You breasts may get slightly smaller in size and you may lose some firmness if you lose that much weight following surgery. Discuss your goals with your surgeon. Losing weight after a reduction will impact your size depending on how much weight you lose and where the weight comes off of you.
The good news: The rate at which you lose weight doesn't effect the elasticity (or saggy-ness) of your skin, including your breasts. The bad news: If you lose a significant amount of weight, your skin is likely to sag in most places, including your breasts.
It's no secret that strength training – whether you do light weights, pilates, yoga or a mix, will help you maintain a healthy weight. But building the underlying muscles of the chest will also help to keep it in a lifted position. This will further prevent sagging and benefit your entire body as well!
Know that your breasts will continue to age – right along with the rest of your body – even after surgery. Even so, your breasts will be smaller and in a better position. They won't sag as they would without the surgery. If your breasts have been interfering with your life, this surgery can change that for you.
Weight Gain and Loss and Your Breast Lift
For example, if patients lose weight after a breast lift, the volume of fat in the breasts can decrease, causing the breasts to sag and adversely affecting the new contour of your body that the surgery provided.
An if your breasts do decrease in size, they can become droopy (ptotic). I generally recommend to my patients that if they are planning on losing more than 25-30lbs, they should try to do this prior to having breast reduction surgery.
Being at or near your ideal weight is crucial before undergoing breast reduction. Losing weight will give you a better chance of loving your results and make matching your ideal bust size to your new body shape easier.
After your reduction surgery, your breasts will be swollen and appear larger. As the swelling resolves, they will settle into their new size. It's normal for one breast to look bigger during recovery if it's more swollen than the other.
The breast shape will not look quite right for several weeks because of the breast lift that is done as part of the reduction procedure. It leaves the breast looking a little flat on the bottom and a little wide and these changes resolve in a few weeks.
Three-to-four months
By the end of three or four months, your breasts will have fully healed and settled. At this point, you can see the final, shapely and smaller results.
A benefit of reducing breast size is that it seems like you've lost a lot of weight, even when you haven't. This effect is especially marked in women who have a smaller frame and a bigger bust. Many women report others commenting on how much slimmer and taller they look after reduction surgery.
4) Does my stomach look bigger after breast reduction? For a couple of weeks after breast reduction surgery, you may notice that your abdomen looks larger than usual. This is mostly because of constipation or swelling of the upper body.
The reason that your breasts may sag and seem deflated when you reach your goal weight is that fatty tissue is lost as part of an overall weight loss.
Breast lift surgery is very effective for reversing sagging. Your doctor can remove excess skin to bring the sagging breast up. You may also want to have a breast implant inserted to make the whole breast look fuller.
Most surgeons do not dictate or require a particular size to qualify you as a candidate for breast reduction. The most vital factor they consider is if the breast size causes you mental and physical health problems.
When can I sleep without a bra after breast reduction? Patients should wear a compression bra throughout the recovery, that is for about 8 weeks (it can be underwire-free bra or front closure bra, or any other type of bra).
Typically, most reductions bring the cup size down one to two sizes, though in cases of extremely large breasts, more drastic results may be achieved.
You only lose about two pounds of breast tissue in the procedure, though the effect on your appearance is often dramatic.
While it is possible to have a breast reduction at your current weight, it is certainly safer for you to lose weight to at least under 200 lb. , and preferably more. If you lose weight prior to surgery, your breast shape will be better and more stable than if you lose it after.
In the first three months the shape changes significantly. The swelling decreases and gravity causes the breast to drop to a more natural position and take on a more natural teardrop shape. The nipple will also rise to a more appropriate position. After six months the shape is usually stable.
You might go down a shirt size.
After surgery, clothes likely won't fit you the way they did before.
If you have your procedure during the winter months, you'll be fully healed and ready to show off your new body shape in time for summer and swimsuit season.
Most women say that it takes 3-4 months for all of the swelling to go away and there may be some firm spots or bumps that you can feel. Usually, this is a normal part of healing. While swelling may go away after the first few months, scars from surgery can take almost a year to fade and soften completely.