Fat Legs

[Leapers]

Hi

I have got a new job just before christmas in a shop so i am now standing up all day but can standing up all the time make your legs get fatter?
I used to walk everywhere i went and was always out and about but since i moved there isn't much chance of walking to work or the shops or anything like that and although my legs have never been thin and nice i think standing up all day they seem to have got bigger! I have taken up jogging again recently a couple of times a week to help with the exercise part of my life change but i don't want my legs to get any fatter!

Thanks

[tenrec]

Could it be fluid retention. After standing for long periods I used to get swollen ankles.

[Prudie]

I've found the best thing for keeping legs toned or reducing them is brisk walking. Far better than jogging.

[Leapers]

Thanks I don't really get the chance to walk much anymore, on my days off i try and take a walk somewhere but I would really like to walk to work but it just takes so long here that i have to leave really early even if i walked really fast! Jogging was just for my general fitness which has lapsed since i moved here.

[Sqad]

\\\I have got a new job just before christmas in a shop so i am now standing up all day but can standing up all the time make your legs get fatter? \\

Yes......particularly if you have varicose veins.

Blood "pools" when you are standing for a long period of time and as tenrec pointed out, it is due to fluid retention.