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So a week ago, I mentioned my desire to post more and I haven't done that, how embarrassing :D
Keep reading to find out what I've been up to!
Weight
This week I had a follow up appointment with the Dietician, I saw them a couple of months ago because I had lost a lot of weight when I was stressed out questioning my gender nearly 2 years ago.
It felt wrong to be complaining about being underweight when folks have trouble loosing weight, surely it should be easy for me to put the weight back on, but since I had no idea what I was doing nothing seemed to be working.
With starting feminising HRT last August I had read about fat redistribution, which isn't your fat moving around your body, when your take feminising HRT it instructs your body to store fat in the thighs, bum and hips. I had also read about folks putting on weight so I was hopeful that HRT would just fix everything, I was after all in a good position I basically had no body fat so I didn't need to lose it from those male places.
HRT definitely didn't help me gain weight, I had a 6 month check up with my Endocrinologist, I think they were maybe a little surprised but not concerned that I hadn't put on any weight. But even after my dosage was increased my weight didn't change.
When I saw the dietician the first time the told me that for the majority of the population, it's a good idea to avoid sugar, but for me I wasn't getting enough of it so even though I'd increased the amount of food I was eating it wasn't getting stored away.
They sent me some high calorie recipes for smoothies and milkshakes and I just doubled the amounts. Within 2 months I'd made it back to not only my pre-stress weight but back to the weight I was before I'd started my plant based diet 4 years ago.
I'm having to maintain it now but hopefully I can ease off on the smoothies/milkshakes soon or just reduce the amount I have per day.
HRT Anniversary
As I mentioned above I started HRT in August 2022, specifically the 27th so next Sunday will be my 1 year anniversary!
It almost seems to have gone quickly, the 6 month wait to start HRT seemed to drag on before I was finally able to see my Endocrinologist and get started.
I've got my 1 year check up with the Endocrinologist the week after so I'll probably post a big update then.
Japan 2020
3 years ago I visited Japan for 2 weeks, the last week of Feb and the first week of March, I seem to remember there was something else quite big that happened around that time.
On the half empty flight back to the UK, I started writing a diary of my travels, I got to day 5 then left myself a list of bullet points to fill in later...
Whoopsie, I'm going to try and fill in the rest of it from what I can remember, the photos I took and my Google Timeline. So look forward to those posts interspersed with Twitch live notifications.
Robyn ❤