Meaning, you cannot lose fat from a certain spot in your body. Fat burning exercise (aerobic) gets your heart rate up and helps you burn fat from everywhere. You body chemistry is set up to keep it longer in some areas and lose it faster in others. We're all set up differently. I hold all my extra weight in my chest, others in their legs and others in their stomachs. All you can do is burn fat, and, if the legs are your problem area, it will eventually come off from there. But, it will probably be the last place. Building muscle does help with fat burn, but build muscle all over, not just in the legs.

I don't know your age, height and weight, or your exercise regimen, so I can't say if 1500 calories is good or not. Go online and get a calorie calculator. It can tell you how many calories you need to maintain your weight. Then, if you want to lose a pound of fat, you need a calorie deficit of 3500 calories. The easiest way to look at it is that if you burn 500 calories a day through exercise, after a 7 day week, you'll be 1 pound lighter. But, you also need to keep your diet in check.

I hope that helps a little.

 

[rluey29]

That is correct. No such thing as spot reduction. I wish it was that easy too, I'd have to crunch myself to death though.

 

[Lucky1218]

I think jogging is very effective~~! Just do it~~