My chest shrunk - why?

Timber99

Timber99

Cathlete
This is sort of weird, but I noticed in the past few months, my chest has shrunken and I don't know why! Let me give you a little background.

A little over 7 years ago, I lost 80 pounds. I exercised and dieted and took it off very quickly. I was a cardio only exerciser for the first 40 and then during the second 40, I did some weights twice a week at the gym. Even then, my chest stayed the same. It did not shrink at all.

About 4 years ago, I foudn the Firm workouts and shortly after, Cathe. I took off many inches and tones very well with these workouts, losing no weight but changing my body completely.

ABout 2 years ago, I injured my knee in a long distance walking event (the breast cancer 3 day) and I gained 20 pounds and many inches during my rehab. ZThe weight and inches are now gone for about 6 months and I am back where I was pre-injury. EXCEPT...this time..my chest has shrunken!

Someone mentioned it to me a few weeks ago and I shrugged it off but recently i have noticed that my breasts are smaller! They are still big enough, but they are indeed smaller. Why would this happen? I do work my chest (but I still cannot do big girl ush ups - damn!) and I am stronger than ever.

It just seems weird b/c I have never had this happen, even with 80 pounds weight loss. I am not sure what I did to make it happen! Very Confused.

Christine
 
I am not Cathe but here are my two cents.

Breasts are only fat - if you loose body fat, you also loose some of your breasts. The body doesn't descriminate where it looses the fat. A lot of women have noticed a shrinkage with decrease of body fat/muscle mass increase. It's normal.

A lot of video instructors would be flat chested too if they hadn't chosen an alternative route. There should be a disclaimer on the video box IMHO.:+
 
My chest shrunk-why? and My ball blew up! were next to each other for awhile in the topics. I thought that was funny. Maybe they were related?? ;-) }(
 
Christine - congratulations on your fitness accomplishments!

If my chest shrunk any more than it already is, it'd be my shoulder blades.

A-Jock
 
Same for me!!! At least you can still speak of having a chest!!!!

Breast feeding robbed me of mine oh so long ago now!!!!

If it's any consolation, no boobs, or less boobage is more comfy when exercising....no flesh to get in the way of your vision when doing jumping jacks or airborne anythings.....

If only we could spot reduce, eh?

Clare
 
It's God's will

Isn't there something in the Bible about "to those that have, more will be given, and to those that have not, even more will be taken away."

Something like that.

Well, now we have a theological explanation, anyway.
 
>I am not Cathe but here are my two cents.
>
>Breasts are only fat - if you loose body fat, you also loose
>some of your breasts. The body doesn't descriminate where it
>looses the fat. A lot of women have noticed a shrinkage with
>decrease of body fat/muscle mass increase. It's normal.
>
>A lot of video instructors would be flat chested too if they
>hadn't chosen an alternative route. There should be a
>disclaimer on the video box IMHO.:+


Breasts are not made up of only fat!! Only part of the breast is made of fat, the rest is made of breast tissue, which is not fat ;) If you lost all of your body fat, you would be extremely ill but you would still have breasts.

ATB,
- Lisa :)
 
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