Face fat

[Meepit]

I'm starting to get paranoid that the lack of T and over riding E is making my face rounder and fatter . Does the fat or squishy areas near the jaws and cheeks go away on T? Or is it stuck there like most of the hip fat is .

[Tyler90210]

I'm starting to get paranoid that the lack of T and over riding E is making my face rounder and fatter . Does the fat or squishy areas near the jaws and cheeks go away on T? Or is it stuck there like most of the hip fat is .

Usually a person's face will slim down on T and get MUCH more angular.   

Also with the changes in fat most hips will become somewhat more masculine. 

[kyril]

It's supposed to go away. The hip fat is supposed to go away too, but the time scale might be kind of long. Face fat, though - face changes happen pretty quickly from what I've seen of people's transition diaries, probably because they're smaller-scale.

[Meepit]

Oh I had no idea that the hip fat wasn't permanent learned something new today. I always thought that the majority would go away but some would still be there, but that's a bit more assuring to know that it'll eventually go away. As for face fat, do you think genetics also plays a role? Like, even if I randomly get a rounder face, it'll cut down to a certain, defined shape or is it based on quantity like the more fat you have pre-T, the more fat you'll have on T in comparison to other guys who had less fat pre-T? Thanks for the responses, guys .

[kyril]

Well, fat is really dynamic stuff, it's constantly being metabolized and deposited and absorbing stuff and leaching stuff and generally interacting with your body. Given enough time and the right hormones, as I understand it, you'll eventually get to the same fat distribution you'd have had if you were born male.

That doesn't necessarily mean the same appearance (the underlying bone structure is different) and it doesn't necessarily mean you'll be as square-faced as the average guy (you might just have chubby-cheek genes) but it does mean you'll be within male norms for fat distribution. Muscle, too. And eventually skin, except that skin has trouble contracting beyond a certain point so if you're really big in one of the female fat areas and you lose all that on T you might have some skin sag that needs to be corrected. I'm pretty sure that's not a concern for your face though unless we're talking extreme double/triple chins...people who lose 50-75 pounds seem to have enough elasticity in their skin to handle that.

[Meepit]

  I don't even have 50-75 pounds to LOSE. Thanks for the detail though, it really clears things up for me. I guess I'll just have to be patient and stick it out a bit longer to see what happens .

[M.Grimm]

I'm actually getting a bit fatter in the face, although it's that swollen-cheek phase some guys hit when first going on T. Apparently that can last for a couple of months; I'm looking forward to it going away, blech.

But yeah, other than that, women have more face-fat than men do so T will make your face leaner, eventually.

[DaddySplicer]

FFFFFFFFF-- FACE FAT.

This was my enemy pre-T, and it became even worse for nearly a year and a half after I'd started T.

My face has just recently begun slimming down, revealing a much more angular bone structure than I think I had previously.

T puffs you up for a bit, and then you deflate, essentially.

[jet3]

I always had a skinny face, but around 5 months on T my face went through a chubby stage. It gradually started slimming down and now it's a lot more chizzled.

[Meepit]

Whoa that's another thing I didn't know about (the face-fat phase on T). Hmm that helps as it seems to be just as much a male problem (albeit temporary) as a female one. Also glad to hear that it WILL slim down even if it goes through the fat-phase thanks guys.

[notyouraverageguy]

I have chubby cheeks.
Why does T puff your cheeks up?

[kyril]

The puffiness is possibly water retention and possibly partly just the same "baby fat" phase teenage boys go through (part of why pre-T guys look like young boys, if we pass).

[Radar]

I've noticed less face fat, especially lately. I don't know why such a change lately, maybe I'm losing more weight overall? My hips have less fat now too, even though there wasn't much there to begin with. I still get self-conscience about my hips though. The biggest difference by far is way less thigh/upper leg fat. I had a ton of that. I love T.

[Tj.wright07]

i have been on t almost 5 months and i noticed my face got a lot fatter and i dont like it at all lol

[Make_It_Good]

I used to hate my "fat cheeks" as I used to call them in my complaints. T has definitely slimmed my face down, as the other guys have said, there was a stage where my face went puffier and more full lookin. Now however, at 13months on T, my face is more masculine looking and is less "fat" and round, more angular.
I never thought my face would change drastically, but its change to where I pass 100% now, so theres always hope :p

[Ryan]

Pretty much what everyone else has said.
Water retention in the first few months of T makes your face a bit puffy. It's nothing really noticeably weird or anything. It's just what boys get.

Hip fat will move to your stomach. Fat redistribution is very slow and often takes years to complete. Of course, a good diet helps too.