Maintaining your ideal weight can help you look and feel your best as a transgender woman or crossdresser.
Men and women gain weight in different areas. More fat in the abdomen and upper body can make it harder to achieve a feminine shape.
The good news? Many diet and exercise programs can help you lose weight and reach your body feminization goals.
The bad news? It can be overwhelming to navigate all the conflicting weight loss advice out there.
That’s why, in this blog post, I share simple, proven principles that work with any diet or exercise program.
Here are 8 essential weight loss tips for a slimmer MTF female figure:
1. Listen Your Body’s Hunger Signals
Most diets try to control what you eat without considering your body’s actual needs.
This is a problem for two reasons:
- If you ignore your hunger and don’t eat when you’re physically hungry, you set yourself up to overeat later.
- If you eat when you’re NOT physically hungry – for example, when you’re bored or eat because it’s “time” to eat – you consume calories that your body doesn’t need.
The solution is simple: eat when you are physically hungry – and stop when your body is satisfied. That’s how naturally thin people eat.
This approach is called intuitive eating and it’s been a total game changer for me. To learn more, check out these books:
- Diets Don’t Work by Bob Schwartz
- Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole
- The 7 Secrets of Slim People by Vikki Hansen and Shawn Goodman
2. Don’t Skip Breakfast
Breakfast is essential for revving up your metabolism for the day. A 2011 study shows that a protein-rich breakfast can reduce cravings and overeating later in the day.
But what if you’re not hungry in the mornings? This is the only slight exception to tip #1: Aim to have a light breakfast or a mid-morning snack.
But don’t wait until lunch to eat. By then, you’ll probably be TOO hungry, which can set you up to overeat.
3. Increase Fiber
Did you know that 95% of Americans don’t get the recommended amount of fiber per day? This can have a big impact on your weight loss and body feminization goals.
Fiber helps with fat loss in several ways:
- It helps balance blood sugar levels and aids digestion.
- It helps you feel full and acts as a natural appetite suppressant.
Tips #3 is to eat more high fiber foods and add a fiber supplement to your diet.
4. Hydrate, Hydrate, Hydrate
If you want to lose weight, drink more water. It’s that simple. Water is a natural appetite suppressant, it helps remove waste, and it also increases fat burning.
Be sure to drink a minimum of 6-8 glasses of water per day.
5. Drink Tea
Tea is an awesome ingredient for weight loss! Research shows that tea reduces your appetite and speeds up fat burning.
To get the full fat-burning effect, you must drink black tea, green tea, or white tea. These teas are high in catechins, which can increase metabolism and aid in fat loss.
6. Cut the Secret Sugars
Sugar is one of the worst foods to eat if you want to lose weight. Sugar raises your blood sugar level, which increases insulin. Insulin promotes weight gain and fat storage.
Did you know that most of the sugar you eat does NOT come from candy bars and cookies? Processed foods are loaded with sugars that can secretly make you fat!
Here are the top sources of hidden sugar to watch out for:
- Ketchup
- Salad dressing
- Peanut butter
- Spaghetti sauce
- Hamburger and hot dog buns
- Microwave meals
- Fast food
- Cereal
- Yogurt
7. Get Enough Sleep
Studies show that poor sleep or a lack of sleep can decrease the metabolism and increase calorie intake.
If you’re having trouble losing weight, take a look at your sleep habits. Aim for a minimum of 7-8 hours of “beauty sleep” per night.
8. Think Yourself Thin
Have you ever tried to diet or exercise, only to fall off track a few weeks later?
Most weight loss programs fail because they only focus on the PHYSICAL. However, lasting change is all about your mindset and your habits.
So how can you change your mindset? Try hypnosis!
Hypnosis is an effective way to reprogram your subconscious mind, helping you to make permanent changes that lead to a thinner body.
Curious to give it a try? Check out my FREE Fit & Femme Starter Kit! It includes a 7 minute feminizing weight loss meditation to kickstart your slimmer MTF female figure.
Conclusion
Now I’d love to hear from you…
Is weight an area you struggle with? What are YOUR best weight loss tips and tricks? Please share in the comments below!
Love,
Lucille
P.S. If you liked these tips, you will LOVE my complete Fit and Femme Program!
This is a unique hypnosis and goal tracking program designed to help you lose weight as part of your male to female transformation.
Eat less! That is, eat a normal healthy portion of foods. You can be eating the most healthiest things, but eating too much of it will still cause weight gain. I have lost 20 kg (44 lbs) in under a year just by eating smaller portion sizes. And I still get to eat my ice cream and cake too!
At 60 it is not easy to keep as trim as I want to be. I watch my diet and exercise every morning. I try to do things that keep my stomach mostly flat and trim. I’m not looking for 6 pack abs. My greatest problem are those pads on each side of my waist but I have them down enough now to let my widening hips to express themselves a little more. I also try to walk 3 miles a day. I’m tall with long legs so if I can keep it up I will soon feel confident with my image as a woman.
I am 5’11” and dwindled from 200 lbs. to 149 by doing the only thing that has been effective in helping me lose weight quickly–running. I know there are other programs that are beneficial, but running is best for rapid attenuation, in my opinion. Also, eating more raw vegetables has spured on further weight reduction. Rather than large portions of starchy foods, such as pasta or rice, I eat salubrious delicacies like spinach, carrots, and brightly colored bell peppers. However, switching to the crunchier and less popular choice was not easy, as I really savor pasta, potatoes, and rice. But after a while, I began to truly enjoy my repasts, especially breakfast, which is a tasty conglomeration that mainly consist of fresh fruit. My favorite fruit combo happens to be a delightful medley of bananas, strawberries, blueberries, rasberries, and apples. I also add plain unsweetened yogurt to my delectable mound with a sprinkling of raisins, almonds, and grapnuts cereal. Simply ambrosial!
Yum yum! Great suggestions, Celeste!
Hi Lucille,
Believe it or not, your 1-2-3 plan is what I have been doing for years now….it works. I drink lots of geen tea, keep sugars low, and plenty of fruits and veggies.
I also do light stretching and toning workouts. This helps to keep me loose and limber, and feels great when enfemme so I can move more fluidly as a woman. STIFF is not good.
I also do some light jogging and/or a jog and walk combo.
All of this keeps me at about 150 lbs. plus/minus 2 lbs., and my height is just under 5’8″..life is good.
I know it’s working because of the comments I receive from people about my physique, body language and voice.
Happy dressing.
Awesome! Glad it’s working for you. You are soooooo right about needing to stay loose and limber. Stiff movements are very masculine looking.
Hugs,
Lucille
My hunny and I got ourselves a Wii for Christmas, with the Fit Plus Balance Board accessory. It makes exercise FUN, and it’s easy to focus on the areas that need work. I have to agree with Jacalyn, watching what we eat is important, but to really win the weight loss battle, (war), requires WORK, i. e. exercise.
Dear Louise,
Weight control is a specialty of mine both personally and teaching patients.
Just watching what we eat is not enough! How we burn calories and how we exercise is also important.
If genetic males do exercises such as push-ups and lifting weights upper body strength will increase along with muscle mass size and this does not make for a very feminine look. Exercising the legs and hips, IE: running, jogging, or other isokinetic exercises like cycling will burn the calories and strengthen the legs. Having lovely strong legs is very feminine.
Hope this helps everyone.
Jacalyn
I am 5′ 9″ at 155 lbs. I’ve weighed this since high school . As soon as my jeans start fitting tight ( 30″ waist ) I’ll weigh myself and will find my weight around 159-160 . To drop weight I just cut back on the amount of food for lunch , drink beer only 2 nights a week ,and start the day ” busy ” . Busy meaning have a plan for the day and get going . If I start my day active , I’ll stay active till dinner time and burn calories. If I don’t do anything until 11:00 am , my day is wasted , I’ll do nothing the rest of the day. If you keep within 5-10 lbs of ideal weight it’s pretty easy to lose it. I’m 56 and keeping with this approach has kept me slender. Some people tell me it’s all genetic that I’m slender , I have 4 brothers that are all at least 50 lbs overweight,one is my height and 235. Genetic ? It’s all in the mind , get that metabolism going early .
The downside to me with being slender is I have no body fat to help out in the bust dept. I’m only 36A .
I can stay away from Fried foods all week and replace with soups and salads goes along way.
getting rid of the fat around my belly is hard. I will loose the side fats by eating this way however until I start sweating (workouts) for 30-45 minutes 2-3 times a week doesnt work.
It is nice to here from you Lucille,
Denise