How have your legs changed since getting surgery? I have pretty thick legs and I've always hidden them behind pants or capris. I also have thick ankles and it kills me. Believe it or not I run but my legs just aren't shapely. Has anybody gone from thick legs to shapely somewhat athletic legs?

I have always had thick legs in the sense that when I am fat, they are big, thick, and muscular and now that I've lost weight, they are still big, thick, and slightly less muscular. Of everything my thighs are still the thickest part of me, but I like them way better now than I did when I was 237 pounds!

I'm going to take updated pics on Friday and I'll post some then. My legs still have quite a bit of fat but I have lost so much they are a bit saggy now. Still love that I can cross my legs now!

I'm going to take updated pics on Friday and I'll post some then. My legs still have quite a bit of fat but I have lost so much they are a bit saggy now. Still love that I can cross my legs now!

I'm with you on that! I was just telling my husband that I want to cross my legs comfortably too!

Ok...these pics are 101.8 pounds from my heaviest weight, 72 pounds down since deciding to have surgery. Picture on the left is the day I started my pre-op diet and I've lost 4 inches from each thigh.

My legs look pretty bad around the thighs. They are seriously flappy and saggy, and they look bizarre in shorts. If I were to ever consider plastics, that is my problem area, but I honestly don't care too much.

I wear 5" shorts but 6" would probably be better. Those are terribly hard to find in a fashionable cuts and fabrics so I just suck it up and savor the fact that these fat, saggy, floppy thighs can carry me any where I want to go, they allow me to climb walls and trees, run 5ks, hike mountains and sand dunes,

I can cross my legs easily and they look great in skinny jeans. After decades of obesity, I can't expect perfection, so if this is the biggest problem in my life, I'm pretty freaking blessed.

I lose weight in my legs and butt first (while holding onto weight from my waist up). Therefore, the 30 pounds I've lost so far have all been legs and butt!

Edited May 2, 201511 yr by akreese02