how much chest will I lose??

ive heard that you can loose fat in your chest with weightloss. I am on a journey to lose 80lbs (lost 10lbs so far). I have a 42DDD chest (big I Know!!) I am wondering if anyone has experienced this?? I am hoping I lose atleast something in my chest. soo tired of them being so big!!!
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  • Momjogger
    Momjogger Posts: 750 Member
    Probably will stay well endowed, but everything will go down. I went from about your size to a 36 DD after losing about 60 pounds....
  • trin5703
    trin5703 Posts: 15 Member
    You will loose in the chest, just as you loose all over the rest of your body.
    For me, habitually, my chest is the LAST place I loose. I will loose everywhere else first, the boobs go last :)
    That may not be true for you however. A friend dieted and lost in the chest first :)
  • muppetfan13
    muppetfan13 Posts: 28 Member
    I am with you! 50 lbs. to lose, a 40-42 DDD. I would LOVE to lose my boobs along with everything else. I had a reduction when I was 21 (almost 16 years ago now!), and I was a perfect D. Two kids and 50 lbs. later, and I'm back to big'uns.

    Honestly, I think it depends on genetics as much as anything else. I know people who have lost them, and I have known people who really haven't. I come from a line of large-breasted women on one side, barrel-chested men on the other, and I am the lucky girl who got both. :ohwell:

    I hope I can just get back to a smallish DD. I'd be happy with that.

    Good luck to us both!
  • kajungrill
    kajungrill Posts: 50 Member
    Unfortunately if you loose boob mass they'll still be big but instead of sitting up high, they'll probably be hanging low :sad:
  • AiabliamsMommy
    AiabliamsMommy Posts: 60 Member
    I lost 35lbs before having my last child and I only went from a 38DDD to a 36DD(at goal weight)

    :( I wish I could lose more! Maybe this time...a girl can dream.
  • AllonsYtotheTardis
    AllonsYtotheTardis Posts: 16,947 Member
    The size chest you were before you gained the weight, is a good guess of the size you will be once you lose it. Not 100%, but a good estimate.
  • Duck_Puddle
    Duck_Puddle Posts: 3,237 Member
    Sadly, I have lost 0 cup size. The boobs are actually smaller, but cup size is the same. I don't know if it's sad or an NSV that i don't remember my starting band size, but it was 40-something DDD and now I'm a 34 DDD. I wish they would go away-everyone said they would. I'm waiting...
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    The size chest you were before you gained the weight, is a good guess of the size you will be once you lose it. Not 100%, but a good estimate.

    This.

    I was a 34B in high school and now I'm a 34B again.
  • pinkraynedropjacki
    pinkraynedropjacki Posts: 3,027 Member
    The size chest you were before you gained the weight, is a good guess of the size you will be once you lose it. Not 100%, but a good estimate.

    Thats a wild guess at best. I was ALWAYS big chested even when younger.... now I got almost nothing & I hit goal weight before it even started coming off there.
  • AndorZensko
    AndorZensko Posts: 47 Member
    You will lose some in your chest, but everyone is different and so it would be hard for anyone to tell you just what to expect, you should still remain bigger than most on top but not as big as before. some of it will depend on your body but I do wonder if you could alter some with certain types of exercises or weights? Might be something to ask a trainer.
  • gimmegimmemoar
    gimmegimmemoar Posts: 213 Member
    I am waiting for my boobs to go... I lost 50 lbs (gained back 5 ugh) but NONE of my boobs went. So annoying!!
  • jbonow1231
    jbonow1231 Posts: 75 Member
    Yeah, also if your "before you gained the weight" reference is middle school (IE you've been chubby since high school) that might not be a good guess either. I've lost 25 lbs - my band size has gone down two inches, but my cup size is the same.

    This causes issues when I try to buy smaller clothes - as now everything fits but the chest - ugh.
  • Pimpmonkey
    Pimpmonkey Posts: 566
    I ain't lost crap off mine and I've lost 50 lbs so far
  • santamommy
    santamommy Posts: 88
    After I lose my weight, I am going to get surgery to make them smaller. I hated the C's I had before I gained weight. I use to be very athletic, and those puppies stayed in my way.
  • TriThreat
    TriThreat Posts: 313
    I WAS a G-cup, but since I lost the weight, I've gone down to somewhere between a "DDD" and a "DD" :smile: I fit into shirts WAAAY easier now!! :happy:
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    Also your genetics will determine where you lose first. My boobs didn't get smaller until the last 10 lbs or so. Some people find that they lose there first.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    ive heard that you can loose fat in your chest with weightloss. I am on a journey to lose 80lbs (lost 10lbs so far). I have a 42DDD chest (big I Know!!) I am wondering if anyone has experienced this?? I am hoping I lose atleast something in my chest. soo tired of them being so big!!!
    If your breasts are mostly fat, you will lose some of them. If they are mostly mammary tissue, they probably won't get much smaller, if at all.

    No one can predict if or how much you will lose. That's impossible.
  • jadedone
    jadedone Posts: 2,446 Member
    It is all random. At my highest weight, I wore about a 36G/38F. Now, I wear a 34H. So eseentially, I haven't changed size at all. My volume is the same, yet my back is smaller. I did lose another 10-15 from where I am at the moment, and correspondingly, I was further down in the band, with no change in the volume. I was wearing 32HH/J at that moment. [My underbust measurement at my highest was about 37. Right now it is about 33.]


    I do hope this trend does not continue, as I would like to lose a few cups, but it doesn't look so likely. I want to lose volume, as at my current size, there aren't very many bra options, and it would get worse if I were to head into a smaller band and bigger cup.

    To be honest, I haven't been much smaller than I am now since age 16 or so (I was about 25 pounds less then, but in terms of clothing size, it was only about 1 size different than now. Basically I was 3 or so inches smaller in each dimension). And I now know, I wasn't wearing anywhere near the correct bra size then. In terms of volume? I added some in my mid 20s, even though my weight hadn't changed. And last time (before now) I was at this weight, I wore a bigger clothing size and had a bigger band.

    But I do reccommend getting remeasured every 10-20 pounds. Your breast size can change, and you may be wearing the wrong size bra currently. The right size makes you look smaller, and can make your breasts look smaller as well.
  • ladymiseryali
    ladymiseryali Posts: 2,555 Member
    I'm 36B, and have stayed that way through gains and losses. I guess I'm lucky? lol
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    ive heard that you can loose fat in your chest with weightloss. I am on a journey to lose 80lbs (lost 10lbs so far). I have a 42DDD chest (big I Know!!) I am wondering if anyone has experienced this?? I am hoping I lose atleast something in my chest. soo tired of them being so big!!!

    No one will be able to tell you because it is different for each person.

    At my smallest, I was a 34D.
    I'm currently a 34H and I'm praying the **** things shrink.
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  • Yeah, also if your "before you gained the weight" reference is middle school (IE you've been chubby since high school) that might not be a good guess either. I've lost 25 lbs - my band size has gone down two inches, but my cup size is the same.

    This causes issues when I try to buy smaller clothes - as now everything fits but the chest - ugh.


    as early as I can remember, i've always been a 42ddd. even in my teens. and i gained the weighted after i was 20yrs old.
  • intuen
    intuen Posts: 7
    Will definitely be reduced with time and size! Keep up the good work!
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    You will lose exactly 2.5 D's.

    SO you will be 42d. <===small d represents half a big D.
  • jadedone
    jadedone Posts: 2,446 Member
    Yeah, also if your "before you gained the weight" reference is middle school (IE you've been chubby since high school) that might not be a good guess either. I've lost 25 lbs - my band size has gone down two inches, but my cup size is the same.

    This causes issues when I try to buy smaller clothes - as now everything fits but the chest - ugh.


    as early as I can remember, i've always been a 42ddd. even in my teens. and i gained the weighted after i was 20yrs old.

    Get remeasured. You might be in the wrong size. This is a good calculator:
    http://www.sophisticatedpair.com/bracalculator.htm
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    wow i see lot's of ladies lose weight and are saddened they do not come off of the chest's. maybe one day if MFP starts giving out swag and prizes for continual logging, wheelbarrow can be one of the prizes. I thought I was the only one.

    lalala sing it!....
    ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

    aaaaaaaand backwards! (to represent weight loss with biguns)

    ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJI H GFEDCBA!!!!!!

    bold represents your current letter...sing it girls!
  • irishblonde2011
    irishblonde2011 Posts: 618 Member
    It depends. No one can tell you really. I have lost 42 pounds gone from a uk size 16/18 to a uk 10/12 and i still have not lost any weight in that area. Double D's do not seem to be going anywhere. Oh well. At least it is coming off everywhere else.
  • maybeazure
    maybeazure Posts: 301 Member
    That's one thing I'm hoping I won't lose too much of. I like my big breasts. It would be hard for me to predict what will happen based on my previous size because I started to gain weight at age 7.
  • I actually like my chest. I'm a 36dd I just want to go back to a 34dd/ddd. Smallist it ever was is a 32ddd.
  • rebekah5055
    rebekah5055 Posts: 12 Member
    I have lost about 30 pounds so far and with that I went from a 40DD to a 35D. I don't mind it much, but my husband sure misses them. :)

    I started a weight loss contest with my gym and they took before and after measurements of my bust, hips, waist, thighs, calfs etc. and I ended up losing 22.5 inches total, but 5 inches in my bust. Good luck!!