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 Lucille and everyone on this pic my weight is 80 Kg on feb i started to drink green tea olso i started to eat little less with that olso i m doing 40 minute walking daily now my weight is 74 kg i will olso attech my new pic when i will reduce more weight & thanks lucille u remember me allways i will get all your mail i like your website so much i m learning so many thing here too
You are very attractive dear!!!
Your 80 kg weight does not show up in the pic.
I am having problems with weight loss. Now a question for you, most people can exersise to some degree such as stairs instead of elevator, walk to corner store instead of driving. But what about those of us like me that need a wheelchair for any type of distance or a car, like me? I have Muscular Dystrophy and losing weight is one of the hardest thing to do for those of us in my position or those in wheel chairs permanitly. Can you help us? I am a Trans patient so I am trying to lose weight to look better than i do. I do pass but would like a better figure and to lose weight so as to be able to walk a little more than i do now due to my limitations. look fowaqrd to a responce via e-mail…….
For Rachel G, You look absolutely gorgeous in the bikini. You are a very sexy girl.
Hi Lucille
I weigh 55kg. I have a slim body only my main problem is that my butt is flat and not round.
Mona
This is good information, and I was just planing to start part of it. I am 36, 6’1″ and weigh 280lbs. I have been 260 + since high school, except the 2 years I was in the army. (I got down to 220) After that it just crept back on me. My plan will be as follows:
1) Protein and fruit breakfast – I have read that eating protein for breakfast helps to keep you satisfied longer into the day, and it worked when I tried it before. If anyone can suggest veggies that are appealing in the morning, I might add some.
2) Lunch and dinner I will add more green veggies to reduce the amount of meat and carbs I eat.
3) I started taking Taekwondo lessons. The workouts will help me to lose the weight, and teach me self defense to keep me safe if I am read by a violent phob.
4) I am drinking Mona-vie to get all the anti-oxidants my body needs to keep it running as efficiently as it can. I’m already feeling healthier just from this step alone.
I will try to post again in a month or 2 with where I am.
I drink lots of tea and I do find it stops the hunger pangs. I try to eat Mediterranean style with lots of fresh ingredients e.g. tomatoes, pasta, olives etc.. I always look at labels and try to stay below 1.5% of saturated fat. However I still have a 34ins waist although at nearly six feet tall and 160 pounds it doesn’t seem to notice that much.
Hi everyone, just got bad news from my doc. I had to go in for a check up. He told me my good colestrol is low my bad is high. My blood pressure is ok but a little high. My sugar is is a little high. Then he broke it to me with another suprise, it seems as though my 3rd drum is no longer beating in my heart. I am scared I am over weight and need help. I was told that fruit even though it is good for us isnt so good for me. I drive a service truck so I am always driving for 6-7 hours then out and hitting it hard for 4-5 hours then back in the truck. I dont get to cook for myself, I got to relie on fast food or resturant food. I am trying to get off the road but isnt happening yet. I don’t like warm tea, does cold tea work? Is there any foods out here on the road that I can be eating? I will read all your reponses. PLEASE HELP GIRLS!
Lacy,
If you have to be on the road all day, why not try to pack your lunch from the early morning?
Another helpful thing is to go green. Most fast food restaurants, aware of the problem they’ve created among their eaters themselves, have included salads in their menus. Opt for these suggestions, I know it can be hard to get used to if you haven’t had that diet before, but it’s good. A naturist hint is to take two spoons of extra virgin olive oil in the morning. This will help you reduce bad cholesterol and rise the good ine, besides giving you tons of vitamin E. Also, avocado is a veggie that has some sort of fat that actually drags the sturdy one from the body.
There are options. For instance, the Happy Star burger (figure it out, I’m not sure if I can write the name straigt) has the low carb burger. Any specialty in low carb substitutes bread by a lettuce wrap. Trust me, it tastes awesome!
Best wishes, and hope these hints will be helpful to you!
Hi Lacy,
I am sorry to hear that. It’s hard when you have no choice but to eat fast food! Yes, cold tea has the same benefits as hot tea.
Hugs,
Lucille
I love your open and free advice on how to be a good gurl Lucille! You help we who wish to be gurls so much!