06-05-2011, 17:36
thanks for your support really means a lot 
mileonice - I am 25. I have suffered from all the types of eating disorders, and I am currently in group therapy now for mental health issues, in my last therapy session i have only just plucked up the courage to talk a bit about how being flat chested affects me. I have worked through a lot of issues ( not to do with my chest ) which I am now putting behind me, and so now I feel now is the right time to look into doing something about my chest which I know does affect my mental health because of how it makes me feel, if that makes sense!
i have heard people talk a bit about the hormone imbalance thing, and i am not sure if I have it or not, because my mum was only an A cup at my age, so I think it is heridarity. My grandma is prob is about an A or small B, one aunty is about an A i think, another aunty about a C ( guessing ). And when I do gain weight, I dont gain much in my chest, i prob just go from a 32AAAA( at my lowest,basically almost flat) to a 34AAA( at a middleground weight) to about a 34AA at my highest weight ( altho I havent been measured ), so Its prob just how i am! I think I am apple shaped, so most of it goes around my middle. Each time I have reached my higher weight, I have never goten larger than an AA, and also they dont look like proper breasts, but just look like puppy fat! ( i,e like a guy with man boobs if that makes sense!and i hate this look!)
however when I was about 11 i could feel my boobs were about to develope ( they hurt if someone lightly bumped into me etc, and I had a bud ),my periods started,but at 12 I stopped eating at a vital time for breast development, and also my periods went away for a year. so I always woundered if this had anything to do with it. A couple of years ago when I as 22-23 I was also underweight and for the time I was loosing weight I didnt have periods for about 3 years. I have had them now however for about a year. So maybe thinking about it could be both weight fluctuations and heriditary. when I was 17-22 i was badly bulimic too so obviously not getting the nutrients my body needed, i havent been very good to my body in terms of giving it what it needed in order to actually grow! (im recovered now but just overeat )
Cheryl - I am 5"7, but i think the weight gain affects me more because I dont have the boobs to balance it out!! and becuz the weight gain isnt in my chest, its all in places i dont want it to be! i dont feel healthy at this weight, and I had a big middle. So i would want to loose some to feel healthy...and then what I really want is to be in proportion. i.e the chest size i want to go to would depend on my weight, or my weight i wanted to be at would depend on my chest size! to answer ur quest if i lost a little but had a C cup chest i would be happy, id be over the moon!!( and wouldnt be bothered about loosing all the weight) I think if I did have a chest that i would then tho loose weight naturally as i would be a lot happier, would go out,go to the gym etc, i wouldnt hide away at home eating 24/7,so i would naturally loose weight anyway. ( but then id loose the chest size blah! )
Prob still is im not sure that i feel comfortable taking the herbs/BO so it would be the NB and massage that i would only do i think,however i do want to pluck up the courage to see my doc, and i will discuss any possiblity of a hormone imbalance.
sorry iv written to much just so good to get it all off my teeny weeny chest!!
xx
mileonice - I am 25. I have suffered from all the types of eating disorders, and I am currently in group therapy now for mental health issues, in my last therapy session i have only just plucked up the courage to talk a bit about how being flat chested affects me. I have worked through a lot of issues ( not to do with my chest ) which I am now putting behind me, and so now I feel now is the right time to look into doing something about my chest which I know does affect my mental health because of how it makes me feel, if that makes sense!
i have heard people talk a bit about the hormone imbalance thing, and i am not sure if I have it or not, because my mum was only an A cup at my age, so I think it is heridarity. My grandma is prob is about an A or small B, one aunty is about an A i think, another aunty about a C ( guessing ). And when I do gain weight, I dont gain much in my chest, i prob just go from a 32AAAA( at my lowest,basically almost flat) to a 34AAA( at a middleground weight) to about a 34AA at my highest weight ( altho I havent been measured ), so Its prob just how i am! I think I am apple shaped, so most of it goes around my middle. Each time I have reached my higher weight, I have never goten larger than an AA, and also they dont look like proper breasts, but just look like puppy fat! ( i,e like a guy with man boobs if that makes sense!and i hate this look!)
however when I was about 11 i could feel my boobs were about to develope ( they hurt if someone lightly bumped into me etc, and I had a bud ),my periods started,but at 12 I stopped eating at a vital time for breast development, and also my periods went away for a year. so I always woundered if this had anything to do with it. A couple of years ago when I as 22-23 I was also underweight and for the time I was loosing weight I didnt have periods for about 3 years. I have had them now however for about a year. So maybe thinking about it could be both weight fluctuations and heriditary. when I was 17-22 i was badly bulimic too so obviously not getting the nutrients my body needed, i havent been very good to my body in terms of giving it what it needed in order to actually grow! (im recovered now but just overeat )
Cheryl - I am 5"7, but i think the weight gain affects me more because I dont have the boobs to balance it out!! and becuz the weight gain isnt in my chest, its all in places i dont want it to be! i dont feel healthy at this weight, and I had a big middle. So i would want to loose some to feel healthy...and then what I really want is to be in proportion. i.e the chest size i want to go to would depend on my weight, or my weight i wanted to be at would depend on my chest size! to answer ur quest if i lost a little but had a C cup chest i would be happy, id be over the moon!!( and wouldnt be bothered about loosing all the weight) I think if I did have a chest that i would then tho loose weight naturally as i would be a lot happier, would go out,go to the gym etc, i wouldnt hide away at home eating 24/7,so i would naturally loose weight anyway. ( but then id loose the chest size blah! )
Prob still is im not sure that i feel comfortable taking the herbs/BO so it would be the NB and massage that i would only do i think,however i do want to pluck up the courage to see my doc, and i will discuss any possiblity of a hormone imbalance.
sorry iv written to much just so good to get it all off my teeny weeny chest!!
xx