Mom won't believe me.

[fizzy]

Weight loss won't help unless it's pseudo-gyne. Infact, it will make it look worse -  I initially did not even know this condition exists and no matter how much I jogged or lost weight - it didn't help - if you have gyne, surgery is the only option

[extreme]

Run Run Run, people don't realize how much this helps.  The hardest part of running in my opinion is getting started.  Also go on a high protien, low  carb diet.  Do this diet if you are going to be lifting.  I work biceps the most even though it doesn't look like my biceps are "ripped".  Also squat, this is a very nice painfull burn in the legs, but it makes you feel alot better.

[Tiverty_A]

i do work a lot at my work(pulling three heavy goats across a long distance when they want to eat every grass blade they come across, i dont do that the whole time i switch jobs) i dont have access to a gym but thanks for all of the suggestions!

[a-man]

Yep.. running is ALL I did, and I lost 70 pounds.

I can't wait until I am fully healed so I can get back to my treadmill... I figure another week should do it.

[extreme]

I know how you feel. While I was visiting, my grandmother found a folder that I brought home from a ps consulation and confronted me about it.  She said I don't have gynecomastia, and that even if I did, that going under the knife "just to look prettier" is a waste of money.
 

No offense to your grandmother.  If she was a male and living with gyne, I imagine she would have a different opinion about what you are going through.  Since she isn't living in your body there is just no way she knows what you are going through.  

I am trying to get my my to take me to a endocronologist, hopefully that will help my mom support me more.

[Paa_Paw]

Our problem is less with Gynecomastia and more with Ignorance of the condition.

At 17 and with an absence of body hair, I'd suspect that you are not yet fully through puberty.  Puberty is a process that takes years.  since you appear to be still in that process, It is still possible that your breasts will diminish over time.  That possibility less a less realistic hope as time passes.  

To be a really good surgical candidate, you should be fully through puberty in any case.  

17-5=12 yrs old at onset, like me.  The Doctor (not aware that the condition runs in my family) Said to wait a few years and it would 'Go Away'.   I'm 68 yrs old now, and still waiting.  Actually, the surgical procedure was not available when I was younger so I had no alternative but to learn to live with it.

Gynecomastia is defined as: Any visible or palpable enlargement of the breast in a male of any age or a female prior to the onset of puberty.

Using that rather liberal definition, about 2/3 of the male population has gynecomastia.

On some men, the breast is one of the first places where fat is deposited and for some men, the last place where it can be lost by dieting.  Exercise has no effect on gynecomastia.

Since I have had it for such a long time, and it runs in my family;  I accept it as an unwanted and embarassing  but normal condition.