Can testosterone help reduce/eliminate hourglass body shape?

[Marion]

Well, sounds like your hormones are pretty normal, which is probably good news!
I think the other folk here might have better advice w/r/t an exercise regimen you might be able to follow to bulk up your midsection, but my advice (as someone more hourglassy than he'd like to be) is to try out different waistlines for your pants. You're a lot thinner than me, so my high-waisted pants solution may not work as well for you--but seriously, I gain and lose inches and pounds in the hips depending on where my pants end at the top. Where your pants and shirt meet is a natural line that draws visual attention, so where it is on your body will change how people see your shape.

[dearwatson]

Thanks for the reply. And I apologize for having dug up this months' old post.

I agree that clothing matters. It can improve or exacerbate the perception of the hourglass body shape. Right now I am living in a tropical country. So it is perhaps even more important as I cannot wear jackets etc to hide the problem.

I find that looser informal shirts help conceal the problem to some extent. But the better fitted dress shirts seem to bring out the hour-glass shape. I wear shirts un-tucked.

Interesting suggestion about wearing pants high - I think I read somewhere that low-rise jeans should be worn in such a situation (with shirts tucked in) though I have not really tried it.

Well, sounds like your hormones are pretty normal, which is probably good news!
I think the other folk here might have better advice w/r/t an exercise regimen you might be able to follow to bulk up your midsection, but my advice (as someone more hourglassy than he'd like to be) is to try out different waistlines for your pants. You're a lot thinner than me, so my high-waisted pants solution may not work as well for you--but seriously, I gain and lose inches and pounds in the hips depending on where my pants end at the top. Where your pants and shirt meet is a natural line that draws visual attention, so where it is on your body will change how people see your shape.

[Chaos]

Yes it can.The muscles and fat reshape while on T.Woman mostly gain within their thighs,hips and chest/breasts area.Men gain in the stomach,shoulders and chest *depending on the persons current weight of course and build <<men* but for woman,the above is true regardless.weight will shift from the hips and to the stomach,the breast area will shift to the shoulders and become less fat and more muscle/smaller.woman are an hour glass due to the breast and womb.men are *what i like to call* a wall shape,straight,strong and firm.Of course this is the natural shape of a man but many do go into extreme body building and increase these things by 10 fold.even some by 100 *gross in my opinion*. Before T,my thighs were beyond what i liked,i hated them to be honest but then when i started T and was on it for awhile,my thighs reshaped and became tighter,firmer.so had my stomach,arms,shoulders,back.

[TBoyLogan]

You'd need a doctor to prescribe T safely.
Other than that you can use what you wear to adjust how your figure is perceived. I would look into some "how to dress when you're FtM" threads since many transmen who are not on hormones have typically wide hips and narrower looking waists and shoulders.

[LilLivvy91]

Seeing as how that shape is a product of fat distribution created by the female hormone, i see no reason why testosterone wouldn't redistribute it to masculine locations. Im no doctor, but it seems logical based on my extensive research of the endocrine system.