Inner thigh "pouches"

[Nat242]

Originally Posted by Gwoofer

I really hate the idea of lipo but that inner thigh area is one I would actually consider because of chafing (painful) problems. Lipo won't necessarily make it look better though although at 22 with skin in great shape it might work well.

Honestly, I don't think it looks bad but it is very uncomfortable and I'd frankly like a little more ventilation

I too am a member of the instrumental thigh slappers

I'm lucky - the upside of having what my mother termed "child bearing hips" (read: broad, broad hips) I don't have too much trouble with chafing. Yet. I did however, have a housemate at one point who used to have a chafing problem when she went jogging. Her solution was quite innovative...she used, um, how to put this politely, personal relations lubricant (?). She'd rub it on before she went jogging, and she said it worked really well...

I hope she doesn't mind me giving away her secrets!

[ssipes]

Maybe the solution to your problem lies in your brain, not your thights -- as in unbrainwashing yourself out of thinking that a normal and healthy shape is "gross". It is not normal (for most women, anyway) to not have fat on the inner thighs.

I have to agree with Dani, if you are pining after your 18yro bod at 22, you are going to have a miserable life.

Sedonia

[Nepenthe]

Originally Posted by ssipes

Maybe the solution to your problem lies in your brain, not your thights -- as in unbrainwashing yourself out of thinking that a normal and healthy shape is "gross". It is not normal (for most women, anyway) to not have fat on the inner thighs.

I have to agree with Dani, if you are pining after your 18yro bod at 22, you are going to have a miserable life.

Sedonia

Amen.

I love my body at 31 more than I loved it at 16. Sure it helps that I've gotten into great shape but I've worked harder on mine, teaching myself to love and appreciate what I have. My thighs have always touched, even when I was a skinny minny 14 year old. So I haven't ever worried about that or thought it was wierd - of course there is fat there - that's one of the two places we store fat for babymaking! Women without any fat stores won't be able to get pregnant and have babies. And that's really what makes a woman attractive, if you go back to our species origin - people are attracted to fertility and health. anyway, I agree Sedonia - whenever we want to criticize something on our body, we should try to consider how it might be beautiful instead. especially at 22 - one doesn't have any of the things that the rest of us need to worry about, like wrinkles!

[SummerSahar]

Originally Posted by mish_mish

I'd say of all of the distressing parts of getting older, the unwanted hair is the WORST. I have to be so vigilant so I don't have some 6 inch long hair sticking out of my chin that I missed. It's so embarrassing.

OMG! The SUPER HAIR! That's what I call them. They're like these individual hairs that just decide one day to become little overachievers. And they're sly about it. I'll be looking in my mirror and the sunlight will catch it just right and I'll suddenly notice that 3-inch long blonde rebel! How in the hell have I missed that in the last few weeks?? It always horrifies me, but I still wonder, what IS it with these superhero hairs that just decide to GROW? They're always a little finer than the rest of my normal fuzz, and they pluck really easily (sometimes I can do it with my fingertips) but what the heck??? What are these buggers?

[da Sage]

Originally Posted by trakgrl99

OMG! The SUPER HAIR! That's what I call them. They're like these individual hairs that just decide one day to become little overachievers. And they're sly about it. I'll be looking in my mirror and the sunlight will catch it just right and I'll suddenly notice that 3-inch long blonde rebel! How in the hell have I missed that in the last few weeks?? It always horrifies me, but I still wonder, what IS it with these superhero hairs that just decide to GROW? They're always a little finer than the rest of my normal fuzz, and they pluck really easily (sometimes I can do it with my fingertips) but what the heck??? What are these buggers?

MUTANT CHIN HAIRS!

I check for them every day, but every so often I'll find a really long one. I swear they sprout overnight.

[Gwoofer]

Originally Posted by ssipes

Maybe the solution to your problem lies in your brain, not your thights -- as in unbrainwashing yourself out of thinking that a normal and healthy shape is "gross". It is not normal (for most women, anyway) to not have fat on the inner thighs.

I have to agree with Dani, if you are pining after your 18yro bod at 22, you are going to have a miserable life.

Sedonia

On the surface I'd agree but I have to quibble a bit , yes, I do, I can't help it.

There fat and there's fat. I don't think acceptance of being overweight or out of shape is such a good idea and I do think we've been kind of leaning in the direction of "every shape is beautiful" (on the fatter side) perhaps a bit too much. Striving to get your body in the best shape you can is not a bad thing as long as you are realistic about it. Being realistic requires some education about how the body works. Yes, it's true that a certain amount of fat is good but that % is actually a lot lower than most people are in the US and Canada these days.

I hear a lot of complaints that people are desiring to be skinnier and skinnier but I'm not really seeing that reflected in the general population or even in many of the "celebrities"; Marilyn Monroe (poor Marilyn, always hauled out for these discussions) is often touted as proof of how we've gotten skewed towards the skinny but if you actually look at her for most of her career she was a lot thinner and less in the chest and butt areas than many of the women touted to have great bods these days. Quoting sizes is really irrelevant because the sizes have changed. Lynda Carter, of years ago wonder woman fame was another who was said to be bigger and curvier, if you can get your hands on a pic of her in that outfit you'll see she was tiny compared to most celebs today.

OK, blathering now. All I'm saying is it's not necessarily a bad thing to work on body stuff that bugs ya, even if it's stuff that wouldn't bug anyone else, afterall we have to live in our own bodies.

[bethsoren]

Lypo alone will not work. You will find that you then have "not so firm" skin where the lipo was done. And you won't be able to dance for 8 to 10 weeks!! (Just asked my father in law, retired plastics MD)

[Gwoofer]

Originally Posted by bethsoren

Lypo alone will not work. You will find that you then have "not so firm" skin where the lipo was done. And you won't be able to dance for 8 to 10 weeks!! (Just asked my father in law, retired plastics MD)

Yes, absolutely. It wouold not be aesthetically pleasing unless one is quite young and firm. I would, however, do it for the chafing stuff depending on the $$$ involved. Recovery would suck, for certain

[ssipes]

Originally Posted by Gwoofer

On the surface I'd agree but I have to quibble a bit , yes, I do, I can't help it.

There fat and there's fat. I don't think acceptance of being overweight or out of shape is such a good idea and I do think we've been kind of leaning in the direction of "every shape is beautiful" (on the fatter side) perhaps a bit too much. Striving to get your body in the best shape you can is not a bad thing as long as you are realistic about it. Being realistic requires some education about how the body works. Yes, it's true that a certain amount of fat is good but that % is actually a lot lower than most people are in the US and Canada these days.

Yes, Gwoofer I do agree with you. I'm not promoting medical obesity. Perhaps I was reading between the OP's lines, but she didn't post "I'm out of shape and need to lose X pounds and gain some overall muscle mass", she described a particular area of fat that she didn't have as an adolescent but has as a 20 something woman. So I was guessing she's not overweight, although I admit I don't really know that.

What I hate to see is people obsessing over "flaws" that are either miniscule or not even there. When every model who shows her legs in magazines, newspapers, billboards, etc. is not only ultra thin and ultra tall to begin with, but has had the photoshop equivalent of an extreme makeover, we get these ideas in our heads about what is beautiful and what is gross, and these ideas are usually completely F'ed up.

And yes, at the same time Americans are overweight, but to get healthy we need to start seeing our bodies in a more holistic way and in a way where the aesthetic of form follows function.

Sedonia

[ssipes]

O.K. one more comment -- RE the "there's no spot reduction except for lipo". That is not entirely true any more. My doctor was explaining to me the other day about some of the new mesolift therapies, in which stuff is injected below the skin that dissolves fat and promotes skin rejuvenation. It is not nearly as extreme as lipo -- its not as invasive but the results are also more subtle. She told me it is quite effective for subtle changes on small areas of the body -- for example fat under the chin, "back curtains", fat and stretched skin on the tummy, etc.

Its noninvasive and a fraction of the cost of lipo or surgery. She said its especially effective for patients in their 40's who still have some elasticity and rejuvenative ability in the skin. FYI

Sedonia

[Gwoofer]

Originally Posted by ssipes

O.K. one more comment -- RE the "there's no spot reduction except for lipo". That is not entirely true any more. My doctor was explaining to me the other day about some of the new mesolift therapies, in which stuff is injected below the skin that dissolves fat and promotes skin rejuvenation. It is not nearly as extreme as lipo -- its not as invasive but the results are also more subtle. She told me it is quite effective for subtle changes on small areas of the body -- for example fat under the chin, "back curtains", fat and stretched skin on the tummy, etc.

Its noninvasive and a fraction of the cost of lipo or surgery. She said its especially effective for patients in their 40's who still have some elasticity and rejuvenative ability in the skin. FYI

Sedonia

Interesting! I do hear what you are saying on the rest of it. I am aghast at the weight creep I'm seeing all over and even in children.

The airbrushing thing has totally gotten out of hand though, pretty soon we'll have people who think it's weird to see a knee cap

[Nepenthe]

Originally Posted by Gwoofer

OK, blathering now. All I'm saying is it's not necessarily a bad thing to work on body stuff that bugs ya, even if it's stuff that wouldn't bug anyone else, afterall we have to live in our own bodies.

I completely agree, of course. I work on my body all the time.
But some things will never change no matter how much you work. Some people are just made a certain way. I could spend my whole life trying to make my hips smaller but no matter how much weight I've lost, they only get so small and then my body starts taking away from other parts of my body, making me unproportioned. someone could diet til they had hollow cheeks and bony wrists and still have thigh fat. So I assumed the OP was already in great shape and had just discovered one of these things that it's near impossible to change. in which case, it seems better for your sanity to focus on having the best ass ever (for example) rather than trying to spot-reduce one area when spot reduction doesn't work.

[tahiradancer]

Originally Posted by ssipes

O.K. one more comment -- RE the "there's no spot reduction except for lipo". That is not entirely true any more. My doctor was explaining to me the other day about some of the new mesolift therapies, in which stuff is injected below the skin that dissolves fat and promotes skin rejuvenation. It is not nearly as extreme as lipo -- its not as invasive but the results are also more subtle. She told me it is quite effective for subtle changes on small areas of the body -- for example fat under the chin, "back curtains", fat and stretched skin on the tummy, etc.

Its noninvasive and a fraction of the cost of lipo or surgery. She said its especially effective for patients in their 40's who still have some elasticity and rejuvenative ability in the skin. FYI

Sedonia

In LA it's called Lipozap. . .

[Gwoofer]

Originally Posted by Nepenthe

I completely agree, of course. I work on my body all the time.
But some things will never change no matter how much you work. Some people are just made a certain way. I could spend my whole life trying to make my hips smaller but no matter how much weight I've lost, they only get so small and then my body starts taking away from other parts of my body, making me unproportioned. someone could diet til they had hollow cheeks and bony wrists and still have thigh fat. So I assumed the OP was already in great shape and had just discovered one of these things that it's near impossible to change. in which case, it seems better for your sanity to focus on having the best ass ever (for example) rather than trying to spot-reduce one area when spot reduction doesn't work.

Absolutely! Distribution can be very pesky. I know how to get rid of my personal plague, cellulite, but there is no way I'm going to do the necessary work . The inner thigh thing in my case is more of a problem than it is for most women, even heavier ones due to the fact that I have extremely narrow hip set and my fat goes there first - it's not something that I find an aesthetic problem, just a comfort pain in the, well, inner thigh

[Shirin.]

Originally Posted by LauraLevana

Zumarrad is right. Really, unless you point your thigh jiggle out to people, no one will notice.

Instead of stressing over your "flaws," use the old magician's trick of diversion--play up your gorgeous 22-year-old unwrinkled eyes, perky bust, flat belly--whatever you've got. Bright colors and a little sparkle where you *want* people to look works miracles!

I totally agree with this. Virtually nobody notices flaws unless said person points them out. SO many of my friends have pointed things out on themselves because because they were ashamed or embarrassed and thought other people saw their flaws as they did. Never did-till they opened their mouth. Which is why I've stopped doing it. If I don't say anything about my flaws, people don't say anything because either they didn't notice, or it wasn't that big of a deal to mention anyway.
Be happy with yourself! Somebody out there would die to have just a little bit of jiggle on their thighs, instead of a whole lot of jiggle everywhere.