Boobs after weight loss?
 

I've read the stuff about shrinking boobs, too, but my question is a bit different.

When I was in my late teens still and not overweight, just healthy & hip-py, my boobs weren't really big, I had just barely graduated to a B at 17.

Well when I gained all of this weight, I got bigger boobs. Not that big or anything, they went up to a C. Then I got pregnant, and they became D's. Now they're shrinking again (and they're floppy and they hang and it's gross and I'm only 22, I don't deserve this, God why! Why! lol).

Anyhow my question is, after I lose all the weight I intend on losing, will they go back to my original size, a B? Or will they get even SMALLER? Is that the price of weight loss, that they become even smaller??? I once read that you start losing weight in your boobs first.

Can anyone explain?

Also, question number 2, will they also be saggy from stretching out and becoming bigger, then becoming smaller?

I don't have the facts on this or anything, but I don't think everyone starts losing weight in the breasts first... I dropped 75lbs and my boobs are the same size as they were (I stayed a D cup, thought my band size decreased a lot). I think it's a very individualized thing. I once read, in fact, that of ANY human body part, breasts vary the most in size, shape, consistency, etc.

What you might want to do is look into exercises that can firm up and develop the muscles under the breasts -- they won't have any effect on your boobage itself, but developing the muscles underneath will make them look bigger and less floppy.

I haven't had a pregnancy and I was 35 when I lost weight. My boobs have never been particularly perky. I went from a 42DD to a 34D. Although I am a D cup, I look smallish on top. My boobs are pretty saggy as a result of the weight loss, like a tennis ball in a sweat sock.

I am the smallest I have ever been as an adult, so I can't really say if they got smaller than I would have been if I had never gained/lost weight.

Sometimes, it's depressing but I remind myself I look FABULOUS in clothes with a good quality bra. The only person (besides me) that sees them bare seems to like them very much :)

Wow, I hope my boobs get smaller, saggy or not. I'm so tired of my DDs. They're always in the way.

You're lucky! (Though you might not agree, depending on the backpain, lol.)

Thanks! *going immediately to Google*

LOL, that's a good way to put it, tennis balls in a sweat sock. :D

UrsusMaritimus, I'll take 'em! When I lose all the weight I want to lose, that is. Then I'll be thin with big boobies! :D

Ha ha -- no, no back pain from my boobies (though finding good sports bras is hard).

Good luck finding some good workouts for those muscles -- if you find anything that seems effective, please post it!

My boobs have shrunk as a result of my weight loss. I'm 26 so this should depress me. But you know what? It doesn't! I started out with a C cup and now I'm hovering between a B and an A. I assume they'll be an A cup and ridiculously flabby and saggy looking by the time I make it to my goal. I'm slowly coming to terms with these things and I know that it's all part of the price I am paying for gaining weight--NOT for losing weight. Losing weight is the right thing for me and my body no matter what sags afterwards.

Besides, I have also come to discover that not only can I fit into the band sizes at Victoria Secret now but that they really do make incredible padded push up bras. :D

Uh, yeah. The Ultimate Plunge push up (Body by Victoria) is the best bra ever made.

And I second what LeeAnn said. Yeah, they got small (full C to barely a B), but I don't care! My sister has a huge chest and it gives her nothing but problems. Also, they were pretty saggy when I first hit goal, but 4 years later the skin has retained some elasticity and it doesn't bother me AT ALL.

When I had my first baby, I started out a C cup and ended up a DD. After losing weight from baby #1, I ended up a D cup. With baby #2, I went to a DDD, ended up at a DD after losing weight. Now, 19 years later (baby # 1 turns 19 this Saturday) I am a DDD. I had gained weight during the 15 years after having baby #2, and I obviously gained in my boobs. Now, after losing about 15 lbs, boobs are smaller, but cup size has stayed the same. I have gone down to a 34DDD from a 36DDD :D

All that being said, I noticed more sagging now as opposed to after having babies. I attribute most of the sagging to my age (I'm 40:() and muscle loss. I had quite a bit of upper body strength in my teens and early 20s (I was a gymnast). I am still pretty strong, but nowhere near what I was back then.

I do think that upper body strength helps with the sagging, but gravity and time does tend to counteract a lot of that!!

this is one of the things i am terrified about! i am only 19, and i have always had bigger boobs even at the start of puberty...(i'm asuming because i was always chubby) now i am a D-cup and i don't think they are big enough as they are. i wonder how my intended weight loss will affect them, but i doubt they will shrink to smaller than a C because my mother was very thin in her teens, and was a C cup. what do you all think about breast augmentation? (not the implant kind; the kind where they take the fat from other areas of your body and put it in your boobs)????

Boobs ?? Are we supposed to have boobs ??

:rofl:

Hmmmm... boobs... what's that song?

"Swing low, sweet chariot..."

I've got a boob story for you ... we have an older woman gym member who won't wear a bra, despite having boobs to her waist. You truly can't watch her on the elliptical because it's just so painful to see her in action. :eek: So yesterday I read a story ( Victoria's Circuit) about powering your iPod with a sports bra, and in the article it says that a D cup in a low-support bra can travel 35 inches during exercise (!) This woman is in a NO bra and I'm wondering exactly how many inches she "travels" during exercise ... :chin:

Maybe I'm the only one but I've actually gone up a cup size. At my highest weight, I was a B, now I'm a C. Honestly, I don't care what they end up being.

First place I loose is my boobs. First place I gain is my Butt. So after all the ups and downs I have no boobs left...I have enough butt to fill a whole town's boobs to DD's. Why can't they just transplant it????

I've gone from a 42DD to a 38DDD. I lost band inches but gained a cup?! How the blazes does that work? And genetically, I should be an ?almost A/ or something.

42G to a 34C, and without lots of help they are somewhere around my knees.

I went from a 38D to a 34DD (one of my bras is actually a 32DDDD if you can believe that!). Strange, but I think it makes sense because I was probably in a too-small cup before. I think a 36D is probably comparable to a 34DD but with the 34DD you get more cup size which takes up some of the bandwidth. Does that make any sense?

Pam

I'm 24 my chest went from 44 D to 38 B and yes as you said my boob are mall and they sag. They have strech marks on them. However as Glory said I look much better in my clothing now and I just take time to buy nice, well fitting, padded bras. It can be a little time consuming finding good bras but they help a ton. And (this might come out sounding bad) the last guy I made out with that I let get to the point of touching my breast, did not know I use to be heavy, did not know that my breas were sagging and seemed quite happy with them in my bra.

I started losing weight at 22 with a 42 D (probably truly a bigger cup but my one bra that fit was SO stretched out) -- they were always heavy and sagging since they moved on from the bud-ling stage. I'm now a 38 C, and most of what's filling my bra is loose skin. I have little tissue. I can literally pick up the loose skin a couple of inches off my boob.

Anyway, I have nearly all the bras from the Ipex line from Victoria's Secret, and they make them look pretty good. And all the guys that have seen them love them, sagging or not. And when I'm on my back, they look almost normal, except they kind of look like they are sliding off my chest. Oh well.

My enhanced chest also somewhat disappears when I lay down.... which makes going to the beach an interesting thing....... they go from nothing to magically filling out my bathing suit! :dizzy:

Thanks for the perspective everyone :) I've been having a little trouble adjusting to my new body and this thread had helped me lighten up.

I thought I'd avoided all of these problems until I bent over and saw that they become torpedoes.
40DD to 36D and I'm still praying a C cup will fix this but I'm a 30 year old smoker :o

Ah, boobies. I have gone from a 46 DD (Lane Bryant Sizing -- which tends to give smaller letters) to a 38 H - (you read that right)(regular sizing). BUT they LOOK so much better. I just roll them right up and gently place them in my H cup and I look all perky and such. Then, at the end of the day, I take off the bra, unroll the girls, and we all get a little rest for the night, me on my back, and my girls curled up on either side of me.

LMAO! With all of you girls' talk of boobies to your knees, torpedo boobies, old woman wearing no bra in the gym boobies, and rolling up your boobies into your bra, then unrolling them at the end of the day (rofl!), I really lightened up after reading the replies to my thread.

I guess no matter what, I have saggy boobage to look forward to, lol. I guess that's the price I'll pay for gaining the weight, as one poster said (I like how you put that, it was very true and put things into a better perspective.)

In Walmart, I was looking at envy with all of these thin girls walking around in short shorts with their long firm legs (something I would not attempt at my current weight), but I know when I'm thin it's just going to be something else that I envy. For example, everybody with big perky boobs, I will inevitably stare at with jealousy. So I guess I just have to deal with what I've got!

As for breastercises, I found a few ripped from an old glamour mag. One is the lotus pose. You lay on the ground on your stomach, with your arms extended 90 degrees at your side. Suck in your stomach and start lifting up from the shoulders and chest, raising your arms, keeping them level at your sides, 90 degrees. Hold pose for 5 seconds, curl back down. Do like 10 times 3 times a week, I think it was.

The other is the tennis ball squeeze, hard to explain but sit in a chair and squeeze the ball between your hands (make sure you actually feel your chest muscles moving.) Move hands out in front of you, bring them back to starting position.

Then there's elevated pushups which target your chest muscles. Get a little bench or stool or something and lay your legs on that, while doing push ups off the floor. I improvise and hang off the couch.

To the girl who said her boobs look alright laying down but kinda go off on the sides, oh my god, I clicked on your signature link to check out your before and afters because I saw you had lost a really significant amount of weight. YOU LOOK FABULOUS!

OMG :rofl:

Wow... they're just bouncing all around? lol

There isn't any out of control boobage at my gym, but I do occasionally see this woman around the neighborhood, kind of heavyset, ALWAYS braless, with her boobs down to her waist... and HER SHIRT ONLY AN INCH BELOW HER WAIST! I just think, all this woman needs to do is lift her arms even the slightest bit and we will all be in Boobland. If she doesn't want to spend money on a bra, she should at least invest in some longer shirts...

OUCH! I can't even imagine! Even with two bras during aerobic activity, the girls bounce around pretty good - I would be in so much pain with no bra. I would probably hit myself in the nose with every step ;)

They are definatly not the same after 5 nursing babies, Then the 60 lb weight loss that followed. I like the tennis ball in sweatsock analogy! It is very funny, but very sad and true!!!

Ohmygod...that was funny.

I do think we all have to remember - we don't see a lot of regular naked boobies. The bare boobs we tend to see the most of are beautiful starlets with their boobs hauled up to the sky in formal wear or swimsuit models or images from Playboy. Most of those boobs are NOT REAL. Starlets use tape to get them up that high, swimsuit models and Playboy pictorials are photoshopped and airbrushed to the point of unreality.

And if we do see regular naked boobies (like changing at the gym), we don't tend to see them in "torpedo position" (hee) - that probably happens to a LOT of women.

I just don't want anyone to think their boobs look bad - I'm sure they look NORMAL, we just really don't know what normal is because we don't get to see other normal women very much naked (or at least I don't! ha).

What a nice "lighten up" thread to read on a dreary morning. :) My boobs have never shrunk much in cup size, though of course they have in band size. When I was at my lowest adult weight I was a 34 DD, at the highest a 40 D. I don't have back pain, but I do have significant grooves in my shoulders. I have always wanted to be smaller, but at 63 I don't see a breast reduction in my future.....

As for the lady at Meg's gym, ewwwww. My grandmother, who was born in 1894, and died in 1997, never wore a bra in her life! She was a normal sized woman, but like all the women in our family, pretty well endowed. Her boobs literally hung to her waist. I see lots of women who are wearing no bra, or very ill-fitting bras, and I want to drag them to a good bra-fitter. :lol: Makes you look so much better, imho!

I see a ton of breasts and you are correct. (do we have a boob icon? :lol: )

Actually we do, but I'm not sure it's allowed to be used publicly (OMG, I just typed "pubicly" -- obviously I'm way in the gutter today! :rofl: )

Google "banana smilie boobs" and you'll find a plethora. :eek:

I'll probably feel like an idiot for asking, but what do bananas have to do with it?

I'm guessing it looks like this guy (gal?):

:cb:

with boobies.

Ah, a banana with boobies. Women taking over the banana hammock, so to speak :devil: