HRT and Weight?

[campenella]

I bounced around, but ultimately I'm gaining muscle instead of fat right now. I'm happy with my body. It's not about numbers but how you look and feel. My weight has distributed in a different way so i carry it differently and I like how male my body looks. I don't care too much about the bmi or anything, but eating healthy. I don't use a scale because I agree that it causes people to go to a dark place when they have one and obsess over it.

[kast]

I lost weight on T, but that was more due to my own efforts at losing weight (healthy eating and exercise). I think I was about 75kg when I started T, and recently have been a stable 63kg-ish (but put on a few more in the last month due to Christmas fat + muscle from working out). I was about 84kg at my heaviest, and that was about a year before starting T, so I had already been losing weight when I started. I actually find it easier to lose fat on T - possibly due to increased energy, muscle gain, and generally being happier about my body therefore more motivated.

[youngbuck]

I gained around 10 pounds my first year on T, but I'm now actually sitting a bit lower than my pre-T weight while being much more trim and lean. I think it was a combination of muscle and fat, but once I got out of the "awkward" early stages and stepped up my exercise routine, things started to sort themselves out. I was also careful to maintain my eating habits and not start inhaling a bunch of junk just because my metabolism had picked up. I've always been an active person, but going on T inspired me to lift more, run longer distances, etc. Cardio is great for weight loss or even just maintaining your current size, so give running or biking a shot if you're worried about your weight creeping up too much.

[Magnus]

Binging once on a pizza won't make anyone gain weight. Sure, the next few days the number on the scale will be up due to water retention (there's lots of salt in that pizza) but gaining fat from one pizza is highly unlikely.

I'm very curious now, though. What height are you guys, and what were your pre-T and after T weights?

Actually, prior to T, a move like that would make me gain fat. I actually used to gain 2-5lbs overnight (not just water weight either) regardless but that was mostly due to cortisol and insulin issues (with that, you pack on fat no matter what else is going on 'behaviorally'). I was never, prior to T, able to really lose fat on my own. I'd get maybe 15-20lbs down but it would catch up even if still following the same strict regimen indefinitely. Not even with extremely strict dieting (e.g. Michael Thurmond). But then my weight issues weren't due to poor diet in the first place.

I'm 5'7". I was 210 pre-T. Same weight, different mass distribution across the board. Yes, still fat. But not nearly as fat as I was before. At my heaviest I was 235lbs. I'm sure that now, on T, I could get rid of the extra fat without issues. However, money's really tight so I can't diet right now (meat is way too expensive). Not an excuse, just a circumstance of the times for the moment. I'm eating as good as I can afford. Not losing any more weight, but not gaining any more weight either. Come to that, I'm not quite eating enough. But I wasn't before either. It's a hard habit to break for me, as most food used to make me feel sickly so I stopped eating as much as possible... really not easy to get out of that even though that's not true anymore.

[Daft]

I'm actually about the same weight I was pre-T. The exception being that, before T, most of my weight had been contributed by fat--I've lost most of it and gained muscle instead. I'm still a tad overweight (5'6 and around 150), but my body fat percentage has definitely taken a hit. I find it easier to lose weight now that I'm on T, too.

[chaseinspace]

8 years ago I started T at age 20, 130 lbs. By the end of the first year I was at 150. Today I am 28 and 170-ish lbs. The brunt of my weight gain was within the first 2-3 years, your mileage may vary. I would be very surprised if someone started T and did not gain weight...it is mostly muscle density and belly fat. On the bright side, you will now lose weight a lot quicker than you would without T!

[JandJ]

I have gained a lot.  PreT weight was around 108 - weight last week was 137!  I continue to tell myself that 137 is 'normal' for a Male of my height!  It is still hard for me to wrap my head around though.  I do feel that most is muscle mass etc.   

[Rawb]

I am 5'6 and overweight, my biggest worry is that I'll gain a lot of fat. If the weight gained is mostly muscle (mostly from working out), then it's a bit less scarey.
I just really don't want to gain more fat weight, and I wanted to loose weight.