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10-07-2011 2:42am#1Ok so I started weightwatchers 2 months ago and I'm nearly a stone down. I love my new almost flat-ish :P tummy but my boobs have become waaay smaller too.
I really love my boobs and I'm genuinely upset that they're disappearing. I've always had big boobs and I feel like smaller boobs just aren't me.
So do I keep losing the weight and enjoy my new tummy which I've always dreamt of or put a bit back on and keep the boobs I love so much? Advice would be appreciated ladies, what would you do?
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Err. Well if the weight you are (or were) at is unhealthy than you should probably forget about your boob size and lose weight for the health side of it.
I'm lucky as no matter what weight I am my boobs stay tiny Grr!
Or get a boob job.0 -
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OP, would you be interested in trying some exercises to strengthen the muscles in your chest? That may make your boobs perkier and look bigger. You might have lost the fatty tissue, but you still have muscle there, and light hand weights with the right exercises can make a visible difference (although don't expect to see much for about 6 weeks apparently). Also, if you ARE going to do that, make sure you're getting advice from someone who actually knows what they're talking about (not just me throwing something that worked for me at you on the internet!) so you don't injure yourself!
Well done, it can be really challenging to lose weight, be proud of yourself!0 -
Im a size 16 and heard group of guys call me fat tonight.Not one of them had good bodies or were attractive.Is it men now these days go on like this ? I spent so long with a guy for years I never realised what society had become.But in relation to the topic ,your boobs are probobly in proportion now if they got smaller.Love yourself and stop looking for perfection
To be honest in my head size 16 is not fat. Some guys are just idiots. They think all girls should be stick thin with 40DD breasts. I'm a size 18/20 and I'm small so I can't carry the weight which is why I'm trying to lose some at the moment. I have big boobs as well and actually didn't think about losing weight there until I read the thread. Hopefully they won't get too small because I like them (and so does my bf
). I'll see how I get on. I really need to lose the weight so if they get a tiny bit smaller it's ok, I just hope it's nothing drastic.
Anyway to answer the OP, if you're still unhappy with your weight keep going. If you feel comfortable, up your points so you're on maintenance rather than weight loss.
Blush_01 I'd be interested in finding out more about those exercises just in case. 0 -
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im the same, my problem is the food, healthy fat free food is boring and tasteless.Jane_LS_88 wrote: »To be honest in my head size 16 is not fat. Some guys are just idiots. They think all girls should be stick thin with 40DD breasts. I'm a size 18/20 and I'm small so I can't carry the weight which is why I'm trying to lose some at the moment. I have big boobs as well and actually didn't think about losing weight there until I read the thread. Hopefully they won't get too small because I like them (and so does my bf). I'll see how I get on. I really need to lose the weight so if they get a tiny bit smaller it's ok, I just hope it's nothing drastic.
Anyway to answer the OP, if you're still unhappy with your weight keep going. If you feel comfortable, up your points so you're on maintenance rather than weight loss.
Blush_01 I'd be interested in finding out more about those exercises just in case.
but i dont have the time for weight watchers....10 hour shifts
any one got any tips? to be honest i want the small boobs0 -
im the same, my problem is the food, healthy fat free food is boring and tasteless.
but i dont have the time for weight watchers....10 hour shifts
any one got any tips? to be honest i want the small boobs
If you're eating sugary fat free crap, there's your problem
go to the health & nutrition forum and get tips from the stickies and people there.
wouldn't be a fan of WW at all but it does work for some people0 -
im the same, my problem is the food, healthy fat free food is boring and tasteless.
but i dont have the time for weight watchers....10 hour shifts
any one got any tips? to be honest i want the small boobs
of course you have time for weightwatchers.. the meetings are 30 mins a week! healthy food doesnt have to be boring!0 -
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im the same, my problem is the food, healthy fat free food is boring and tasteless.
but i dont have the time for weight watchers....10 hour shifts
any one got any tips? to be honest i want the small boobs
You really don't need the meetings when you're doing WW. If you're determined it can really work. I don't go to the meetings anymore now. I did when I lost the last bit of weight (luckily I kept if off but more of it needs to go). You can join online now also. I'm still using the old points system, not the new ProPoints one because it worked for me last time so I don't really want to change. I have the little slide out chart thing and the books so I can work out the number of points in things. Once you eat three healthy meals per day, don't go over your points allowance and get some exercise you'll lose the weight. Doesn't happen that quickly but I found if I lose it too fast I put it back on very easily.0 -
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Thanks blush I'll definitely look those up! yay!
I am really happy with where I am now and I only have a small bit more to lose (going on maintenance when I hit a 22 BMI) so I probably will keep at it. I just miss the pups so much already!
Size 16 is fat? What? :eek: I genuinely call that curvy! I've always been a 14 and I'm small too so I guess I wasn't just a bit chubby after all :rolleyes:
Yeah I have that kinda F**k you attitude aswel with haters, nobody's perfect like but i eventually done this for me, to feel comfy in my own body (not perfect as someone suggested i want to be I'll always be far from perfect!) Just got sick of carrying it all on my belly and luckily that's where it is going from. I have massive thighs but I quite like my shape so I'm grand with the weight not moving from them!
I just feel so unwomanly with smaller boobs, which I know sounds stupid but I do!0 -
OP, I personally loved that my boobs got smaller with weight loss.
I went from a 36DD/E to 36C and they possibly will get even smaller still. Why I am happy? Because they are more in proportion with my height and frame now. I didn't have true big boobs, just fat boobs and naturally when I started to lose weight, they decreased.
As someone said, your boobs may really suit you at the size you're at now, and maybe you just can't see that. 0 -
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I posted about this issue in another forum well kinda.....basically asked if there was anyway to lose weight but keep my boobs :pac:
The only suggestion is those special exercises to work the muscles in your chest. Was told to do push ups, overhead press exercises and arm fly exercises!
I've been putting on weight over the last 3 years and the increased boobs are great
Buuuuut it's not so great now as over half my clothes don't fit and all my bras are too small :eek: So instead of buying whole new wardrobe I'm just gonna have to go the healthy option and lose some weight!
As was suggested in the other thread that when your waist gets smaller it kinda makes your boobs look bigger even if you feel they have gotten smaller.0 -
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I had not anticipated this being quite so long, so my apologies. Also, the following is just my opinion. Call it confessions of a slowly attempting to recover fattie. (Tongue firmly in cheek there!!)
Right, in the interest of being frank (as if I'm every anything else! :P) I'm almost 6 foot tall. I'm currently a size 24 (though I have 2 pairs of smashing size 22 jeans that look amazing on me, in my own head at least, and I wore a size 20 shrug and dress at New Years. THAT was a feeling of achievement!). This time last year, I was a 28-30. I even have a dress or two that bear a size 32 tag. Yup, I ate all my emotions, was locked in a horrible spiral of eating my feelings, feeling bad about it, eating those feelings, and funnily enough most of my feelings tasted like chocolate or KFC. How lucky was I, right?? I'm sure other people's feelings taste like tofu, but not mine!
It wasn't that I didn't "diet". I'm 26 now, and I "went on my first diet" at 6. 20 years. In any profession I'd be considered a pro at this stage!
Last July, nearly to the day, I joined a gym. It was the most intimidating feeling at the time, but I had some money in my bank account, and the local gym advertised a special offer, giving 6 months membership for €199. I got measured and weighed, and was put on some of the machines.
The weather might have been pretty poor last summer, but it was the sweatiest in living memory for me.
I went to the gym 4 or 5 days a week, initially first thing in the morning - I got there as the doors opened at 6.30, and left in just enough time to shower and get to work on time. I absolutely LOVED it. I've never been sporty or particularly active, but I adore the gym. It's me against me, and I'm damned if I'm not going to win! Gone was the eating out of boredom, because I didn't have time to be bored. And what was the point in eating rubbish if I just had to spend an extra hour on the treadmill or step machine melting it back off?
Don't get me wrong, I ate exactly what I wanted, and if I wanted chocolate, I had it. But rather than eating a bag of fun-size bars because I felt like a horrible excuse for a person, a total glutton and a waste of space, I'd have one bar, or a square of a bar, depending on what I wanted. I didn't change my diet that much - I love good food, which to my mind is fresh, tasty and well cooked. I started to actually drink water, and found that although I was running to and from the bathroom like a racehorse on roller skates, I actually enjoyed drinking it. I did cut out takeaways with the odd exception at the weekend, but during the week I had a breakfast (which at 6.15 is not easy to do!), lunch, dinner, and plenty of snacks. There is genuinely very little like a chunk of cold carrot to satisfy the craving for something crunchy! I took spirulina because I liked the taste (and it's conveniently good for iron!), and tried to have flaxseed or linseed every day.
Then in late October / early November, things kind of fell apart a bit. My brother's friend died, and I lost interest in myself. Then the weather got really bad in December. I kept eating what I liked, within reason, probably erring more on the side of junk than before, but I stopped going to the gym completely.
Then I change job, moved city, and mentally I did what I always used to do when I was stressed. I panicked. I ate circles around myself. In March, April or May, if you stood too close to me, you might have ended up with a bite mark. Or missing a chunk of flesh. I couldn't help falling back into the one thing that had been my routine, and fell is about the only way to describe it.
I don't know what weight I am. I don't want to know. My clothes tell me whether or not I'm putting on weight. (I have recently. Still a size 24 though.) A scale is another thing for me to beat myself up with. Instead I'm trying encouragement. It's worked before!
I joined the local gym recently. Work has been insane - I left at 8 tonight, for example. I've been to the gym 5 times in 3 months. That equates to approximately €30 a trip. This week was supposed to be the beginning of getting back into a routine of trying to get fit. But even though it looks as though the first evening I will actually step inside the doors of the gym will be Wednesday, as we have friends coming over for dinner tomorrow, I have mentally made a change. The presses are full of junk food. Someone else can eat it though, I don't care. We're having cake tomorrow for one of the girls birthdays in work. I won't abstain, but my slice will be smaller than it would have been a week ago. Because it's not about punishing yourself.
We all have a diet - be it healthy, unhealthy, somewhere in the middle or totally extreme. Our diet is the fuel we put in our mouths to generate energy. Good, bad or indifferent, we all have a diet.
The idea of "going on a diet" irks me. It's like going on a bus - I'm just going to catch the next diet that comes around and take a quick spin on it, until I can get off again. It sounds temporary. If you want to lose weight for good, I think you have to change your relationship with food. It has to be fun, a friend that you'd meet on a regular basis, but not someone you'd sleep with. It needs to be sustainable, taking in going out on the town with friends, having a nice meal, quick snacks, trips to the cinema etc. as well as the mundane, everyday food we eat.
I hate Weight Watchers and their ilk, because the crap - and most of it is utter crap - that they sell as their own branded food is so utterly bad for you, filled with additives and chemicals. Their ProPoints system makes a nod towards acknowledging that low-fat is not the only element required for a reasonable diet, finally considering things like protein. It's entirely possible to eat a low-fat but high sugar diet and think you're doing great things. Doesn't mean it's healthy! And while I'm all for goals, the rubbish you see with a lot of people starving themselves all day on weigh-in day before heading to the chinese on the way home is rotten. You're fooling yourself, thinking you're doing it for your leader, not for you. (S)He won't judge you if you're down a few pounds, though you're about to faint over the scales, and then you can guiltlessly eat all the chicken balls and fried rice you like at home. :rolleyes:
I'm no saint. I'm only going by my own experiences. I eat everything I want to eat. I haven't exercised in the best part of 9 months, if I'm honest about it. And yet I lost 3 dress sizes and kept it off, even with the emotional eating for the last four months. Yes, I'm disappointed in myself because I could be a comfortable size 20 (and less) at this stage. But it's a process. It's not always easy. There are times when the options available are going to be limited, and you'll have to try to make the best of it.
Last summer, I liked myself more. I felt more active, more alive, I slept better and I was in a better mood. I felt more attractive and happier in myself. I want that me back, because she had a lot of patience, and I could do with that at the moment!
I figure if I want other people to respect me, I should respect me. It's about fairness. I want to be fair to me. It's about taking time for yourself, even if it's only brain time, and being a bit selfish. I'd be lying if I didn't say at times I felt like I physically had to force myself out the door and into the gym - and I'm going to have to do that again now - but it was SO worth it.
(Plus, though my back size reduced, my cup size stayed the same - I went from a 46GG to a 40GG. I guess these babies are here to stay for a little longer anyway!) 0 -
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Brilliant way of putting it B.If you want to lose weight for good, I think you have to change your relationship with food. It has to be fun, a friend that you'd meet on a regular basis, but not someone you'd sleep with. Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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OP if you're smaller then your boobs are probably more in proportion now that they've got smaller too. My weight loss never affects my chest, which is annoying as hell because I'd LOVE your problem! Please don't let it deter you from the weight loss, you're doing really well and I bet you look great 0
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I used to be a chubby 12-14. I tried to lose weight for years with no success (diet and exercise) but when I stopped trying the weight fell off and I was down to a 6. Everyone told me how unhealthy I looked, and looking at photos I did look gaunt so I got myself back up to an 8/10. My hips came back, but my boobs stayed small-after being used to d's I was down to b's. That sucks, but I feel healthier and better now that Ive toned legs and a flat tummy. Nothing padded bras wont fix! I now conciously eat heathily and exercise regularly and maintain a healthy weight-with treats obviously
I am suprised at the amount of women who justify being overweight by saying they are 'curvy'. I REALLY dont want to offend anybody here, but I have never seen someone who is an Irish size 16 who is not overweight. Unless they like really loose fit clothing. The measurements of an Irish 16 are in inches chest-waist-hip 40-33-42. That is overweight. That said, I have seen absolutely stunning size 14-16 girls and some people look better with a bit more weight on them, but the above measurements are unhealthy. Its not all about looks and I would never slag someone off about their weight, but if you are an unhealthy size (and I use size loosely, because we all know how much Irish shop sizes vary) then for health reasons and that alone you should do something about it.
Also @Blush_01 the honesty in your post is fantastic, and really inspiring. Well done 0 -
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Since I was about 16 I've always had a thing about my body. To say I hated it, might be a little bit harsh, but I most definately didn't like it. I was a size 10 in 5th year - and felt like Roly Poly.
I became obsessive, measuring everything out, diluting low-fat milk with water, only eating food of the same colour on a particular day. Sitting in school watching other girls eat boxes of wedges, big rolls and chips, would make me feel like I was actually going to vomit, so I stopped staying in at school during break times.
Dealing with stressful situations, being upset, deaths ect, I could stop eating altogether. Spiarling on destructive behaviour made me lose all interest in food. Because there was so many "fun" alternatives.
Dumped my serious boyfriend for someone who was only interested in getting high. He was fun, no doubt, but he was a train wreck, and it really didn't help matters. I remember one tuesday night I was at the gym after college and I collapsed. It still wasn't enough for me to cop on.
People who I hadn't met in a while would tell me I've lost so much weight, or that i "looked well". It didn't make me feel better, it made me paranoid that people were scrutinising my weight, and made me more determined to get rid of the fat that I seen each time I looked in the mirror.
I started dating another guy - who was more addicted to exercise than to illegal drugs. My diet slowly started to improve. He helped me realise that not all food was bad, and in order to work out good, you needed protien. With him, I really got into running.
Instead of stopping eating/drinking or doing drugs, running was actually a lot better for stress relief.
Becoming a mother was the only thing I wanted - really wanted - from life, but dealing with getting bigger, no matter how much I wanted it, was really tough. Now, in the aftermath, I'm trying to get back to just above my pre-pregnancy weight. Because, during the pregnancy, if it wasnt nailed down, I would be eating it.
I have 12.5 lbs gone, and another 12.5 to go. I'm trying to be sensible about it. 2 portions of protien rich food, and a lot of vegetables and fruit. I've been running every day too - starting back about 10 days after I had my baby.
I think its something I'll always worry about. I'll always need to weigh myself in the mornings and before I go to bed. I'll always need to write down everything I eat. But it will be okay. I have someone else to worry about now 0 -
OP I'm surprised that you are trying to loose weight if you don't like the change. I'm the polar opposite to you. I recently gained weight and my boobs have gone up a whole cup size to B
but you know what, I don't feel comfortable in myself. It took me my whole life to accept that I don't have boobs and thats my thing, I feel like its a huge part of who I am. So having boobs now (no matter how small they are) makes me feel slightly uncomfortable in myself. Is loosing the weight worth loosing something that you consider a good feature. Is loosing the weight going to help or hinder your confidence? Size 14 isn't fat. Is your BMI healthy? 0 -
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Ok so I started weightwatchers 2 months ago and I'm nearly a stone down. I love my new almost flat-ish :P tummy but my boobs have become waaay smaller too.
I really love my boobs and I'm genuinely upset that they're disappearing. I've always had big boobs and I feel like smaller boobs just aren't me.
So do I keep losing the weight and enjoy my new tummy which I've always dreamt of or put a bit back on and keep the boobs I love so much? Advice would be appreciated ladies, what would you do?
When I lost all my weight I lost it everywhere and believe me I was so happy with my figure my cup size was the last thing on my mind. People admired me for losing my weight and no one ever commented on my boobs size declining as if they would lol. So I would say continue with the weight loss and forget about the cup size. Unfortunately though I have put on the weight since and the cup size is up.0 -
OH, I've been there! I used to be a size 14 and 34E and I loved them...but I was unhappy with my body. After leaving uni, I went down to a size 10, and even though I miss my boobs (I'm now a B-C cup!) I know they wouldn't look right on my body! I'd love to be a D I think but I'm much healthier at the weight I am now so I'm happy to live with it.
If I refer to my friends about the time I was fat, they all go "but you were never fat!" but the problem is, I was an unhealthy size for my age and height. I think the term 'fat' can be subjective, but the fact is if your weight is unhealthy, it doesn't matter what size everyone else is, you're unhealthy. If it's not unhealthy and it's purely asthetic, then it's completely your choice which one to choose - only some people are lucky enough to have the stomach AND boobs they want!
I've never liked WW or any of those things - as someone said before, it's a lifestyle choice to be healthy. I use a food diary (www.nutracheck.co.uk - there's a 5 day free trial and then it's like £5 a month if you like it) which lets you know exactly what you're eating and you can decide whether you want to lose weight, how much you want to lose per week and it'll do the calculations for you and recommend calorie intake if you want to stick to it. There's also a forum with people so you have your own support group too - there's plenty of these on the internet so look around!
P.s I have to say this as it really annoys me - there are LOADS of tasty healthy foods out there! Anyone who says they are tasteless and boring are obviously doing something wrong! I eat healthy curries, pasta dishes, stir frys, meat and potatoes, sandwiches, etc and then at the weekend treat myself to pizza or a take away! It's not all rabbit food!
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