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Lildarlinz
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Hey guys!
Just wanted to ask a question.
I am within my BMI and I have a tiny waist.
But my cup size is really big.
I went to have a bra fitting today and she said that my band size was actually a 24-26 which I can’t buy in the UK
My question is, I am doing some workouts with my dumbbells to try and reduce my cup size.My cup is a J 🙈🙈
Has anyone noticed when they lost weight, if they lost it on their bussoms, did theirs band size go down? Or do you actually lose it from the cup size.
I can afford to go down to like a H or HH
But I can’t lose weight around the band.
Any help I would appreciate
Just wanted to ask a question.
I am within my BMI and I have a tiny waist.
But my cup size is really big.
I went to have a bra fitting today and she said that my band size was actually a 24-26 which I can’t buy in the UK
My question is, I am doing some workouts with my dumbbells to try and reduce my cup size.My cup is a J 🙈🙈
Has anyone noticed when they lost weight, if they lost it on their bussoms, did theirs band size go down? Or do you actually lose it from the cup size.
I can afford to go down to like a H or HH
But I can’t lose weight around the band.
Any help I would appreciate
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Sister, this is very common. As women lose fat, it goes from everywhere, but eventually, yes, you will likely lose your boobs. I lost my boobs and *kitten* too. So calorie deficit and lifting will help you lose that cup size and band size.5
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Sister, this is very common. As women lose fat, it goes from everywhere, but eventually, yes, you will likely lose your boobs. I lost my boobs and *kitten* too. So calorie deficit and lifting will help you lose that cup size and band size.
Hi Alex x
I know I can lose weight everywhere
But I’m wondering if it comes off my band size aswell?
I really need to keep my band size and lose of my cups.
Surgery must be the only way to go for me then
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Chances are you band size is not going to change much if you already have a small waist. It's mostly determined by your ribs. You CAN increase it with lifting and building lats. But it sounds like your boobs are mostly dense tissue and not fat if you haven't seen much of a reduction and you are already lean. Surgery is probably in your future if you want to reduce.2
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mom23mangos wrote: »Chances are you band size is not going to change much if you already have a small waist. It's mostly determined by your ribs. You CAN increase it with lifting and building lats. But it sounds like your boobs are mostly dense tissue and not fat if you haven't seen much of a reduction and you are already lean. Surgery is probably in your future if you want to reduce.
Thank you mangos xx I’m at the top of my bmi.I think my bmi is between 8 stone 5 and 10 stone 5 I’m currently 9 stone 11 x so I’m nearly in the middle of it…
But I’m worried about is if I lose weight, my band size will go smaller than a 28.
I just want my bust size to go from a J to a HH if I’m honest lol! That way I will feel better…I’ll keep trying to lose weight and see how I go
Thank you x
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I lost 30 pounds about 4 years ago. My band size went down a little bit and my boobs did decrease. I went down a cup size, if you can call it that. I am not large busted. I went from an A to a AA. Back in training bra world
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Thank you Lang!langstontl wrote: »I lost 30 pounds about 4 years ago. My band size went down a little bit and my boobs did decrease. I went down a cup size, if you can call it that. I am not large busted. I went from an A to a AA. Back in training bra world
I’ve lost a cup size.I’ve gone from a JJ to a J.I’ve just tried one of my old bras on and I’ve still stayed the same band size
I can afford to go to a HH or a H but I can’t afford to lose anymore off my band as I’m a 28!
I’m going to continue to lose weight and see what happens.:) if all else fails…I’ll just had to eat chocolate and put it back on and just live life as a pork chop 🤣🤣🤣
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Doing chest exercises will not make your breasts smaller, if anything it will build up your pectoral muscles and push them out even further. The tissue that makes them so large is not muscle, so no amount of chest exercise is going to help the way you want it to, and anyway you can't spot-reduce.
If your underbust measurement is already so small, it's not likely to get much smaller, at least - surely you can't possibly have much fat left around your ribs if you're measuring 24-26" around the underbust. Breast size can be influenced to some degree by weight gain or loss, but it comes down more to genetics, and the damned things IME tend to just do what they will, and it's possible that surgery will be your only option to reduce bust size if they're still unmanageable when you reach goal.
FWIW, the Reddit community r/ABraThatFits is great for checking measurements and making recommendations for bras to try, as well as navigating the world of custom Polish bras (which you may want to look into - manufacturers like Ewa Michalak make bras in the 24-26H/HH range). There's also r/BraSwap and r/RandomActsOfBras, where people trade/sell/give away bras in hard-to-find sizes.6 -
I can't remember from my days working on the bra counter of a large store, what the ratio between cup sizes was but the same cup size on say a 34 band is smaller than that on a 36. The volume of the breast will reduce taking some pressure off the shoulders and back. I wonder, if it might it be possible to find some exercises to strengthen the shoulders and back? If this makes sense. Best Wishes4
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Be ready to have your whole world turned on its head. May I introduce: "sister sizing"...
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Therefore, OP, you may want to head to your nearest shop and ask to try on a bunch of 42DDs or 44Ds (which are more likely to be commercially available if my search on the now-cancelled/near-cancelled Victoria's Secret website means anything).
This helped me a LOT in the past few months but my boobies are much, much, much, much, mucccch smaller than yours. Much (insert river of shameful tears here). All that to say...
YMMV3 -
I lost 60 pounds and still wear the same bra size.1
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Be ready to have your whole world turned on its head. May I introduce: "sister sizing"...
This!!! I was going to suggest using a “sister size” bra but @MaltedTea beat me to it!
And thanks to this chart I now know how many equivalent cc’s my breasts are and it’s a lot more than I ever guessed. I have dense breast tissue and even having a child, breastfeeding for 2 years and going from obese to normal bmi haven’t made them budge an inch, they’ve been the same since I was 15, I’m 46 now. I considered a reduction a few years ago but couldn’t bear to put my body through it and I’m glad I didn’t. I got better fitting bras and improved my posture and my back/shoulders are 100% better for it. I even manage to be a runner and have no issues. As a woman with a relatively small band size and very large cup size myself I can say that sister sizing has saved me more than once. But definitely try them on first, sometimes you can get away with larger band sizes and sometimes you can’t get enough support with them, it will vary by bra design. Best of luck to you! 2 -
I'm a 38 band and really don't have any weight to lose at my band, although I'm not at goal from losing 51 lbs I can feel my rib cage and no fat to pinch around my band. My cup size has went down and will continue to some because these boobs are mostly fat hardly any muscle, I've always been to endowed but not this much that's why I know they will go down more, but some women are a little more muscle in the boob area and some women just don't lose alot from their boobs, I've seem some women lose alot of pounds and still have a cup that runs over. But I'm with the opinion you should still workout and do chest focus exercises to help tighten and maybe keep them lifted, cardio will burn fat if it is to come off in that area as you know we can't pick the area it burns off from. Back to your band, if you have some fold or fat (sorry) you can pinch and don't feel your ribs then you may lose from the band but if your all the way down to size in the rib cage, there's no more room to go down.
Hope I made since and not sound like I'm rambling. 2 -
goal06082021 wrote: »Doing chest exercises will not make your breasts smaller, if anything it will build up your pectoral muscles and push them out even further. The tissue that makes them so large is not muscle, so no amount of chest exercise is going to help the way you want it to, and anyway you can't spot-reduce.
If your underbust measurement is already so small, it's not likely to get much smaller, at least - surely you can't possibly have much fat left around your ribs if you're measuring 24-26" around the underbust. Breast size can be influenced to some degree by weight gain or loss, but it comes down more to genetics, and the damned things IME tend to just do what they will, and it's possible that surgery will be your only option to reduce bust size if they're still unmanageable when you reach goal.
FWIW, the Reddit community r/ABraThatFits is great for checking measurements and making recommendations for bras to try, as well as navigating the world of custom Polish bras (which you may want to look into - manufacturers like Ewa Michalak make bras in the 24-26H/HH range). There's also r/BraSwap and r/RandomActsOfBras, where people trade/sell/give away bras in hard-to-find sizes.
Hi goal!
Yes I saw them x
Doing the chest exercises has worked…I brought a bra and I’ve gone down a cup size so calorie counting aswell as chest exercises has helped so hopefully I’m going in the right direction x
Thank you for your feedback! I looked online at those websites, but my god I saw one for like £108 🤣🤣🤣
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Therefore, OP, you may want to head to your nearest shop and ask to try on a bunch of 42DDs or 44Ds (which are more likely to be commercially available if my search on the now-cancelled/near-cancelled Victoria's Secret website means anything).
This helped me a LOT in the past few months but my boobies are much, much, much, much, mucccch smaller than yours. Much (insert river of shameful tears here). All that to say...
YMMV
Miss maltedtea! I wish I had much much much muucccchhhhhh smaller boobies! But Jesus blessed me very well 🤣🙈
I know a lot of ladies would say oh I wish I had big boobs like you
Trust me…these have caused me nothing but pleasure…lots of pain and soreness aswell as putting me into depression xx
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yweight2020 wrote: »I'm a 38 band and really don't have any weight to lose at my band, although I'm not at goal from losing 51 lbs I can feel my rib cage and no fat to pinch around my band. My cup size has went down and will continue to some because these boobs are mostly fat hardly any muscle, I've always been to endowed but not this much that's why I know they will go down more, but some women are a little more muscle in the boob area and some women just don't lose alot from their boobs, I've seem some women lose alot of pounds and still have a cup that runs over. But I'm with the opinion you should still workout and do chest focus exercises to help tighten and maybe keep them lifted, cardio will burn fat if it is to come off in that area as you know we can't pick the area it burns off from. Back to your band, if you have some fold or fat (sorry) you can pinch and don't feel your ribs then you may lose from the band but if your all the way down to size in the rib cage, there's no more room to go down.
Hope I made since and not sound like I'm rambling.
Thank you so much for your help.
I have no fat around my rib cage, more around my midsection.which is why I wanted to lose weight…but I was scared that if I lost the weight my band that is already 26-28 would get smaller, so I’m hoping you are right that if I lose weight, my boob cup size will get smaller x
Thank you so much for your help you have all been really helpful and made me feel better 🥰😍
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My band size went down fast at first, then it settled and didn't go down at all when I was losing my last 15 kg. If you don't have much fat left around your ribs and back, your band size will likely not go down too much, if any. If you work on building that area up through resistance training, you may be able to go up a band, and that will automatically knock your cup size down a notch regardless if your actual size changed or not. If this is important to you, this might be a good long term goal to have once you're done losing. Building muscle takes a long time, so you'll have some goals to work towards for at least some time. Having goals helps with maintenance as well, so two birds with one stone.5
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just wanted to post this since you are in the uk. i used to get mine from there shipped to the Netherlands cause i couldn't find my band size in regular stores. https://www.brastop.com/3
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OMG I'm a 38K, I hear you.3
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My band size went down, within reason, it is close to my waist though. I doubt it will get any smaller, my ribs are what my ribs are.
I was a wearing a 34 band before weight gain but it didn't fit, I moved down to a 32 but then I started gaining weight. The band still rode up in the back but I didn't know better.
I went up to a true 32 band when I gained weight. I wore a 32 up to a 32N when I was overweight and breastfeeding. At the peak of my weight, I went to a 34M.
I started losing weight and went back down to a 32DDD/E and wore that for most of my overweight time. When I got back to a healthy weight I wore a 30DDD/E (although I wore a lot of 32DD because that is what you can buy).
Now I have started losing a little more weight (within the healthy weight range) and I've gone from a 30DDD to a 30D, to a 28DDD or 28DD, I haven't bought a 28 bra yet, but my 32DDs don't fit at all anymore. My 32D sports bras still fit, I'm living in sports bras and braletts, and one 32D that still works okay.
I really doubt I'll go smaller than a 28, my ribs are my ribs, right? Of course I said that at 30.2 -
If you want to increase your band size, build your lats. At least it might keep it from going down.4
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How broad or narrow one's back is at the equivalent of the under bust level contributes to the whole measurement. How much coverage one has over your back/ribcage can also make difference. Possibly see if you have anything left to pinch at that level, this might indicate if you have much if anything left to loose at that level. I know UK bra sizes are unbelievably awful.
I'm not sure any real/effective study of how one's stature effects clothes sizing needs has ever been completed. Look at the way children/girls clothing goes up to about a 28 chest then these children are thrust into "adult" clothing, with vat applied, if they happen to be larger at the age of 10 or so. There seems to be a fear of small women having access to clothing which does not carry adult taxes.
The average UK size used to be 14 for a young woman, the height assumed was 5'6", with anything going over and above but little if any availability under. So for those over 5'6" they had to wear them short, for those who only made it to 5', these clothes hung on them, shortening them still left the waistline skewed out of place. 10's for example were hardly seen when I was growing up. I've not made a recent study of the racks but think 8s are few and far between now.
Then there was the idea small chest sizes do not require support. I'm sure there has always been a void in this what I can only call the "in between" area. I know none of this helps. I'm really sorry.1 -
I also have a very simple solution if there are no other alternatives to the weird bra size problems. What i did a while ago to most of my bras (because they are expensive and i didn't want to buy new ones), was take them in myself with a needle and thread. A couple of centimetres on both sides to make them equal.This way i can still use them. And if i gain weight i can just remove the stitches and have them at the original size.Some are a bit big cup wise, but it doesn't bother me .4
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Cups are very difficult to alter. Its fine for those who like extra space but having seen really soar skin related issues in the elder community from poorly fitting under garments (I once supported their personal care) having a good well fitting bra is essential even in the elderly. As a youngster (12) I had repurposed ones from my grandma with stitched beaks in them!! Mother thought them good enough, they were really uncomfortable. Breast tissue at any age is sensitive. My hand stitching has been really high quality but for achieving the good flat but curved, smooth seams, I would want, I'd need my swing needle machine to ensure un-abrasive coverage of the edges. Call me fussy if you wish. Women deserve better. As in all things, if men needed these things, had to wear them it would all be, very different. Earlier today on a program on marketing, I heard about Ann Summers uk, in the '80's their garments were designed by men!! Based on eye appeal not comfort, things take more than a life time to change.2
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Lifting made my cup size INCREASE, but we're talking a A+/B- to a B+. My pecs built underneath the breast tissue and contributed the size.
Honestly in your case, even that much an increase in size isn't a HUGE increase. In my case, 1 cup size was a HUGE increase.
I think it is not very likely that lifting will decrease your cup size. Fat loss is more likely to decrease cup size. However based on your band size, you may have more breast tissue than fat.0 -
You might have luck increasing your band size. Perhaps, work on your lats and upper back workouts?1
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Insightful post,0
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I'm popping my head back in here to respond to the sister sizes chart that @MaltedTea shared. Yes, sister sizing is a thing, and yes, volume-wise a 42DD is comparable to a 26J, but those two bra-wearing humans with bodies are going to look very different and have very different proportions/distribution of breast tissue, so those bras are not going to fit the same. If you measure to a 26J, for one thing the band is going to hang off of you; even without stretching it, a bra with band size 42 is going to be probably 35-37 inches long, fully ten inches bigger around than you are. Maybe you can get creative with rixie clips or shorten the band if you're a decent seamstress, but then, the cups on a 42DD bra are going to be much wider and shallower than your breasts probably are - imagine putting an orange in a cereal bowl. Similarly, a person who measures to 42DD might be able to get their breasts into the cups on the 26J (though I expect those cups will be much narrower and deeper than the 42DD person's breasts are - more like an orange in a glass), but the band simply will not stretch far enough to get around their back; it's going to fall short by 10 or so inches (assuming a maximum stretched length of around 32 inches; many bras in that size range won't stretch even that far, though). Going more than maybe two steps in any direction on the sister size chart is going to result in a less-than-ideal fit, nevermind 8!
Now, none of that accounts for individual preferences wrt support needs, clothing tightness, budget space devoted to undergarments, or just how much damn work one is willing to put into finding a bra that fits properly, but if it's something you have the (mental/emotional, physical, financial) resources to do, it's very worth doing.3 -
You may be able to increase your band size with progressive lifting. Building your chest, back and traps up will help increase the size over time. Losing weight may or may not reduce your breasts. It depends whether it's all mammary tissue or if there is fat tissue. Depends on your anatomy. You sound like you may be on the thin side already so you may not reduce much. For bras I would probably start bud getting in tailor cost to the bras you buy. Totally sucks since I know larger cup bras are already expensive enough. I like to buy bands 1 size to small and then add an extender. That way when the bra stretches out, I can take off the extender and still wear the bra... thus increasing how long it fits for.0
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