Weight Help Needed

[Guest praisedbeherhooves]

I've gained weight since starting a medication. I've never had a weight problem before so I don't really know how to lose it. I used to have a really masculine looking body but my weight gain has feminized it a lot by giving me wider hips. I actually had a stranger flat out ask me if I'm biologically female and when I told him no, because he was a stranger and it was none of his business, he refused to believe me and lectured me about being proud of being trans. He pointed out my body as the reason why he thought I was a girl. Grrrrr some people are so rude! Anyway, how can I lose weight? This is really screwing me over.

[Guest Elizabeth K]

I've gained weight since starting a medication. I've never had a weight problem before so I don't really know how to lose it. I used to have a really masculine looking body but my weight gain has feminized it a lot by giving me wider hips. I actually had a stranger flat out ask me if I'm biologically female and when I told him no, because he was a stranger and it was none of his business, he refused to believe me and lectured me about being proud of being trans. He pointed out my body as the reason why he thought I was a girl. Grrrrr some people are so rude! Anyway, how can I lose weight? This is really screwing me over.

I can say only from going the other way. I was male forever - weight gain for guys comes from two things:

(1) lack of exercise - your T should have you in high gear all the time - push it as much as you can - you can run farther, faster and for a longer time that ever before - the key is your new sense of male invulnerability - you can IGNORE pain now - that's how men do it - MACHO!!! Run for that strength - that sculped body!

(2) bad eating habits - your metabolism is set for active energy now - not passive. A female body stores up for the needs later down the road, lean times, pregnancy, breast milk production - the male body hates to store up anything and wants to use food for energy - NOW. So a woman can eat like a vegitarian or an agrarian society person - a man needs protein, a hunter - eat it raw if you can't wait! Lots of it!

So exercise - burn baby burn - get that muscle mass up - muscle weighs less that fat. And eat meat - lotsa protein - and avoid cabrohydrates.

Avoid the tuna and the chicken salad - eat steak! Avoid a simple potato - LOAD IT with dairy! And beer is man's best friend and his belly's worst enemy! DRINK HARD LIQUOUR! grin - you won't retain water!

So my opinion? To be a man - eat like a man - and excecise by doing stupid things like a man would do - diving head first off the garage roof into a pile of leaves! Run around and go hunting, or fishing - expending money so the take home meat is about $123 a pound! BUT hell - you killed it! Be proud.

And when at a family gathering NEVER sit and talk - set up a game of touch football! Put you third cousin in the emergency room with a head butt tackle - he ratted on you once in kindergartden!

And you are NOT storing up fat for the winter, or for pregnancy, or to breast feed. Eat because you are hungry and want to have energy to go out and kill some more food! GRILL - sausage, burgers, weiners, steak! It's your duty. BACON RULES!

And work hard - die young! It's your destiny! oooops - ignore that last part.

Hope this helps

Ditzy

[Guest nayomi2438]

Weight is such a difficult subject for so many reasons. If you are experiencing weight issues due to medication the best advice you can get is to explain the situation to the your doctor. You've indicated that you have never had a weight problem in the past so this needs testing and professional advice.

You can become one of the millions of people spending billions of dollars on weight loss products, books, or pills but there is only one way for an otherwise healthy person to lose weight - burn more calories then you put in. Simple to conceptualize but difficult to perform. Discipline and willpower is so important. Eat real foods of your choosing (you know basically what's good or bad food), just eat the proper portion size. Be more physically active by walking or doing chores and spend less time sitting. Best advice - join a local group like Overeaters Anonymous for support, it works and its free.

[Guest Sakura_Stingray]

silly elizabeth XD i guess you had a bad third cousin when you where growing up?

[Guest viv]

I've gained weight since starting a medication. I've never had a weight problem before so I don't really know how to lose it. I used to have a really masculine looking body but my weight gain has feminized it a lot by giving me wider hips. I actually had a stranger flat out ask me if I'm biologically female and when I told him no, because he was a stranger and it was none of his business, he refused to believe me and lectured me about being proud of being trans. He pointed out my body as the reason why he thought I was a girl. Grrrrr some people are so rude! Anyway, how can I lose weight? This is really screwing me over.

Hi Praisebethehooves,

I aint sayin my weight, but I can tell ya this , I had to really look at my eating habits and stuff on d theme

Smaller portions (damnation) and aerobic exercise, 4 times a week, run till ya cant run no more . that should do it for ya hun.

Luv, Viv.