Quote from: Roll on November 14, 2017, 12:26:22 PM
Most of those are definitely gross. Zone bars are the only ones that are decent in my opinion. (Though some of them are outright delicious.) Aversion therapy aside, they actually are a good way to feel full. (Double dark chocolate zone bars are a little too delicious though...)

Luna bars are like real candy bars. My dad and brother also use that protein powder. It's equally disgusting. I mentioned how nasty that protein powder was to my brother and he rolled his eyes and informed me that stuff was for the protein you need for working out and not for the taste.  Well excuuuuse me Mr universe. Have your sawdust bars and chalk protein powder. Ewww.

Im always losing and gaining weight. Mostly gaining though- its rough. I try to drink water and balance things out with sweet/salty/savoury but i really have to watch my cholestrol. I've always had this issue with food and its still the same with hrt. I just stopped eating meat and poultry recently so I can work on keeping my cholestrol in the healthy range.

Its stressful but i did lose 20 pounds since about a year ago so thats nice. Also my arms are big, is that muscle, fat or both? I think a little of both even though i dont work out.


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Quote from: dist123 on November 14, 2017, 02:02:53 PM
Im always losing and gaining weight. Mostly gaining though- its rough. I try to drink water and balance things out with sweet/salty/savoury but i really have to watch my cholestrol. I've always had this issue with food and its still the same with hrt. I just stopped eating meat and poultry recently so I can work on keeping my cholestrol in the healthy range.

Its stressful but i did lose 20 pounds since about a year ago so thats nice. Also my arms are big, is that muscle, fat or both? I think a little of both even though i dont work out.


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Hrt makes weight maintenance totally hard. I'm trying to gain weight for a more female figure but I don't want to actually get fat. That's proving very hard.

This could be bad for me

I have loads of will power, its my won't power that I have trouble with.

"I won't eat this"
"I won't eat that"

It occurred to me that my biggest problem right now is already if you put food in front of me, I'll eat it. Therefore, I don't keep food around to begin with. Problem solved! Hopefully this approach works for HRT as well.

(I bought a box of 40 rice krispie treats at sams club for 8 bucks, because it was so cheap how could I not? IT HAS BEEN MY UNDOING. Seriously that's like a pound and then some of calories right there.)

Quote from: Roll on November 14, 2017, 03:14:03 PM
It occurred to me that my biggest problem right now is already if you put food in front of me, I'll eat it. Therefore, I don't keep food around to begin with. Problem solved! Hopefully this approach works for HRT as well.

(I bought a box of 40 rice krispie treats at sams club for 8 bucks, because it was so cheap how could I not? IT HAS BEEN MY UNDOING. Seriously that's like a pound and then some of calories right there.)

I wish I could do that but unfortunately there is junk food around all the time because my brother likes junk food. I've watched him scarf Doritos, Oreo cookies and snickers bars (his favorite candy bar) while we watch TV.  But he never gains weight. When he does that it makes me want to bake him a chocolate cake made out of chocolate laxative.

Quote from: Roll on November 14, 2017, 03:14:03 PM
It occurred to me that my biggest problem right now is already if you put food in front of me, I'll eat it. Therefore, I don't keep food around to begin with. Problem solved! Hopefully this approach works for HRT as well.

(I bought a box of 40 rice krispie treats at sams club for 8 bucks, because it was so cheap how could I not? IT HAS BEEN MY UNDOING. Seriously that's like a pound and then some of calories right there.)

Easier said than done with an 8 year old in the house [emoji17]

I live with a brother as well but he does all his own cooking.  I just go on living on boring healthy stuff and haven't experienced any of these weird cravings; maybe with more E it'll happen. For now water and salt are just extra medications I have to take, the former by the gallon, crystal clear pee is mandatory.

On a couple of occasions pints of beer left me feeling totally woozy, and I thought that meant my brewski days had come to an end; but last month I guzzled down a whole big bottle of Guinness and nothing happened.  The entire medium supreme pizza and pint of ice cream must have helped.     Famished+needing comfort foods=disgusting spectacle. 

Quote from: Lucy Ross on November 14, 2017, 06:09:40 PM
I live with a brother as well but he does all his own cooking.  I just go on living on boring healthy stuff and haven't experienced any of these weird cravings; maybe with more E it'll happen. For now water and salt are just extra medications I have to take, the former by the gallon, crystal clear pee is mandatory.

On a couple of occasions pints of beer left me feeling totally woozy, and I thought that meant my brewski days had come to an end; but last month I guzzled down a whole big bottle of Guinness and nothing happened.  The entire medium supreme pizza and pint of ice cream must have helped.     Famished+needing comfort foods=disgusting spectacle.

Without getting into dosages, the cravings didn't start for me until I went up to what my doctor considers transition dosage which. Before that I had no issues, maybe even low appetite.

Quote from: jill610 on November 14, 2017, 06:20:40 PM
Without getting into dosages, the cravings didn't start for me until I went up to what my doctor considers transition dosage which. Before that I had no issues, maybe even low appetite.

I starred getting weird cravings about 2 months into hrt. But I have been on high doses of both estrogen and spironolactone from the start.

I've been craving mexican food a lot more since starting HRT. I always thought it was alright but never really went out of my way to get it, now I need it once a week!

The only thing that changed about my eating habits was that I developed a tendency to binge eat when I was stressed/depressed.

Quote from: Maddie86 on November 14, 2017, 06:53:41 PM
I've been craving mexican food a lot more since starting HRT. I always thought it was alright but never really went out of my way to get it, now I need it once a week!

Perfect timing for taco Tuesday then!