perky boobs with weight loss
cerolo1405
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Did any of you go from having saggy boobs as overweight to perkier boobs as underweight, if you also worked out along the way? I’m only 18 and have increased in weight from skinny to overweight, and have therefore gotten saggier boobs though they aren’t deflated and don’t have a lot of loose skin, however I hope to go back since I’ve heard other people do that due to my young age and that I haven’t had saggy boobs forever. I’ve heard A LOT successful stories already but in that forum, some people weren’t nice to me and I left 
I WOULD BE SO SO SO THANKFUL IF YOU DIDN’T!!!!! RESPOND IF YOU HAVEN’T HAD LUCK WITH THIS! IM REALLY REALLY DEPRESSED LATELY AND JUST NEED SOME KIND OF LIGHT IN MY LIFE RN BECAUSE THIS REALLY BOTHERS ME. ALL POSITIVE EXPERIENCES WELCOME
I WOULD BE SO SO SO THANKFUL IF YOU DIDN’T!!!!! RESPOND IF YOU HAVEN’T HAD LUCK WITH THIS! IM REALLY REALLY DEPRESSED LATELY AND JUST NEED SOME KIND OF LIGHT IN MY LIFE RN BECAUSE THIS REALLY BOTHERS ME. ALL POSITIVE EXPERIENCES WELCOME
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Still responding even though I don't meet your criteria. 🤷🏿♀️ Please check in with a doctor with your questions and realize genetics play a factor along with weight fluctuations.
Regardless, your body is something to love on no matter what it looks like.27 -
Still responding even though I don't meet your criteria. 🤷🏿♀️ Please check in with a doctor with your questions and realize genetics play a factor along with weight fluctuations.
Regardless, your body is something to love on no matter what it looks like.
Thanks so much, I’ll try doing that!!
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I agree with the premise of building up the chest muscles to make breasts look perkier. (The amount of success of this will depend on genetics.)
Also bear in mind that we are our own worse critic. No one who has seen me naked has remarked that one breast is perkier than the other, which I see in the mirror but apparently no one else does.
https://www.healthline.com/health/fitness-exercise/breast-firming-exercises
Boobs. Do you wish yours were bigger? Perkier? Firmer?
While the only sure-fire way to make this happen is to go under the knife — or invest in a seriously good push-up bra — you can strength train your chest muscles to increase their mass, which will in turn make your whole chest look fuller.
Below, we’ve curated 13 chest exercises done with and without equipment to firm up your pectorals and help your top half appear perkier. Try a combination of these a few times a week to feel more va-va-voluptuous than ever before.7 -
OP--perkiness also depends on size. It's easier to be perky at a smaller size. Swimming is very good exercise for breasts.8
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snowflake954 wrote: »OP--perkiness also depends on size. It's easier to be perky at a smaller size. Swimming is very good exercise for breasts.
Yeah they were perky when small, saggy when big. I just hope they’ll somehow bounce back, otherwise I’ll literally die
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Mine definitely look 100% better and perkier when I lose weight. I also tend to lift weights when I've been hitting the gym a lot which may help. I've done this a couple of times so hoping I've not used up all my chances
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cerolo1405 wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »OP--perkiness also depends on size. It's easier to be perky at a smaller size. Swimming is very good exercise for breasts.
Yeah they were perky when small, saggy when big. I just hope they’ll somehow bounce back, otherwise I’ll literally die
Nope--you won't. You'll do what all women do, try to better your situation as best you can. Someone will love you for who you are--not what you're packin'.37 -
Hayley9323 wrote: »Mine definitely look 100% better and perkier when I lose weight. I also tend to lift weights when I've been hitting the gym a lot which may help. I've done this a couple of times so hoping I've not used up all my chances
This is so so good to hear, tysm!!!0 -
Mine have always been on the larger size, and I was incredibly lucky that a.) I didn't lose too much boob when I lost the majority of the weight I needed to lose and b.) I'm in my 20's and my skin is still elastic enough to recover. I have less backpain now, and they're definitely less droopy. Lifting has been a help, and losing slowly has also been very useful.2
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cerolo1405 wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »OP--perkiness also depends on size. It's easier to be perky at a smaller size. Swimming is very good exercise for breasts.
Yeah they were perky when small, saggy when big. I just hope they’ll somehow bounce back, otherwise I’ll literally die
You won't. You'll just be one of the many people living their life even though they're not 100% thrilled about part of their body. Or -- if you can afford it and you're so inclined, you can get surgery so they look more like you want.
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How’s your posture?
Weightlifting has helped my posture, weight loss has helped my confidence. Both have helped my boobs.
Boobs are a strange thing. We tend to get all wrapped up in them. After seeing my best, well developed, friend get “felt up” in sixth grade, I was horrified when mine came in huge, too, and developed a hunch trying to hide them, which was impossible. It’s taken me a lifetime- and a large reduction- to be able to say that I no longer think about them 24/7.
When we allow ourselves to obsess over the scale, stomach, bat wings, boobs or whatever part of our body we identify as “us”, we forget there’s hundreds of other square inches of body real estate that are just fine. It can very literally suck the joy out of life. If I could give you the gift to overlook them, I certainly would.
Letting it go has been one of the most liberating things in my life.23 -
Self-supporting ("perky") breasts are a function mostly of genetics, like how dense your breast tissue is and what shape they are, which differs from person to person. Some people have less-dense breast tissue and more pendulous breasts, they're also valid. Building your pectoral muscles can help some, but the breasts themselves aren't made of muscle. So, you can't really work them out to become self-supporting if they just plain aren't, and there's nothing wrong with you and you didn't do anything wrong if that's just not the kind of boobs you have. All boobs is good boobs.20
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cerolo1405 wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »OP--perkiness also depends on size. It's easier to be perky at a smaller size. Swimming is very good exercise for breasts.
Yeah they were perky when small, saggy when big. I just hope they’ll somehow bounce back, otherwise I’ll literally die
This whole process of turning into an adult woman can be really confusing and overwhelming, and it happens at a time when we're not necessarily at a point in self-confidence to comfortably ride those waves of change. (We tend to see ourselves much more critically than other people ever would.) Hang in there, it gets better - much better.
As others have said, the best course is to value and love the body you have, because it can do many wonderful things. Really, what would you do without a body? Life would be pretty dull without one. 😉
For now, focus your efforts on investing in yourself in various ways.
Since you're very stressed about your breasts right now, adopting a good strength training routine is a really good idea. Though progress from strength training is gradual - takes patience - at 18 you're at the *perfect* age to make progress faster than will be possible later in life. Do it now, establish a good workout routine, and you'll be the best possible toned, smokin' *you* in months to a small number of years. You'll also be *strong*, which helps with self-confidence. So very worth it!
The posture work will also help, for sure. Beyond those obvious self-investments, here's one that's a quickie: Save your pennies, go to a specialty shop in person (when it's safe/possible to do that pandemic-wise), and be fitted for a *really good* bra by a professional fitter. Plan to buy a couple, and they won't be cheap. After you figure out what size/brand/type is best for you, you may be able to find savings on extras online. But buy the first ones at the place where the fitter spent time with you, because that higher price covers that *so valuable* service.
Truth in advertising: Not only am I old, but I don't even have breasts. Yes, I'm female, but I had breast cancer, and chose not to have breast reconstruction. I didn't die from the breast cancer (that was just luck, and good doctors), and I haven't died from my appearance. (I love being alive, and I love the body that moves me through great experiences, every. single. day. And I still invest in improving myself, physically and otherwise, because that's fun as well as deeply rewarding.)
Your appearance is not your value as a human. You can work (hard, patiently) and improve your appearance, and you can do things to increase your self-confidence (accomplish stuff!) and even maximize your value as a human (learn, grow, contribute, connect, and more).
You're just starting out. There's lots of good stuff ahead, decades of good stuff. Don't let breasts be an obstacle to any of that, ever.43 -
Often, when boobs increase, they stretch out. When they decrease, they rarely return back to shape.
One of the hardest things for me to come to terms with was having great boobs, then having babies. They got huge (for me) during nursing, and when that was done... Looked (to me) like deflated water balloons.
But you know... As much as I have had a mostly hate relationship with my boobs.. NOT ONE MAN who has gotten to play with them has ever complained. The problem is in MY head.
It's hard to come to terms with change, and as a young adult, this can be even harder to cope with... But change happens. As we age, things sag more, and stretch, and wrinkle. It's life and wisdom and years added to our skin suits. We can work out and do lifts, exercises, sit up straight, pick a nice bra... All things to help us feel better... But in the end.. There are just some things we cannot control.
It is my hope that you (and I) will see our sexiness and appeal as more than needing a perfect body. Our appeal comes from within... And like I said earlier... They rarely complain once the fun begins. Haha25 -
Like others have said, this is one of those things that comes with age and wisdom (hopefully), where you start to accept your body and self-perceived flaws that are resistant to change, no matter what.
I was a bit of a chubby kid and teenager, then lost weight (then regained, etc.). I remember in my early 20's being so concerned with my "saggy" boobs that I actually bought a cream and contemplated augmentation....not to add size, but to lift them up. That's how dissatisfied I was with them. Like someone else said, not one man said anything about them and seemed to enjoy them
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Now at 44, I either don't care really about them (and I've also been married for 12+ years), or they are perkier. I've had 2 babies, too, and pregnancy will definitely change them. Having said that, I do think weight lifting does help to perk them up, as well as being more conscious overall of my posture (more so for my back/shoulder issues than anything else). However, when I strength train, I REALLY try to focus on what it does for me physically and challenging myself, and the appearance gains as the side benefit. There are actually some great female personal trainers who ascribe to this belief that I'd highly recommend looking into --Nia Shanks is one that comes to mind.
You're young, and honestly your brain is about 7 years from being full developed (full brain maturation happens around age 25). Take it from all of us older ladies to focus more on your positives, and accept the self-perceived stubborn body flaws...chances are, you're by far your harshest critic and others don't even really notice.11 -
Fun thing that happened to me, in my late 20's one of them grew bigger than the other for no apparent reason.
When I noticed I went to the Dr pdq as aunt had breast cancer. Everything came back fine. It was just an example of body being weird. I was self conscious for a bit.
Then I realized that I was blinking lucky it was just weirdness, in a padded bra you couldn't see it, husband certainly didn't care apart from the relief. And actually hadn't noticed until I pointed it out. No-one picks up on these things like we do to ourselves. But we also get to choose what we pay attention to.
In exercise terms I think they look better after swimming. Probably to do with posture and using those muscles, might just be in my head
Stuff will happen one way or another, in the end really we have to work on making the best of what we have.15 -
janejellyroll wrote: »cerolo1405 wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »OP--perkiness also depends on size. It's easier to be perky at a smaller size. Swimming is very good exercise for breasts.
Yeah they were perky when small, saggy when big. I just hope they’ll somehow bounce back, otherwise I’ll literally die
You won't. You'll just be one of the many people living their life even though they're not 100% thrilled about part of their body. Or -- if you can afford it and you're so inclined, you can get surgery so they look more like you want.
Thank you so much all of you, you’re so kind and helpful, i really appreciate it6 -
I second the suggestions to lift weights and to be kinder to yourself. Building some chest muscle definitely helps. Its hard at your age, and I remember getting hung up on those things too.
My boobs have a visible size difference (to me anyway) and one is perkier than the other. But I like 'em both for their various characteristics and they have always been well received by those I allow to play with them. Dont sweat it, you won't die, you'll be just fine and dandy 😊6 -
I've found my breasts feel perkier after massage. Bonus points if I get my husband to do it.
Somewhere, there'll be a woman wishing she had a figure like mine, whilst I want that perfect body over there. And the person in that perfect body will have her own hang ups, and so on.
I think as we get older, the importance we place on those parts of us we're less keen on fades, and even if we don't learn to love every inch of ourselves, we can accept it or change it. What I want now is that strong, invincible feeling I used to have; it's a feeling, not an appearance.12 -
I've found my breasts feel perkier after massage. Bonus points if I get my husband to do it.
Somewhere, there'll be a woman wishing she had a figure like mine, whilst I want that perfect body over there. And the person in that perfect body will have her own hang ups, and so on.
I think as we get older, the importance we place on those parts of us we're less keen on fades, and even if we don't learn to love every inch of ourselves, we can accept it or change it. What I want now is that strong, invincible feeling I used to have; it's a feeling, not an appearance.
Thank you so much, this was so nice to read, really
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ExpressoLove11 wrote: »I second the suggestions to lift weights and to be kinder to yourself. Building some chest muscle definitely helps. Its hard at your age, and I remember getting hung up on those things too.
My boobs have a visible size difference (to me anyway) and one is perkier than the other. But I like 'em both for their various characteristics and they have always been well received by those I allow to play with them. Dont sweat it, you won't die, you'll be just fine and dandy 😊
Thank you so much, this was really nice to hear actually, I hope I’ll get over it too2 -
cerolo1405 wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »OP--perkiness also depends on size. It's easier to be perky at a smaller size. Swimming is very good exercise for breasts.
Yeah they were perky when small, saggy when big. I just hope they’ll somehow bounce back, otherwise I’ll literally die
you literally wont.
you will live with it. USe shapewear or push up bras or have a boob job if you can find the money. But you won't DIE because you don't like your tits.11 -
Because you’re only 18, it’s very likely that your skin will snap back to some extent at least, a little while after the weight loss. It’s common after weight loss to have skin be a bit saggy, but depending on how young and moisturized your skin is, it usually does tighten up. Your skin is definitely in the best category for this, being so young. Really, don’t worry.3
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Apparently mine were mostly fat. As soon as I lost weight, they went along with it. I have a strong chest and visible pec definition, but I also am deflated and sagging. Pumping up my pecs does nothing because the pecs are above the sagginess.8
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DancingMoosie wrote: »Apparently mine were mostly fat. As soon as I lost weight, they went along with it. I have a strong chest and visible pec definition, but I also am deflated and sagging. Pumping up my pecs does nothing because the pecs are above the sagginess.
Same! But... I do love seeing the muscles when I take off my bra and those pesky things get out of the way. Hahaha8 -
gracegettingittogether wrote: »Because you’re only 18, it’s very likely that your skin will snap back to some extent at least, a little while after the weight loss. It’s common after weight loss to have skin be a bit saggy, but depending on how young and moisturized your skin is, it usually does tighten up. Your skin is definitely in the best category for this, being so young. Really, don’t worry.
I really really really hope so, thank you so much!!
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DancingMoosie wrote: »Apparently mine were mostly fat. As soon as I lost weight, they went along with it. I have a strong chest and visible pec definition, but I also am deflated and sagging. Pumping up my pecs does nothing because the pecs are above the sagginess.
Ah I’m sorry to hear 0 -
I don't meet your requirements as I'm a 38 year old who's had 2 kids first I expressed for 18 months with, second I breastfed for 4 years
I'll tell you now the only people to make comments about my big not so pearky boobs are women, men have never had anything but compliments
Work on the muscles by all means to help with your body shape but please spend time looking at yourself finding all the good points to who you are, learn to love your body for the amazing things it does every day12 -
I really think it all comes down to genetics because that determines how dense your breast tissue is, which determines how much they fluctuate with weight gain/loss. When I get my yearly mammogram I’m always told I have very dense breast tissue. Mine haven’t budged an inch since I was 15 and have remained just as voluminous through pregnancy, 2 years of breastfeeding, 43 lbs of weight loss and now well into middle age and peri menopause at age 46. Countless times others assured me they’d deflate through all those events but it never happened, they just remained exactly the same. Bodies are gonna do what bodies are gonna do. Don’t stress too much about it since you cannot control where your body takes off/puts on fat. What you can control is getting to a healthy weight overall. IMHO the most you can do is wear nice supportive bras, care for your skin and work on your posture which can make a world of difference not just for your chest but for your entire body, it certainly has for me. Best of luck to you!
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ruqayyahsmum wrote: »I don't meet your requirements as I'm a 38 year old who's had 2 kids first I expressed for 18 months with, second I breastfed for 4 years
I'll tell you now the only people to make comments about my big not so pearky boobs are women, men have never had anything but compliments
Work on the muscles by all means to help with your body shape but please spend time looking at yourself finding all the good points to who you are, learn to love your body for the amazing things it does every day
Thank you for sharing!! I really hope it’ll be okay1
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