Finally at peace with my transition. How do you remain patient with the process?

[missmolly]

I posted at the beginning of the month how I was having some doubts after only 5 days of starting HRT. I took a couple weeks off from HRT to collect my thoughts and determined this truly is the direction I want to go. Now I have been back on HRT for the past week and have zero plans to stop. I am at peace with it. While coming out is going to be a nervewrecking event, I am extremely excited about the future.

The problem is that I am perhaps a bit too excited, so much to where I just want to be female now and see all the changes now. HRT takes time, plus I have to grow my hair out and get laser treatments on my face. I figure I am at least 9 months away if not more from being able to go full time. I want everything to be in place when I go full time, I understand its something I don't have to wait to do, but this is my preference.

Fortunately I don't have much work to do on my body to get that where I want it to be - I am 6 feet tall and my measurements this morning were 33.5 bust, 29 waist and 38 hips. Ideally I want to be 34 bust, 27 waist and 40 hips. Hoping I can get HRT fat distribution along with working out at the gym to get those 2 additional inches on my hips. For the most part its just being patient with hair growth and HRT changes.

[Jenny94]

Hey missmolly, I can't speak from experience, but from what I've heard it's really common to have a wobble when you start on HRT. Good for you for deciding to continue, you're basically becoming yourself, which is a wonderful decision. Gotta say I am massively jealous of your measurements - I am pretty much 34,34,34. Not much we can do about that! >__<

I'm basically trying to be full-time at the moment, but I get misgendered by literally every person that sees me, so the effect is that I isolate myself to avoid humiliation. So, avoiding going full-time seems like a good idea in many ways!

[LizK]

I posted at the beginning of the month how I was having some doubts after only 5 days of starting HRT. I took a couple weeks off from HRT to collect my thoughts and determined this truly is the direction I want to go. Now I have been back on HRT for the past week and have zero plans to stop. I am at peace with it. While coming out is going to be a nervewrecking event, I am extremely excited about the future.

The problem is that I am perhaps a bit too excited, so much to where I just want to be female now and see all the changes now. HRT takes time, plus I have to grow my hair out and get laser treatments on my face. I figure I am at least 9 months away if not more from being able to go full time. I want everything to be in place when I go full time, I understand its something I don't have to wait to do, but this is my preference.

Fortunately I don't have much work to do on my body to get that where I want it to be - I am 6 feet tall and my measurements this morning were 33.5 bust, 29 waist and 38 hips. Ideally I want to be 34 bust, 27 waist and 40 hips. Hoping I can get HRT fat distribution along with working out at the gym to get those 2 additional inches on my hips. For the most part its just being patient with hair growth and HRT changes.

Hi Miss Molly

Great to hear you are feeling better about HRT. 9 months is a pretty fast timeline to accomplish what you want, Good luck and I hope you achieve your goal. You sound like you are well on your way now.