Quote Originally Posted by sara View Post
I'm a super duper newbie and I'm just wondering when my thighs will get muscular enough so that I look halfway decent in lycra shorts! What my legs do now is indent where the shorts end and then the fat pooches out below the hem of the shorts. This is just DISGUSTING!

When I ride with other people, I'm only wearing my Pearl Izumi Sugar Knickers...they look much better and boy, they sure are comfy. Anyway, I can already see more definition on the outside part of my legs above my knees and in my calves. But the insides of my thighs and even the inside of my knees have so much flab! I am really hoping this will be replaced with muscle. It's ok with me if my thighs don't shrink, but something must be done about the flab! I wear a size 8, so I'm not terribly big, but wow, those bike shorts really do accentuate the fat!
Keep riding! It will come. When I started last spring, I had no muscle definition in my legs, just flab. Skinny flab too (I have a thin build). It did the same thing you were describing and I felt funny in biking shorts. So did my husband. But he has a build where he has tons of muscle just waiting to be revealed, so he picked up his definition quickly and I convinced him to not wear shorts over his cycling shorts to hide his appearance.

For me, building muscle has never been easy. But I knew I was on the right track when I could see thigh muscles beginning to emerge. I got very happy when not too long after, I actually had solid defined calf muscles.

So don't worry, it will come, as long as you make time with the bike!