[Cagedmuscle213]

I don't have any experience what so ever with this or female hormones or herbal therapies. I am a body builder. Relatively lean and I have a lot of muscle. I have thought about transitioning. My only concern is that I don't want to lose my muscle tone strength and being relatively lean as much as I can obviously. I know that there will be muscle and strength loss when my t levels go low or stop, and I know it's inevitable that the estrogen or female herbal therapies will prob cause weight gain to an extent. I know those things will happen, but to what extent I don't know. And the only person I've found in my research who did anything similar is Janie Marie Kroc who is a powerlifting and bodybuilding athlete in her former self as a man, so before she transitioned he obviously was very strong and had a ton of muscle, I think he weighed in the 220+ range. She said she tried using hrt while on low dose androgens to keep as much muscle mass and strength since obviously that's a huge part.of her life as an athlete. She said she did not see any female changes until all androgens were stopped. So again I don't know how one could really walk that fine line of trying to have it both ways. That's really the only thing stopping me from trying pm and or starting any other forms of therapy besides obviously seeing a doctor or specialist to get synthetic estrogen prescribed.  She goes to talk about her experience on you tube and what not and says the biggest hurdle was her mind and being able to not stop or back track once the weight and strength started coming off.