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.
Apologies in advance if this comes across pedantic or condescending in any way shape or form, but following is what I have found and it may not work for some. I’ve had a 20+ year struggle with weight and have spent most of my years at 200 to 200 and being 5’6″ as you can imagine sucks. What makes it worse is I was somewhat active which just adds insult to injury. I did 2 rounds of HCG and am now down to 165 and have kept it off for almost 2.5 years. To keep it off I generally have 6 eggs with cheese and olive oil for breakfast or I fry up an onion with a half pound of meat in olive oil, red palm oil, coconut oil, butter, or grapeseed oil. For lunch half head to a head of cabbage, an onion and a half pound of various meat. For snacks plain full fat greek yogurt with stevia. I highly recommend the english toffee. I also have a quart of water and about a pot of coffee with half and half throughout the day. This may sound strict, it is really not since I give myself 2 cheat days per week, but if I “carb out” I make sure it is something I really want for example would I like a burger from a fast food place or some Ben and Jerry’s. Hands down ice cream wins. This may not work for everyone, but thus far has for me. In short I guess one could say my secret is I learned to cook, though very basic skills, but is has worked. The other advise is learn chemistry, or if there is an ingredient that you cannot identify in your food…don’t eat it. Third is avoid hidden sugars. Almost everything anymore has added sugar or artificial sweetener. The artificial stuff is just as bad if not worse than the sugar. Wikipedia is a decent source of info, so check out insulin response, on artificial sweeteners. If there are any questions I would love to help, since as aforementioned this was a 2 decade struggle for me. This includes god knows how many starvation diets and countless hours at the gym, and even performing labor for a living.
PS. I also come from a family of larger people that have had GBS and In my humble opinion did not work well.
Since I’ve started to transition, I’ve dropped 76 lbs and several dress sizes. I was 261 lbs and wearing a 2XL. Now around 185 (and still loosing), wear a medium or a 12 misses. How did I do it? Very simple actually- no sodas of any kind, no more potato chips, twinkies, processed foods, more fruit and vegetables, leaner cuts of meat, less dairy, and I actually read the damn labels on the food that I buy. Hidden salt and sugar will make you both fat and diabetic. Oh and I also work my ass off running, walking, hiking and really anything to make you sweat, even during the winter. No more excuses.
Noone should ever do much less attempt. My life was basically 1-2 hamburgers, loaded with tomatoes, lettuce, and onions. A day with plenty of water. Electrolytes. Every so often have a salad bar more later
I was told this diet first appeared in the Bible !
“Never approach the table hungry – Never leave the table full”
have an apple or a pear any fruit and/or a big glass of water before your meal.
Use smaller plates! dinner plate down to tea plate.
Stop before your in danger of being stuffed.
Walk away from the table and continue to walk around, do the washing up and drying up plus putting away to help digestion convert food to energy and not fat! that’s what happens if you just slump down into couch.
Last but not least Wherever possible complete your last meal of the day before seven in the evening.
Let me know how you go on with this diet.
P S as soon as you start to loose weight exercise that bit more,
nothing crazy like a gym just do a brisk walk.
What great suggestions. I love the Bible reference.
One of my biggest challenges was snacking in the evening. I love potato chips, peanuts, corn chips, cheese dips, ice cream, and a bunch of other unhealthy snacks. What I have done, very filling, is keeping Kellogs raisin bran and coconut milk on hand. When I must eat something in the evening, I eat raisin bran. I don’t advocate a high level of wheat for a variety of reasons, raisin bran with coconut milk is reasonably healthy, low fat, and very filling and it helps me stay away from unhealthy snacks. Coconut milk is far superior to dairy milk in a lot of ways( research it online )
I need to lose belly fat and this is a strugle.
On the first subject: I don’t believe in that stuff. I believe god has set the rules in nature. We either obey them or pay the price. Global warming has some merit. The human race keeps on polluting mthe water, the air, the oceans, etc and things will change because of nature’s rules. We will suffer our own fate at our hands. Enough on that subject.
Now losing weight. I have been extremely overweight most of my 60 year life. 25 years ago I went from 400#s down to 148#s on my own designed diet in 14 months. Sorry, I put it all back on. I had never thought of a maintenance plan. At 60 I had a major heart attack. Darn lucky I happened to be at a hospital for pneaumonia. I weighed 478#s, albeit 70#s was water and that was one of the causes to the heart attack, the water. Since January I have lost 178#s. Waa hoo! My secret is I glued my teeth together. No, not really. I eat under 1000 calories because I am bed ridden with a bad knee. I would not recommend that low of calories without seeing a doctor or dietician. Get a check up before severe dieting. Because of my heart attack I need to keep my sodium intack under 2000mg. I keep mine daily around 600mg. Another waa hoo! ou need to read labels. I track my daily intake on a spread sheet. I track calories, protein, sodium, and carbs. Formulas add up things and I adjust what I eat accordingly. Lots of people urged me to get surgery. First, it is risky, second you have to eat certain things and amount, thirdly you can’t reverse the surgery, fourth yo need to take supplement the rest of you life, and fifth it is a life long change. One dietician told me they put you on a high protein diet for about 6 months. I said to her why don’t people just do thaat diet if they have the will and avoid the surgery without all the changes. She agreed. I eat calories under a 1000, eat about 50+ protien, i keep my sodium low and keep the carbs under 125mg each day. This diet has made control of my diabetes easier and a lot less isulin needed. a lot less. If I could excersize I am almost sure I could get off any insulin. there are plenty of good things you ca eat. Did you know there is even sodium in celery? Drink plenty of water. This will help the body flush itself out and keep you hydrated. No worry about water retention because having the sodium low pretty much takes care of that. Feel free to ask me more.
With love,
Suzan
Well I am 6′ tall and weigh in at less than 161 pounds eat voraciously, then nothing but coffee, water, milk, and juice for days…..lol. works for me.