Can MTF eat meat?

[Guest DanD]

meat isnt testosterone filled, or estrogen filled, unless someone tinkered with it. the way you get hormones in nature is by your body synthesizing certain things into other things..

for example, carbohydrates are processed into glucose for energy or fat for storage. This process is assisted by B12 and B6, i mean, specificly, if youre insuficient in those vitamins, you might be converting too much carbs into fat and thus gain weight, and eating less wont seem to affect it, neither will excercise. it will only slow down your metabolism to convert more into fat.

I had this problem, so my doctor gave me B12/B6 injections for a while and vitamin D weekly. The vitamin D helps with lack of energy and helps convert more things into glucose, for energy. alot of chemical going around in our bodies and its not such a simple thing to say, if you eat this then you will have this thing in your system.. because it gets synthesized into other things as your body decides it needs them, whatever they are. \

problem is, sometimes your body wont process things right, if your sick or have some other health problem.

Eating meat does not make you more feminine or more masculine in any way shape or form. a balanced diet is the best way to go for anyone, unless they have some weird problems and need special diets for it. Like diebetics not being able to process insulin anymore, so they have to get it in shots. insulin helps the body process and convert things into glucose and into other things... its alot of things affecting alot of things, and even the experts take years to get a grip on it, and even then they dont know everything. still figuring it all out.

if youre real worried about hormones in food, get the organics.

Just eat sensibly, a variety of things, and excercise, brisk walking is a great excercise, great for cardiovascular etc.

be careful not to get yourself injured so you CANT do simple excercises like walking. it really sucks all over when you can't.

thats my best advice on that..

[Guest WastelandBoat]

I believe this is nothing more than a myth.

I'm vegan and the primary source of my protein comes from soy products. Which have a lot of estrogen. My blood work has always turned up normal and I'm have no other myth sighs that soy messes with the estrogen levels. I had other ftm's try and debate with me that they felt a surge in T when they ate meat which, personally, I think is a total lie. When heh, I think a good raw source of T is found in sources like broccoli and spinach. Though not enough to mess with your passing or transition ladies ;3 I know a pretty foxy girl who eats a tonne of that stuff as well, its just a healthy natural way to have it

[Guest (Lightsider)]

Since I no longer eat red meat and eat a diet high in veggies and fruit/carbs my blood work has come back near perfect. Cholesterol is in check when before it was almost off the charts. I also no longer eat any fast food products. My protein comes from fish and protein shakes. I am eating some chicken during recovery from surgery because I need a good amount of protein each day in order to heal. I really hate eating meat on a moral level.

[Charlize]

I am a veggie and in fact try to avoid all fats in my diet. Impossible because even soy has alot of fat but i keep consumption to a minimum. I have severe coronary artery disease and without this diet and the way it affects my cholesterol i would not have been able to do HRT. At this point most meat revolts me. Nuts taste like bacon. Olives like butter. We do not need meat and conversely most of us don't need to avoid it. i do. Funny though i do grow goats for the meat market. Animals that i grow to love are eaten after being sacrificed in Hindu or Islamic ceremonies before being shared with the poor and consumed with reverence. Just a big difference from pink slime and hot dogs. When we were eating meat we ate with the reverence given to the animal you had raised. HRT is changing my hormones. Its not my dietary habits. There have been cultures of very butch veggies in India for centuries.

Hugs,

Charlie

[Guest Kelly-087]

Anyone else here that absolutely despises pure steak?

Honestly, anything is better than this. I'd rather eat snails,

for god's sake.

Ewww steak is ew Never liked it the taste is like rubber I think

Order it rare. I agree, well done steak is absolutely awful. It diminishes the whole point in eating steak.

[Guest PrincessHikari]

What about losing muscle? Would not eating meat and on estrogen help you lose muscle? So if you big and musclar then don't eat mean? <Good idea or not?

[Guest Robin Winter]

Eating protein doesn't make you muscular. Only exercise can do that. Protein just provides the body with the building blocks it needs to repair and build muscle. As long as you're not deliberately trying to gain muscle mass, you won't. That being said, you NEED protein in your diet, though it doesn't necessarily have to come from meat.

[Guest Chrysee]

That being said, you NEED protein in your diet, though it doesn't necessarily have to come from meat.

Fashion model Andrej Pejic comes to mind as a source!

O my, did I just write that?

Cissy

[Guest Robin Winter]

O.O

You're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!

[Guest Chrysee]

O.O

You're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!

Okay, so I'm bad and he's beautiful. Andrej Pejic is the most beautiful young man that I've ever seen. I'm positively helpless when he comes to mind.

With love,

Salacious Cissy

[Guest]

O.O

You're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!

Okay, so I'm bad and he's beautiful. Andrej Pejic is the most beautiful young man that I've ever seen. I'm positively helpless when he comes to mind.

With love,

Salacious Cissy

Geez Kitty, I had to dust off my dictionary to find salacious. I wondered where you've been. I haven't had a "to the moon" in I don't know how long? So you have been drooling over dreaming about Andrej, that's a fine Christmas present!... Well! Giggle. Alice

I will fib and tell Santa you have been good, so he will bring you candy canes. LOL! Hug. JodyAnn

[Guest Edu]

Anyone else here that absolutely despises pure steak?

Honestly, anything is better than this. I'd rather eat snails,

for god's sake.

Would you? Ok, take them: http://upload.wikime...oles_llauna.jpg

Here in Catalunya, snails are considered quite a delicacy. Although I don't dislike them, and may eat them from time to time, they are nothing compared to the beef steaks I used to get when I was living in Ireland. Oh, my, that was real meat! Nothing like a raw, tender piece of beef or cow to make a meal

And by raw, I really mean raw. In fact, I once even charged towards a living cow and tried to sink my teeth on her flank. Fortunatelly for the poor animal, I was just a child and my jaws lacked the strength to cause any serious damage, she just ran away scared. But you can get an idea on how I like my steaks

Hugs,

Ethain

PS: Mooooo!! oops, the cow noticed me approaching again ^^'

[Guest Robin Winter]

I used to eat snails all the time when I was young. They were a family tradition

[Guest (Lightsider)]

Eating protein doesn't make you muscular. Only exercise can do that. Protein just provides the body with the building blocks it needs to repair and build muscle. As long as you're not deliberately trying to gain muscle mass, you won't. That being said, you NEED protein in your diet, though it doesn't necessarily have to come from meat.

I would like to add that I often hear Cisfemales and trans woman say they are afraid to bulk up so they avoid lifting weights or stick with tiny weights. Here is the key...if you don't have testosterone in your body at MALE levels you won't bulk up. You will become super toned however. I met this petite young lady some years ago. Looking at her you would have never known that she was an olympic athlete who could jerk 400 lbs. I asked her how she pulled that off with out getting bulked. She said that it took toning, training and a mental attitude to do it. She said that others tried to get her to use steroids but she resisted.

The bottom line is...don't worry about bulking up if your testosterone is cut. You will gain a lovely toned body.

[Guest Robin Winter]

My understanding is that even most males with normal hormone levels won't bulk up because it's not in their genetic makeup to build muscle that looks bulky. Granted, most of them are still far more bulky than I'd like to be lol.

[Guest Chrysee]

O.O

You're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!

Okay, so I'm bad and he's beautiful. Andrej Pejic is the most beautiful young man that I've ever seen. I'm positively helpless when he comes to mind.

With love,

Salacious Cissy

Geez Kitty, I had to dust off my dictionary to find salacious. I wondered where you've been. I haven't had a "to the moon" in I don't know how long? So you have been drooling over dreaming about Andrej, that's a fine Christmas present!... Well! Giggle. Alice

I will fib and tell Santa you have been good, so he will bring you candy canes. LOL! Hug. JodyAnn

Candy canes?! Is Andrej not available?

And 'drooling over' was the perfect choice of words.

And so, I shall expect that beautiful Aussie boy wearing a bow and hanging in my stocking on Christmas morning or (are you listening?)

it's bang!. . .zoom!. . .to the moon, Alice!

With love,

Mme. Kitty Litter

[Guest]

I feel so much better now. Giggle. Alice

[Guest danabanana]

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[Charlize]

Nice sign but for me it's a goat, an old one at that.

Hugs,

Charlie

[Guest Chrysee]

I feel so much better now. Giggle. Alice

Hey, I'm one Genderqueer doing the work of ten for the benefit of thousands!

With Love,

Kitty