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.
I agree with all of these except for #2. Intermittent fasting has many healthy benefits including weight loss. Eating with8in an 8 hour window puts your body in fasting state for 16 hours. It makes the body burn it’s own fat and increases insulin sensitivity. Also when eating try to avoid processed foods. This method has helped me lose 90 pounds and reduced my A1C. Trust me, your body will thank you. Have your Breakfast at lunch.
It’s my opinion that some trans women, who have a larger bone structure than cis-women, can look too bony when trying to obtain a weight common to cis-women. As a friend once said, “…you don’t want to look like Annie Reksia”. 🙂
I am 58 and I have stopped drinking pop. I have all ready lost 7 pounds in 2 months. I hope I can continue. I have been drinking pop for years. I am also trying to eat more healthy foods. No junk foods. Been thinking about starting on taking funugreek to help with my breast growth.
Hi Lucille, a tip for what it’s worth on losing weight.
I am on my third month of spiro and due to see my endo next week, hopefully to start estrogen.
I am 65 and have always been around 12 stone, about 83 kilos. It always hung around my middle. I stopped eating bread and anything with wheat, use olive oil spread. My main meal in the evening is a salad with a tin of either tuna, salmon or sardines. I do like my salad dressings and have garlic aoli and salad cream. But I do have meat once a week as a treat.
Since starting this diet the beginning of December, I have lost almost 5 kilos. Weighed my self yesterday and I am 78 kilos.
soooo need to lose beer nelly and am hoping you can help me hun.
Is 65 and the years have not been good to my waist i would like to look like i did in my 30 s but have not had the will power to diet, but will start eating more of the things suggested here except for the tuna ( yuck). Also would love to get a waist cincher belt so i could hide some of this fat ha ha. will try to start eating much better foods from now on.
I have lost weigh with a tuna diet that works it’s a three day thing
I would like some more details of this tuna diet all the best bob
It took it sorry go by this I lost 9pound one week warm thoughts gail
Will motley me send it said be said that before I can mail it discreetly if you like did try gail
I try to send it but it said I’ve done said that will not let me send it I could mail it discreetly to you
Will not let me send it day one breakfast black tea or coffee sugar substltute or juice or a grapefruit one third or one toast and one half to one tbsp.low fat peanut butter now for lunch plain toast one half cup tuna water nothing in the tuna eat it out the can dinner 3oz meat lean 1cup carrots 1cupgreen beans 1medium Apple water nothing else day two breakfast 1egg hard boiled 1slice plain toast 1banana lunch1cuptuna or cottage cheese 5saltine crackers water dinner2 hot dogs 1cup cabbage one half cup carrots one half cup sugar free ice cream water day three breakfast 5salttine 1ozcheddar cheese 1apple day three lunch 1hard boiled egg plain toast water dinner 1cup tuna 1cup cauliflower 1cupcarrot 1apple one half augar fee ice cream water do this for three days do not change anything now the others days eat low fat foods you can eat one meal of fast food only one let me know if need help on this warm thoughts gail
day one breakfast black tea or coffee sugar substltute or juice or a grapefruit one third or one toast and one half to one tbsp.low fat peanut butter now for lunch plain toast one half cup tuna water nothing in the tuna eat it out the can dinner 3oz meat lean 1cup carrots 1cupgreen beans 1medium Apple water nothing else day two breakfast 1egg hard boiled 1slice plain toast 1banana lunch1cuptuna or cottage cheese 5saltine crackers water dinner2 hot dogs 1cup cabbage one half cup carrots one half cup sugar free ice cream water day three breakfast 5salttine 1ozcheddar cheese 1apple day three lunch 1hard boiled egg plain toast water dinner 1cup tuna 1cup cauliflower 1cupcarrot 1apple one half augar fee ice cream water do this for three days do not change anything now the others days eat low fat foods you can eat one meal of fast food only one let me know if need help on this warm thoughts gail
The three day diet be nice to mail it but will try to put it all in day one breakfast black tea or coffee sugar substltute or juice or a grapefruit one third or one toast and one half to one tbsp.low fat peanut butter now for lunch plain toast one half cup tuna water nothing in the tuna eat it out the can dinner 3oz meat lean 1cup carrots 1cupgreen beans 1medium Apple water nothing else day two breakfast 1egg hard boiled 1slice plain toast 1banana lunch1cuptuna or cottage cheese 5saltine crackers water dinner2 hot dogs 1cup cabbage one half cup carrots one half cup sugar free ice cream water day three breakfast 5salttine 1ozcheddar cheese 1apple day three lunch 1hard boiled egg plain toast water dinner 1cup tuna 1cup cauliflower 1cupcarrot 1apple one half augar fee ice cream water do this for three days do not change anything now the others days eat low fat foods you can eat one meal of fast food only one let me know if need help on this warm thoughts gail
H,i Maria Joline This is Petra You Look Very Pretty in That Outfit. I to Like to Wear Only Girly Clothes. I do go Out And Wear Some Item Under Male Clothes. My Biggest Problem is the Spare and Getting Rid of it. I am in my 50,s I Would Like to Look Like in my 40,s if You get my Drift With Love Petra.
Did you take fenugreek only for feminizing your waist, hips and butt?
Many people spend WAY too much on herbs. Look at herbal supplements on the store shelves; you will see many common items in expensive packaging, such as vinegar, cranberries, and others, including fenugreek. it is inexpensive among the spices in the bulk foods section of many grocery stores. It is seeds; they are dry and hard. You can experiment with how to use them, but the easiest is to soften them in a generous amount of hot water (use the water too), then eat about a teaspoonful a day, alone or with something. It has a somewhat maple sugar flavor. Also look for other bulk herbs to save $ on.
Hi Putta69 well I only take fenugreek for my breasts I’m not sure if it’s helping my waist hips or butt though I hope so I guess my shape is a bit on the femme side I think my waist and butt is just years dressing and training with a belt I really don’t feel all that yummy yet I still get depressed at times waiting for my life to improve even slightly but I like what the fenugreek has done for me I can’t even afford it lately Love MJ