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transLet me give the community a little background of myself, since I posted a few minutes ago but didn't introduce myself properly.
My name is Maura, but I'm still living as a man and using my male name. I live in Philadelphia, PA and I started to take hormones 6 months ago (actually my 6 month anniversary was yesterday).
I just turned 48 as well, so I'm a late bloomer or a coward up to this point whichever way you want to look at it. I'm married with 3 kids the oldest being 19. I've wrestled with my gender identity since I was a teenager but always conformed to the norms and expectations of where I lived.
Fast forward to current day - I'm overweight due to a bicycling accident. I'm also not nearly the typical in that I'm just a hair shy of 6'5" with a very masculine face, and up to about 9 months ago before the accident weighed in at 248lbs with only about 1% body fat, a 52" chest, 31" waist, 31" thighs, 19" calves and an 18.5" neck and size 13.5 feet. The shear size of me was always a problem for me as well, usually towering over the everyone. In fact it is so rare that I meet anyone taller that I actually very uncomfortable when I do meet someone taller - it's just weird.
Ok, so now you see the problems that I'm facing but I'm overcoming too. First to lose fat I'm doing 2 hours a day (starting at 5am) of cardio at the gym. No weights of any kind. The idea is to cut fat and muscle and it's working. I started at over 300 lbs and am down now, in just a couple of months to 260. The cardio is treadmill and "spinning only" on the bikes. No pushing or stair climbers because those tone and build muscle. At my thinnest years ago but in adulthood, I had a 29 waist, 32 chest so that's my target. My diet is very healthy, I eat about 6 times a day but it's all veggies and fruit with fish or chicken at around lunch time but in smaller portions. No red meats, very little oils, no boxed or processed foods of any kind, low sugars, no salt. Because of Spiro also no potassium products like bananas.
My plans are, after losing the weight, FFS and liposuction under the chin and other areas refusing to shed the fat I don't want. Any fat on hips will remain however. I am lucky in that I have wide hips so a natural hour glass won't be hard. My mother and sister both are natural E's or larger when thin and I am in only six months developing nicely up top so we'll see how large I get. I will however have breast augmentation. Due to my height and size I want nothing less that an E cup. I've alreay consulted in this area and will have water filled and they will go in through navel. This will produce a much more natural hang and no visible scars.
The FFS will be extensive including nose, brow bosses, jaw and chin, cheeks.
If the muscule mass doesn't decline in the 18 months then I will seek to have some of it surgically removed if possible. My thighs, chest and calves are huge with muscle.
Only after the FFS, breast augmentation and body contouring will I go full time. Yeah I know it adds time to the SRS and full identity change but because of my circumstances I refuse to go out and be constantly ridiculed. Without all of it I have no prayer of ever passing. I do however feel alright about my height in that I've met a number of 6'4" biological women and living and working in the city helps too.
So there you have it - me encapsulated.
My name is Maura, but I'm still living as a man and using my male name. I live in Philadelphia, PA and I started to take hormones 6 months ago (actually my 6 month anniversary was yesterday).
I just turned 48 as well, so I'm a late bloomer or a coward up to this point whichever way you want to look at it. I'm married with 3 kids the oldest being 19. I've wrestled with my gender identity since I was a teenager but always conformed to the norms and expectations of where I lived.
Fast forward to current day - I'm overweight due to a bicycling accident. I'm also not nearly the typical in that I'm just a hair shy of 6'5" with a very masculine face, and up to about 9 months ago before the accident weighed in at 248lbs with only about 1% body fat, a 52" chest, 31" waist, 31" thighs, 19" calves and an 18.5" neck and size 13.5 feet. The shear size of me was always a problem for me as well, usually towering over the everyone. In fact it is so rare that I meet anyone taller that I actually very uncomfortable when I do meet someone taller - it's just weird.
Ok, so now you see the problems that I'm facing but I'm overcoming too. First to lose fat I'm doing 2 hours a day (starting at 5am) of cardio at the gym. No weights of any kind. The idea is to cut fat and muscle and it's working. I started at over 300 lbs and am down now, in just a couple of months to 260. The cardio is treadmill and "spinning only" on the bikes. No pushing or stair climbers because those tone and build muscle. At my thinnest years ago but in adulthood, I had a 29 waist, 32 chest so that's my target. My diet is very healthy, I eat about 6 times a day but it's all veggies and fruit with fish or chicken at around lunch time but in smaller portions. No red meats, very little oils, no boxed or processed foods of any kind, low sugars, no salt. Because of Spiro also no potassium products like bananas.
My plans are, after losing the weight, FFS and liposuction under the chin and other areas refusing to shed the fat I don't want. Any fat on hips will remain however. I am lucky in that I have wide hips so a natural hour glass won't be hard. My mother and sister both are natural E's or larger when thin and I am in only six months developing nicely up top so we'll see how large I get. I will however have breast augmentation. Due to my height and size I want nothing less that an E cup. I've alreay consulted in this area and will have water filled and they will go in through navel. This will produce a much more natural hang and no visible scars.
The FFS will be extensive including nose, brow bosses, jaw and chin, cheeks.
If the muscule mass doesn't decline in the 18 months then I will seek to have some of it surgically removed if possible. My thighs, chest and calves are huge with muscle.
Only after the FFS, breast augmentation and body contouring will I go full time. Yeah I know it adds time to the SRS and full identity change but because of my circumstances I refuse to go out and be constantly ridiculed. Without all of it I have no prayer of ever passing. I do however feel alright about my height in that I've met a number of 6'4" biological women and living and working in the city helps too.
So there you have it - me encapsulated.
