Has your diet changed since starting HRT ?

[Anatta]

Kia Ora,

For example:
Changing from a meat eater to vegetarian or visa versa
Cutting out certain foods or drinks

I've been a vegetarian for almost 40 years, and my diet's not changed since starting HRT & transitioning...

Metta Zenda

[Cindy]

I used to love rare steak. I can't eat it know. I'm OK if it is medium to well.

Weird!

And it happened over two weeks. One week eating at my regular restaurant two weeks later same place. I couldn't stomach it.

Chef (jokingly) said to me that if it was choice for him of HRT or rare steak he'd keep the steak, I of course disagreed. (BTW they know me very well)

[suzifrommd]

Not at all, except that I read an article about how high fat dairy products can increase risk for breast cancer. Now that these bulges on my chest can be called mini-breasts (by someone being extremely kind), I've cut back on ice cream.

[bethany]

I use to love lasagna, now it makes me sick. I think it's the recotta cheese that is doing it as I still love other pasta. I also have a strong dislike of bread now.

[JoanneB]

Along with myself, a couple of my group members also developed cravings for all things w/vinegar.

After childhood I never really had craving for chocolate. Occassionally I'd pick up the odd Three-Musketeers bar mostly out of nostalgia for those simple pleasures of childhood. Three days later thanks to HFCS I'd be reminded why I don't do candy, among many many other things thanks to rat poison called HFCS. After starting HRT I have a chocolate monkey on my back. Dark chocolate especially. Thankfully I found where I can can score my fix, very resonably priced (dollar strore!), tastes great, made outside of the USA, therefore made with real sugar and other real ingrediants, not food science

[Tristan]

Oh yes. Now I have to be very careful about what I eat and if I don't exercise along with that my perfect figure changed to pooh. It's alot of work up stay fit and cute body now.

[Tossu-sama]

Not really, I just eat more which is pretty natural being on T.

[Denjin]

Nope, not at all. I still have the same crazy-fast metabolism I had before I started all of it, too.

[Shantel]

Early into it about 15 years ago I noticed that I had developed a pear like shape which wasn't cutting it for me at all. Since I have a slow metabolism anyway the hormones were heading me toward obesity if I didn't make some radical dietary changes and get into a purposeful daily exercise regimen. I reasoned that I'm not a kid anymore and don't require all of the calories that I would normally shovel in during my man life, so I cut my intake to 1200 -1300 calories per day and began working out. I lost sixty pounds and am the size I was when I was 24 and fresh out of the service. It feels good to look nice in my clothes and get complements from others. Eating is something we have to do, food choices and amounts can be a habit or an obsession. I'm extremely self disciplined anyway, which was a great help. I have noticed that on HRT that my arms have shrunk in size considerably, I've had two links removed from my watchband three times so far and it's become loose again. The manly looking forearms and wrists are gone, I attribute that partially to dietary change and the work of long time use of feminizing hormones. I do take calcium citrate supplements to offset bone loss.

[Misato]

I used to love a good hefeweizen and I just don't have a taste for it any more.  Actually, I'm rarely inclined to drink at all anymore which I am very happy about!