Estrogen, weight and swelling

[KayXo]

Curious about everyone else's experiences...

[ainsley]

No fair!  I can't vote because I work out regularly and take progesterone.
I would vote no change, though.

[Rachel]

Weight has been an issue. I work out and watch what I eat but can not get below 198. I lost 22 ponds since GCS recovery and am at my pre-op weight. I have not noticed swelling. I would love to get to 170 pounds.

[Dani]

I voted no change because I do not attribute any weight change to HRT.

Please note my situation is different. I started HRT in the middle of massive weight loss. At my highest weight I weighed 340 pounds. One year later, I weighed 275 and then I started HRT. I continued my weight loss program and continued to lose weight until I reached 217. Then I had GCS and in the healing process, I gained about 20 pounds.

That was almost 2 years ago and now that I am fully healed, I have resolved to restart my weight loss program. I am doing nothing extreme, just lots of vegetables and some fruit.

[Deborah]

I started HRT in Jan 2015 with both E and P and lost 40 lbs to 165 lbs.  this past Sept my Oral E dose was raised to the maximum and in Oct I stopped taking P.  Since then I've gained about five or six lbs.  However, that was a lean mass gain from a combination of my workouts and creatine I started taking in Oct.  My fat mass has remained virtually constant since July at around 20 lbs.  Part of that time I was on P and part of the time not on P and my E dose was raised without any discernible effect on my body fat.


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[SadieBlake]

My E level was at 700 pg/ml for my first 4 months. I didn't notice any weight change per se, just the beginning of shifting some weight to butt/thighs.