[Solstice]

Hey Lara, thank you for the welcome! Good to know about DHEA - I'm on a DHT blocker and pre-HRT so I feel like I could play with it a bit now and see what happens. The non-feminisation effects (anti-aging etc.) seem worth it on their own and I read somewhere from Lotus that it could up-regulate hormones for use on an aromatase-based programme, so seemed worth trying out.

About body fat, guess what most of female curves are made of? Yep. The thing is that HRT will likely make you gain some, but you can help it out a lot by doing moderate weight cycling. I see so many girls make this mistake that they want to become curvy, but then they're skinny as a board, there's no way to be skinny as board and get decent curves at the same time, it just doesn't work like that. So if you're down to say 10%, you may want to double that. (I used to lift irons and was really dry summer squirrel back in the day, started out quite skinny and now I'm anything but.)

Oh yeah I'm totally trying to gain weight at the moment! Mostly in service of putting on muscle below my waist but also to have those healthy reserves for HRT, and practice for putting on weight once it starts redistributing. It's always been super hard for me though - good problem to have I guess. Planning on getting some calipers to keep track of it and aim for somewhere in the female healthy range long-term.

You may want to look into MSM, Vitamin D3 and Calcium combination on the side of your HRT, its healthy, gives a nice boost to your boobs and is quite cheap and easy to get.

I'll check this out! Any good threads on it here?