Transition and Fat

In looking at and reading some of the blogs of transwomen, meaning those in transition, and the descriptions they give about the hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drugs they take, often with dosages listed (not recommended), and the effects over time, I'm curious why they ignore two more important factors of their life and transition.

The priorities of a transition should be, in this order, your life, your health, your fitness and your transition. Without the first three, the transition is just that where you go through it risking if not wrecking your health and fitness in the process.

And never forget you have a life above all else, because without it you get through your transition to discover you don't know what you want to do with the rest of your life. Never lose focus on where you're going as a person and fit the transition into that.

The transition will make its own schedule with your finances and life, but your life won't if you sacrifice it for your transition. My concern here is reading, and sometimes seeing in the photos, which is a puzzle to my why they post selfies but then I'm not one who likes my own body so I never take them about the changes.

It's common knowledge HRT will reduce muscle mass, often helpful, and it will add or change the fat distribution on the body, and expected with estradoil, especially with the hips and breasts. And therapists and physicians who have overseen transition will tell you adding weight, aka fat, is the result of HRT.

And often they'll tell you it's "normal" and don't worry. But it's not and doesn't have to be as you'll find if you want to lose that fat, you don't have the same metabolism  with exercise to reduce the unneeded fat and you have to work harder and longer than you did before, and the biggest risk to one's health is fat.

And it's the fat you often don't think about because it's slowly added or out of sight, such as intramuscular fat (muscle mass changes), internal fat (inside the abdomen on/around organs), arms, legs, etc., and over the course of your transition it's easy to find your self tens of pounds heavier.

I won't argue some people lose weight, but if you read the details, it's often they're physically active or continued to exercise through their transition so the HRT works on the areas it will naturally but won't add fat where it's burned in the exercise program.

And that's my point, don't sacrifice your health and fitness for something you think is good. Fat is still fat and not good for you. Some fat is helpful to help feel like and see yourself as a woman but much of it isn't, it's just fat, and over your new life will be there unless you change.