Chest/frame size

[Alora]

Hey ladies,

I really curious... how much will my frame/chest size decrease once I'm on HRT? Currently I'm at a 44" chest. I'd love to lose 6-8" is that even possible?

Loves 💋❤️💋

[josie76]

Unfortunately you cannot change bones that have already grown. What you can effect is fat and muscle.

[archlord]

Unfortunately you cannot change bones that have already grown. What you can effect is fat and muscle.

This statement is partially true.  Fat and muscle are expanding the frame.  If you lose muscle, you will also lose space between bones wich result in losing frame size.    There is limit however depending on where you begin. If you start hormone with huge muscle mass/fat , your chest/frame size will reduce much more then if you start skinny ( almost no change if you are skinny at first) . Being skinny show your real bone structure .

I personally had small bone structure  but i did bodybuilding for years creating a not natural muscular body. Thats why i can vouch for ribcage reduction, shoulder and everything

[tgirlamg]

Hi Alora!!!...

My experience was similar to Archlords...

Yes, your rib age is your rib cage but.... My under bust / bra band measurement went from 36" to 32" in the last few years... I had a lot of muscle in my back from years of surfing and it slowly faded away.... I lost close to 25 lbs of muscle in the first year on HRT.... I think there is something to the notion of shrinking connective tissue as well... My height has gone from 5'9" to 5'8"... Maybe just because I'm getting older but I feel like my feet have got a bit smaller too in the ways shoes fit...

Onward we go!!!!

Ashley :-D

[Michelle_P]

This statement is partially true.  Fat and muscle are expanding the frame.  If you lose muscle, you will also lose space between bones wich result in losing frame size.    There is limit however depending on where you begin. If you start hormone with huge muscle mass/fat , your chest/frame size will reduce much more then if you start skinny ( almost no change if you are skinny at first) . Being skinny show your real bone structure .

I personally had small bone structure  but i did bodybuilding for years creating a not natural muscular body. Thats why i can vouch for ribcage reduction, shoulder and everything

Yup!  Over the past year, a combination of antiandrogens, weight loss from 150s to 136, and changes in my exercise routine (Much more walking, stretches, side planks, and no more heavy arm/shoulder/chest stuff) has made changes.  As in, I went from a 38" bandsize on top down to a 34".  (38A to 34B! Yaaay!)

The skeleton is the same, but there's less stuff hanging on the outside.  I told my therapist that I make a really scrawny looking dude, but as a 63 year old woman, I am totally rocking this bod.   (Yes, we were joking around.  I did get my letter for HRT then, though!)


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[RobynD]

I've decreased in band size (down one size) with no real loss in overall weight. I can only attribute it to loss of muscle mass in my back. I'm athletic so my upper body was fairly developed from lifting.

[Harley Quinn]

You'll lose a some inches, due to you losing muscle mass off your back and pectorals.

[Anastasija]

and according to me it makes no difference whether you're skinny or muscular, if you are skinny is your circuit will not change much, because there is nothing to go with, if muscled it get to this place where you would be skinny. Muscles are on bone rather than beneath them, not the pushing apart from the inside.

[JoanneB]

Hi Alora!!!...

My experience was similar to Archlords...

Yes, your rib age is your rib cage but.... My under bust / bra band measurement went from 36" to 32" in the last few years... I had a lot of muscle in my back from years of surfing and it slowly faded away.... I lost close to 25 lbs of muscle in the first year on HRT.... I think there is something to the notion of shrinking connective tissue as well... My height has gone from 5'9" to 5'8"... Maybe just because I'm getting older but I feel like my feet have got a bit smaller too in the ways shoes fit...

Onward we go!!!!

Ashley :-D

When I was 14, the nurses in the hospital commented on how "Large" my chest was. I was also a tubby. I was also almost 6ft tall and big everything.

HRT came decades after loosing about 100 lbs. neither did not significantly change my chest size or shape. It's still 34-36 inches. Measuring is impossible since rising or lowering the tape will change the measurement 2-3 inches or more.

Hence, there are people who are "Big Boned" and those who are "Big", aka fat. Since most guys I've known are not "muscled" I count those as the exceptions to the rule. Of course if you are heavily muscled, and AA, especially, will affect that. Yet, I also know very well, a swimmer, very heavily muscled but not bulk, HRT did not affect her shape too much. Abs, thorax, shoulders and coconut crushing thighs hardly changed. Same can be said about a few cis-females I know