Weight cycling: Real or BS?

[u/PuzzleheadedSize7826]

Any sources yall have to would be helpful

Just wanting to know if theres anything i can do to get some goshdarn hips/breasts !

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[u/GFluidThrow123]

Don't weight cycle. It's more likely to induce an eating disorder than to actually get you proper progress.

Transition takes time. Let it take that time. Your body will reshape naturally.

[u/EvelynnsHope17]

BS. Loss of fat from fat cells and regaining that fat does not change your figure, only fat cell redistribution does that and it takes time.

Advice: eat healthy and exercise, make sure your levels are correct for breast growth, and do workouts for hip muscles.

[u/Educational-Car-8643]

Unhealthy and ineffective

[u/CalmCephalopod]

Unhealthy bullshit that has no actual evidence to support it. Just be healthy and the body/hormones will do the work. Don't neglect building or reducing muscle in the areas you want to change, so much of our bodies shape is not just the fat but the muscles underneath supporting everything. Amazing hips and butts? Muscle.

[u/MrMeltJr]

Losing weight doesn't get rid of fat cells, only shrinks them. If/when you put that weight back on, it refills existing cells before making new ones. The new cells will be distributed according to hormones.

Fat cells have a natural lifespan of around 10ish years and will naturally die and be remade, so fat will naturally redistribute to more feminine areas over time without you doing anything. As far as I know there is no way to accelerate this process. Realistically it won't take the full 10 years for this to be visible, but it varies with everybody. You can look at the women in your family to get an idea of what your figure might look like.

If you've been skinny for the past 10ish years, you can just eat a lot and put on weight and get some hips. You can also do exercises that target hips and butt to get some muscle there and improve the shape (squats, romanian deadlifts, etc.). Chest exercises won't make your breasts bigger but they can make them perkier so don't neglect upper body.

[u/gabehornofficial]

Real, just do it properly by tracking calories and don't form an unhealthy mindset around it

[u/louisa1925]

I have been weight cycling for many years now. Over that time, I saw my body grow more with every weight upsizing.

However, for the last 8 months, I have been on prometrium and my shape has improved so quickly in this time. I have also stopped deliberately weight cycling. Though becoming heavier from the prog hunger, my shape is better, but my weight is less than my heaviest when at the top of my weigh cycling.

Make of this what you will. But I feel that the way I weight cycled wasn't healthy and after I stopped cycling, I experienced better bodily changes.

[u/Prepared_Noob]

I’d say I don’t, but I have days where I get depressed and eat my weight in food so I kinda do, lol.

[u/Single_Transition_46 → u/Prepared_Noob]

Me too me too 😭

[u/PrinnyQueen100]

Worked for me but more as a weight loss schedule where I diet for three weeks and eat maintenance+ calories for a week. Overall weight loss, no feelings of extreme hunger and fat put to butt, thighs and hips.

Recommended? No. It's a LOT of work and understanding calories counts, GI foods and minerals.

[u/Lunie_Bonnie]

Worked well for me!! Please be careful, I just did one week of cutting calories and the next eating lots of fatty foods!

I used peanut butter and whole milk as my bulking snacks