Swimming is good. Breasts float and require no support in the water. It takes all the strain off of ones back. I have a really messed up back. I went to a female doc for about 10 years. The question of my breasts NEVER came up. This was back in the 1980-1990 period. She avoided them like the plague. In one 1.5 hour group exam I had there were 5 pain specialist docs and pain specialist physical therapist, 3 males and 2 females, doing the most complete physical exam I ever had, detailing every pain and joint mobility and everything standing, supine and sitting with a pair of socks and briefs. They missed seeing the muscular deterioration in my neuropathic . There were more hours with a PharmD, PsycD (MMPI 2) and other evals. However, in the physical exam one of the ladies asked when my breasts grew. When I said starting at 11 that was the end of it. The male docs would probably would never have asked if I didn't say anything. My internist, a male, has never said a word about them, but the first time he saw them he pretty much stared until he realized it, and appears to figure that if there were changes or problems I would bring it up since I bring up everything in complete detail. He is far more interested in how I got my metabolism going to melt off the fat.
There is the "Silver Sneakers" program that is included in many of the Medicare Complete plans that have prevention programs. The enrollment in the program at participating gyms is $20/month and the plan pays that benefit. There are some facilities with pools and some without in my area. There are something like 5 participating facilities within as many miles of where I live.
I am so totally different from when I was at 285 pounds 10 years ago I can't even attribute what was due to a lower body weight. I took off 85 pounds of water, 40 pounds of fat and put on 50 pounds of muscle. The last 20 pounds this past year is almost entirely loss of fat with more exercise and slightly modified eating, ie NEVER a second large mug of coffee, cream and sugar. While the subcutaneous fat has reduced a lot making my stomach a mass of wrinkles and stretch marks, my breasts have lost at least a cup size with a reduced fullness in all directions. However, my pecs just add to my apparent breast size unless the pecs are flexed when they pull up and are seen separately. So now since a layer of fat has disappeared from under my breasts they actually stick out even further than they did when I weighed 220, 240, 260 and 285. When the stomach sticks out 6 inches further nothing else seems noticeable. When a mans breasts stick out 3 or 4 inches more than their stomach under a shirt, nothing else gets noticed.
A group of friends and I did an experiment in a supermarket. One of us would walk in front, not seemingly connected with us. The rest of us placed all around and observing watched what other people's responses were. The beautiful young woman got everybody's attention. The almost 7 foot tall guy did the same. I got everybody's attention whether my breasts were visibly sticking out or my stomach and only slightly less covered by a heavy winter coat obscuring all details. Those who had nothing to grab the attention were generally not noticed. We repeated this several times with different clothing. It was the people who got noticed for some reasons. There were others who were completely unnoticed.
Just looking around at a lot of men, I probably am in the 5% most muscled that doesn't do body building, just gardening and carpentry mostly.
At public pools and beaches, most men just avoid me now, at least the fat bully types, because they are far more vulnerable as currently fat than me as formerly fat. The women on the other hand pay a lot more attention and really scowl at me, perhaps for shaving my chest. I got a lot of dirty looks and double takes after doing so. However, I am not embarrassed or shamed in any way by these breasts or any of the rest of my body these days. I've come up with the verbal things that will shut down any bully, male or female. However, there are plenty of goodhearted people out there that need an explanation. Often they are wondering about their son or husband or brother and what to do.
The nudist club is different. This year, having revealed where it was for the Breast Cancer Charity events we put on, I have had local Denver men, 2 of them on an open house day, come up to me, look pointedly at my breasts and then their own, winked and smiled. Clearly I was "made". They were both very pale and had spent no time with their shirts off in the sun. It was obvious that they recognized me and this forum is the only one with a description and photos. Overall once again there were more men with larger breasts again this year over last year. There is some kind of trend going on. As far as compared to the public beach or pool, there are perhaps 10x the percentage of men with obvious gyne at the nudist club. Sunshine and water are not known to make breasts grow unlike plants. I'm thinking next year I want to do some public vs nudist rates of obvious gyne at pools, perhaps with size rating to see how much size does matter in this, if at all, in what men avoid showing their chests. If I do it right it ought to be publishable. We talk about these ideas in various ways all the time but have no idea with any exactitude.
If anybody cares, perhaps we could talk about experimental design on it's own post.
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