Quote from: LittleEmily24 on May 22, 2014, 10:22:36 PM
Well, I decided to ask my PT and she pretty much assures me that I'll have a regular flat stomach within 1-2 months if I continue on my current path. Intense training, an hour of interval resistance cardio, a low carb diet. I've been losing about 1-2 pounds a week so I'm sure at some point my body won't have enough fat to even support the belly anymore.... I mean I have noticed that my belly has reduced drastically, it's just still stubbornly present.

I'm currently pursuing a master's degree in Nutrition, and I would second your PT with that vote of confidence. If you keep losing like you have been, your body will absolutely start pulling that fat out of your belly area, and soon! If you aren't already I'd suggest adding core exercises.

Also just my two bits but if that's you in your profile, you look like you're already at a healthy and nice-looking size...

Quote from: Kyra553 on May 22, 2014, 10:36:13 PM
The best I can do to really help my shape is a waist cincher and feminizing exercises. With a cincher alone, I've lost a ton of weight in that area and after eight months I still am trimming down.  I'm going to move into tight lace corseting next to really get things aligned propper.

I like your plan Kyra because we are generally so thick or wide waisted even when in good physical shape. I've recently had my love handles lipo-suctioned like I previously mentioned, but this would be a great way to follow up on that procedure. I had to wear a cincher for a month following that procedure just so the goods would adhere to the body properly afterward, but it was designed for a typical male physique and I have been looking at female cinchers as they are designed to create a shapelier waist. I have noticed that since the fat cells are gone from the love handles that my butt is getting much bigger and fuller looking meaning that the fat has to store somewhere so it's going there. I knew of a trans woman that developed a gorgeous hour glass figure over time wearing a waist cincher, she looked gorgeous in her full figure photos.

Quote from: Kyra553 on May 23, 2014, 03:35:07 PM
I've used this one for a few months now and its been the best one I've had so far. It really gave me shape with great firmness. Though its meant for the lower half of the body. If it was a high waist cincher I would just keep sizing down with this one.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BZ4CFLM/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


I just ordered this one and I hope it works out well for me.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EV5GCSY/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I just purchased this one today at lunch ...
http://www.amazon.com/Ann-Chery-Womens-latex-Black/dp/B00ECIYWA0/ref=sr_1_1?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1407348113&sr=1-1&keywords=ann+chery+vest
  When I got back to work I locked my office door and tried it on. It felt like my birthday, it looked AMAZING. It was quite snug but felt wonderful. It smells a bit funky though, but I have read that goes away. Did it for you?
I'm hoping to air it out so that I can wear it under my work clothes without anyone asking who it is that smells like a tire. Is yours working out for you?

Before this I had a simple cincher from walmart but it kept showing back fat so I was constantly adjusting it.

Toni

I didn't have a belly pre-HRT but thanks to Hormones I now have an unsightly belly!

Try to limit your calories intake by a little than usual for some time, and work out for that area. Don't drink alcohol...

Quote from: Emily29 on August 06, 2014, 01:17:22 PM
Try to limit your calories intake by a little than usual for some time, and work out for that area. Don't drink alcohol...

I don't drink alchohol and I don't eat a lot of carbs. The belly is caused by HRT nothing else! it's at odds with the rest of me being quite thin.

Quote from: ToniR on August 06, 2014, 01:07:04 PM
I just purchased this one today at lunch ...
http://www.amazon.com/Ann-Chery-Womens-latex-Black/dp/B00ECIYWA0/ref=sr_1_1?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1407348113&sr=1-1&keywords=ann+chery+vest
  When I got back to work I locked my office door and tried it on. It felt like my birthday, it looked AMAZING. It was quite snug but felt wonderful. It smells a bit funky though, but I have read that goes away. Did it for you?
I'm hoping to air it out so that I can wear it under my work clothes without anyone asking who it is that smells like a tire. Is yours working out for you?

Before this I had a simple cincher from walmart but it kept showing back fat so I was constantly adjusting it.

Toni

Yeah the new has been working out well and it smelled slightly at first. But after wearing it for a wear or two the smell has gone away within the washer.
I still have both cinchers and both have held up great! Though I may get the one you found because it covers up those pesky side back fat spots. lol

 Mother Nature messed up with the boy parts but made up for it in other ways I guess

I do feel pretty lucky to be in my late 50's and still have this shape, my spouse hates me for it though since now that she just turned 50 her body is changing quite a bit as she struggles with menopausal weight gain.

Quote from: Michelle G on October 14, 2014, 10:55:56 AM
Mother Nature messed up with the boy parts but made up for it in other ways I guess

I do feel pretty lucky to be in my late 50's and still have this shape, my spouse hates me for it though since now that she just turned 50 her body is changing quite a bit as she struggles with menopausal weight gain.

OK dump on my picnic skinny girl! 

Sorry auntie Shan

Quote from: LittleEmily24 on May 22, 2014, 11:04:39 AM
and really kind of impedes my ability to wear a 2 piece bikini without looking strangely shaped.

You know how many cisfemales feel comfortable wearing a 2 piece? Not many!

I'd love to slip into a 2 piece but even if I lose all my male shape I'll still never really look right in one.

Alice
xx

Quote from: LittleEmily24 on May 22, 2014, 09:54:59 AM
I'm sure i'm not the only one on here who has begun transition under less than admirable physical stature (in terms of personal preference i mean, not saying that there is a "perfect" body to have for transition or anything), and for those of us who may have had a bit of a gut back then, I would assume we would have wanted it gone.

Now, I'm not talking about being overweight or anything drastic, i'm talking about the usual small gut. I'm not necessarily fat but I have a stubborn tummy that I've been working hard to get rid of (it has reduced but i still have a couple of months of working out to fully get rid of it). I guess my question is more for the people who decided not to worry about their small gut...

-Did the gut kinda flatten out as your hips developed? as in, did it meld together with the fat that distributed around your hips? Or did you end up just losing the gut as a result of having a smaller stomach or less appetite or starving yourself etc.

I guess to put it simply: if you had a gut, how did you get rid of it after started HRT, and if you didn't even try to get rid of it and it still went away, how did it go away?

To be a little more clear on what im talking about, im pretty much talking about that stubborn belly fat that most cismen get from too much young-blooded nights of intoxicated debauchery and late night fried food consumption. I'm pretty much thin every else on my body but my stomach is being a pain in the proverbial ass.

Any advice or experience?

When I was transitioning I had a small "pouch" in front that I couldn't seem to get rid of. At one point I dropped my weight down to 146 thinking that weight loss alone would do it. It didn't and all that resulted was that I looked too gangly and actually started to look sickly. The hormones didn't seem to make any differences either. What finally helped is something I found many years after I had finished my transition. Weight lifting. I know what you may be thinking, weight lifting for girls? But there are female weight lifting classes. Lots of effort, eating good food and it took a while, but I finally made it go away.

I've only been on HRT a short time but what I am noticing is it seems a lot harder for me to lose weight. In fact I run four times a week (5kms each time) and eat very healthy. I try to walk 10,000 steps a day but I don't seem to lose weight, it's crazy. Before hrt I would have shed kilos doing that. But things aren't getting worse either, so whilst I'm accumulating some fat around the hips, the belly whilst small is not getting bigger, woohoo!

Quote from: LittleEmily24 on May 22, 2014, 09:54:59 AM
I'm sure i'm not the only one on here who has begun transition under less than admirable physical stature (in terms of personal preference i mean, not saying that there is a "perfect" body to have for transition or anything), and for those of us who may have had a bit of a gut back then, I would assume we would have wanted it gone.

Now, I'm not talking about being overweight or anything drastic, i'm talking about the usual small gut. I'm not necessarily fat but I have a stubborn tummy that I've been working hard to get rid of (it has reduced but i still have a couple of months of working out to fully get rid of it). I guess my question is more for the people who decided not to worry about their small gut...

-Did the gut kinda flatten out as your hips developed? as in, did it meld together with the fat that distributed around your hips? Or did you end up just losing the gut as a result of having a smaller stomach or less appetite or starving yourself etc.

I guess to put it simply: if you had a gut, how did you get rid of it after started HRT, and if you didn't even try to get rid of it and it still went away, how did it go away?

To be a little more clear on what im talking about, im pretty much talking about that stubborn belly fat that most cismen get from too much young-blooded nights of intoxicated debauchery and late night fried food consumption. I'm pretty much thin every else on my body but my stomach is being a pain in the proverbial ass.

Any advice or experience?

I never had much of a belly till I went on HRT. Now I have a belly which looks like I've been on the beer every night or over eating, but the reality is I don't drink and I don't eat that much. It appears hormones have deposited all the fat in one area, the belly. My legs are thin, my body is thin apart from this increasing belly. For whatever reason the fat redistribution isn't happening and all the HRT is doing on me is increasing a male type fat distribution pattern rather than the opposite.

The Skinny On Stubborn Belly Fat

http://www.prevention.com/weight-loss/flat-belly-diet/flat-belly-diet-subcutaneous-and-visceral-belly-fat

barbie~~

Mother nature messed up big time on the boy parts but thankfully she made up for it a little bit by giving me a sorta girly figure. my lovely spouse gives my the "not fair" line all the time, lol

Quote from: Michelle G on August 06, 2015, 01:58:53 PM
Mother nature messed up big time on the boy parts but thankfully she made up for it a little bit by giving me a sorta girly figure. my lovely spouse gives my the "not fair" line all the time, lol

Yeah, old pictures. Before hormone therapy. All it takes for me is not having enough money for more food. ;P

omg <jealous>... 

You look great!

Quote from: Skeptoid on August 06, 2015, 02:38:04 PM
Yeah, old pictures. Before hormone therapy. All it takes for me is not having enough money for more food. ;P

We could be twins, lol


I have a bad habit of not stopping to eat once I get working on a project, that and having a spouse on a diet and no snacks in sight doesnt help at all, I have to try to keep weight at a decent level.

That little belly really bothered me so much that I decided to start working out. I also think that hormones tend to have better effects on fit people and I have been having a tough time getting those to kick in lol