Dietary concerns

[Codia]

I have had a meat free diet for over ten years and have been in pretty good physical health for the past 6 years of the experience.  I started working a labour job a month ago, and just about every day I'm finding myself to be weaker than the day before.  I'm struggling more carrying the same load of weight each day, and get home exhausted.  I normally arrive home around 5:30pm and find myself passed out around 7-7:30pm.  Most everything I eat I make from scratch, and frequently eat baked beans, vegetable stew, eggs and recently salmon and tuna.

I feel like I may either need to start eating some meat, or see a dietitian.

Has anyone else gone though a similar experience with changes in their dietary needs during hrt?

[TSJasmine]

The only thing related to eating that I've noticed is that I've been eating like a cow 

[Seras]

I have been on spironolactone for a bit over 6 months now, since I started it after I started on E.

I have noticed in the last few months when I exercise it doesn't make me any stronger. No T means you do not grow muscle so well. I am reckoning that my recent exercise has broken down the muscle and where if I had T it would rebuild it stronger, it just isn't, and this is with my thighs. I ride my bike a lot so they are well trained. I had to lift some things around in the garden for an hour or so in the summer just a couple months on spiro, my biceps hurt for days. I eat meat every day, I have a good protein intake.

So anyway, being on HRT and doing a labouring job you are pretty much going to be on a losing battle, especially as a veggy. Maybe though you can mitigate it by eating more protein? More eggs? Eat many nuts? Nuts are good for protein, but if you are on spironolactone, not too many cause of potassium. Protein will only go so far though, you gonna get girl muscles.