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.
Hi, Lucile!
Well, Tea is a good advice, I’ll keep it in mind. Another thing that has helped me a lot is fastening. Not for too long periods of time, this is the thing: Naturists advise to fasten for a day a week. It’s not like eating just nothing, but to grab a frut’s juice, all natural, homemade (everything processed is crap!), and just a single fuit, preferrably citric, like orange, grapes, guava, or even strawberry. Drink as much as you like, but nothing else than that juice. This will give your organism a chance to purify itself, and thus reducing some weight in time. For those of us who are Christians, This season just starting is a good chance to combine Church’s fastening with this naturist recommendation. It is actually the best season in year, and citrics, well you know what they do!
Another thing I do is to excercise my legs a lot. Besides running, when I have a chance to go to the gym, I put a whole lot of weight on the legs, and practically forget about the upper body, except some abs. I think this keeps me lean and not to squared.
Also try to make a habit of pressing your stomach all day during the day. You both burn fat and get used to keeping a nice posture.
-Becky.
Good tips, Becky. Thanks!
Hi Lucille and everyone, how has everyone been?
I would like to say that this is an important topic. I have always said that the most important thing to do is keep your waist trim and fit. the easiest way that i found is to have fun and dance, while there are programs out there that i would recommend it’s just a good thing to move it find some good music and swing and sway to the music step bend twist and have fun. To many times people just stay inside and don’t venture out, siiting around wont help you and neither will the best diet in the world if you don’t burn what you eat, and i mean burn it! Jack LaLane said it best, do something today for 30 min to bust a sweat and do it every day. Keep off the belly fat, no matter if you are f or m. Your health will fall if your belt line gets out of control. Be aware of your inactivity. Eat green, and not more than you burn. eat healthy, and not more than you burn . DON’T EAT LATE! or at all if all you are going to do is sit around, or go right to bed!!! get up! get out! move it! burn it! Have fun, it’s for you not anyone else!! I
Wow! Your belly is really fat-free and femme-looking.
Nice achievement! Did you get it from estradiol valerate?
Yes, you are absolutely right about not eating late. (Love your pink top, BTW. That’s a great color for you, Daniele.)
The best thing i have found to drop my weight is to eat larger meals early in the day and small, healthy meals for lunch and dinner. Cut the fried foods, soda, and junk foods. Started cooking at home and making meals from scratch really helps also. And trying to stay on my feet more often helps also. Getting off the couch and making the time every evening to talk a walk helps a lot. It is about 8 blocks to the gas station here. I walk 2 times a day to get a XXX vita water. This dont sound like much, but it has made a big difference.
Hi Luecile Sorella, Good Morning.
As per your past advise i got Amino Acid in which arginine, lysine and glutomine r available. So m very happy from today i have started to this amino acid dose. I aslo like your 2010 weight loss. but rt now i have very average body. When it will grow like as fatty then i will use your idea how to loss weight. Luciell u r very great.Your help gets to me is very luck for me. Thanks a lot
I’ve been running for years and I think that it helps keep my legs and derriere nice and toned. I try to watch what I eat. I’m not a vegetarian but I don’t eat much meat. I just returned from vacation and I admit I did splurge a bit. I do enjoy a nice lean steak occasionally. I believe in the concept of “everything in moderation”.
For me fitness is about a lifestyle and not so much part of a New Years resolution. I’m trying to put myself in a position to transition. Part my goal will be to sculpt my figure into a more passable female form. This is a two year old photo of me wearing a LBD. It’s a sentimental photo as it’s one of the first times that I went all the way in dressing as Melissa. I think I am doing better with my make up now and my mannerisms are much more feminine. I’ll post a newer photo soon as I can figure out my digital camera. I welcome feedback from everyone!
Take care,
Melissa
You look great, Melissa!
Hi Lucill you are wonderful woman i have ever met infact l love you and your project/this is another chart buster in history of femmine issue keep it up best regards.
Wow, thanks Yusuff! You’re a sweetie!
Hugs,
Lucille
Two years ago I lost 35 pounds by not eating anything white.This means no white bread,pasta sugar,potatoes,white rice.The weight has not returned.The weight program has not affected my development as you can see. Last year I was as flat as a board.I followed your program and voila.
Nice perky boobs!!! How did you get those big nipples?
Congratulations, Herb. Thanks for sharing.
Hai Lcui and Alic thankyou for your advice. I drink tea three cups per day and water four liters per day. Nowadays i do workouts to reduce wait. Thats all for now. Thank you Dear. Bye.