Worried about my build and HRT

[ThaliaNyx]

I'm rather skinny and I have a high metabolism, plus I'm just over 6'. I'm worried that when I start HRT in a year or so, it might not have any effect because I have hardly any fat to redistribute. I weigh about 120 lbs. Will HRT help lower my metabolism, or at least help me store some of what I eat as fat? Could it cause me health problems by trying to convert other tissue into fat?

[Deborah]

First of all tissue is not converted to fat.  Fat is stored from the excess calories you eat.  If you want to gain fat just eat more.

HRT may lower your metabolism a little but not a whole lot.  However estrogen interacts with the body to make fat storage easier and also makes it harder to lose it.


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[ThaliaNyx]

Okay, thanks!

[Dena]

Estrogen wil slow your metabolism a bit but the big boost will happen when the doctor puts you on progesterone. That will make you hungry like a pregnant woman and you will find yourself packing food down like there is no tomorrow. You need to watch it because you might put more weight than you want. If so, have the doctor reduce the dose.

[Deborah]

Also,  you will be able to gain weight easier in any case in a few years.  There may come a time when you'll wish it was hard to gain again.  :-).


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[kittenpower]

I was very muscular with very little body fat (4-6% was average for me) before I started HRT, which meant that I had a very fast metabolism, but overtime I lost a lot of muscle, and was able to gain some fat from HRT, and store it proportionately in typical female areas, but it took about 7 years. I currently have 18% body fat, and my BMI is 24. 

[Valwen]

also when they say redistribute fat its not moveing from one location to another, instead your body starts storing fat in new places and is more likely to burn fat from old places and not store more there.

So really your in a great situation for building up some curves, me I am fat in all the wrong places, and loosing it is awful extra awful when life gets to me (which always seems to happen) and I feel down and eat far too much of the wrong stuff.

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[KayXo]

Fat is stored from the excess calories you eat.  If you want to gain fat just eat more.

Actually, it seems it's a little more complicated than just calories in, calories out. High insulin levels (triggered by carbs) promote fat storage, as do estrogen and progesterone but more so in the gluteofemoral region (butt, thighs). When your body is in fat storage, less fuel is available so you will feel tired and hungry, leading to increased appetite, increased calories to compensate and if you don't eat, then you just end up spending less energy. It's hormonal.

However estrogen interacts with the body to make fat storage easier and also makes it harder to lose it.

Estrogen inhibits fat storage in the waist area (like testosterone) while promoting fat storage in other areas.