It didn't work for me...

I had a baby back in 2011. Prior to having my baby I was about 15 pounds overweight(with a big butt, thick legs but I had a belly). I didn't like how I looked. After having my baby, it took about 9 months, but I lost about 30 pounds(some of which was the previous weight that I had carried before having the baby). Once I got down to a satisfactory weight I started to incorporate resistance training into my workout plan. I didn't touch weights(except for on my arms, and leg extensions) because I am a mesomorph, an hourglass/pear(somewhere between the two) and have always had a tendency to bulk up pretty quickly. I was using my body as a "weight"--by doing jumping squats, jumping lunges, donkey kicks, etc. I also did at least 20-30 minutes of cardio 5 days a week. I mostly ate carbs(not much protein) and drank only water.  While I did lost a bit more weight, my butt was still big enough compared to my waist(my waist was 27 inches, butt was 40 inches) and it looked perfect to me it was "fat" but also looked in shape and very little cellulite, no it wasn't firm or hard but it looked like I kept in shape. My stomach, while not completely flat, was pretty small, and flat "enough". I was happy with how I looked. But greedy for more butt lol. So I came on here back in November and saw that you guys do heavy weight lifting and eat tons of protein, and it takes up to 3/4 months before you see results but that most of you were able to get a bigger booty doing it this way. So I started doing this.  I'm now almost approaching the fourth month and I don't like how I look.  What I did was increase my calories to about 2,300, mostly protein, but carbs as well, only water, I cut sugar out, and I was lifting heavy and increasing weights and changing my routine each time I did lower body. I did high interval training a few times a week. I lost a lot more "fat" as opposed to weight, doing this. And at first it looked fine, but I did my measurements the other day and was shocked that my butt went down from 40 inches to 36 inches, and that my waist is 28.5 inches... So not only did I lose butt, but my waist got "wider". I learned that doing deadlifts and squats(heavy) can cause your waist to widen(I guess). Anyway my butt looks firmer, more lifted, and more toned, but it's smaller, and flatter. My legs are more toned, and my stomach is flatter than earlier this year. So there were some trade offs. But I don't like how I look that much. I don't like that my waist is bigger, that my butt looks flatter, etc. I know I might need to give it a few more months and I suspect that maybe the reason that heavy lifting caused my butt to get "smaller" has to do with the fact that I store most of my fat on my butt and doing the HITT and heavy weight lifting caused me to burn the fat off my butt, and that eventually as I build more muscle, overtime my butt will get bigger and firmer, and probably sit up higher. But honestly I think I liked my butt better before(when it was fatter but still looked like I worked it out). I liked my waist "smaller" too.  I guess not every method works for everybody.... For me I never had a problem getting a "big" butt since I seem to store a lot of fat and weight in my butt. I just wanted an even bigger butt and I thought that doing the method people were using here that it would work for me.. But it just didn't(at least not yet).

So my next question is has anyone experienced what I did? Is there a way to get a "bigger" butt that is still somewhat shapely(toned) but isn't overly muscular--(like Coco Austin, since my butt most resembles hers) should I just go back to what I was doing earlier this year and also increase my carb intake?

I didn't lose weight off my butt first, I lost weight everywhere, but the more I lost, the more of my butt I lost. And I am a pear/hour glass figure. I have wide hips, and carry most of my weight on my bottom half and I carry less weight up top. In pictures my top looks much smaller than the bottom of me and I am a .74 hip/waist ratio. That being said I tend to gain weight first in my butt and legs, and then in my lower stomach, I tend to lose weight everywhere, but I noticed it mainly in the butt because that was the area I didn't want to lose. I'm 5ft2 and 139-142 pounds(I flunctate), my measurements right now are 34-28.5-36/37(it seems to flunctate between these two numbers). Prior to that(before I started the heavy weight training, my measurements were 34-27-40.5.

I'm now ditching the heavy weight training and getting ready to do what I was doing before since that was working better. And I guess I wasn't eating that much. I would eat 2300 Monday through Friday, and then on the weekends eat much more. I made sure I got up to 135 grams of protein everyday as well. I did try Maca in January. I got the raw maca magic powder and it improved my mood, and sex drive, and my stomach didn't bloat up or anything, my breasts did seem like they got bigger, but I saw no changes in my month. I did Maca for a month(the raw powder) took a week break then tried 3 times to start the Navitas Gelantized Maca and each time it would tear up my stomach so bad I would have to take a week break to recoup. I finally realized it was making me sick so I haven't taken it since but might go back to taking the raw version. I was also drinking soy protein after every muscle workout, I only lifted twice a week.

And I changed my routines and increase weights(by 5 lbs) each time I worked out. I only did 6-8 reps of the heaviest I could go as well--I did hip thrusts, but bridges, donkey kicks, bulgarian squats, sumo squats, regular squats, lunges, deadlifts,etc.