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Hello to all well after 48 years of being the person i new i wasn't i have finally started to live my true life.
Ive just started on hormones into my second month now... i am so impatient can't see any changes yet :(

I tried hiding the real me behind tattoo's and the gym being stocky, trying to loose weight now learn makeup and everything feminine, it feels like its going to take forever to be the woman i know i am.

If any girls can give me advice i would so be greatful.

Sam x

The only thing I can say is give hormones a chance to do what they're meant to do.

Welcome to Susan's Place. If you start out with moobs sizable development can take place in the first 6 month. For those of us who are not endowed at the start, it might take 2-3 year for really noticeable development. To put this in the proper prospective, a CIS woman may continue to develop through her teen years. As for the changes, you should start feeling soreness itchy in the breast area and that's the first sign that they are growing. For the moment you might want to consider breast forms or inserts. On the other hand, breast aren't always that big of help when passing. Makeup, hair, voice and mannerism carry much more weight when you are being gendered.

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Seconded, its a very slow process, especially if you're trying to measure something physical like breast growth or fat distribution.   Heck, its a really slow process for puberty in cisfemales, and that's at a time in life when bodies are primed for their fastest possible growth phase.

Give it another month or two. You'll suddenly find that you have to be reaaaaaallllly careful picking up and carrying bulky objects. ;)

Ow.   Ouch...  (Sometimes I eventually learn things the hard way.)

It takes time to reprogram your body's cells. They eventually get the message, though.

Hi Samx

You are in for amazing things ahead... A lot of us come into this, like you, around the half century mark in life.... Seems to be about the limit that one can deny who they are :)... As the previous posts have noted... This is a marathon, not a sprint.... Your progress will seen more in months and years rather than day to day... I resolved at the beginning though to do something each day to get me closer to my goal... Even if it was something very small

The hormones may eventually help with the weight loss... I lost about 25 ponds of upper body muscle....never too early to get serious about hair removal on your face... Don't spend too much yet on body hair as hormones usually help that...

Most of all...be ready for some really hard stuff ahead... It is easy at the beginning to think ... Hormones will make me a passable woman... They will likely not...This journey, however you view it, will morph as you move along and will not be how you picture it now... It is a path filled with revelations about ourselves,...our past,...how much our gender issues colored our life in ways we hadn't realized,...our connections to others, the world around us and our path ahead....at the end of the day... This thing is about being okay with who you are inside...Remember, the only thing you need to pass as ... Is who you are... A transwoman...

With that said... Be ready as well for the joy of a life that will finally be your own....welcome to the forum and welcome to your real life!!!

Onward we go!!!!

Take Care,

Ashley :)

Quote from: rwOnnaDesuKa on September 05, 2016, 10:48:50 AM
Seconded, its a very slow process, especially if you're trying to measure something physical like breast growth or fat distribution.   Heck, its a really slow process for puberty in cisfemales, and that's at a time in life when bodies are primed for their fastest possible growth phase.

Does the fat distribution really comes into play with hrt????, if so how  long will it takes?? Sorry for the  funny language's , there have been no improvement for me and I'm  kinda thinking like getting fat implants into targeted areas.

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Whatever shape, size, or whatever changes you make over time,  accepting your femaleness is main thing.  Then you have the right to live your life the same way that any female does.  Which basically means that if you are comfortable being a woman and not making any changes at all that is ok.   If living the butch lifestyle like you have most of your life is comfortable to you go for it.   I tried living the butch life style for 53 years, but because it was imposed upon me by society and not my choice, I discovered that living butch wasn't for me.   

I am out full time as a woman online and off, but have never had the means to make any physical changes to my body.  Someday I hope, God, health, and insurance permits.   Socially, I am an auntie, a grandmother, mother, a father, a lady, a retired school marm.  Basically I have become a little old toothless harmless grandma, and when I have to show my driver's licence which still lists me as a male and tell people that I am a transsexual woman, I get a big so what!   I have never been threatening and am mostly a plain Jane.   

The only place that I have had problems is when I have to get x-rays and they insist in putting me in a male dressing room when I have to change.   Luckily,  I have been a lone in the changing room the one time it happened.   I have voted, done jury duty, used the lady's room all over, and passed through security at the federal building without problems.   People might behave distantly towards me, but being a quarter Swedish, I have a tendancy to be distant myself, unless the Irish half takes over, and the bull-headed Norwegian sides with the Irish.  Being 69, living in public housing, and living off Social Security isolates me to some extent.   However having a 13 year old son in middle school, attending school functions, and his neighborhood friends coming over, and exposes me, as a transsexual woman, who is the father to the son,  to being outed daily.    Plus the fact that my partner, his mother, sees me more as a male who lives as a woman, and she is constantly calling me Michael instead of Michelle and using male pronouns.   

I explain that I perfer female pronouns and I pronounce Michael as Michelle,  when I feel comfortable about it.  So for me dropping the trannsexual from my female identity is not possible.  I have five other biological adult children and grandchildren living on the West Coast,  plus brothers and sisters, and past students who I am out to.   

Life is not always simple and we can only do what we can.   I accept the fact that I am a grandmother no matter what others may think,  and I also accept the fact that I can't control what others think and feel about me.   They have the right to live their lives and I have the right to live mine.   I also accept the fact that I may or may not be able to feminize my body at all, even though I wish to,  but life happens as it does.

Besides  dealing with eating problems, like hiatal hernia problems which have caused me to loose 50 lbs because I have trouble eating, diabetes 2, high blood pressure, something on my 2nd vertebrae, and muscle aches, there are other issues to deal with on a daily basis.   Being on Medicare and Medicaid share accost makes health care a real test to deal with.   I was in the hospital for 5 days and they could not deal with my eating problems because they only dealt with on them on a out patient basis and finding a doctor which takes my insurance and medicaid share accost which is not booked up for months is a problem.

We all have issues and nobodies issues are more or less important than anybody else's.   We just have to deal with life as it is and be happy with ourselves.   Having gone through a Buddhist phase in my religious journey has helped me to cope with dealing with having desires which I can't fulfill, of which I have many.   There is not point to getting bent out of shape by the things we can't  control in life.

Quote from: ezjuliani on September 05, 2016, 12:32:44 PM
Does the fat distribution really comes into play with hrt????, if so how  long will it takes??

1st, a note about me, I've spent literally years of my life weighing every gram of food I eat, and measuring every heartbeat of exercise time I run, bike, swim, or lift.    But, I can only describe what and how my body has responded.

So, 2 rules, (1) when you burn fat, it is utilized mostly in a random distribution pattern, from male gut, to intermuscular, to liver stored fat, etc.   Fully random, thus over a long time, you can expect an even draw dawn of fat, as long as your daily caloric balance is in deficit.   (2) when you eat, and rest/sedentary for 3+ hours after, most of the food will go into storage, some glycogen recovery, and some fat.  The part that goes to fat, is heavily influenced by hormones, eg, Estrogen.   

Thus to maximize fat redistribution, schedule your 1hr+ cardio exercise sessions at least 3 hours after eating, more the better; and be sure to rest as perfectly as possible after eating.   This produces a positive gain on hips, butt, thighs, and slightly on breasts, and a negative effect (OVER LONG DURATION!!) on male belly fat.

(edit: oh, and be sure you stay in the LOW cardio zone, you want to avoid burning glycogen as much as possible, stay around or slightly below the 600 kcal/hour range and most of your exercise energy will be from fat storage, this is basic human physiology.)

Your mileage may vary, talk to a doc about exercise and diet, etc.

Thank you ladies so much for the kind words and helpful advice, i orginally started with herbal hormones but spoke with my GP then found a great doctor online who started me on hormones within 4 weeks.
I think to some degree we have all started on our journey wishing it would speed up...lol but like you say its a marathon not a sprint.

Ive always had moobs but my gf has said the shape has definatly changed to a fem shape and ive had some extra growth, i am already a B cup and would be more than happy with a C cup.

I think the hardest part for me is the waiting to the lose of my male features and more fem facial features.

I know hormones help with hair growth, what would your advice be on chest hair removal, should i start on electrolysis or will hormones sort this out for me. Hairy boobs aren't a good look...lol
I am going to start electrolysis on my face and the down stairs department, i do wish in time to have surgery to make me the woman i feel inside...

Thanks to all x