I am now on day 5 of my cycle which is the magic one to measure on.
So here we go....
Left breast = 7, maybe 7.5 inches across, but its hard to tell. Looks a bit wider but might be imagining it. Sometimes ehrn I measure I think its grown but then I'm not sure.
Right breast = 7.5 inches across, but same applies as above
Under breasts - 30 inches.
Over breasts - 35 inches, or may be 35.25 although again it depends on where the tape is and the difference is so small, it could be an illusion.
So all in all, nothing major to report but suppose its early days!
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Unread postJan 02, 2008
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Quote:Hello all!
Well, here goes... my quest for boobs! Thought if I posted my programme it might inspire me to carry on with it and help to monitor any improvement in the boob situation!
So, about me, and my boobs...
I am 36 years old, have two children now aged 6 and 8, who I breast fed for a year each. i recall reading when I was pregnant the first time than after breast feeding, the boobs are smaller and saggier than before, and quite frankly at that time I didn't believe they could be any smaller! Silly me....
Anyway, having finished the second child they really were pathetic, small and somehow with all the stuffing sucked out of them!
I coped with this for a while. Then, a couple of years ago I did Erdic. How I wish I had discovered this forum then! I had no idea about the best way to take the things, just carried on with my usual coffee / booze intake, didn't massage, didn't eat more protein or anything at all. Amazingly the boobs did seem to improve although there was nothing dramatic - just a general firming up, but better than nothing.
Now I feel I want to go round again and I am armed with so much more knowledge!
So this is what I am doing at present.
Wonderup (this is day three) taken as suggested - 2 tablets 3x daily, which I try to take half an hour before food or a couple of hours after (8am, 2pm and 8pm.)
I am also massaging with techniques shown on the forum twice a day - once when I get up and once before bed. After the bed one I am tucking up with a hot water bottle pressed to my boobs! (lucky it's winter!)
I have swopped my coffee for fennel tea also so hope this might help a bit.
Also taking multi vits and glutamine, when I remember.
I began the massaging about a week ago while debating which tablet to go for. I have to say already the shape of the boobs seems better, although this may be wishful thinking. But my husband said they looked a bit fuller to him, which is a positive as I am at my tiniest part of my cycle.
Here's the measurements
Under boobs 30"
Over boobs across nipple 35"
ie 34A bra size
width of boobs 7" across.
So here's to growth!
Please feel free to comment or post here - it really doesn't bother me and any advice is appreciated!
Well here I am in 2008, fatter after Xmas but hopefully this will be temporary!
I am now on day 6 and have done the measuring. It is as follows...
under breasts 31". maybe due to general increase in body fat!
Over breast 35.25 inches. Sure this is right this month because if I pult the tape on 35 inches, it squashes my boobs.
Both boobs now 7.5 inches across. Before my perios they were 8 inches which was great. if they stayed that way I'd be content!
So something happening though I still have to look hard!
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Unread postJan 05, 2008
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Quote:Hello all!
Well, here goes... my quest for boobs! Thought if I posted my programme it might inspire me to carry on with it and help to monitor any improvement in the boob situation!
So, about me, and my boobs...
I am 36 years old, have two children now aged 6 and 8, who I breast fed for a year each. i recall reading when I was pregnant the first time than after breast feeding, the boobs are smaller and saggier than before, and quite frankly at that time I didn't believe they could be any smaller! Silly me....
Anyway, having finished the second child they really were pathetic, small and somehow with all the stuffing sucked out of them!
I coped with this for a while. Then, a couple of years ago I did Erdic. How I wish I had discovered this forum then! I had no idea about the best way to take the things, just carried on with my usual coffee / booze intake, didn't massage, didn't eat more protein or anything at all. Amazingly the boobs did seem to improve although there was nothing dramatic - just a general firming up, but better than nothing.
Now I feel I want to go round again and I am armed with so much more knowledge!
So this is what I am doing at present.
Wonderup (this is day three) taken as suggested - 2 tablets 3x daily, which I try to take half an hour before food or a couple of hours after (8am, 2pm and 8pm.)
I am also massaging with techniques shown on the forum twice a day - once when I get up and once before bed. After the bed one I am tucking up with a hot water bottle pressed to my boobs! (lucky it's winter!)
I have swopped my coffee for fennel tea also so hope this might help a bit.
Also taking multi vits and glutamine, when I remember.
I began the massaging about a week ago while debating which tablet to go for. I have to say already the shape of the boobs seems better, although this may be wishful thinking. But my husband said they looked a bit fuller to him, which is a positive as I am at my tiniest part of my cycle.
Here's the measurements
Under boobs 30"
Over boobs across nipple 35"
ie 34A bra size
width of boobs 7" across.
So here's to growth!
Please feel free to comment or post here - it really doesn't bother me and any advice is appreciated!
After a boob crisis yesterday when i convinced myself they'd shrunk bacl to virtually nothing I am now on day 10 and pleased to report them growing tender again. Even if its just swelling I would prefer them bigger, even if it does hurt! I will try not to measure for a good while. I will see if i can stick it out until my birthday (April) so when I measure I will be sure if anything has grown or not. That's if i have the will power. (Bet I don't!)
Have also ordered 10 years younger in 10 hours callanetics DVD as am sick of flab being all over my body and zilch muscle tone.
So here's to a new body, again...
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Unread postJan 17, 2008
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Quote:Hello all!
Well, here goes... my quest for boobs! Thought if I posted my programme it might inspire me to carry on with it and help to monitor any improvement in the boob situation!
So, about me, and my boobs...
I am 36 years old, have two children now aged 6 and 8, who I breast fed for a year each. i recall reading when I was pregnant the first time than after breast feeding, the boobs are smaller and saggier than before, and quite frankly at that time I didn't believe they could be any smaller! Silly me....
Anyway, having finished the second child they really were pathetic, small and somehow with all the stuffing sucked out of them!
I coped with this for a while. Then, a couple of years ago I did Erdic. How I wish I had discovered this forum then! I had no idea about the best way to take the things, just carried on with my usual coffee / booze intake, didn't massage, didn't eat more protein or anything at all. Amazingly the boobs did seem to improve although there was nothing dramatic - just a general firming up, but better than nothing.
Now I feel I want to go round again and I am armed with so much more knowledge!
So this is what I am doing at present.
Wonderup (this is day three) taken as suggested - 2 tablets 3x daily, which I try to take half an hour before food or a couple of hours after (8am, 2pm and 8pm.)
I am also massaging with techniques shown on the forum twice a day - once when I get up and once before bed. After the bed one I am tucking up with a hot water bottle pressed to my boobs! (lucky it's winter!)
I have swopped my coffee for fennel tea also so hope this might help a bit.
Also taking multi vits and glutamine, when I remember.
I began the massaging about a week ago while debating which tablet to go for. I have to say already the shape of the boobs seems better, although this may be wishful thinking. But my husband said they looked a bit fuller to him, which is a positive as I am at my tiniest part of my cycle.
Here's the measurements
Under boobs 30"
Over boobs across nipple 35"
ie 34A bra size
width of boobs 7" across.
So here's to growth!
Please feel free to comment or post here - it really doesn't bother me and any advice is appreciated!
Hi there Madboobie
I don;t generally say much on the forum, but really felt to encourage you on your journey, esp after your post about very very sore breasts. i'VE been on NBE for 2 years and after many mistakes and trials am finally seeing permanent progressive results.
Mine get incrediably sore during luteal, if i'm desperate i will use a small amount of wild yam cream for quick temporary relief... but i don't do this often cause i think it slows down my growth.. i am 38 years old and breastfed 2 kids, and already take wild yam in capsule form to balance everything out - is it wonderful stuff for me.
I have found measuring tapes an utter waste of time... buy yourself a new bra. Perhaps a B cup in a firm band size, with no padding and your breasts will fill it up simply as they change shape. At first the cups will look saggy and empty but, there can be lots of growth that doesn't show on tape... and when you put them in a bra and lift/pull ALL the breast tissue into the cups from underneath and the sides - YOU WILL NOTICE DIFFERENCES.
Massage is vital,,, on despressing days or weeks you will be tempted to stop massage - DON'T STOP! at first i massaged in such a stupid way that i seemed to "rub all the growth away" - the Chi rotations and squeezes on this site ARE DYNAMITE!
If things slow down or do well you maybe tempted to up your estrogenic doses (more fennel tea and more fennel tea, and then licorice tea and then some red clover tea and then chewing fennel seeds and then adding to routine the lastest fad everyone is talking about). More of a good thing is NOT a good thing in NBE. If it's working for you already- DON'T CHANGE IT! DON'T ADD TO IT!
Also (do you want me to shut up yet heheehe) - i have just crossed the line to a full B cup and my breasts have been heavier and sorer especially during luteal - it LOOKS FANTASTIC, but really hurts. Last month I noticed what might be stretch marks emerging on my inner breast... There is much debate about wearing a bra, but I felt the extra tissue needed support while my skin and muscles play catch up... so I've been wearing a soft boob-tuby thing with straps, and my breasts were almost instantly relieved. (it squashes them down a little - don;t know how good that is though - lol)
With your sore breasts, just watch whether they get lumpy(fibrocystic) - this would indicate excess estrogen, if you blow out on estrogen you will stall or shrink (as i did at one stage) or put on weight (christmas cheer is another matter altogether)
Last words - enjoy the journey - it really really really works - be patient and positive...
love tap
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Unread postJan 19, 2008
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Quote:Hello all!
Well, here goes... my quest for boobs! Thought if I posted my programme it might inspire me to carry on with it and help to monitor any improvement in the boob situation!
So, about me, and my boobs...
I am 36 years old, have two children now aged 6 and 8, who I breast fed for a year each. i recall reading when I was pregnant the first time than after breast feeding, the boobs are smaller and saggier than before, and quite frankly at that time I didn't believe they could be any smaller! Silly me....
Anyway, having finished the second child they really were pathetic, small and somehow with all the stuffing sucked out of them!
I coped with this for a while. Then, a couple of years ago I did Erdic. How I wish I had discovered this forum then! I had no idea about the best way to take the things, just carried on with my usual coffee / booze intake, didn't massage, didn't eat more protein or anything at all. Amazingly the boobs did seem to improve although there was nothing dramatic - just a general firming up, but better than nothing.
Now I feel I want to go round again and I am armed with so much more knowledge!
So this is what I am doing at present.
Wonderup (this is day three) taken as suggested - 2 tablets 3x daily, which I try to take half an hour before food or a couple of hours after (8am, 2pm and 8pm.)
I am also massaging with techniques shown on the forum twice a day - once when I get up and once before bed. After the bed one I am tucking up with a hot water bottle pressed to my boobs! (lucky it's winter!)
I have swopped my coffee for fennel tea also so hope this might help a bit.
Also taking multi vits and glutamine, when I remember.
I began the massaging about a week ago while debating which tablet to go for. I have to say already the shape of the boobs seems better, although this may be wishful thinking. But my husband said they looked a bit fuller to him, which is a positive as I am at my tiniest part of my cycle.
Here's the measurements
Under boobs 30"
Over boobs across nipple 35"
ie 34A bra size
width of boobs 7" across.
So here's to growth!
Please feel free to comment or post here - it really doesn't bother me and any advice is appreciated!
Thanks Tap for this encouragement, especially re measuring tapes. I think you're right in what you say about the bra method being better.
Although if I follow the standard measure under, add five, then measure over method I come up 34A, I actually wear a 32C as I find the band on a 34 rides up and shifts around, so I'm forever pulling my bra down at the front (embarrassing in public!) During the luteal phase I think I might actually be better with a 32D now in the style I wear (M&S T-shirt push up!) as my boobs bulge out of it. But I have a good cleavage though which is very satisfying!
At the moment with the measuring across the fullest part of the boobs I am 8 inches, which looks good to me. If the stayed that way I would be satisfied. I don't want to be greedy and make my body do something that is unnatural for it.
I have added in some papaya enzymes from H and B as I hope they might help me hang on to some of the luteal swelling. That's the plan anyway.
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Unread postJan 24, 2008
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Quote:Hello all!
Well, here goes... my quest for boobs! Thought if I posted my programme it might inspire me to carry on with it and help to monitor any improvement in the boob situation!
So, about me, and my boobs...
I am 36 years old, have two children now aged 6 and 8, who I breast fed for a year each. i recall reading when I was pregnant the first time than after breast feeding, the boobs are smaller and saggier than before, and quite frankly at that time I didn't believe they could be any smaller! Silly me....
Anyway, having finished the second child they really were pathetic, small and somehow with all the stuffing sucked out of them!
I coped with this for a while. Then, a couple of years ago I did Erdic. How I wish I had discovered this forum then! I had no idea about the best way to take the things, just carried on with my usual coffee / booze intake, didn't massage, didn't eat more protein or anything at all. Amazingly the boobs did seem to improve although there was nothing dramatic - just a general firming up, but better than nothing.
Now I feel I want to go round again and I am armed with so much more knowledge!
So this is what I am doing at present.
Wonderup (this is day three) taken as suggested - 2 tablets 3x daily, which I try to take half an hour before food or a couple of hours after (8am, 2pm and 8pm.)
I am also massaging with techniques shown on the forum twice a day - once when I get up and once before bed. After the bed one I am tucking up with a hot water bottle pressed to my boobs! (lucky it's winter!)
I have swopped my coffee for fennel tea also so hope this might help a bit.
Also taking multi vits and glutamine, when I remember.
I began the massaging about a week ago while debating which tablet to go for. I have to say already the shape of the boobs seems better, although this may be wishful thinking. But my husband said they looked a bit fuller to him, which is a positive as I am at my tiniest part of my cycle.
Here's the measurements
Under boobs 30"
Over boobs across nipple 35"
ie 34A bra size
width of boobs 7" across.
So here's to growth!
Please feel free to comment or post here - it really doesn't bother me and any advice is appreciated!
Just to remind myself my period has started today so this is day 1. Breasts only moderately sore now. I have noticed they may look slightly fuller at the top - slightly concave rather than convex! Hope this month some of it will stay.... we shall see.
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Unread postJan 31, 2008
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Quote:Hello all!
Well, here goes... my quest for boobs! Thought if I posted my programme it might inspire me to carry on with it and help to monitor any improvement in the boob situation!
So, about me, and my boobs...
I am 36 years old, have two children now aged 6 and 8, who I breast fed for a year each. i recall reading when I was pregnant the first time than after breast feeding, the boobs are smaller and saggier than before, and quite frankly at that time I didn't believe they could be any smaller! Silly me....
Anyway, having finished the second child they really were pathetic, small and somehow with all the stuffing sucked out of them!
I coped with this for a while. Then, a couple of years ago I did Erdic. How I wish I had discovered this forum then! I had no idea about the best way to take the things, just carried on with my usual coffee / booze intake, didn't massage, didn't eat more protein or anything at all. Amazingly the boobs did seem to improve although there was nothing dramatic - just a general firming up, but better than nothing.
Now I feel I want to go round again and I am armed with so much more knowledge!
So this is what I am doing at present.
Wonderup (this is day three) taken as suggested - 2 tablets 3x daily, which I try to take half an hour before food or a couple of hours after (8am, 2pm and 8pm.)
I am also massaging with techniques shown on the forum twice a day - once when I get up and once before bed. After the bed one I am tucking up with a hot water bottle pressed to my boobs! (lucky it's winter!)
I have swopped my coffee for fennel tea also so hope this might help a bit.
Also taking multi vits and glutamine, when I remember.
I began the massaging about a week ago while debating which tablet to go for. I have to say already the shape of the boobs seems better, although this may be wishful thinking. But my husband said they looked a bit fuller to him, which is a positive as I am at my tiniest part of my cycle.
Here's the measurements
Under boobs 30"
Over boobs across nipple 35"
ie 34A bra size
width of boobs 7" across.
So here's to growth!
Please feel free to comment or post here - it really doesn't bother me and any advice is appreciated!
Ok I measured them.
Right breast 7.5 inches across, and may be heading for 8
Left breast... as above.
No real change when measuring over, however, but I am inclined to ignore this!
Breasts filling out bras better and more cleavage noted.
Also, I noticed when I am in my pyjamas or have no bra on there is more of a breast shape, as opposed to two nipples (nice....)
As I now wear a 32C (ie 34A equivalent) my goal is to be 32D.
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Unread postFeb 04, 2008
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Quote:Hello all!
Well, here goes... my quest for boobs! Thought if I posted my programme it might inspire me to carry on with it and help to monitor any improvement in the boob situation!
So, about me, and my boobs...
I am 36 years old, have two children now aged 6 and 8, who I breast fed for a year each. i recall reading when I was pregnant the first time than after breast feeding, the boobs are smaller and saggier than before, and quite frankly at that time I didn't believe they could be any smaller! Silly me....
Anyway, having finished the second child they really were pathetic, small and somehow with all the stuffing sucked out of them!
I coped with this for a while. Then, a couple of years ago I did Erdic. How I wish I had discovered this forum then! I had no idea about the best way to take the things, just carried on with my usual coffee / booze intake, didn't massage, didn't eat more protein or anything at all. Amazingly the boobs did seem to improve although there was nothing dramatic - just a general firming up, but better than nothing.
Now I feel I want to go round again and I am armed with so much more knowledge!
So this is what I am doing at present.
Wonderup (this is day three) taken as suggested - 2 tablets 3x daily, which I try to take half an hour before food or a couple of hours after (8am, 2pm and 8pm.)
I am also massaging with techniques shown on the forum twice a day - once when I get up and once before bed. After the bed one I am tucking up with a hot water bottle pressed to my boobs! (lucky it's winter!)
I have swopped my coffee for fennel tea also so hope this might help a bit.
Also taking multi vits and glutamine, when I remember.
I began the massaging about a week ago while debating which tablet to go for. I have to say already the shape of the boobs seems better, although this may be wishful thinking. But my husband said they looked a bit fuller to him, which is a positive as I am at my tiniest part of my cycle.
Here's the measurements
Under boobs 30"
Over boobs across nipple 35"
ie 34A bra size
width of boobs 7" across.
So here's to growth!
Please feel free to comment or post here - it really doesn't bother me and any advice is appreciated!
Boo hoo, sick of this.... think this must be my shrinking day again.. will they ever stay?!
Hope they get sore soon as at least they're bigger then. Poor me, feeling sorry for myself.