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What are you looking forward to wearing or doing when you have nice new smaller boobs?!

By Deb uk on 22 Jul 2012

Hi All, I hope you don't mind me asking but as i have read the forum and posts, I noticed we all say similar things and have many things in common. Eg, we all comment on how fed up we are having backache, sore shoulders, have waited years to have this done, sweating alot, rashes under the boob area and having to wear horrible bras etc etc...   To keep myself from the fear of BR, I am focusing on the positives, eg; being able (once fully healed etc.) to wear a strapless dress... or any dress! I'd love to wear nice bras in a full 'C@ or 'D' cup... I want to wear tops in colours other than black... i want to pay for bras which are pretty and have 1 or even 2 hooks... (that would be a first...)I'd love to wear tops which fasten at the front, eg; linen shirts, and a 'boob tube' to cover me off the beach on holiday... last of all to feel lighter, not ache or have shoulder grooves and to be able to run, swim and dance without anyone looking at my boobs first... I just wanted to share that with you. Hope you don't mind! x x

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My surgery was 4/1 and i have enjoyed alot of new things. For the first time in my life i can wear sports bras that actually fit with no spillage! I have worn strapless maxi dresses. All my shirt fit like they are supposed to now. When i take my bra off my boobs to fall like a thud because they dont move now. No more neck and back pain. I can actually run now without having to hokd my boobs still. Iam loving my new small boobs!
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One shoulder dress or tops... everything that is strapless..
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My surgery was 3/1/13... so I've experienced: + Making dinner bra-less. It was so weird. + Buying a red bra (wireless & not Victoria Secret, but that's okay). + Wearing V-neck tees in Men's size medium w/o worrying about my cleavage being everywhere. Same with buying low-cut women's shirts in size L instead of XL+. + No more between-the-boobs funky smell. (Might be TMI, but oh well.) + Using the surgery as motivation to tone arms & tummy.
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Big boob. I thought i was the only one that smelled that i would have to use wipes thruought the day to clean. Ugg no more of that. Yay!! But lingerie. I LOVE..and strapless dresses..and short dresses look better on me now that im not top heavy..also shiny materials if i want now. Because i dont look huge anymore. I can now fit a small shirt instead of extra large..woohooo...also fitted dresses look amazing without those huge bbreast in the way. And cute pastel jammies. Ive just been having a blast!
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Awesome. Just last night, I wore a t-shirt to sand VB that last summer was kind of tight even with two sports bras. It isn't tight anymore!
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Awesome. Just last night, I wore a t-shirt to sand VB that last summer was kind of tight even with two sports bras. It isn't tight anymore!
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Not having to drive over 100 miles to go bra shopping (I have to go to Des Moines for bras) Matching bra and panty sets Ease in finding swim suits. I'm a 10-12 on bottom. The top? Forget about it! Not having to wear an industrial strength sports bra on top of my regular bra for working out. Being able to jog (not possible in an H cup)
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A dress where the top and the bottom are the same size! I'm tired ob being a 10 on the bottom and a 16/18 on top. Something with spaghetti straps!
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Snuggling with my kids, without having to tell them they are laying on my boobs! Wearing tops without a bra, strapless, haulter, empire with my boobs being above the seam and not laughably under the seam, bikini tops that actually fit-not the ones that I look at on the rack, think they are huge and will work, then when I get it on have to laugh that it only covers a quarter of the breast with the rest bulging/sagging out everwhere and knowing that the straps would never hold up wet anyway. And trying on those clothes that I used to have to say " not a chance!" and instead saying "Totally!!" Walking into Victoria Secrets and trying on bras or camis that fit, and not be laughed out of the store at the absurdness of my questioning if have gotten anything in my size in the last 20 yrs I've been looking:) Not being embarrassed to be "on top" without a bra for the first time in 12 years....though I may rethink that one, because it will give a view of the scar now that the sag is gone.
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I am looking forward to softball this spring/summer.....
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Once Anthem approves my surgery......i am looking forward to not wearing this uncomfortable bra anymore. i am looking forward to no neck and back pain. i am looking forward to noticing that i am always leaning forward when i walk or sit at my desk at work. Looking forward to not needing muscle relaxers and constant streams of IBU 800 just to go to make it through the day. I am looking forward to not having to constantly adjust and re-adjust my boobs in this weapon of mass destruction (my bra) all day. I am looking forward to actually working out in the gym and everything is not wiggling and jiggling. I am looking forward to not have to order special bras online and hopw it fits when it gets here as opposed to buying something aoff the rack. I am looking forward to being able to buy bras at Victoria Secret again and say goodbye to the Lane Bryant sling shots that they call bras! Just looking forward to having a better looking body and feeling better. Come on Anthem, send me that approval letter so i can schedule my surgery!
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Ooh oh! And not having.to wear two and three sports bras to the gym and having them leave horrible marks all over me. And by the way, my backaches are GONE!!!!!
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I got mine done on December 27th 2012. I cannot wait to heal up and buy twelve dollar bras from Walmart with cute patterns and bright colors and not huge padded straps. I cant wait to get rid of all my expensive ugly minimizer bras and my stupid camisoles that I wore underneath everything to camoflauge the cleavage. I can't wait to wear sundresses that are backless or have plunging necklines and not feel like Helga the milkmaid. I can't wait to wear an empire waistline and not have quadroboob. I can't wait to get a new bathing suit that actually supports me! I'm excited to wear halter tops again and tube tops and fitted t shirts! Woo! No regrets!
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Swimming, running, playing softball and volleyball again. I miss playing sports.
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I can't wait to run and play basketball again. I am so waiting to workout again. 1/23 will be my 6 weeks.
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*to roll over in bed without laying on a boob and yanking the skin *to roll over in bed alone: not ok, 1, 2, 3, let's go girls, and grab them up to move as a group! *RUNNING *going up/down stairs without holding the girls in place. *buying a bra off the rack in a regular store. *NOT bathing in powder every day *NOT having to do a double check to be sure the nipples are evenly stuffed and positioned into a too-small bra *wearing tailored shirts where the breasts actually fit in the breast darts *surprising honey by pulling off my shirt and being braless underneath! *Mardi Gras???? lol *walking with my head high, more confident, and shoulders back without being self conscious *I am now the proud owner of SIX sports bras. and they FIT! I've never owned one before because they didn't make them in size 'Buick'! If there is a pro, I'm experiencing it. If there is a con to having too large breasts, its gone. The best part is that for the first time since I was a 12 yr old 34 DD all the way through a 38 yr old 40J, I know how it feels to be NORMAL!!!!!!!!
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LOL-me too, to all of it!!! YAY!!!
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Ericake ,i am laughing soooo hard at the "1,2,3,lets go girls" HAHAHAHAHA. HILLARIOUS!!!!!
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yoga :)
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I'm looking forward to EXERCISING and not being self conscious of how I look like running on the treadmill. Also looking forward to wearing NORMAL clothes and BIKINIS!!! CAN'T WAIT !!!!!
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My one thing I am excited about is going in Victoria Secret and purchasing a bra.
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I know this is crazy, but I'm really looking forward to being able to cross my arms and have them on my stomach and not over the top of my boobs! Woohoo!
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Ha! I haven't done that since middle school! I'm so impatient for the underarm and side swelling to go down so I can too! :)
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I hear ya! I catch myself trying to cross my arms up high still and I can hardly wait for my swelling to go down too. I'm 2-1/2 weeks post op....so patience, grrrrrrr :)
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