Exercise consumes a lot of your body and enhances the function of your digestive system, so you may eat more unconsciously. Now you are not bloated, but you are healthy.
If you want to aim at stovepipe, I suggest you increase your exercise time, do not do any strength training, run on the treadmill for half an hour, and then walk for an hour. Rotation is still important, but walking is the main thing.
Don't always sit and walk. Since you are born with thick legs and want to lose weight, you must pay more. Time in the gym is too short, far from enough.
Stop more, walk more and sit less, which is the premise.