Eating Disorders in the Transgender Community

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I'm not sur if I've ever seen this topic discussed before as it relates speciffically to TG folks. Sometime around my birthday (January 28) I became absolutely horrorfid when I looked a the scale and discovered I was 198 pounds, I didn't feel I looked it, but no less it was a frightful number. Afterwards I began devoting myself to weightloss by modifying my diet, when I eat, and most recently working out for 3-4 hours 2-4 times a week. I currently weigh 179 (as of a few minutes ago), and I feel like moving this fat from and around my body is becoming an obcession. My initial goal was to get down to 175, but the more I continue the more appealing 165 seems to me.

So far this seems to be more a weight loss / eatind disorder post, but I know that alot of the passion inside me for doing from this is that the way I see myself is not a pudgey fellow, but a slender, delecate, but otherwise not extraordinary woman.

Does anyone here have thoughts on wheteher EDs are more prevalent in our community, or if we are more or less just like everyone else when it comes to weightloss?

Thanks,
Justine