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.
Well I’m down to 169 lbs for height 5’10”
I’ve taken your advice Lucille and followed the following tips.
1 Exercise (200 miles per week on bycycle.)
2 Diet Bowl of porridge plus fruit for breakfast.
Miss out the midday meal
Meat & 3 veg for evening meal.
Several cups of tea with milk and lots of sugar.
The sugar is my only indulgence but it fuels
my cycling.
3 Hair care Close and careful care of my full head of pure
white shoulder length (and still
growing pure white hair.)
It truly is pure white, no colouring.
4 Very little makeup but moisturise twice
daily.
Well, I’m getting there slowly thanks to your tips.
One excercise (200 miles per week cycling.)
Two Diet Miss out the miday meal, bowl of porridge oats am
eavening meal to include greens and meat.
eat two or three pieces of fruit during the day.
Three
Nice figure; a flat dream stomach!
im a bigg martial arts geek and pratice capoeria weekly and imlso am a vegitairain i dont eat chicken pork or turkey i run daily
so i look like mia hamm or some thing
I need to lose about 40-50 lbs. to get my shape. I need the easiest ways. Please send me all your ideas!!!!
I’m proud to announce that I’ve dropped 100 lbs. I did it in one years time to the day. Yes I wanted to loose that much. My end goal was to be a size 10. when I started out I was a good 20/22 size.
Eating right is key also drinking 64 oz of water every day. I didn’t go to the gym. Only because I have a very physical demanding job. Eat breakfast very important. Also don’t skip meals. Lots of fruit and veggies. If you have a Foreman grill use it. Purchase meat that has a more meat then fat content. i.e. 73/27 that means that 27% is fat. Go with a 90/10 yes its cost more. However you get more meat for it. Ground Turkey works wonders. Another is Buffalo very lean meat. Change your bread from white to wheat. Potatoes change to sweet potatoes. They are great mashed. A fresh way to have potato salad.
Hth
From a very happy and new size 10
Marci,
Pennsylvania
My fitness trainer told me one day that if i avoid fruit juice daily,It will help to save 25 pounds of weight every year.I was really shock to hear that i don’t no is that right or not but i am genuinely wanting to lose fat naturally instead then just doing it unhealthy way.
What the trainer should have explained is;
fruit juice has indirect sugar & possibly some
asapartme in it too.
Being diabetic myself, I stay well clear of fruit juices.
I just started to do belly dancing. It takes me a little time to get the moves right, and I think it will help me with my female movements (my wiggle).
I have lost 55 pounds over past year. I did it by cutting out all fried foods and sweets. I have found that when I go to a restaurant I eat soup with whatever order i put in. I have found if I cut a sandwich in 2 and take half home. I eat fruit, veggies and some nuts in the evening almost always before 6. I exercise 1 hour minimum a day. I do elyptical for 20 minutes or more and I do mall walking for 40 minutes a day. I did find the hardest is to lose the belly. I now can get into a size 9 jeans and skirts I have found that I wear size 12 or 14 with dresses. I used to have to go to Lane Bryant but no more.