Comments on: When your bust size hinders attempts to get fit http://www.blogtofit.com/when-your-bust-size-hinders-attempts-to-get-fit/ 3 bloggers. 1 goal. get fit. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:39:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Wednesday Weigh In, July 8 2009 http://www.blogtofit.com/when-your-bust-size-hinders-attempts-to-get-fit/comment-page-1/#comment-7045 Wednesday Weigh In, July 8 2009 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:49:05 +0000 http://www.blogtofit.com/?p=490#comment-7045 [...] So why by all the things that are holy, won’t my bust size reduce? [...] [...] So why by all the things that are holy, won’t my bust size reduce? [...]

]]> By: Wednesday Weigh In May 20, 2009 http://www.blogtofit.com/when-your-bust-size-hinders-attempts-to-get-fit/comment-page-1/#comment-4764 Wednesday Weigh In May 20, 2009 Wed, 20 May 2009 12:15:20 +0000 http://www.blogtofit.com/?p=490#comment-4764 [...] Looking at beachwear fills me with dread (and you know how much I’ve gone on and on about how bust size can totally ruin you look!) I want to skip into a store and get excited about buying embarrassingly low-cut tops (my kids are [...] [...] Looking at beachwear fills me with dread (and you know how much I’ve gone on and on about how bust size can totally ruin you look!) I want to skip into a store and get excited about buying embarrassingly low-cut tops (my kids are [...]

]]> By: Hot Movie Actresses http://www.blogtofit.com/when-your-bust-size-hinders-attempts-to-get-fit/comment-page-1/#comment-4676 Hot Movie Actresses Mon, 18 May 2009 10:48:17 +0000 http://www.blogtofit.com/?p=490#comment-4676 [...] Both Tara Sticky Fingers Cain and David Lizard Boy Wright tagged me with the same meme, which to me is proof that they are indeed one in the same person. After all, why would they go to such great lengths to convince me otherwise by tagging me twice? I don’t buy it. Come on Tara/Dave, is there something you’d like to get off your chest? [...] [...] Both Tara Sticky Fingers Cain and David Lizard Boy Wright tagged me with the same meme, which to me is proof that they are indeed one in the same person. After all, why would they go to such great lengths to convince me otherwise by tagging me twice? I don’t buy it. Come on Tara/Dave, is there something you’d like to get off your chest? [...]

]]> By: Tara Cain http://www.blogtofit.com/when-your-bust-size-hinders-attempts-to-get-fit/comment-page-1/#comment-1478 Tara Cain Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:31:13 +0000 http://www.blogtofit.com/?p=490#comment-1478 Hey Barbie Girl I DREAM of doing what you have done. My husband dreams that if I lose weight the boobs are the last to go but I want them gone NOW! The thought of being able to go down two sizes keeps me going - thanks for those words. Hey Barbie Girl
I DREAM of doing what you have done. My husband dreams that if I lose weight the boobs are the last to go but I want them gone NOW!
The thought of being able to go down two sizes keeps me going – thanks for those words.

]]> By: barbie girl http://www.blogtofit.com/when-your-bust-size-hinders-attempts-to-get-fit/comment-page-1/#comment-1466 barbie girl Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:30:04 +0000 http://www.blogtofit.com/?p=490#comment-1466 Hi, i've just found this site for the first time. I'm afraid it's a bit late for the weight loss bit - I've just lost 1.5 stone since June (not counting xmas ooops) I can identify with you all on the boobage front - before I lost the weight I was a DD cup but i've now gone down 2 bra sizes so it's a lot more comfy. Thanks for making me laugh out loud, just what I needed! Keep up the good work, Barbie Hi, i’ve just found this site for the first time. I’m afraid it’s a bit late for the weight loss bit – I’ve just lost 1.5 stone since June (not counting xmas ooops) I can identify with you all on the boobage front – before I lost the weight I was a DD cup but i’ve now gone down 2 bra sizes so it’s a lot more comfy. Thanks for making me laugh out loud, just what I needed! Keep up the good work,

Barbie

]]> By: Laurie Ashton Farook http://www.blogtofit.com/when-your-bust-size-hinders-attempts-to-get-fit/comment-page-1/#comment-1392 Laurie Ashton Farook Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:47:55 +0000 http://www.blogtofit.com/?p=490#comment-1392 Back in Canada, I tried the specialty shops out, and even they, the so-called professionals in the biz, couldn't figure out how to fit me properly with a bra. That was a frustrating experience. About sewing a bra - yeah, see, I mentioned yesterday on Twitter (or Titter, as the case may be ;)) that I was sewing a bra, and a whole bunch of people responded with comments akin to "What? Seriously? But it's so hard!" In reality, it isn't. Yes, it looks intimidating, I'll grant you that, but note the "looks". I started with taking apart an existing bra that fit reasonably well (although there were materials issues with it that I didn't figure out until I started sewing my own and figuring out what works and what doesn't and, more importantly, why), seeing how it was put together, and using those pieces to create my own pattern. Then went from there. That first bra I sewed ended up being the best fitting bra I've had in my life, and I'm no expert sewer. Yeah, I've been sewing a long time, but I have short patience and high frustration levels along with massive brain fog from my aforementioned collagen defect. Any sewing project that takes longer than, oh, 3 or 4 hours, is doomed for failure. That first bra took around 3-5 hours (it was a long time ago - I don't really remember, but it sounds about right). Other people who sew their own bras say the same thing, and further comment that after they've done a couple, it takes about an hour, start to finish, to make a bra. Seriously, not hard and not that complicated. :) (Can you tell I'm encouraging people to take bra fitting into their own hands here? ;) There's one very excellent thread about making bras on Craftster.org called, of all things, <a href="http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=116298.0" rel="nofollow">Bramaggeddon</a>. :D Yeah, they have humour there, too. :D Lots of links to tutorials, suppliers, information, and so on. If any of you are interested in sewing your own, I'd start with that thread. :) <abbr><em>Laurie Ashton Farook’s last blog post..<a href="http://srilanka.laurieashton.com/2006/04/time-change/" rel="nofollow">Time Change</a></abbr></em> Back in Canada, I tried the specialty shops out, and even they, the so-called professionals in the biz, couldn’t figure out how to fit me properly with a bra. That was a frustrating experience.

About sewing a bra – yeah, see, I mentioned yesterday on Twitter (or Titter, as the case may be ;) ) that I was sewing a bra, and a whole bunch of people responded with comments akin to “What? Seriously? But it’s so hard!” In reality, it isn’t. Yes, it looks intimidating, I’ll grant you that, but note the “looks”. I started with taking apart an existing bra that fit reasonably well (although there were materials issues with it that I didn’t figure out until I started sewing my own and figuring out what works and what doesn’t and, more importantly, why), seeing how it was put together, and using those pieces to create my own pattern. Then went from there. That first bra I sewed ended up being the best fitting bra I’ve had in my life, and I’m no expert sewer. Yeah, I’ve been sewing a long time, but I have short patience and high frustration levels along with massive brain fog from my aforementioned collagen defect. Any sewing project that takes longer than, oh, 3 or 4 hours, is doomed for failure.

That first bra took around 3-5 hours (it was a long time ago – I don’t really remember, but it sounds about right). Other people who sew their own bras say the same thing, and further comment that after they’ve done a couple, it takes about an hour, start to finish, to make a bra. Seriously, not hard and not that complicated. :) (Can you tell I’m encouraging people to take bra fitting into their own hands here? ;)

There’s one very excellent thread about making bras on Craftster.org called, of all things, Bramaggeddon. :D Yeah, they have humour there, too. :D Lots of links to tutorials, suppliers, information, and so on. If any of you are interested in sewing your own, I’d start with that thread. :)

Laurie Ashton Farook’s last blog post..Time Change

]]> By: White Hot Magik http://www.blogtofit.com/when-your-bust-size-hinders-attempts-to-get-fit/comment-page-1/#comment-1390 White Hot Magik Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:42:49 +0000 http://www.blogtofit.com/?p=490#comment-1390 Lauri, wow, I too am impressed you can sew your own bras. I got an email today for my over the shoulder planet holder supplier today they are having a two for one sale http://www.lanebryant.com yes they go up to F cup sizes I don't know if they ship internationally. <abbr><em>White Hot Magik’s last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WhiteHotMagik/~3/505304217/wii-are-unbalanced-and-exercising.html" rel="nofollow">Wii are Unbalanced and Exercising</a></abbr></em> Lauri, wow, I too am impressed you can sew your own bras. I got an email today for my over the shoulder planet holder supplier today they are having a two for one sale http://www.lanebryant.com yes they go up to F cup sizes I don’t know if they ship internationally.

White Hot Magik’s last blog post..Wii are Unbalanced and Exercising

]]> By: Tara http://www.blogtofit.com/when-your-bust-size-hinders-attempts-to-get-fit/comment-page-1/#comment-1389 Tara Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:53:14 +0000 http://www.blogtofit.com/?p=490#comment-1389 Wow Laurie, just wow! First off, welcome. It's really great to have you here and thanks so much for adding to the comments. I know it seems like a bit of a jokey thing to some, but this really is a life-limiting issue for many many women. I cannot believe you make your own bras! My god, I would not know where to begin. Luckily in the UK there are a few specialist shops which cater for the "gargantuan boobage crowd" (I'm writing that down - brilliant phrase!) and more of the mainstream shops are cottoning on to it too. "Seriously, don’t get me started on humungous hooters and bras. Just don’t" - I'm so glad we did! Thanks for adding to the debate! <abbr><em>Tara’s last blog post..<a href="http://stickyfingers1.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-torture-mummy.html" rel="nofollow">How to torture mummy</a></abbr></em> Wow Laurie, just wow!
First off, welcome. It’s really great to have you here and thanks so much for adding to the comments. I know it seems like a bit of a jokey thing to some, but this really is a life-limiting issue for many many women.

I cannot believe you make your own bras! My god, I would not know where to begin.
Luckily in the UK there are a few specialist shops which cater for the “gargantuan boobage crowd” (I’m writing that down – brilliant phrase!) and more of the mainstream shops are cottoning on to it too.
“Seriously, don’t get me started on humungous hooters and bras. Just don’t” – I’m so glad we did! Thanks for adding to the debate!

Tara’s last blog post..How to torture mummy

]]> By: Laurie Ashton Farook http://www.blogtofit.com/when-your-bust-size-hinders-attempts-to-get-fit/comment-page-1/#comment-1385 Laurie Ashton Farook Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:57:53 +0000 http://www.blogtofit.com/?p=490#comment-1385 Speaking of Twitter, guess how I found this post? And that started - for me - by a Tweet I posted about how I was sewing a bra today, and one thing led to another which led to this. :) I'm another of the gargantuan boobage crowd. Last time I saw a B or C was in my early teens. Hit a 32DD when I was in my late teens. By the way, 32DD doesn't exist in any store anywhere. Not even the specialty shops I went to. Now, I'm much larger all the way around at a 38G, and still can't for the life of me find bras that fit. Couldn't in Canada, absolutely can't in Sri Lanka, the land of the skinny and petite when I am neither, breast placement differences aside. So, I sew my own. It's my own form of self-defense. :) And protest against all the sausage boobies here because B cups are the only cup sizes sold in all stores in this country with the exception of perhaps two, plus everyone's been fed this BS about how no one over a 36 or a B cup needs underwire. O_o So I'm pretty much the only large breasted woman in the entire country wearing a correctly fitting bra. With the possible exception of other foreigners. But to the blog entry and further comments about how awful it is to live with big boobs. Yup, been there, done it all. I'd love to get breast reduction surgery, but I have this pesky genetic collagen defect - which, incidentally, increases the saggage exponentially - that makes surgery something that I really need to avoid for anything other than life threatening stuff. Not much of an option for me, although I do wonder how much of my back pain is caused by these two tonne, er, yeah, not gonna say that. :) And I haven't been able to jog since I was a teen for fear of getting black eyes. Or a bruised chest. Okay, the black eyes is a joke, but the bruised chest isn't. :) Yeah, I'm all over the place here. :) Seriously, don't get me started on humungous hooters and bras. Just don't. :D <abbr><em>Laurie Ashton Farook’s last blog post..<a href="http://srilanka.laurieashton.com/2006/04/time-change/" rel="nofollow">Time Change</a></abbr></em> Speaking of Twitter, guess how I found this post? And that started – for me – by a Tweet I posted about how I was sewing a bra today, and one thing led to another which led to this. :)

I’m another of the gargantuan boobage crowd. Last time I saw a B or C was in my early teens. Hit a 32DD when I was in my late teens. By the way, 32DD doesn’t exist in any store anywhere. Not even the specialty shops I went to. Now, I’m much larger all the way around at a 38G, and still can’t for the life of me find bras that fit. Couldn’t in Canada, absolutely can’t in Sri Lanka, the land of the skinny and petite when I am neither, breast placement differences aside. So, I sew my own. It’s my own form of self-defense. :) And protest against all the sausage boobies here because B cups are the only cup sizes sold in all stores in this country with the exception of perhaps two, plus everyone’s been fed this BS about how no one over a 36 or a B cup needs underwire. O_o So I’m pretty much the only large breasted woman in the entire country wearing a correctly fitting bra. With the possible exception of other foreigners.

But to the blog entry and further comments about how awful it is to live with big boobs. Yup, been there, done it all. I’d love to get breast reduction surgery, but I have this pesky genetic collagen defect – which, incidentally, increases the saggage exponentially – that makes surgery something that I really need to avoid for anything other than life threatening stuff. Not much of an option for me, although I do wonder how much of my back pain is caused by these two tonne, er, yeah, not gonna say that. :)

And I haven’t been able to jog since I was a teen for fear of getting black eyes. Or a bruised chest. Okay, the black eyes is a joke, but the bruised chest isn’t. :)

Yeah, I’m all over the place here. :) Seriously, don’t get me started on humungous hooters and bras. Just don’t. :D

Laurie Ashton Farook’s last blog post..Time Change

]]> By: David Wright http://www.blogtofit.com/when-your-bust-size-hinders-attempts-to-get-fit/comment-page-1/#comment-1382 David Wright Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:07:02 +0000 http://www.blogtofit.com/?p=490#comment-1382 I think even some men may want to clutch you to their boobage. :) I think even some men may want to clutch you to their boobage. :)

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