I had the whole surgery dilema when i was planning surgery
Moneys there to make your life better and for me it was huge difference from self confidence to general well being. And with gyne its only going to get worse with age weight lifting is ok while your young. When you start having kids start working long hours then that goes on the back burner. Some people say "well i wont be bothered about my body then"
Well the majority of people i reguarly see (uk section) are mainly above 30 have had kids and basically want to go swimming and that with their kids but their gyne is holding them back. I sometimes get some stick on here for reccomending surgery but all i know is that i spent a good 8 years off my life wearing black, hunching my body, waking up and covering myself up cause i didnt want to see myself in the mirror. And it never got any easier it just got worse.
Dont take this as a dig at you, but your case is prevelant enough to warrant surgery gyne cant be pigeon holed as women like breasts anymore its more complex than that. Weightlifting and dieting isnt going to make it better its just a concealer.
I do understand what you mean mate, but if you may, I'd like to add some precisions to my and your comments...
I say again that I don't want surgery for the time being. Maybe in some years, I will. Who knows ? But now, no, thanks. It's not that I refuse to see the reality but considering all the pics I saw on this forum, I don't consider myself, honestly and without offending anyone on this site, as a serious case of gyne to such a point that I need surgery to be happy. I am nearly 100% happy of my chest, I think it looks ok even though not perfect at this time because of eating habits that I need to reconsider.
You say that you spent 8 years wearing black clothes to hide your gynecomastia, hunching your body, to such a point that you didn't want to see yourself in a mirror. I can understand but it is not my case, I am not ashamed to the point that I need to hide my chest with large black clothes... Sometimes, yes, indeed I think of it at the beach when i take off my shirt... yes... But comparing others' chests don't make me feel ashamed. And above all, when I look at my pics dating back to 2005 or 2006, I realize how much weight lifting helped me. All I can say today is that I need to reconsider my eating habits cos' I tend to eat sweet food quite a lot, eating at any time, so on and so forth...
I take the liberty of saying again that when I posted my pics, it was not to know whether I needed surgery. It was not my intentions at all. I just wanted to know what you guys could think of my chest when looking at it : strange, normal, well shaped and muscular, flabby, puffy nipples... See what I mean ?
Anyway, thanks for your comments. Any comment is interesting to read here. So thanks a lot mates !