For all the guys who've been on T for awhile - When did you REALLy start noticing body changes? I'm three weeks on T and I CANNOT wait for my body to change but I know thats not going to happen for awhile. I'm just wondering how many months on T until you noticed your body changed

Can you be more specific about the kinds of changes you are looking for?

My voice started changing at about a week and really dropped between 3 weeks and 3 weeks and 3 days and continued.  I don't really remember, but I think I had some other things happen in the first month.  Probably around 3-4 months most people see a lot?  It's hard to say since you're with yourself all the time, it's just really gradual.  Start taking pictures once a week and compare.

Don't go by other people too much though. 

Quote from: Arch on April 25, 2010, 09:58:09 PM
Can you be more specific about the kinds of changes you are looking for?

I guess fat redistribution is what I'm really asking about

Oh, that takes a really long while.  I only had a little bit of love-handle to move (actually still have a bit left to go), and I did not really see anything happening there until 6 months in, and even then it was really slow going.  If you really want to speed that up, the best thing is to lose that fat altogether, or at least jumpstart your metabolism a bit from where it is currently at, because what is there does not actually move because of T, but rather it will now burn faster than the gut area so you will burn it from the hips and it will reform on the gut.

Quote from: TheOtherSide on April 25, 2010, 10:10:36 PM
I guess fat redistribution is what I'm really asking about

Ah. I started really noticing it a few months in. It's still happening, slowly. I've been on T for over a year. Let's see, fourteen or fifteen months.

Lost the fat on hips and butt about 4 months in. Other changes are still happening.

I started noticing after the 2nd month, but I don't have much fat to move around.

This is probably just wishful thinking, but I've only been on T about a week and I feel like my face shape is already changing.  My cheeks used to be all full-out round (as seen in my profile picture) but I woke up this morning and there there are like, indents under my cheek bones.  It's almost like my face is already starting to square off.  I think it's way too early for that, but I swear those indents were not there yesterday.

Quote from: Devin87 on April 26, 2010, 06:59:15 AM
This is probably just wishful thinking, but I've only been on T about a week and I feel like my face shape is already changing.  My cheeks used to be all full-out round (as seen in my profile picture) but I woke up this morning and there there are like, indents under my cheek bones.  It's almost like my face is already starting to square off.  I think it's way too early for that, but I swear those indents were not there yesterday.

You could just be looking for it but I know mine did kind of the same thing. The muscles in my cheeks and jaw became more defined almost immediately.

Changes came gradually. A lot of times I wouldn't notice anything until someone else said something about it. My voice started changing within the 1st month but was really noticable at about the 3 month mark. My face started getting wider areound 2 months I would say. The lower area started changing almost right away. I've been on T for a little over 6 months and I just really started noticing fat redistrabution. I really didn't have a lot in my hips but what I did have is going away, my jeans are starting to fall off of me. I noticed strength increase alomost right away but probably around 3 months is when I noticed my muscles were a lot bigger without working out. Now at 6 months even more so. My feet grew a little around 2 months. I think I named everything.

I wasn't looking for it, but I noticed some my hips and thighs were smaller about 3 months in.  Although I haven't lost weight (it's pretty much stayed the same, within about 3 pounds), I think I've gained muscle, lost fat off hips/thighs, and put on a little more stomach fat.  But even that looks different than it used to. 

I'm four months on T.

I've just started to notice that my hips have thinned out at 2 months.

I could never figure out why men with bellies wore their pants below the belly, at the hips instead of at the waist. Now I think I understand--it has to do with the way men's pants are proportioned and the way a man's fat is distributed, especially in the butt. (I had female fat distribution but always wore my slacks and jeans at the hip, myself.)

It used to faintly disturb me--and it still does--to see a man with an ample belly who wore his pants at the waist. Now I see why it bothers me--he seems to be dressing like a woman. I know a pre-everything trans man, with extra baggage around the middle, who does that. He wonders why he doesn't pass. We tell him he needs to go on T if he wants to be read as male (that's pretty obvious), but I think he'll still have problems if he continues to dress the way he's dressing now. With his large hips, he might keep wearing his pants that way. I think he's going to be in the androgynous zone for a long, long time.

@Arch:  Do you a have picture (not necessarily of your friend) of what you're describing?  I wear my pants low on my hips to hide them and have done so for years. 

I have a very high waist and wearing my pants that high will do one of two things:  make me look like a major dork or make me look like a large hipped female (now with facial hair and manly voice).

I find that wearing my pants lower on my pants hides my hips, squares up my body, and helps me to pass.  Especially when tucking in shirts.  When I try to wear my pants where they're actually supposed to sit, I get "she" and "ma'am" significantly more often (1 out of 5) than normal (about 1 out of 10).

Quote from: Adio on April 26, 2010, 06:29:01 PM
@Arch:  Do you a have picture (not necessarily of your friend) of what you're describing?  I wear my pants low on my hips to hide them and have done so for years. 

I haven't come across a picture, but most men I see who are in fairly good shape wear their pants right above the hips, at the start of the waist, not high on the waist. Women have higher waists than men, so it's quite common for a woman to wear her pants high. But when a man has a noticeable belly, that dramatically changes his options. If he belts right above the hips, he's belting under the gut. That looks pretty unattractive, but his only other alternative is to belt higher up the waist so that he looks more like a woman.

I think that if you wander around at the mall or the grocery store and keep your eyes open, you'll see what I mean. Look for an older guy (seventy or eighty) with a pronounced gut, who belts his pants around the gut instead of under it. I tend to see older men doing this, and it looks odd. (Especially in polyester, lol.)

Of course, most of us look better without the spare tire anyway.

I noticed that, too.  I can even make woman's dress pants work if I wear them below my belly.  The big belly sticking out just screams male and wearing pants at the waist is more female.

I've been on T for 8 weeks...n my hips/ curve went away.

Quote from: s1ncere on April 26, 2010, 09:48:10 PM
I've been on T for 8 weeks...n my hips/ curve went away.

That was FAST!

Quote from: Arch on April 27, 2010, 01:14:10 AM
That was FAST!

lol yea,i am surprised myself.