Girls: Bra size after weight loss?

AlyssasDiet
AlyssasDiet Posts: 120
in Health and Weight Loss
Hello! I'm wondering if anyone can give me an idea of how much my cup size will shrink once I've lost the weight. I know it's a silly question but I'm really curious about it and I'm hoping some of you ca tell me your experience. I'm currently a 38DD and I weigh 211lbs(at 5'5"). My goal weight for now is 160lbs. What can I expect?
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  • BlueBombers
    BlueBombers Posts: 4,064 Member
    I was a 40D and I'm not a 36C, so they went down a bit.
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    If memory serves, I was wearing a 44DDD at my heaviest. I'm now wearing a 36DD. As with any other measurment changes, it's all about genetics and how/where your body stores fat. Some women don't lose much in the chest area and some lose a lot.
  • kristen6022
    kristen6022 Posts: 1,923 Member
    I was a 38DD, now a 34D/32DD so quite a bit with a 45lb loss. 190 (27 BMI) - 145 (20.5 BMI).
  • elleloch
    elleloch Posts: 739 Member
    I was about 140ish at a 34DD and after a 20 lb loss I wear a 32DD.
  • smallbutcurvy
    smallbutcurvy Posts: 53
    I was 36ff now 34f and hoping to go down a little more
  • Koldnomore
    Koldnomore Posts: 1,613 Member
    It's quite impossible to say due to genetics and all that jazz.

    I was always top heavy growing up so I really didn't lose THAT much. I was wearing 44G at my highest. After 65lbs I'm down to 36 DDD. The last time I was at my current goal weight (at 19) I was about this size so I don't foresee losing too much more. Maybe another couple in the band and 1 cup which will put me at a size that I can actually buy in a normal bra store (Hurray!)
  • Siansonea
    Siansonea Posts: 917 Member
    There's really no telling. You'll have to go in for a bra fitting after you're at your goal weight. Most women wear bras that are the wrong size. Most gals with a larger bust tend to wear a larger band size than they should, because those band sizes have the cups with adequate volume, unless you go to a specialty lingerie shop with larger cups in smaller band sizes. So when you're at your goal weight, you might be a 34E, or you might be a 36DD, or a 32F, who knows? You'll have to see. Or your breast volume might decrease more than expected, and you'll be in the "department store sizes". Whichever size you end up, make sure you're buying the correct bra size, and make sure they're adjusted properly for your body. The band should be quite snug, if it feels like it's just sitting on your skin, you need to go down a band size (and up a cup size, or two…).
  • rosemary98
    rosemary98 Posts: 632
    prior to weight loss (140 pounds and 5'5.5''), I was a 34 DD. after 40 pounds lost...i am a 29/30 DD. could be a D if I allowed the band to be bigger than my measurements.
  • JulieAnn72
    JulieAnn72 Posts: 795 Member
    I lost 22lbs and went from a 36D to a 34D, so the cup size actually didn't go down (although I'm smaller since the D cup in a 34D is smaller than the D cup in a 36D).
  • Beewallows
    Beewallows Posts: 110 Member
    I was a 38D at 180-190, and now I'm a 34C at 150, they got a lot smaller, but then so did I, so its worth it :)
  • ihammen
    ihammen Posts: 55 Member
    I started out as a 38 DD at 187. I now wear a 34DD at 148.
  • kaylorraine44
    kaylorraine44 Posts: 135 Member
    I've gone from 178lbs to 140 and I went from a 38C to a 34C. It totally depends upon your own body though.
  • Pearsquared
    Pearsquared Posts: 1,656 Member
    It depends on your body. I started at a 40C and am now a 34D (yep, went up a cup size). I come from a top-heavy family, though, so my breasts did not shrink that much.
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    Hard to say - you might have some idea if you've seen mammograms of yourself. The breast tissue won't be going anywhere. The fat is fair game.

    Keep in mind that if you drop a band size and go up a cup size, that means your breast size did not change (or at least not much).
    34C == 32D == 30DD (and so on)
  • nonstopper
    nonstopper Posts: 1,108 Member
    i like boobs
  • rosemary98
    rosemary98 Posts: 632
    Hard to say - you might have some idea if you've seen mammograms of yourself. The breast tissue won't be going anywhere. The fat is fair game.

    Keep in mind that if you drop a band size and go up a cup size, that means your breast size did not change (or at least not much).
    34C == 32D == 30DD (and so on)

    I was trying to convey that as well. women's breast are composed differently. some women have very dense breast tissue (more fibrous...others don't.) I haven't googled this, but my understanding is if you have more fibrous breasts--you have less fat tissue there. In losing weight, one with less dense breast tissue may be more prone to losing fat in the breasts (along with other places on their body, of course).
  • wjstoj
    wjstoj Posts: 884 Member
    what....what did you all do with the old ones?
  • tmm_0127
    tmm_0127 Posts: 545 Member
    Oh man.

    At my highest weight in 2005 (170ish) I was a 36D, at my lowest weight in 2009 (110) I was a 32 nearly A. Now I'm at 150 and back to a 36D and hoping as I lose my boobs won't get THAT small again. I don't mind them being smaller than they are now, but being a NEARLY A was a little traumatizing for me.

    It really depends on your genetics though. Smaller boobs run in my family. Your bust size -will- shift a bit, but it's not the same for everyone.
  • glreim21
    glreim21 Posts: 206 Member
    Sadly they may not go down at all. I went from a 42 E to a 38 F...but now my boobs are long and flat...:(
  • Pearsquared
    Pearsquared Posts: 1,656 Member
    Hard to say - you might have some idea if you've seen mammograms of yourself. The breast tissue won't be going anywhere. The fat is fair game.

    Keep in mind that if you drop a band size and go up a cup size, that means your breast size did not change (or at least not much).
    34C == 32D == 30DD (and so on)
    I think this is the only thing that has made mammograms even remotely appealing. I'm curious now, but still pretty unwilling based on how much my mother hates them. Won't needs them for a while anyway - 26 year-old, no history of breast cancer.
  • omma_to_3
    omma_to_3 Posts: 3,265 Member
    42G to 36DD currently (after 87 lbs. lost). I would guess when I hit my goal, I'll be a 34DDD or 34DD still.
  • omma_to_3
    omma_to_3 Posts: 3,265 Member
    but still pretty unwilling based on how much my mother hates them. Won't needs them for a while anyway - 26 year-old, no history of breast cancer.

    Certainly not advocating a mammogram for these purposes, but they are nothing. Super easy. Mildly uncomfortable, but that should be it.
  • Amwhite1986
    Amwhite1986 Posts: 194 Member
    I started at 214 and a 38G, borderline 40.
    After losing 47lbs, I'm now a 36DD, and if my underbust keep shrinking like it is I'll soon be a 34DDD.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I went from 38 DD at 213 to a small 36 DD at 146.I have big bones and not much fat in my upper back anymore so I don't think I'm going to lose much more, I might lose a cup though but 36 D are definitely too small.
  • sassypants0923
    sassypants0923 Posts: 7,188 Member
    Little to Littler
  • heidiberr
    heidiberr Posts: 643 Member
    I actually went up in sizes as I lost weight--it's about the different in boob to bust----I went from being a 40C to currently a 34DD after losing 95 pounds initially--gaining some back with lifting for a total of 69 pounds lost.
  • herblackwings39
    herblackwings39 Posts: 3,930 Member
    My last properly fitted bra was a 44HH. Before that I was wearing a DDD or E cup, but the band was so loose it might as well have not existed. I've gone from the 44HH (UK) to a 40GG(UK). So far my band and cup size is going down fairly evenly. I wouldn't mind losing a bit more cup size though so I can actually buy a bra not imported in an actual normal store. US sizing puts me around an I cup.
  • CheeksBryant
    CheeksBryant Posts: 193 Member
    Every person is different. Myself at my heaviest 5'4" weight 301 lbs, size 44DDD. Now 229 lbs, 40 C :sad:
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    I am 38DD at 212 lb right now! So this is a perfect thread for me.

    Actually last week I bought a couple of 38D bras "just to see" and the cups runneth over BADLY haha. I'm ok with that though. In recent years (weight from 280-220) I was in a 40DD and at my heaviest (307) I wore 42DD. So apparently despite over 90 lb weight loss my DD cup size is the same.

    I wore those 40DD forever because at first they were on the loosest (outer) hook, kinda pinching on my back and side, and by the time I switched to 38DD the old bras were on the tightest hook and getting pretty saggy.
  • PriceK01
    PriceK01 Posts: 834 Member
    I was 38DD at 160lbs, and am 30DD now at 124lbs. Definitely smaller, but still the same difference between chest and bust size (so same cup designation).

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