Working out and hormones

[Robin.]

I feel like I have been making too many posts....I just have so many questions...srry 

Anyways, I have started working out alot. So I was wondering If working out heavily and beeing on a diet and thusly losing alot of weight would reduce the effects of hormones...? I mean how can breasts and waste develope if I'm loseing fat?

[Lachlann]

Ask as many questions as you'd like.

Hormones still shift where your fat goes. So you'd still develop breasts even if you were working out to lose fat.

[Robin.]

Good 

[Hannah]

Don't worry about questions darling, if we didn't have discussions this would just be a boring reference site where we looked stuff up. There have been some really interesting disussions on this topic.

I was worried about this too, and my fears were unfounded. In the last year I've lost a significant amount of extra weight; and am just about filling a b-cup along with a decent pair of hips. After a few months of hrt the weight started coming off and staying on inthe right places. The thing seems to be consistency, I'm a low carber so my body has plenty of fat and protein to work with, but on those off weeks when I get into the sugar or don't exercise I'd swear my development slows or stops.

[Nero]

If you're on estrogen, working out won't result in a ton of muscle. I wouldn't worry. And as others said, working out won't stop breast growth. Well, female body builders don't seem to be too endowed, but if you're on working at level, it should be okay.

[Myself]

A bit more of a tech explanation.

You get energy from already existing fat which and sugar from what you eat.

You'd usually have to break fat to create ATP to energize the body even if you eat quite a bit of sugar, meanings, some of the food you eat is used as immediate energy, some is used to store energy (as new fat).

A while after you eat, your sugar levels from food drop and your body needs to break fat cells again to energize.

So you can lose weight and change where the fat is at the same time!

As for muscles, testosterone is what makes muscles bulk. You can work out and not bulk if you are on hormones.

[Robin.]

Thanx for the info. I plan on mostly just biking. For now I'm doing about every other day or at least 4 days a week. And I'm on the low carb diet, more like no carb for now.
Its kinda funny, in the past I have tried the low carb diet but just didn't have the ability to stick with it but now that i have something to look forward to in life its become easy, and almost fun.

[Hannah]

Yeah, fat and protein don't break down as efficiently and therefore it takes more of it compared to carbohydrates to provide energy. You need some though honey, get some Asparagus or Broccoli and cheddar cheese, they both are high in fiber and have a low glycemic index. Your brain requires a tiny bit of glucose daily, and that can't be synthesized from fat.

[Robin.]

Yeah, fat and protein don't break down as efficiently and therefore it takes more of it compared to carbohydrates to provide energy. You need some though honey, get some Asparagus or Broccoli and cheddar cheese, they both are high in fiber and have a low glycemic index. Your brain requires a tiny bit of glucose daily, and that can't be synthesized from fat.

Thanx for the advice, I like broccli...especially dipped in melted chedder cheese! And aspatagus is pretty good to...but the after effects always catch me by suprise. 

[Naturally Blonde]

Thanx for the advice, I like broccli...especially dipped in melted chedder cheese! And aspatagus is pretty good to...but the after effects always catch me by suprise. 

Carry on like that and your'll have a belly like budda! 

[Hannah]

but the after effects always catch me by suprise

haha, if you want a real party try some Orlistat (Ally) while your'e low carbing. It coats your intestinal tract and keeps your body from absorbing some of the fat. Well, on a low carb diet that's obviously not a good idea, your whole chemistry changes and my dear god I thought I was gonna die.

[Robin.]

Naturalty blonde,
I wasn't implying that I eat that all the time. Infact its been probably a year since ice had cheese and broccoli.

[Naturally Blonde]

Naturalty blonde,
I wasn't implying that I eat that all the time. Infact its been probably a year since ice had cheese and broccoli.

Yea, Cheese may do the damage. I know when I started transition quite a few years ago now the only fat I had was a little tiny bit on my belly. This was probably due to my diet at that time and once HRT was implimented the fat accumilated on my belly only and made the whole situation worse. It's still a problem today.

[jesse]

 a little more.... the fuel of cells is glycogen and the human body burns fuel in the following order stored glycogen carbohydrates proteins then finally fat.  Why in this order because it is the easiest method for the body to use the energy in the food source.
so with that in mind this is why the atkins diet works so well it takes more energy to burn protein then the protein gives the body problem is you cant stay on this diet forever.. elimating any one or more catagory is unhealthy. Take this information to the gym now lets say 40 mins pefore a cardio work out you in-hale a mountain dew and bag of chips (simple sugar and simple carb) you ready made glycogen store fills up first and excess as soon as the insulan hits it is combined with h20 to and stored as good old fat. So now you exercise like a maniac for 40 mins burn off 450 cals and think you've done something (wrong) your body imeadiatly pulls from stored glycogen for the first 30-40 mins net fat burned zero.... waste of effort.
So as far as your question goes it will slow devolopment as you body stores new fat in the hrt appropriate places while taking off the fat from other places. high intensity exercise is the reason in women who eat like a bird become flat chested or at least small breasts
Post Merge: November 12, 2009, 07:37:37 AM
Becca your body does produce glycogen from fat it just takes longer and uses more energy the reason you get sluggish or groggy or cant concentrate is because on no carbs the body is having difficulty keeping up with its basic cal requirement to just keep you alive
jessica

[Hannah]

I've been low carbing it for a long time now and I'm not sluggish in the slightest. I'm lazy, but I have been my whole life 

What no food choice changes is the value of getting your little butt up and moving your body. People often blame low carb for their own laziness or lack of discipline. It's a nice way to live even without a weight loss goal, but it did take some getting used too. I don't particularly care for Atkins because while their method is sound, they are geared around selling product of course. Most of their stuff has maltodextrin in it, which is pretty much the same thing as sugar in terms of glycemic response. I'd rather have half a cauntelope for breakfast than one of their stupid shakes, or a bowl of berries instead of one of their nasty candy bars.

I'm not sure about making glycogen from fat, maybe I was thinking of protein. Whatever the deal is I agree that eliminating anything is a bad idea, but I wouldn't think skewing the arbitrary balance of the rda was necessarily a bad thing