Quote from: JoanneB on September 25, 2012, 08:31:44 PM
I have been very reluctant to look at this thread since I am currently not seeing/feeling much of that joy I have found. All I can feel is like some baby being teased, that shiny object I so want always being pulled away out of reach. I've seen the promised land. I've even been able to run barefoot through the river's edge. Yet I always come around around to feel I can never cross over.

It is both a curse and a blessing.

(((HUGS Hun))) Im the same boat. Seems like you make a hard fought step forward only to go 3 steps back. My wife drew a line in the sand "NO HORMONES" but i still think there's room for" evolution in thought".
I might be moving too fast.

But i've lost 20 lbs and am back in my skinny short shorts.

And i've been getting lots of compliments that "you look good" but they don't know i use makeup.
Transition is better sweet.

Quote from: Joann on September 24, 2012, 01:04:00 PM
Finally motivated to lose weight so i can get into those size 14 low rise jeans.
Lost 15 lbs so far. Should be there by spring.

This! I've lost about 30lbs/15kgs so far, and I'm about my ideal weight! All thanks to the motivation rush I've had during the last year.

And I love how much more comfortable I (finally) am with myself. It shows. And I love that I get so many long and interested looks thrown at my direction, it just makes me feel warm and happy. It's intoxicating how much more attention I get when I look and behave more like the gender(s) I feel I am.

And I love it when some people nowadays understand I'm not (just) a girl/woman.

Quote from: Annah on September 24, 2012, 01:01:38 PM
for me, it is the monumental philosophical experience of saying I lived one life and have experienced the social, cultural, relational aspects first hand of living the life of a man and then living the life of a woman.

Out of billions of people living on this planet, not many people can say they have lived two fully immersible genders

You and  about another 125,000 MTF, that is assuming that the world-wide incidence of MTF is 1:30,000 males

Seeing life from two sides. I grew up female but now I get to see life from the other side of the tracks so to speak. A side effect of getting on HRT for me was motivation to take better care of myself (smoke less, drink less, eat better, work out, etc), so I count that as a victory.

I got 1 "Madam" and two (2) "Yong lady's" in one day and i hevent even started hormones yet.

Being able to wear what I want and have purple hair and still pass.