Quote from: AnamethatstartswithE on February 22, 2018, 05:35:57 PM
Hello everyone, this one is a biggie, so here it goes.

First We start off with how my face is doing, These go from 3 weeks on HRT, to 3 months, to six months left to right, you can really see the difference.

I definitely see a difference in your eyes

Quote from: AnamethatstartswithE on February 22, 2018, 05:35:57 PM
Hello everyone, this one is a biggie, so here it goes.

First We start off with how my face is doing, These go from 3 weeks on HRT, to 3 months, to six months left to right, you can really see the difference.



Next we can see how I look body wise, I've been curvy for a while now, I take measurements of my hips, my waist around the navel, my waist around the narrowest part, and my bust every day along with my weight. I've found that now when I have sudden weight gain, (eating too much due to travel, too many carbs etc.) it goes to my hips and chest instead of my stomach. Unfortunately when I take it off it goes away from there as well.


I'm not sure if anyone around me has noticed the changes, I've only been ma'amed once in the past month. Here is what I look like in boy mode for comparison:



My chest is growing, but very slowly. I still really don't like the way my face looks, I either look like some sort of witch or some old person. I feel like I look less feminine when I smile, though I do still look super old.


Now for some of the mental changes. A lot has happened with that as well. I had an odd experience a few weeks ago, I was digging through some old powerpoint slides for a presentation I needed to do, and I found a couple from when I first started working here, that really got me noticed. I decided to print them out and put them on my office wall. I looked at them and I was proud of myself. I remember thinking "wow, I'm still proud... still proud... it's not stopping!?!? ... why isn't it stopping?" I'm so used to getting down on myself shortly after feeling pride that it actually got uncomfortable for me.

I've been feeling steadily better about myself since I started HRT, but it's really kicked into high gear lately. People give me hard problems and not much time to solve them. But I can solve them, and I feel really good about it. I get excited for more. I'm not constantly qualifying it in my mind like:

"Anyone could have done that," or "you still could have done better." That's gone now, this must be what being normal feels like.

I'm going to try to talk to HR soon, so that things can be in place for when I'm ready to socially transition, but things are looking up.

While I had seen some of your pics, a few I hadn't and I was quite impressed with how it's putting a sparkle into your eyes.

E- I think you look great, you've got some great curves coming along -I'm really impressed with your front on photo that shows an hour glass shape that's awesome.
Also I really like your closeups, I think you have a very pretty face, the only thing I would add is - you're smiling in your avatar pic - which is awesome, maybe a few more smiles in your other photos, smiling can soften a persons face and add to the 'femme'.

Sonja

Quote from: Sonja on March 27, 2018, 03:19:14 AM
E- I think you look great, you've got some great curves coming along -I'm really impressed with your front on photo that shows an hour glass shape that's awesome.
Also I really like your closeups, I think you have a very pretty face, the only thing I would add is - you're smiling in your avatar pic - which is awesome, maybe a few more smiles in your other photos, smiling can soften a persons face and add to the 'femme'.

Sonja

Sonja:  Absolutely correct... a big, beautiful and happy smile in a photo or in a personal encounter can go a long way in passing.  A smile is disarming to most onlookers and many times don't look past the smile.
Danielle

Quote from: Alaskan Danielle on March 27, 2018, 12:05:22 PM

Sonja:  Absolutely correct... a big, beautiful and happy smile in a photo or in a personal encounter can go a long way in passing.  A smile is disarming to most onlookers and many times don't look past the smile.
Danielle

Quote from: Sonja on March 27, 2018, 03:19:14 AM
I think you have a very pretty face, the only thing I would add is - you're smiling in your avatar pic - which is awesome, maybe a few more smiles in your other photos, smiling can soften a persons face and add to the 'femme'.

Sonja

So I guess this is the part of being female where people constantly tell me to smile more 😉.

Anyway thanks, this is an older update, my most recent one is here:

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,235732.0.html