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Is there anyone like me?

Started by muuu, October 26, 2012, 05:02:20 AM

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muuu

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justmeinoz

First thing, go easy on yourself,
Second thing is to stop looking in the mirror. 
Thirdly, you are a woman, regardless of bones or anything else.  Everything else is just details, and you are not alone.  We have all been through this, and there is a future on the other side.

Karen.
"Don't ask me, it was on fire when I lay down on it"
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Medusa

1st you looking too much to yourself and competing with models

2nd I was similar but taller (185cm), hormones help me get some weight, and also help in shaping, even I now have some fat on my belly I have thinner waist than before and ribcage also go down so now I have hip 90cm (36"), waist 65cm (26") it was unexpected, because I have a fat here now and I always have here over 70cm, underbust 75cm (was like 85), breasts now like 85cm
Just relax and let it go, eat more and be happy to be yourself

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muuu

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Medusa

Gain some weight and you will get hips and boobs  :-*
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muuu

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Medusa

I was also scared about how my body look
It take months when I slowly change from male to androgynous, ad accessories (bracelets, big earrings), overcome fear of people staring at me, and slowly change to girly look
Biggest step for me was to stop thinking about what other will say and have fear of they are looking me, after that I can cay in loud "I am a girl" and people see me as girl
When I come somewhere I am a girl, so I don't care now
After that most of my body hate and sadness about how bad I look fade out
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Michelle G

I'm skinny with broader shoulders and what made me feel better about myself was while watching the Olympics I saw that the track and field women looked just like I do! Broad shoulders, small boobs, long legs and yes...defined rib cages. Now granted they have quite a bit more muscle toning than lazy ol' me, but I feel much better now :)
Just a "California Girl" trying to enjoy each sunny day
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muuu

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Aleah

Women come in all shapes and sizes, once I realised this I was much happier about my transition.

I was always worried about my shoulders being too broad, my chest being too wide, etc. just like you, but fortunately I wasn't suicidal but it did make me depressed to think about it .

The best advice I can give you is just work on being healthy, eat properly, do some exercise and do some searches online for women that have similar proportions to you (they exist! lots of models that are taller and broader!), you can fix your proportions to some extent by gaining some weight, which will give you muscle and fat in the right areas (especially if your on HRT) and work out.

If you want bigger hips/backside, work on your gluts, do some leg curls, incline running, reverse lunges/hops. But whatever you do, DON'T do any mid section work, avoid crunches for example, spot reduction is a myth it only reinforces the muscles that are there and does nothing for the fat! The trick is to lose weight till you reach a good body fat % (called cutting) and then gain weight again by eating excess calories (while still working out) so you can gain muscle and fat in the places that are being worked on (called bulking). And in a few months, you'll have much more fleshed out proportions!

If you want to lose muscle, the trick is to do HIIT (high intensity interval training) especially before breakfast, this gets you catabolic and will cause your body to burn muscle instead of fat, just try to stick to a healthy BMI range and then bulk again to go back to a normal weight and put on fat/muscle in the areas you want it.

I got out of my self loathing spiral by just focusing on what I can improve and thinking about my life after transition. Good luck, I hope this helps.
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muuu

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peky

could you elaborate what you mean by saying you "love bones?" Are you using the term bones as a synonym for skinny?
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muuu

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Aleah

Basic rule of thumb for cals is:

When your cutting -20% of your maintenance calories.

When your bulking +20% of your maintenance calories.

There are a lot of maintenance calcs, but there is some simple ones like this one that is good enough for your purposes: http://www.calorieking.com/interactive-tools/weight-maintenance-calories-calculator/

Activity profile (TEE) is important to get right, I would recommend 3 days a week at the gym, if you overwork you will lose muscle but not much extra fat, that would come to "Regular physical activity" if you do 30-45 minute sessions.

The ideal body fat % is about 7-8% but that is hard to achieve, bodybuilders aim for that to see their abs (don't worry, if you haven't even worked out much you won't see them unless you do some training on your mid section, or compound weight lifting, which is both not recommended). Personally, I'm happy with 9-10% bf, since fit women have a higher fat to muscle ratio then fit men. You'll need calipers to measure this btw.

As for proteins, the higher your protein intake the better your muscle gain will be, if your only interested in putting fat on in the right places, don't worry too much about proteins. Just try to eat "clean", avoid simple sugars and stick to "whole" foods as much as possible.

Same goes for bulking, the cleaner you eat while bulking, the leaner you will be when you bulk but it's inevitable to gain fat (which is what you want to gain a figure), just not too much.

Once you reach a figure you are happy with, stick to your maintenance calories and keep your exercise steady.
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Brooke777

Quote from: muuu on October 26, 2012, 12:50:42 PM
I like when bones are visible... so well, it's kind of a synonym to skinny...
Like this: http://imgur.com/mtfLn,zWe5F,Ruhe0,0eFHY#0

Sorry, but this kind of scares me. To each their own.
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muuu

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Aleah

Just 1 session for the day, 30-45 minutes, is all you need, which includes stretching (5min), warmup (5min), weight work (10-15min), cardio (15-20min).

You don't need a gym, it helps since they have free weights for lunges and machine for leg curls/seated leg press. But you can buy some a small set of free weights for lunges and just run wherever you can.

As for doing HIIT, the best is alternate running for at least 15-20 minutes:

1st week: 30 sec running, 1min 30 sec jogging
2nd week: 1min running, 1min 30 sec jogging
3rd week: 1min running, 1min jogging
etc.
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muuu

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Aleah

You need fat for fat redistribution to occur while on HRT, so if your underweight, maybe you should bulk first.

Here is a BMI calc: http://nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmi-m.htm (there is heaps of these online, and some charts)

Try to stay above underweight ratio, just get low down on the normal weight range. If you eat cleanly and stick to your routine, you should achieve your bf % goal by then easily, you will usually need need to bulk after.
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muuu

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