This just isn’t true. I am overweight and carry it all in my butt and thighs and lower belly. My ankles and wrists are very thin. My calves also have very little fat. |
You should aim for how you like your ankles to be, guys come and go and one who would love you would rather you be happy with your ankles. |
The women I see at the gym have thick legs because they have muscular thighs from squatting. Their ankles aren't thick and the rest of their body isn't fat either. This is a good look. Thick thighs because you eat a lot and never exercise, and the rest of you is fat too, that's not a good look. |
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No, guys don't like fat women, even if it's the legs that are the fat part, and even if instead of calling them fat, you call them "thick."
Also, normal weight or slightly overweight--i.e. something less than a 30 BMI--isn't "thin." If you were the athletic type you would have called your legs "toned" or "muscular." So we are talking fat legs here, aren't we? Nope. Don't like 'em. Sorry. |
I call my legs, which I developed through lifting weights, "big" or "huge". I don't know what other people call their legs. Seems personal! |
I call my big/huge too, but they are solid muscle. I have little body fat. My husband loves them. I have a genetic propensity to build big thigh/hamstring muscles very, very, very easily which probably was also partly due to over 15 years of soccer. I can no longer run much--due to hip. I used to run marathons to try to counteract their sprinter-like muscle and try to get longer slow-twitch looking muscle. Now I am stuck on Peloton which has made my thigh muscles nearly bust out of my jeans. They are hard as a rock and my husband says you can tell they are fit as h*ll and look fantastic...but I grew up in an era when the long skinny legs were in. |
| What a weird thread to be bumped from over a year ago. |
| The answer to "do guys like [x body shape]" is always some do, some don't, no point worrying about it, love your own shape and your confidence will be sexier than the correct thigh size anyway |
Thank you for saying this! I am a woman who grew up thinking that my round (but fit!) butt and my thicker thighs (with which I was a 3 sport letterwoman) were awful and to be despised (after all, we all had to look like Christie Brinkley or Cheryl Tieg). I threw myself into a fit in my 20s to reduce all of the above and only managed to succeed a little. I'm now veryclose to 50 and still have a nice, lifted butt and thick thighs with a tinier middle. I have always hated how I look and am working hard to get over that. I use younger women and their "no body shaming" as examples. But every once in awhile, it's nice to hear of a man who appreciates a body like mine. So, thanks. |
No, actually you could stand to lose some weight. |
Squatting to pump up your thighs even more is not attractive. Especially if a woman is short. |
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The women at the gym are attractive. You're just inventing nonsense to justify being too lazy to do any real work at the gym. You're on the treadmill or the elliptical poking at your phone, which isn't actually doing anything for you. |
Same. Black + Hispanic men tend to be more forgiving + may actually prefer roundmer shapes. Different strokes for different folks OP. |
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