How much of my excess weight is from my boobs?

vixenveggie
vixenveggie Posts: 33
in Health and Weight Loss
So, I know I'm carrying a bit of excess weight, but I'm interested to know how much of that is from eating too much cake, and how much is from my UK size 30J (approx. 30N in the US) boobs? Has anybody got a link that might tell me? I tried the thing where you put them in a bowl of water and see how much water is displaced, but I didn't have a big enough bowl :/ any bright ideas, people of MFP?

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  • aquarabbit
    aquarabbit Posts: 1,622 Member
    Not as much as you might think. When I got my reduction I was a US size 36DDD and in order for insurance to pay for the entire surgery instead of just partial, my surgeon would have to remove a pound from each breast. That would have brought me down to about a full B instead of the full C I wanted. It's still probably a lot. Maybe around 6-8 lbs each? I bet there's a chart out there that shows how much boobies weigh.
  • Phrick
    Phrick Posts: 2,765 Member
    Check out this handy Wikipedia chart - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassiere_measurement#Calculating_cup_volume_and_breast_weight

    According to this mine weigh in at approx 6lb for the pair! (38H - US)

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