Odd Question...but is it normal...

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If you extend a leg backwards, for your buttock on the side of that leg to become more loose and floppy?

It is driving me mad that this happens as I exercise 2 hours a day and otherwise, my backside is pretty solid, but stretch a leg slightly behind me and it suddenly looks like a disgusting pile of flesh.

yes
its the muscles and bone in the leg
happens to us all

Graelwyn, are you seeing a therapist for your issues with your body image (I don't mean to sound like a pain in the ass, but it's a serious problem that is potentially harmful)?

I keep forgetting or missing my appointments.
I was meant to have one this morning, but I could not sleep and when I do not sleep, these issues get even worse.

It is hard for me to see it as an issue so much as my simply being deformed or overweight.

But admittedly, I am veering towards just stopping eating now so I wont feel so hateful towards myself.
I feel very trapped.

I think you may have body image issues. (Things can look loose and floppy b/c you have skin) Don't worry about it.

But I do not know if it is normal or if it is because of my age (32) or if it is because I work out too much and have too much muscle.

I just know that if I look in the mirror at my butt and stretch a leg right out at the back, it looks totally flabby whereas it looks ok when I am standing up straight.

I can find no images on the net for comparison.

If you logically know you have a normal BMI but you feel you are overweight or "deformed," then yes, you have a problem and I think you know that you do. This is the second thread you've made about this issue, so obviously they are a cry for help, but there is nothing anyone on these forums can do except urge you to see someone or to reassure you that you're not fat. Only you can help you, so, I don't know, set an alarm clock or write yourself messages, but don't forget the appointments. It's not fair to yourself and it's not fair to people that care about you.

I have some problems myself...and I see someone. There's no shame in seeing a professional if you feel you need it, it doesn't mean that you're weak or anything.

Am not esp. muscular, weigh 140 lbs. & am almost 5'7''. Same thing you describe happens to that whole region of my body-not sure when it got that way, whether in adolescence or later.

Weirds me out, too-the way thigh, hip, and behind all merge together in indistinguishable jiggly blob of flesh. It's "normal", so far as I know (as layperson, not a professional).
The hip/thigh/behind sector isn't constructed in such a way as to keep parts separate (at level of flesh, atop the bones), compared with narrower extremities/appendages.

The wrinkly wobbly folds are the slack (looseness) that would be tight/taut if one were doing the opposite, extending leg forward. Try it with your elbow or neck: if you stretch one way, it pulls flat-if you stretch or contract other way, the relevant area shows this compression/lack of pulling, in temporary appearance of "excess skin" folds. Same principle applies to stretchy cloth and webbed toes or wings (imagine bats when not in flight, like a folded umbrella): when contracted, wings look squished & floppy-when extended, they spread out & seem "normal".

Used to bug out about how when I would lay down my stomach was flat, yet when I stood up it would appear rounded-dislike how it's so visible, but it's too much work to fight my body.
My dimensions are in proportion to each other-limbs & parts don't look like they got stuck on wrong body-everything pretty much "goes together", matches. That's something, at least.

Yep. Such is the nature of the butt.

Have you ever thought of getting rid of your mirrors?

The idea has occurred to me at times, as I only find them useful for practical purposes, such as doing hair or makeup.

Otherwise they can be an instrument of disturbance. Especially the changing room mirrors in clothing stores, I swear they make me look green.

There must be a factory somewhere "Godawful Mirrors and Scary Fluroescent Lights," where these retail chains can buy the fixtures for their changing rooms.

if you cant make your appointments save your money for butt implants

(you look fine)

Lol,liposuction morelike.

Thanks for the answers... it just got me upset because I do exercise hard and my butt is actually pretty damn solid when I am standing up normal...just seems to all turn into blubber if I stretch a leg right back, and by that, I mean so I am almost in a lunge.

To the mirror question, yes,It is just it has become a security thing, or had done, to check my body in the mirror before, but now it has almost become like a form of self torture with me looking at my body in the most unflattering positions I can find once I feel I look slim other ways.