manboobs :(

I've been cutting for about two weeks now after slacking off for months and falling away from my cutting routine. About a year ago I weighed around 220 pounds. I am 6'3" and currently weigh 197. My concern is that from being much fatter about a year ago, my chest is having a bit of trouble losing the excess fat.

Here is a picture of my body's shape a couple weeks ago:

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/8489/fitne ss2dq9.jpg


and here I am today:

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/6893/fitne ss1mq4.jpg


my question is, will continuing to cut get rid of my chest problem?  Or is this gynecomastia and will it need surgery eventually? If you notice, the right nipple seems to be a bit larger than the left, is this normal? Anyway, if anyone could give me their input it'd really help, thanks.

Also, the links I posted might be broken because for some reason this website breaks up weblinks. If so, just delete the spaces.

I must be honest, I don't know much about manboobs. But those are very small, and if I saw a guy with his shirt off that looked like that, I'd just think "oh, he's slightly overweight", not "those are manboobs". I'm sure they'll go away with a bit more weightloss, and some exercise (push-ups, etc).

Ps: to get the links to work, highlight the address and click the icon that looks like a chain, just above the text box. I still haven't figured out how to give them names like other people do, though.

just have to say that, from a girls perspective, you do NOT need surgery of any kind!! i think you look great!

it seems like you've come a long way in a few weeks, and i'd assume if you continue to do the same thing you are doing now, what you're seeing as an issue will improve even more.

just keep cutting thats nothing

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Original Post by ryanvolta:

....my question is, will continuing to cut get rid of my chest problem?  Or is this gynecomastia and will it need surgery eventually? If you notice, the right nipple seems to be a bit larger than the left, is this normal? Anyway, if anyone could give me their input it'd really help, thanks....

Hi, I did notice immediately that your right nipple was larger and did wonder about gynecomastia right away (I had a friend with it and his chest looked somewhat similar to yours, however he had never been overweight so I'm not the comparison is fair, also his was primary gynecomastia which is usually something that happens during puberty, whereas secondary gynecomastia can be simply associated with obesity and other stuff)...

If it were me I would want to check out whether there is any underlying cause (unlikely I would think)...but I suspect that you may just be one of those people who carries any excess weight in the chest area...even an extra 5 lbs of body fat will settle there.... My friend did have surgery as his issue was not related to body weight...I have another friend who lost a lot of weight (over 150 lbs!) and he lost his 'man boobs' after increasing his muscle mass a lot....(he no longer looks like the same person, its almost too weird)....

This post caught my eye because my family and I just returned from a water park this weekend and I noticed many men, even slim men, have this issue....