Thigh/waist discrepancy?

[GLC1968]

When my mom married my father, her waist was the same size as his thighs.

I wanna know who was in charge of what parts I inherited? How did I get her waist and his thighs on my body? What kind of cruel joke is that??

[indysteel]

When my mom married my father, her waist was the same size as his thighs.

I wanna know who was in charge of what parts I inherited? How did I get her waist and his thighs on my body? What kind of cruel joke is that??

I feel the same way. I otherwise have my mom's smallish build, but my dad's heavier thighs and big butt. I also didn't get her blue eyes. For that matter, I didn't get his dark, almost black, eyes either. Mine are the color of mud.

[limewave]

I must not be doing my measurements right at all . . .
My waist is 33 and my thighs are 22 . . . But all my pants are tight in the thighs. I have BIG thighs, thunderous, strong, ginormous! Hmm, I must be measuring down too far.

[limewave]

Arghh genetics! My mom and I look exactly like these fine ladies (my grandmother, great, great-great, and great-great-great grandmother). Big flabby arms have run in our family for generations. I have to buy a shirt size up just so I can move my arms around.

[jp4995]

I have similiar issues finding jeans (flat stomach, small waist, larger hips and upper thighs) from when I was a size 4 in high school up to my biggest at a size 12/14 a few years ago. My best bet has been mens jeans. I'm in Levi's 541's Slim Straight jeans and I'm a happy camper. I wear a size 34/30 and the jeans sit 2 or so inches below my belly button.

[Selkie]

This is one of the reasons that I love skirts---I don't wear hose and I wear them w/loafers to work (boots in the winter). Forget about finding pants that fit well. I have to buy petites but they are too short in the inseam and usually, my thighs are too muscular so the legs are tight. I end up having to pin the waist regardless.

GLC - If you are like me, you lose weight from everywhere but your bum and thighs first. First to go on me are my already small bosoms! Only when I'm on the low side of my "training" weight do my thighs and bum lose the fat. So be patient and I expect you will notice your thighs decreasing some as you drop fat.

[ny biker]

First to go on me are my already small bosoms! Only when I'm on the low side of my "training" weight do my thighs and bum lose the fat.

Word. One of life's cruel jokes.

[mariposa]

I have this same problem no matter what my current weight. It's genetic - my mom has the very same shape. We just have huge thighs.

I went 20 years refusing to wear jeans (thinking they are ALL uncomfortable) till I discovered low-rise jeans with spandex. The more spandex, the better (2% +). Size up so there is plenty of room for your thighs...and the low-rise means the pants won't gap at the waist.

For more casual wear, there is nothing more comfy (and flattering) for our body types than the Prana Bliss pants/capris.

Mariposa

[shootingstar]

Presumably, people sit down in a chair to measure their thighs? I do. And sit so that thighs hang over edge of chair.

Never thought about any relationship between thighs and waist.
Shrimpo here, has 27" waist (with a small bust. Oh well.) and 19" thighs.

Not sure when I had a 26" waist..have at different times in adult life. Can't even remember how many years ago. Would take the measurement then forget the event, because I knew tummy would expand again eventually.

I'm pretty normal because my bone structure is small.

[shootingstar]

Important to remember GLC that women who look in good shape/no weight problems have their unique body shape problems to fit into store clothes.

There are alot of nice styles I have to pass up because my body shape isn't curvy enough.

[ny biker]

Presumably, people sit down in a chair to measure their thighs? I do. And sit so that thighs hang over edge of chair.

?? I measured mine standing up, around the widest part. This is how my trainer did it back when I first joined the gym and we were getting starting measurements and body fat composition to track weight loss.

[TsPoet]

My best bet has been mens jeans. I'm in Levi's 541's Slim Straight jeans and I'm a happy camper. I wear a size 34/30 and the jeans sit 2 or so inches below my belly button.

+1 - men's. (in fact, 34/32 - same size!) the waste can gap a little, but they don't fall down.
I wear men's shirts, too - my big shoulders/arms fit better.
Then again, someone at work nominated me for that show "what not to wear" (honestly, I'm not making that up).

[moderncyclista]

I'm built stocky too. It happens to the best of us. Genetics we can do nothing about. I just have to learn to love it. My gf is soooo skinny, I on the other hand am muscley and stocky. My calf muscles compared to hers are huuuuuge. I've never tape measured my thighs, I don't want to be crying face first into a pint of ice-cream later tonight.

[malkin]

Even if I measured, I'm sure I'd forget the number immediately. I can hardly remember my age, and it's a miracle I know my social security number.

I can remember and reproduce any distorted consonant sound I hear and many silly bits of doggerel verse, but numeric values barely pause on their way through my porous brain!