How Much Do Size D Breasts Weigh?

Maybe my COVID weight gain was the really good fat?

Like everyone else during the COVID quarantine, I overindulged between Netflix and a pint of my favorite ice cream. I did exercise but somewhere along the line, I picked up about five pounds…OK, I picked up six pounds…OK, maybe seven but that was after pizza and wine in the same night!

So, back to my point.

I am a transgender woman (no debate about this please). I started HRT (female hormones) late in 2018. For the next year, I had hardly any noticeable breast growth. Strangely my breast growth and COVID coincided. Other than my surprise and continuing feminine joy, I gave no thought to the contribution my growing breasts were adding to my COVID weight gain. I was just too happy to connect the two thoughts.

If you are a cisgender woman (someone born physically in the right gender) harken back to your teenage years. Like most of the girls, I knew back then, once they started to grow breasts, it became a source of either pride or frustration but you definitely noticed. Weight was not a thought. For many, the bigger, the better. For some, bigger got to be too much.

Being on HRT is like going through female puberty and at my age, being over 60, a second puberty was not on my original bucket list. Having breasts gave me a whole new shiny bucket.

My journey into bra-land is a story onto itself. I wrote about it here:

As we slowly exited the COVID quarantine mandate period, I started to get out more and eat less. I lost about four pounds but I couldn’t account for the other three…OK, OK the other four pounds but that’s it. The extra pounds irked me until I had a massive “A-DUH!” moment at two o’clock in the morning. I slipped out of bed and tried to weigh my breast with a luggage scale. You get the picture. Two o’clock in the morning and I am trying to attach a ribbon under my breast to hook onto a portable luggage scale.

It didn’t work.

Undeterred I went into the kitchen.

Yep, you got it. I tried to flop my breast on top of the kitchen scale. Thank God my kitchen has window shades. There was just no way I could get a satisfying answer so I crawled back to bed and called it a night.

The next day I fell back to the source of all knowledge, right or wrong, the internet. When I googled: “How to weigh a breast?”, I actually got the right list rather than cooking recipes for chicken but, as expected, a confusing range of answers.

The highest answer was between 15 and 23 pounds*. I think a guy wrote that answer. The more reasonable answer was 2 to 4 pounds per breast. The same search also offered a number of suggestions to weigh your breasts, including bowls of water, complex math, and the Archimedes Principle** but I tapped out of that extra effort. I hated high school physics.

Anyway, I was happy with estimating that my 40D breasts were in the middle of the range, three pounds each. Technically, according to the Emma Principle, I had actually lost weight if I subtracted my newly earned breast weight from my total.

I had added the right kind of fat!

I don’t care if you don’t agree with my weight rationalizations, I am parking my butt on the couch tonight with a pint of my favorite ice cream after a glass (or two) of red wine and pizza. I plan to binge watch something appropriately stupid and mindlessly entertaining on Netflix.

If you come on over, I’ll make room on the couch, hand you a spoon for the ice cream, a glass of wine and bring out the kitchen scale and a bowl of water.

After that you are on your own.

Emma Holiday

*https://www.quora.com/How-heavy-is-a-pair-of-womans-breast

**https://www.wikihow.com/Weigh-Your-Breasts

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My writing has three specific goals:

1. Writing is my therapy. I have a very limited outlet for my thoughts so I write to find a way to process the most profound experience in my life. I need to understand and I need to accept myself to move forward.

2. Being transgender, for me, is a very lonely existence and if I can share some of the things that I feel and think as I go through the process of transitioning with others who are transgender and, in some way, lessen their pain and sense of loneliness, then all of this public exposure of my personal thoughts is not a waste.

3. I write to help cisgender people understand that all trans people want is to be simply understood, accepted and treated as a normal person. We are.