Watch what you eat
Following a healthy, balanced diet is one of the best weapons for trimming your thighs. To lose weight, you need to be burning more calories than you're consuming so it's common sense that you can't eat calorie-laden treats on a regular basis and still expect to lose weight. "In order to lose fat, you need to reduce calories below expenditures. Exercise will certainly help to expedite fat loss as it addresses the expenditure side of the equation, but women also must make sure their caloric intake is below what they are expending," says Brad Schoenfeld, author of Women's Home Workout Bible and President of Global Fitness Services.Aerobic exercise
Exercise is one of the most effective ways to tone your thighs, but as fitness trainer Gina Hemmings explains, not all exercise is beneficial for this: "The best thing women can do to slim down their thighs is always cardiovascular exercise. Women naturally store more fat in the thigh and hip areas for bearing children so we have more fat cells there. The only way to reduce the size of the thighs is by burning any fat that lies in this area. You can do a thousand squats and lunges to tone the area but this will be pointless if the actual muscles are covered by fat. Once you do aerobic exercise to help reduce overall body fat though, the toning of the muscle can be noticed."So, what kind of exercises are the best options? Hemmings has the following advice: "I would aim to do three to four sessions of aerobic activity per week. In particular, anything that increases your heart rate into its fat burning zone -- running, fast walking, cycling, swimming, etc -- then sets of deep squats, lunges, side leg raises, donkey kicks, hip raises etc. to specifically tone the leg muscles."
