Great. Just, great.

I finally get back on the treadmill only to run the risk of having my breast sag to the point I can hang them on my shoulders. What better way to dampen the I-Ate-Too-Much-CNY-Cookies-And-Now-Need-To-Exercise spirit than to read about a recent study that suggest some 9.5 million British women could be irreversibly damaging their busts by exercising without a proper sports bra.

“The report found that each breast moves independently of the body by an average of nine centimetres during each step taken on a treadmill. So, while a woman’s legs run a metric mile, her breasts bounce up to 135 metres under their own steam.”

“There are two results of this breast movement: pain and discomfort, which is temporary; and a stretching of the Cooper’s ligament, which is permanent and leads to irreversible breast sag”.

The frightful words “irreversible breast sag” was suffice for me to change my evening jog to an evening swim. I don’t feel it’s safe to do any form of exercise which involves my boobs bouncing about until I blow a small fortune on some good underwire support.

Great. Just, great.