Boobs...Free to Good Home

I was thinking about this last night while running on the treadmill... If I lobbed off my boobs, that would be at least a good 10 lbs lost! And if I lost 10 lbs then I could run faster! In reality, even though I have them strapped down, they still get in my way and cause me day to day tramas. Like panic attacks that I forgot to put a bra on on my way to school. Strapping them done when doing any sort of physical activity (Thanks Enell!). Causing me to always be jealous of those ladies that can workout with a bra or even one of those built in kind of ones. That doesn't happen to me.

I'm sorry for complaining b/c the not so chesty ladies are complaining they don't have enough, when I have too much. But here I am willing to donate! It's kind of like donating blood but I don't think you can help as many people this way as what you can with blood and this is more of a vanity thing.

I realize that boobs aren't the end all and be all of my weight issue... I love food, that is the real problem. Good, bad, doesn't matter. Now, if I could only stop eating crap and run more like I was this summer, I would be better off. But it's not even about losing the weight that's a total issue with me... I remember losing 10 lbs in high school from giving up pop and my boobs got bigger! What gives then?!

I'm sorry that this post just kind of turned into a rant, but if you can't rant about your own boobs on your own blog, where can you rant about them?!

If there are any professionals out there that would like to help me in this time of food crisis and the holidays, it would be greatly appreciated.

Does anyone think that the stress of Graduate School has maybe finally gotten to me? :)

I feel like I should add a picture to this post because it's all words but don't want to post a picture of tatas.

But seriously... Do I have any takers?

PS. Sorry to any of the guys that might be reading this out there b/c there was 'boobs' in the title of this post. :)

Getting real about: Boobs

I've been thinking about doing this post for a while, but pretty much cemented the idea of it during my run last night. I finally did the loop that I had planned for Thursday and got hailed on and didn't feel like it. 

I have had a love/hate relationship with my boobs ever since they appeared in 4th grade. I know people say that I should just be happy with what I have, but it's not as easy as you think to deal with them! I remember fighting my Mom b/c I didn't want to wear a (sports) bra to school b/c no one else was wearing one. That was the beginning of what will now be a lifetime of dealing with them! Even as early as high school, I was associated with having big ones. I even had a friend nickname me 'Oranges'. Doing sports in high school, they were a nuisance, but didn't restrict me in any way. That was b/c I was only about a C cup then. 

After high school, I wasn't practicing 3 hours a day anymore, I had school and a job many jobs which resulted in me starting to get fat because I "didn't have time" to work out. When you get fat, everything gets bigger...even your boobs. I slowly ballooned until about my 3rd year of grad school, when I went for my yearly appt and the Dr. asked me if I had ever seen a Nutritionist. Obviously, I hadn't but probly should since she suggested it. 

At this point, I did a personal reflection. I needed to be more active, which meant strapping the ladies down so I could move around. (You have no idea how much it hurts when the ladies bang around when you're working out!!) I heard about this British bra place for bigger busted ladies called Bravissimo. I was astounded when the sizes went up to a K sized cup (not the drinking K-cups! haha!). After watching the fitting video, I learned that the 38DD that I was wearing was the wrong size for me. It turns out that about 80% of American women aren't wearing the proper sized bra! I was even measured by the Victoria's Secret people and they put me in a DD b/c I think that's the largest they carry. It turns out that I'm actually a 34FF! HOLY CRAP!!!

Since then, I have been wearing bras from Bravissimo and recently found Bare Necessities that carry my size as well. (I got a cute bathing suit top from them.) I would like to thank my Fairy Godmother/Aunt Bev for getting these bras for me. We joke about how she "supports" me every day! Now that I have the every day bra sitch down, the issue of a sports bra needed to be addressed. At this point, I had to wear 2 sports bras. One that sucked the life out of me and left marks b/c it was so tight and a second one to hold everything in. I knew there had to be another way! Then, I saw something on Coleen Skeabeck's (BL #6) twitter about the Enell sports bra that the BL people wear on the ranch! I thought if those big people can work out with these boob slings, then they could work for me too! Once again, my Fairy Godmother sprang into action for my Christmas/Birthday present and got me a black and a white Enell. You can see what they look like below. It's kind of like a boob corset that totally passes the "Bounce Test" that every big busted girl has done.

                                            

So, since February, I have been enjoying the comfort and no-bounce that this bra gives me. I don't have to worry about the straps or the band on the bottom digging into me. The sizing is pretty easy too. You just have to measure yourself! I'm a size 2!!! I've never been a size 2 in anything before!

I'd love to hear your story! What do you wear to work out in up top?

Side note: Yesterday, I reached an astounding 114 views of my blog! I would like to personally thank every one of you! Please feel free to comment, even if you're just saying hi! I'd love to hear from you!