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.
Happy Valentines Day! Good Advice from everyone, Thank You Lucille for making it possible. I drink at least 3 liters of water everyday and my favorite exercise is dancing! Perfecting feminine movement while working on my female form, and so much fun,Best Wishes Sweethearts! Love Honey
Hi Lucille and Alicia. I’m currently 188lbs and 5’10”. I’m currently size 10.About 30 lbs overweigt.( I used to be over 200lbs so I feel like I’m making serious progress in weight loss and overall healthier lifestyle-finally. Typically my fat is in the usual male places-shoulders-gut, unfortunatly, and not in hips/bum like gg’s. My ideal fem body weight is probably 155-160 I think.(or what I weighed in high school-over 30 years ago-scarry but true.) I’ve eliminated booze and coffee (also long overdue) and am drinking green tea, and much more fruit vegitalbes, as well as running-walking and yoga. I’ve got a couple of Suzanne Somers books and she’s become a wealth of knowledge.
Love
Marianne
Hey Lucille, I’ve lost ten pounds since the new year…I drink alot of green tea and excerise daily! Diana
Awesome, Diana. (Looking good as always!!)
These two pics were taken in May last year in Gran Canaria, but over the Christmas period, I’ve put on a bit of weight around the middle. Of course diet is important, and I eat lots of fresh veg, fruit (and drinks lots of tea!)
Recently I got myself a hula hoop, which is great exercise – especially for the waist and abdomen which is what I’m targeting, trying to reduce my waist by an inch if I can.
Lovely feminine abs!
Wow, looking good Rachel! Hula hooping is a fab exercise. Great idea!
Lucille-
Thanks for all the updates. I mix one tablespoon of coconut oil in with my morning tea everyday. Coconut oil has medium chain fatty acids (MCFA’s) instead of long chain fatty acids(LCFA’s). LCFA’s (all your oils except coconut) go into the blood stream and get deposited as fat and cholesterol. MCFA’s go directly to the liver and are turned into energy and help burn the other fat. Many other side effects from eating coconut oil (all good). Make sure you get virgin organic coconut oil and read Bruce Fife’s book, “The Coconut Oil Miracle.” Good luck to us all.
Love the idea of adding coconut oil to tea. I’m going to try that! 🙂
Hi Lucille.
I use $20.00 every two weeks for Xenadrine and another $20.00 every two weeks for hydroxycut and payed $200.00 for a ab contour belt and do 600 crunchs a day plus I eat mainly salid and still can not get rid of my tummy. I am 5/7 and 145 pounds and look like I should be about to give birth. I can keep my weight down but can’t get rid of the bulge. What am I doing wrong.
6oo crunches per day!!! Your tummy may have not disappeared but they must be really very strong.
I’ve tried various low-carb, low-calorie, and low-fat diets for the past couple of years. Although the Atkins diet is very popular, it made me feel somewhat unhealthy.
The diet plan I’m on right now is the Medifast Diet. The caloric intake is roughly 800-1000 calories. However, it doesn’t make my body feel weak. It is a bit of a pricey diet, but there are plenty of coupons available on the internet.http://www.swoopup.com/stores/deals/Medifast-Diet .You should never pay full price.
My advice is just choose a diet plan which your body reacts positively to. No one knows your body better than you do!
For most of my life weight loss has never been an issue for me. In fact, almost the opposite, I was under weight for what was healthy. Now that I’m older, 54 years now, the weight has crept on easier, especially when I’m stressed, or during the winter when I have less exercise. I really hate it when my favorite skirt does not fit.
Thank you for the diet tips. Mom always said eating vegetables was good for me, and this just proves it.