Why do I now eat apples with two hands?

[JLT1]

Hi,

A few years ago, before I started my transition, I ate an apple every now and then. I grabbed it with my right hand and just ate it.  Now, I eat them three or four times a week to help control weight.  Lately, I've noticed that I have been eating them in small bites and holding them close to my mouth with both hands.  Kinda nibbling them.  I have no idea when I started doing that or why I started doing that. 

I've also noticed that my taste has changed - I like foods I used to not like. Broccoli?  I used to hate it.  Now, I like it.  I suddenly developed better color vision. Lots of little things have changed.

Has this happened to anyone else - changes for no reason or without working on them?

If it has, what happened to you?

Jennifer 

[Beverly]

My case is not as extreme as yours. I still find broccoli revolting.

Whilst I still like steak its taste hsd changed somewhat and I will order chicken or fish even when I have a choice of steak.

But the oddest one is this. I have done the cooking in this family for 25 years and they all tell me that the food is better tasting then ever before.  I have always had compliments for my cooking but recently one person, who I have known for decades, told me that the lamb he was eating was the best he could ever recall.

Vegetable now taste better too. There is something going on. If it affects my taste buds that will change how I cook and season foods and maybe that is what others notice? My cookong had slwsys bern good.  People always flock to my parties because of my food. I have been told in no uncertain terms how people enjoy it but now it seems to be even better than before. I also have no urge to eat until I am stuffed. Feeling just full up is enoght.

I have put it down as one of those oddball transition things / effects

[stephaniec]

the vision thing seems to be true, my vision seems to be better. rutabaga is delicious , but I've always love rutabaga. I love every vegetable, so yea my eye sight seems to be better.

[Cindy]

My eyesight improved to a point where my optician did a triple take and retested me.

Food: can't take rare meat, I used to love it, I consume vegies and seafood like crazy.I hated onions, I know add them all the time. Love Thai food, used to be just OK. Portion size has decreased, I could never over eat anyway but now I'm full on a much smaller amount.I taste and love flavour I never use to notice.

I buy chocolate as part of my groceries, instead of an occasional nibble. I dislike red wine, use to prefer it.

I feel the cold more; I sleep more and dream vividly. I remember my dreams and feel like trying to understand them.

I love scent and perfume, and I can detect an unwashed man when he walks in the room!

I dislike violent movies and TV shows, I use to watch Rambo type movies etc as light relief! I now enjoy Opera and appreciate Art in a way I never understood.

I always liked children, but they now like me and come to me and I am very comfortable with them. Their Mums seem to totally be at ease when their youngster starts to climb over me. I'm asked to baby sit.

As a physician and scientist very little of this makes any sense.

I wouldn't swap it for the world!!

[Beverly]

I feel the cold more; I sleep more and dream vividly

I agree. I have never slept so well

I love scent and perfume, and I can detect an unwashed man when he walks in the room!

Oh yes! That smell. How did I never smell it before?

I dislike violent movies and TV shows, I use to watch Rambo type movies etc as light relief!

Yes. I wonder why I ever watched it.

As a ..... scientist very little of this makes any sense.

I wouldn't swap it for the world!!

I absolutely agree 1,000,000%

We often tell people who struggle with our our transition "but I am the same person I always was". I do not think that is true. We are very different once we wholly surrender to our inner self

I am not who I was and it shows in so many ways

[iKate]

I have a good few changes. Yes, vision is improved in many respects. But it is a subtle change and not really pronounced.

I like club soda/seltzer water now.

There are different tastes I have now.

With regard to apples, I take them, cut them up and put Tajín seasoning on them. Has to be Granny Smith.

[rosinstraya]

Never liked stinky people - and I can still smell them a mile off - but I am noticing a more specific male smell now. It's not unpleasant, but I still prefer women.

I feel the cold way more than I used to, and my hands and skin get dry very easily.

I can still demolish sweets and chocolate; I think my ability to cry has upped several levels.

I am (generally) way more relaxed and easy going when things #%^%# up.

Dreams tend to actually exist more now.


......I just feel better!!

[iKate]

I feel the cold way more than I used to, and my hands and skin get dry very easily.

Your skin is thinner and E tends to dehydrate you. I have noticed the same.

[Rachel]

I love chocolate. I eat 1 piece of 80 percent coco after exercising each day.

Dry skin.

I eat an apple a day. Now I cut it up.

New vision improved, far vision got worse.

[janetcgtv]

You probably been watching a lot of squirrels eating lately. As they hold their food with both hands and rotate it while taking a bite. I greatly enjoy watching a lot of wild animals and their habits.

Although I love broccoli But can not have it because it messes up my INR results for blood thinning due to taking coumadin.
I also no longer eat red meats and eat turkey and chicken instead

With movies even in action films, I am more interested in how people relate to each other instead of the action that take place.

I prefer to watch chic movies these days.

Have a nice day

[JLT1]

Hi!!!!

Thank you all for your responses.  Its good to know I'm not as strange as I thought.  The physical things have something to do with estrogen...no clue there.  The endocrine system is terribly complex and tied into so many seemingly unrelated systems.  But somehow I doubt that prescription estrogen is going to be a big hit with the general male population.

But the apple thing bothers me a little.  I've only ever seen that in women or frightened children.  Subconscious mind???  I know I am picking up other female trates but eating?  Is that really feminine?  Or am I just trying to keep my makeup in order?  If I am, why didn't I think of it?  Yet, I  did it again today...

Hugs,  Jen

[Mariah]

Does the estrogen play a role, probably. I do however think that part of it is also our trying to be careful of things like makeup. The estrogen effect is probably more along the lines that we spend more time and don't necessary rush about things. The gentile things and as a result of being more gentle well handling an apple with two hands is part of that. Hugs
Mariah

Hi!!!!

Thank you all for your responses.  Its good to know I'm not as strange as I thought.  The physical things have something to do with estrogen...no clue there.  The endocrine system is terribly complex and tied into so many seemingly unrelated systems.  But somehow I doubt that prescription estrogen is going to be a big hit with the general male population.

But the apple thing bothers me a little.  I've only ever seen that in women or frightened children.  Subconscious mind???  I know I am picking up other female trates but eating?  Is that really feminine?  Or am I just trying to keep my makeup in order?  If I am, why didn't I think of it?  Yet, I  did it again today...

Hugs,  Jen