QuoteI'm amazed at the sylphs and pixies around here who say they have similar height and weight as me, but wear teeny tiny sizes in
the single digits. I just want to know--how do you do it?
LOL... I'd love to be a pixie... and some day I plan to be.
I started the middle of last summer cutting back on calories, I set a goal to get to 160lbs before I would let myself start HRT.
I had gotten pretty big and I've worn a size 32 mens jean and weighed 185 for the last few years. Most of my fat was
typical male abdomen/chest/back fat. I never had a beer belly but I was round. I dropped 25 pounds and I still had a
small belly at 160 but that has magically moved to my thighs and rear and my tummy is flat now even though I've only
lost another 5 pounds. I've worked really hard to maintain lower body muscle and strength but have not trained my
upper body at all. I bicycle and weight train the lower body by mostly doing squats.
But how is my size so different than yours at 5-10? I think your bone structure is just larger. You have similar "meat"
on your frame but it's just spread over a larger area. My wrists are 6.25 which I think translates to a mens small frame.
I know my under bust measurement is 34.5"... about the size of your waist and my waist is down to just over 30".
I recently had to move to a mens small shirt from the muscle loss. Most people can gauge their frame size based on how
much they weighed when they reached their maximum height... I was 15 when I reached 5-10 and I weighed just over
115 lbs... and I wore a 26" jeans that's pretty small for a male. Three years after that and after a lot of muscle
development I weighed 130 lbs and wore a size 27" jeans. I did not get to 30" until I was around 35 and that
is when I went from around 150 pounds to 185.
I've always been an exerciser and prior to my weight loss I was riding about 100 miles a week on my road bike but I was
eating easily 3500-4500 calories a day. But it was fairly good calories, no sweets and I watched the carbs.
And even at 185 I had a fairly low body fat percentage. All I had to do was reduce my calories to a more reasonable
number and watch the protein and carbs and I lost 25 pounds over about 6 months. I'm still really muscular
(only 3 mo HRT) up
top and muscle weighs a lot more than fat but takes up less space.
I think I've said in other threads... weight and height are not things I worry about as far a passing... face, nose, body shape
are and I can't change those without surgery. I plan to get to drop my weight to around 135 or so and I can do that myself...
everything else costs money.
I'm not going to leave this photo up for long but here is me at 155... not very female looking at all but you can see how
big my thighs are... there is a LOT of muscle under the female type layer of fat that makes them more rounded. I
wish I had before pics... the transformation is amazing.
Picture removed for privacy reasons
I'm not sure if any of this will help but there ya go
Amanda
