For those of you who lost weight post-hormones.

[Sybil]

Did it help with your femininity? I'm overweight, but not obese, and 1-3 years away from my surgeries due to constraints on how much money I make. I really need some extra motivation to drop the pounds (aside from being healthier and having more energy), and I'd love to hear about how other MtF who lost weight (and have undergone HRT) felt it affected their overall femininity. I'm really kinda crossing my fingers that it'll make me considerably more womanly.

[Chloe]

I'm really kinda crossing my fingers that it'll make me considerably more womanly.

Losing weight helps a lot and you'll feel much better about yourself in the process!!! Do it for yourself not anybody else!!!! I went from 175 to 150 working like a Egyptian slave but fear, can't look, am now well over 190 !!!!!

YIKES!! I don't think fat "redistributes" automatically if you put, already 'ave it on, losing it will be in "the right places" for a better femininity !!!

[Tristan]

Yes losing weight does help out. When I lost a little weight and it came back it went to new areas. Mainly my but thighs and chest.

[Carrie Liz]

I'm starting to suspect that my weight loss has had even more of an impact on my femininity than even HRT has so far... because for the first 4 months or so, I lost 45 lbs. And every single week I felt like I was looking more and more feminine... slimmer waist, less fat on the lower face, shapelier arms and legs, etc. Wheras for the last month, I haven't really lost any weight, and I feel like there's been barely any changes whatsoever.

[Sybil]

That all sounds really amazing. I think it's due time I put more effort into my health. Thank you, ladies.

[Chloe]

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[Shakira]

I have read that if you lose your excess weight before going on hrt and keep it off for the first couple of years your body will adjust to the new hormones and if you get a little bigger the extra weight tends to accumulate in the same areas as it does on the female body as opposed to going straight to your belly pre-hrt.Is this true?

[pebbles]

I've been many different weights throughout my life I'm highlighting the points that my weight started to turn the other way. Oh I'm 5'7 for reference.
11stn (Male) -Normal mostly muscle-
13stn (Male) -Fat-
10stn (Male*start of transition*) -Normal-
10.5stn (Female) -Normal slightly chubby-
8.5stn (Female) -Borderline anorexic-
9stn (Female*Current*) -Slender-

I dropped from 13stone to 10stone pre-transition when I became a vegetarian I gave up the vegetarianism when I started transition and got cravings for fleshy things although I don't eat a alot of meat I do treat myself from time to time. My mum kicked up a fuss when I lost 3 stone in 6 months but seriously I WAS overweight and loosing those 3stone made me feel SO much healthier.

As I started hormones my weight increased slightly and that extra half stone did generally goto the right places however mostly to my ass and hips not alot went to my boobs tho. *sigh* however I still had some male fat from before lingering around that didn't move. (mini-pot belly and visceral fat)

My weight remained stable for nearly a year I then got depressed and fell into some dangerous anorexic like habits, within a couple of months my weight nose dived. My feminine ass and hips vanished and my boobs were reduced to nothing but big nipples on a ribcage... I didn't look particularly masculine I looked more like a child, I definitely looked less feminine than I did. My waist looked good everything else however looked bony. it really exaggerates your height even if your not incredibly tall for a female like me That's when people start referred to me as "That lanky chick" or "The Scrawny girl" I had a boyfriend during this time who laughed at my chest when he saw me naked referring to them as "anti-boobs" comments like that did hurt.

Mercifully I have managed to pull up and wriggle away before that demon gripped me too hard and I've gained weight since then. I would note all the weight I've gained since then has gone to the right places, my boobs are as big as they were when I was 10.5 (Small but present) stone and I still have a trim waist and belly the weight I've gained has gone to my hips and bum again but without any of the male bits I had before.


I think that estrogen makes new fat cells goto feminine places but doesn't shift "male" fat cells itself. Of course the conclusive test for me would be to gain another stone back upto 10stone and see if it gives me a cracking set of tits or gives me a minipot belly again.

Nahh actually I think I'm fine how I am.
So yeah in theory loose alot of weight then gain it back when on HRT... easier said than done, of course... Eating disorders are like deadly black holes or rip-tides, You think your okay and your not as bad as the 6stn girls on jerry springer so you can go alittle further, but when you turn around you realize how hard it is to pull away, I didn't even fall that far but I did *really* fell it's pull on me.

[kariann330]

So it seems like the general theme here is IF i wanted to be a 14/16 after transition, loose the extra weight i have now while i still have the higher T levels and muscle mass, then let the slower metabolic rate bring back the weight and it will go to all of the places i want it to be now....if im missing something plz let me know cuz im kinda out of it right now cuz of a lack of sleep.