20-06-2012, 05:21 PM
Hi Bryony,
I did manage to slim from WHR 0.95 to 0.79 as my bust grew from 42AAA to 40DD in less than a year. This happened gradually. Weight fluctuations didn't help, I'd say on the contrary. So I hope to achieve the remaining 0.09 in the same way.
When I first joined a commercial gym 20 years ago, I already had a WHR of 0.80, and I told the physiotherapist there I wanted a slimmer waist. He said exercise wasn't going to do that for me, because fat distribution is hormonally determined.
In 2004, I weighed 74 kg, which is my target now. Then I switched from high impact aerobics to Les Mills' bodypump, which increased cortisol. I took glucosamine for three years, which decreased insulin sensitivity. I danced at least one night a week in a corset from 2005 to 2007. The cortisol and the insulin resistance deposited fat inside my abdomen, visceral fat. It was stronger than the steel boned corsets. By early 2008, the corsets hurt at my hip bones, and were loose at my rib cage.
So at the moment I am betting on low cortisol (no job) and low insulin (low carbs) to further remove the visceral fat. I did build up fat outside my abdomen, below the navel. That is an effect of estrogens. Women's waists are narrowest above that, and when my waist was at WHR 0.79, the narrowest section was also higher up than it had ever been.
How the combination of high insulin and high cortisol deposits visceral fat is explained in three pages of a book I linked here:
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8419&pid=31217#pid31217
There is no direct relation with sex hormones, other than cortisol being suppressed by estrogens, and insulin binding to SHBG.
I did manage to slim from WHR 0.95 to 0.79 as my bust grew from 42AAA to 40DD in less than a year. This happened gradually. Weight fluctuations didn't help, I'd say on the contrary. So I hope to achieve the remaining 0.09 in the same way.
When I first joined a commercial gym 20 years ago, I already had a WHR of 0.80, and I told the physiotherapist there I wanted a slimmer waist. He said exercise wasn't going to do that for me, because fat distribution is hormonally determined.
In 2004, I weighed 74 kg, which is my target now. Then I switched from high impact aerobics to Les Mills' bodypump, which increased cortisol. I took glucosamine for three years, which decreased insulin sensitivity. I danced at least one night a week in a corset from 2005 to 2007. The cortisol and the insulin resistance deposited fat inside my abdomen, visceral fat. It was stronger than the steel boned corsets. By early 2008, the corsets hurt at my hip bones, and were loose at my rib cage.
So at the moment I am betting on low cortisol (no job) and low insulin (low carbs) to further remove the visceral fat. I did build up fat outside my abdomen, below the navel. That is an effect of estrogens. Women's waists are narrowest above that, and when my waist was at WHR 0.79, the narrowest section was also higher up than it had ever been.
How the combination of high insulin and high cortisol deposits visceral fat is explained in three pages of a book I linked here:
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8419&pid=31217#pid31217
There is no direct relation with sex hormones, other than cortisol being suppressed by estrogens, and insulin binding to SHBG.