Weight gain or loss on estrogen therapy?

[Violet Bloom]

  My weight has always been rock-stable, generally down to a decimal digit even!  I am very thin but at a perfectly healthy weight and BMI.  I would actually like to gain some weight but suspect this will be highly unlikely unless there is a substantial change to my 'industrial' metabolism.  Having just started on Estrogen it will be very interesting to see if anything permanently changes up or down.  I don't have much muscle mass available to lose so over all there may end up being an imbalance in the weight shifts.  I seem to have gained appetite recently but so far I'm not eating more than usual.

[Cassie 4 Ever!!!]

I'm well on my way to getting back to 180!!
After HS I self medicated with food (carbs + obesity = sedated + halved testosterone). I maxed at 260... recently went from 235 (Aug 5 - my coming out day) to 190 (This past Thursday...)

I wasn't very strong and had no interest in lifting. Butterfly was tough for me. Back and Free were my best.

Oh, now I see that you haven't seen an Endo so you are not on hormones yet??? What I noticed before I started HRT was that I stopped swimming and no longer swam at practice 15-20 hours a week. So I lost weight but not because I was losing fat, but because I was losing muscle mass over time. When I started HRT, the process accelerated, i lost muscle mass faster but a new problem arose... it was harder to keep the fat away so I stayed roughly in the same zone (190 - 195) since then even though I was still becoming smaller and smaller in size. At one point, i went back up to 202 pounds when I didn't work out, but now it is coming back down.

For swimming, butterfly takes a lot of strength, stamina, endurance, coordination, elasticity, and flexibility. People usually fail to realize that strength alone wont do it for butterfly. I have seen plenty of women kick mens butts in butterfly solely because the women had good technique. Most men thing to power through it, I always tried to apply technique first and then strength. But this isnt a thread of swimming. lol

[Cassie 4 Ever!!!]

  My weight has always been rock-stable, generally down to a decimal digit even!  I am very thin but at a perfectly healthy weight and BMI.  I would actually like to gain some weight but suspect this will be highly unlikely unless there is a substantial change to my 'industrial' metabolism.  Having just started on Estrogen it will be very interesting to see if anything permanently changes up or down.  I don't have much muscle mass available to lose so over all there may end up being an imbalance in the weight shifts.  I seem to have gained appetite recently but so far I'm not eating more than usual.

The way that I see it, those who have nothing to lose will gain, and those who have a lot to lose will lose. If you are scrauny, no muscle, ect, you will probably get heavier. like I said befre, I noticed I have stayed about the same wieght, but I have gotten smaller. I lose mucle but gain fat.... but mostly in the correct places.

I think the thread should say, Wight gain or loss on HRT or the variable that make you stay the same.... or something like that. lol

[KabitTarah]

Oh, now I see that you haven't seen an Endo so you are not on hormones yet??? What I noticed before I started HRT was that I stopped swimming and no longer swam at practice 15-20 hours a week. So I lost weight but not because I was losing fat, but because I was losing muscle mass over time. When I started HRT, the process accelerated, i lost muscle mass faster but a new problem arose... it was harder to keep the fat away so I stayed roughly in the same zone (190 - 195) since then even though I was still becoming smaller and smaller in size. At one point, i went back up to 202 pounds when I didn't work out, but now it is coming back down.

For swimming, butterfly takes a lot of strength, stamina, endurance, coordination, elasticity, and flexibility. People usually fail to realize that strength alone wont do it for butterfly. I have seen plenty of women kick mens butts in butterfly solely because the women had good technique. Most men thing to power through it, I always tried to apply technique first and then strength. But this isnt a thread of swimming. lol

I can't WAIT for my endo appointment I plan on AA's only for a while.... then either low-dose E for a bit, or wait for full dose E in May/June. I hope that the summer will have the small changes and the winter brings the bigger ones.

I have very little muscle now... my arms are pretty scrawny. I still have some fat and muscle to lose, though. I'm sure I can hit 170 before starting E (May/June), especially since the AA's will help muscle reduce more.

From others' advice (here and elsewhere), I've started working out with lots of lower-body-strength cardio, stretching, and lower body / core work. I understand that lower body work will give some feminine appearance - upper body can just waste away (to some degree ) until I'm on E (Especially shoulders!!)

Flexibility was always my problem. I am working on flexibility but hopefully I see bonus gains there from HRT too?

[Cassie 4 Ever!!!]

I can't WAIT for my endo appointment I plan on AA's only for a while.... then either low-dose E for a bit, or wait for full dose E in May/June. I hope that the summer will have the small changes and the winter brings the bigger ones.

I have very little muscle now... my arms are pretty scrawny. I still have some fat and muscle to lose, though. I'm sure I can hit 170 before starting E (May/June), especially since the AA's will help muscle reduce more.

From others' advice (here and elsewhere), I've started working out with lots of lower-body-strength cardio, stretching, and lower body / core work. I understand that lower body work will give some feminine appearance - upper body can just waste away (to some degree ) until I'm on E (Especially shoulders!!)

Flexibility was always my problem. I am working on flexibility but hopefully I see bonus gains there from HRT too?

I saw a video recently that explain the transwomen need to work on our lower have so that our proportions are more like a natal female. I woman should be flexible in my own opinion. I have noticed that I have become slightly more flexible in some areas and I have not lost any flexibility and any area despite a lack of stretching in like a year.