saddlebags

[london83]

Hi

I'm overweight with under active thyroid, hour glass shape but saddle bag area under thighs

I'm working out at gym - suggestions from anyone with what has worked?

Thanks X

[Stradbroke]

I have saddlebags and think I always will do. I have done the squat challenge and it made not a jot of difference. Have started running and really think it is helping. More rounded and less obvious.

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

You can't spot reduce areas. Reduce your overall body fat and the bags will go. If you're working out at the gym, heavy weights (esp free weights) are the way to go to change your body shape.

[Stradbroke]

But I am slim. 5 foot 2 and a size 8, but I have saddle bags. Running has helped to improve them. They are firmer and less obvious.

[RainbowInACloud]

Me too- at my lightest I have weighed just under 7 stone (am only 5ft) but still had bloody saddlebags! Think it's genetics in my case

[Stradbroke]

Yes me too. But running has helped.

[foxykins]

Thanks!
Running and lose weights it is

[RunnerOnTheRun]

It's one of those places the female body can easily store fat because it thinks we are going to have lots of babies that need breastfeeding! I have been reading so much about this. Our hips/stomach are the other areas too.

I squat with heavy kettlebells and cut right down on the sugar, as soon as I do that they shrink but as soon as I relax (say, over Xmas or summer hol) it comes right back!

[foxykins]

Does that definitely make a difference?
How many squats / Reps sets with the kettle bells and how many times
Per week?

It's annoying I've firmed my bum up and I think it's shrunk, but it's actually made the saddle bags more obvious

[WhatsGoingOnEh]

Rowing machine. My saddlebags vanished. Do long rows, about 10k