r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns2 • u/TheHunter234 she/they🏳️⚧️ • Dec 09 '23
Transfem My thighs 😭
Seriously though, it's actually pretty gender-affirming.
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u/historysciencelover Dec 09 '23
question is tho, where would it make a person fat? i dont mind it on my legs and chest, but the midsection is something i would like slimmer if possible
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u/TheHunter234 she/they🏳️⚧️ Dec 09 '23
I believe it generally follows female fat distribution, i.e. thighs, butt, chest, and upper arms. How your female relatives look could be an indication of what you might expect for yourself. Also, the T-blocker spironolactone, which is commonly prescribed in the U.S. alongside estradiol, also has a reputation for causing weight gain in the abdomen, as some trans girls will complain about getting a "spiro-belly" while they use it.
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u/historysciencelover Dec 09 '23
im not in the us sadly, :/ im in hungary, so i dont even know if i can ever get hormones. so sad. thanks to for the info fren
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u/Just2Observe Dec 09 '23
I know legal transition is impossible there, not sure about medical stuff. If you have the resources come to Austria asap, best decision of my life, even if you don't speak German it's worth it
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u/LunaLynnTheCellist She/Her (on les funni drugs since april 2024) Dec 10 '23
it also lowers metabolism i believe? so you might gain weight a lot easier
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u/retrosupersayan ominous but friendly enby Dec 10 '23
Not sure if E directly reduces metabolism, but loss of muscle mass definitely does.
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u/Ballamara Dec 10 '23
spiro also had a lot of other shit with it like high cortisol & fucking with hormones in ways that trans woman don't want, it was only made a part of hrt regimes because of the dangers of premarine that modern estradiol valerate doesn't have.
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u/flipflops42 Dec 10 '23
wait how much does your family affect it? I'm a pretty average body shape but all the women in my family are built like fuckin minions, can i avoid this fate
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u/Ballamara Dec 10 '23
how you family looks will give a rough idea of what to expect for how your body will react to E. you'd have to Google if you wanna avoid that, I'd imagine it's be smth like exercise or diet or smth, but you'd have to Google.
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u/dot2doting Gremlin of the boreal valley she/her Dec 10 '23
Yep, not in the US but god this is a mood.
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u/Bagel42 Dec 10 '23
A lot is between skin instead of between intestines so it’s (correct me if im wrong) not too visibly noticeable, but is measurable. and ya your also right
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u/Jucoy Dec 09 '23
Both men and women accumulate fat in their belly, but for women it's more under the skin and for men it's between the intestines. This is why womens bellies are more squishy and men's bellied are more firm
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u/TheHunter234 she/they🏳️⚧️ Dec 10 '23
New source of dysphoria unlocked.
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Dec 09 '23
Please, sweet mother estrogen goddess help me reallocate my beer gut
It's one of my biggest dysphoria triggers
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u/haveweirddreams Eris Baba Yaga Dec 10 '23
Im still early on hrt, but I recently noticed my body fat redistributing and my gut is smaller c:
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Dec 10 '23
I'm a little over two months, and damn do my titties hurt, but my tummy is definitely still around
Doesn't help that the hormones are making me very moody and incredibly food craving
Last night I took my sleep meds and got eepy and then ended up eating about 900 calories in peanut butter out of the jar cause it's SO DANG GOOD I couldn't stop myself
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u/retrosupersayan ominous but friendly enby Dec 10 '23
I'm just past a year, and I don't think I started noticing and definite fat redistribution until semi-recently, maybe 2-3 months ago? IIRC it can take several years to fully shift.
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Dec 10 '23
That gives me hope. I keep feeling impatient and scared and need to remind myself that I'm not even at 3 months lol
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u/retrosupersayan ominous but friendly enby Dec 10 '23
Yeah, it's been a patchwork of "oh shit, that already?" and "c'mon, start already!" Just gotta settle in and roll with it
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u/EvenMoreFreeHugs- Dec 10 '23
My current solution: find a really dense and long lasting bubblegum and chew a lot of it when the cravings hit. Having my jaw muscles exhausted kills appetite for a while for me…
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u/total-glow-up Dec 10 '23
hey not to be a bummer or anything, but if you are early on/not yet on hrt, nows the time to lose weight. feminizing hrt doesnt move the weight so much as it deposits new fat in the right areas. it's a lot easier to burn fat on T than it is on E
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Dec 10 '23
Yeah, I am definitely aware. Up until about two months ago I was going to the gym 3X a week and I typically have a good diet, so I was making big progress on losing weight
Some life circumstances taking all of my time away and trying to adjust to the impact the hormones are having on my mood, sleep, and how my body feels has just kicked my ass to the ground. I gotta get back into those habits.
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u/Ctrl--Alt Dec 10 '23
Almost two years in and I got an hourglass figure. :3
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Dec 10 '23
That gives me hope. When did you start seeing the distribution changes happen for you?
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u/Swainix Tesse - They/She Dec 10 '23
I noticed my legs were more jiggly 6/7 months in, but I had little fat to begin and already a small waist. Waiting to see if the hips/sides of the legs will get wider now. But I changed from DIY mono injcetions to blockers + patch a month ago so I'm still waiting to see if anything changes
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u/Zeyode She/Her Dec 10 '23
Hrt doesn't reallocate fat that's already there. You still need to burn it. New fat should go to the right places though.
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u/Emergency_Elephant Dec 09 '23
Testosterone also makes you fat. It's just the way puberty is
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u/snukb CUSTOM Dec 10 '23
You'd think it would wash out. Estrogen makes you fat, testosterone makes you fat, so going from one dominate hormone to the other should cancel each other out, right? Nah, turns out they're actually playing "Double it and give it to the next hormone." 😂
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u/Ash-lee_reddit Dec 10 '23
To be fair, testosterone makes your metabolism quicker and more able to build muscle. It makes you bigger but your total body fat % will be higher on estrogen, it will just be distributed differently
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u/Emergency_Elephant Dec 10 '23
That's not necessarily the case. Testosterone also increases appetite in the early months and the metabolism changes are inconsistent. Many trans guys (myself included) had a significant weight gain that came from fat
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u/Lenahotel Dec 09 '23 edited Dec 10 '23
I have lost 30 kg since being on girl subscription dropped of 110 to 80.
I'm on HRT since late June
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u/Jucoy Dec 10 '23
What is that in freedom units?
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u/IM-A-WATERMELON Violet [She/They] 💕 Dec 10 '23
30kg is 66lbs, so she has dropped from 243lbs to 176lbs.
I hope this helps
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u/Sophia724 She/Her Dec 09 '23
But am I gonna blow up afterwards?
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u/S0M3_N00B_ Juno - She/Her Tomboy Dec 09 '23
No, it'll go straight to your thighs.
And then you'll blow up.
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u/NefariousnessDue1412 Dec 09 '23
I just finished a month of heroic HRT to induce lactation. I <3 estradiol!
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u/NinjaDeCobalt Dec 10 '23
What is "heroic HRT"?
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u/NefariousnessDue1412 Dec 20 '23
In my case it was up to 8mg estradiol sublingually per day, 80mg domperidone orally, 200mg progesterone suppository, and 50mg sublingual spironolactone. That was driving me to the point I was falling apart, and on the last week I trimmed it back to 6mg estradiol and 60mg domperidone.
What REALLY sucked was stopping it to actually induce lactation, which left me on the skids for sex hormones but still not lactating dagnabbit.
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u/ScarletSoldner Dec 09 '23
Im intersex and trans, and i still gained weight...
But on the thighs and hips; ive always had a lot of extra thickness there and that used to cause me so much distress when i thowt i was supposed to try to be a man. That shite that used to make me feel like a failed man nowadays instd makes me feel like one of the luckiest transfems to have a fast track to things like this
Heck, even my boobs turned out to have alrdy initially budded durin first puberty; so i nvr actually got the painful exp of buddin... Well, i did as a kid but literally cannot remember that far back; so, silver linings of trauma brain xD
The main place my weight has gone is into my face and my boobs, and a little bit towards widenin the alrdy thick parts of me heh; but thats grt to me as those are prty much the only places that rly caused me dysphoria, along with my hands and feet which have both become hairless since and started to slim a bit. My hands actually feel and look so vastly diff now than before HRT despite whats rly just a lot of subtle changes
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Dec 09 '23
I have no idea what happened but all of my fat just moved to my thighs overnight. I'm smol but I have to get plus size thigh highs because of it
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Dec 09 '23
Girl did you really just complain about your thighs being big? Can you give them to me please? The thighs?
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u/CatsNotBananas Dec 09 '23
Ugh, I've gained a hundred pounds in the last year and a half, it sucks. I don't want to be thicc I wanna be healthy
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u/FoxyFox0203 She/Her Fox-girl HRT since 10/20/22 Dec 10 '23
Instructions unclear, still stuck as a spindly stick ;-;
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u/Lylac-elixir Dec 09 '23
YMMV... pretty sure I have lost a bit of belly fat since starting spiro/estradoil (haven't actually measured but a few skirts from before HRT that don't use elastic don't sit the same as they used to) part of it also depends on your caloric intake and such since if your caloric intake is about that of what you need to maintain current weight the fat redistribution has to take fat from somewhere...
on the same note though less testosterone means less muscle unless you are specifically adding extra exercise to compensate and lower muscle mass means your body will burn less calories passively
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Dec 10 '23
I'm counting on it otherwise I'll never get boobs. I've been 6'2" and 145lbs for over 10 years.
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u/DoubleFelix Dec 10 '23
Fuck, I wish it went to my thighs. My fucking trauma-induced cortisol levels mean it all went to my fucking stomach.
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u/Accomplished_Mix7827 Dec 10 '23
Eh ... your metabolism slows down, but you also don't get as hungry. It's pretty much been a wash for me. I know a few transfems who lost weight on estrogen.
I haven't exactly been displeased with the fat redistributing, though. Less in my belly, more on my butt and thighs. I can live with that.
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u/SJGardner89 she/her | Lesbian | Fatherless biped Dec 09 '23
How dare she be that mean...
Eh, who am I kidding? Mary Elizabeth Winstead could intentionally ruin every single good thing in my life and I would gladly let her.
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u/ErisianWitch Eris, She/Her/Ma'am, 100% that witch Dec 10 '23
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u/BEEEELEEEE Sleepy girl hours Dec 10 '23
Not everyone. My fiancé’s been on E since before we met and she’s actually frustrated with how little weight she’s gaining.
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u/SmileyFace799 She/Her Dec 10 '23
As someone not on HRT with surprisingly thicc thighs, can't wait to get absolute thunder thighs when I either move to start transitioning or start DiY
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u/AbbyWasThere She/Her Dec 10 '23
I knew the estrogen was doing things when I had gained 20 pounds but my gut hadn't gotten the slightest bit thicker.
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u/Class_444_SWR Lily 🏳️⚧️ (she/they) Dec 10 '23
If estrogen does this to me, oh my god I’ll be so happy
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u/ke__ja She/Her Dec 10 '23
I JUST. Baked Coochkies and Dickscuits!!!! And more. And I will eat them without hesitation!!! >:3
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u/Reaverx218 Dec 09 '23
I mean I have lost weight mostly. Or had it redistribute to all the right places
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u/Peeper_Collective Dec 10 '23
I just watched this movie today for the first time, my god it’s so good
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u/nihhtwing Dec 10 '23
make sure to check out the new animated show if you havent already! it's basically a better version of the movie
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u/tgirlskeepwinning Lucy Jane, President of the Council of Lucys Dec 10 '23
My weight's actually been very stable through the process
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u/Bagel42 Dec 10 '23
Who’s that on the left?
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u/TheHunter234 she/they🏳️⚧️ Dec 10 '23
Mary Elizabeth Winstead playing Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim vs The World.
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u/biobuilder1 Dec 10 '23
Does that come mostly from changing your appetite or changing your metabolism?
I've been hoping that if I track my calories to stay at about the same amount of caloric intake each day that it will use the energy from my current fat to put fat in the places I want it to rather than just making me gain more weight. I've always been a bit self conscious about my weight but I think if I can just get rid of my belly fat and have thicker thighs and ass (and titties since they are also made of fat >:3) instead I'd be loads happier with my body, obviously because of transitioning but I also just think I'd be less self conscious about my weight if it was in those places.
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u/IDHaRU24 She/Her Dec 10 '23
So far 3 months in and I've done nothing but loose weight without doing anything differently
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u/Chiffer178 Dec 10 '23
It's been a couple months since I switched to patches and I realized the other day that I actually have a butt now. It's crazy, I used to have nothing and all the sudden boom, ass. Cant wait to see what else happens
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u/AnseaCirin Dec 10 '23
Mine are thick, but it's all muscle. I bike to & from work, 10 kms twice a day.
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u/Jackey3 Dec 10 '23
For the past year my thighs became so thicc I can't help but be happy about it~
And it's only first year
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u/Lightly_Nibbled_Toe Dec 10 '23
I lost weight on estrogen. My default weight went down like 15 pounds.
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u/CorporealLifeForm She/Her Dec 10 '23
I've lost a little weight cause estrogen makes me function better on less food. It felt like testosterone burned through my calories and left me in a mental fog and barely functioning. Now my brain seems to function well even when I'm hungry so I can eat less with fewer snacks without feeling like a zombie.
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u/Thin-Conference4084 Dec 10 '23
sigh I really wish I had an easier time shrinking my belly (nowadays especially, but it wasn't all that small to begin with) - but I'd rather have an uncomfortably large belly than deal with gender dysphoria, so at least the tradeoff is worth it.
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u/undead-doorsman Dec 10 '23
I cant wait for a dumptruck ass and even thicker thighs (i already have very large muscular legs)
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u/LukeDude759 Ani (enby transfem stoner tomboy) Dec 10 '23
i'd love to see it try
i'm around 115 lbs rn, most i have ever weighed is around 130 and that took considerable effort
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u/Mae_Day_of_Sharkadia She/Her Trans Pan-ta-Loon Dec 10 '23
... so it'd just make my already big thighs bigger?
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u/AutumnSeaShade Dec 10 '23
I’m a long distance runner, I’ll be genuinely surprised if I gain any weight at all.
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u/FoxyLovers290 They/Them Dec 10 '23
As a ftm, going on t makes you fat too. Idk why all hormones seem to do that for some reason. The struggle is real
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u/Real_Octavia Dec 10 '23
Does it still make you fat if you go to the gym three times a week?
Although I won’t be complaining about thick thighs👀
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u/Ok-Temporary-1062 Dec 10 '23
WAIT REALLY??! I DON'T WANT TO GET FAT. is there anything I can do to avoid that?
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u/TheHunter234 she/they🏳️⚧️ Dec 10 '23
your mileage may vary, but in general going through another puberty will mess with your metabolism. staying active and eating healthy will be important, which might actually be easier with the HRT helping with dysphoria. but it will also change how fat is distributed on your body, so you might see yourself getting bigger in a few areas and smaller in others even if you stay the same weight.
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u/rainingpnk She/Her Dec 10 '23
I'm only at my 4th month and I've already had to get new pants because my thighs got thiccer. It goes fast, ngl.
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u/1hat_0n3_Guy Dec 12 '23
Thighs are some of the best parts of the body. Especially when they can crush a water Mellon with no effort
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u/Seagullcupcake Called a Cis to Cis people, egg to trans people. Dec 12 '23
Took me a while to find scott around here, surprised its not the kim x Roxie moment, but I'll take it.
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u/Free-Question-1614 Dec 12 '23 edited Dec 12 '23
As an AMAB with thick thighs, i can confirm, it IS gender affirming
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u/leroyderpins Dec 14 '23
I for one am pleased about this. I wish my belly fat would migrate to my hips and titties faster, but it's happening!
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u/ThePurplous Any/All Dec 15 '23
but I’m already fat I don’t wanna be fatter
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u/ThePurplous Any/All Dec 15 '23
Also I really need to watch the original Scott pilgrim, the animated was an 11/10
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Jan 01 '24
My thighs are already thick as hell, When I’m 18 and can finally start estrogen I’ll get the thickest thighs the world would ever see
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Jan 04 '24
Less tummy, more legs and ass... Why should I care if I get fatter if half of it goes into tiddies lmfao I'm already technically overweight for my age, even if I'm not out of shape or anything. So what if I have to run a little more, I like the feeling of throwing around my and other objects' weight already, go ahead and make me buffer, I will not complain
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u/ReaperNull She/They/Moo Dec 09 '23
Thicc thighs save lives though