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Am I losing weight wrong? A concern about body shapes

CirrusMoth
CirrusMoth Posts: 35
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I hope the women here might be able to ease my mind some about a realization I had a few days ago.

Some background:
I'm 29 years old and currently weigh about 175 lbs with an hourglass figure. I am 5'4" and wear a size 14 dress...and a size F bra. At my heaviest (around 224 lbs), I was up to a size G bra. I have always been full-figured. I've worn a D since I was 13 years old and although my weight has fluctuated throughout middle and high school, in my youth, I was never heavier than 180 lbs and a size DD.

My current weight puts me about where I was in late middle school, early high school.

I have lost almost 50 lbs and dropped 3 dress sizes, but my boobs are still huge. So far, I don't look too bad. My hips are still rather large, so the hourglass is balanced, but I'm beginning to get worried. Why hasn't my bust shrunk more? How can I be in the same weight category, but have such a different shape just a decade later?

I like being curvy and I never expected (or wanted) to be small breasted. Even at my healthiest (150 lbs), I was still a D (size 10), with no signs of changing. I guess I'm just starting to get worried that my weight loss is going to throw my body out of proportion. I don't want to look like some porn star with an ungodly huge rack on a little body. Not to mention how hard it will be to find clothes that fit.

I suppose I'm happy that my boobs aren't emptying out like old speed bags, but I'm starting to worry. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Replies

  • IronSmasher
    IronSmasher Posts: 3,908 Member
    Just stick with it and the boobage will follow.

    If you do end up stick thin with them, you could always be a glamour model.
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
    I always had a C no matter my weight, but I'm by far fitter now and more muscular than I have been ever before in my life (including when I was tiney in HS), the girls are completely gone . . . I'm a very depressing "A."
    that being said, my experience was that the less bf% and more strength training I did with my cardio the smaller they were. I decided that my results in that area really are due to the strength training because that's the only variable that has never existed to this extent before.
  • CeejayGee
    CeejayGee Posts: 299 Member
    I don't want to look like some porn star with an ungodly huge rack on a little body.


    Sounds pretty awesome, to me :)
  • AnninStPaul
    AnninStPaul Posts: 1,372 Member
    A lot of women pay good money for what you've got -- enjoy!!
  • they'll shrink eventually, they are mainly fat stores... It's mainly genetics that will impact how big your bust is at a certain weight but as I said they're fat stores so once you lose enough body fat they'll come down too.
  • MissMaryMac33
    MissMaryMac33 Posts: 1,433 Member
    Keep losing... then you can have some awesome boobs that look like socks with a golf ball in them :)
    I admit I miss my "fat" boobs....but I sure don't miss being fat.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    You are going to be YOUR body shape no matter what. Genetics predetermines this.

    I have big thighs (small boobs) - when I weighed 156 I had big thighs - when I weighed 106 I still had big thighs.
  • SueInAz
    SueInAz Posts: 6,592 Member
    If you've always been large chested, you will always be large chested, no matter your weight. It sounds like you're fine with that.

    That said, I think a D looks pretty darn proportional on a 150 pound 5'4" woman. My sister-in-law is almost that exact size and she looks "right."
  • Strive2BLean
    Strive2BLean Posts: 300 Member
    I can relate in the opposite direction. I have hips but barely fill out a B cup and it's been that way no matter what I weigh and I've been at lots of different weights., I guess your bust size is what it is. I have a hard time filling out my tops and forget anything that remotely looks like a halter type dress. I wouldn't be concerned if I were you.
  • Thanks for all the comments! I know that rationally speaking, boobs are just fat, so they'd have to go down as my fat% goes down, but I guess I'm just surprised there hasn't been much of a change yet.
  • ivyjbres
    ivyjbres Posts: 612 Member
    Remember that estrogen plays a part as well, so you as a woman will always have fuller boobs than you did as a teenager. But keep at at, and at a fit weight, you'll look great whether they stay or go.
  • StaciO
    StaciO Posts: 998
    Eventually they will start to go. I had lost about 50 pounds with no change in the girls at all then all of a sunnden between 50 and 70 they have gone from an H to a DD. I was so glad that something finally happened.
  • I too have been big on top. Even in High School wore a 38-C. Now - much older & having lost 30 lbs. down from 165, I'm still having to buy a 42-C that fits snug. Hope that will change~
  • I want to look like a porn star =)

    I spent year hating my hourglass shape and wanting to reducr my boobs, my hips and curve my sexiness.

    now I am happen with the porn star body I have, just want to build some muscle loss so fat....
  • calliope_music
    calliope_music Posts: 1,242 Member
    i've lost 30 lbs and none from my boobs. i'm still a DDD.
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