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How Do I Lose Weight Without Losing My Boobs?
Breasts are made of milk glands, called lobules, milk ducts and fatty tissue. This fatty tissue increases as overall body fat increases, and it decreases when body fat is lost. There is no such thing as spot fat loss, so when you shed those extra pounds you will likely lose fat from your breasts as well. There is not much you can do to prevent loss of breast size as you lose weight, but there are some techniques that can help keep them looking perky.
Exercises for Enlarging Breasts
If you have smaller breasts, you may want to try just about anything to make them bigger. Breasts are made from fatty tissue, so there’s not much that you can do to increase your breast size significantly, short of gaining weight or getting pregnant. However, through working your chest muscles, you can make your breasts appear perkier and bigger.
Breast Growth Exercises
The breasts themselves are primarily composed of fatty tissues; exercise cannot increase the amount of tissue in the breast, and weight loss will often cause breast size to decrease as the fat stores of the body are used up. However, particular exercises can strengthen the pectoral muscles, which support the breasts; strengthened pectoral muscles will increase the perkiness of the breasts and will add some additional bulk to the chest area, which often causes the breasts to appear larger. Push-ups and butterflies are two of the most effective exercises to strengthen pectoral muscles.
The Average Breast Size of a Woman
Breasts are significant features of the female anatomy. Girls may start to develop breasts as early as 8 years old, but breast development may not start until the early teens. Most women’s breasts are fully developed by the time they reach their early 20s, and breast size will remain fairly stable, though it may fluctuate due to overall weight gain or pregnancy. Breast size is unique to each woman and is generally dictated by genetics.
Breast Reductions for Teenage Girls
Breast reduction surgery, technically referred to as reduction mammaplasty, is usually performed on fully mature women whose breasts are overly large. Mature women may wish to have breast reduction surgery to alleviate back and neck pain, rashes or infections under their breasts. Teens with overly large breasts may have their own particular reasons for wanting to have breast reduction surgery.