Anyway, how is everyone else doing? I feel like I'm manipulating everyone's time here. Let's hear about someone else for a while.
You're not manipulating everyone's time. But, if you want to hear how I'm doing...
Incredibly well!
Until two months ago, I'd had very slow progress. And I wore women's clothes, but they were the most androgynous I could find. The main effect was that I looked younger and healthier, and I lost a little weight and got a lot less stressed, but that was about it.
Then I got on the full anti-androgen dosage. Because I was saturated with nine months of estrogen, the changes were rapid. (They wouldn't be as rapid for most people who just started out on the dosage.) Here's what's happened in the past two months.
-My body has feminized much, much more. I finally need to wear a bra. My face is prettier. And a year of growing my hair out has finally paid off, and it's starting to get manageable and nice-looking. And finishing the laser hair reduction last month means I can finally get a tan, and I look much better. Plus, facial hair is reduced and what's still there is transparent and hard to see even if I skip shaving for a few days. (But I hate doing that.)
-I've been able to eat more healthily without feeling hungry and miserable. I've lost about fifteen pounds.
-Because of the feminization and weight loss, and because warmer times are here, I finally went ahead and got some girlier clothes. Nothing really drastic, but shorter shorts and much girlier shirts that worked with my figure. And the effect was amazing. I've gone from "you look just like you did in high school" (which itself was an improvement from how much I'd aged) to generally being read as female except by people who've known me the longest or look really closely. (And even then, they're generally rather friendly about it.) And I've still got a _lot_ of feminizing to do and another twenty pounds to lose.
I mean, seriously, if previous me met the new me, "he" would want to date me, but probably think I was a little out of "his" league. (Now, in all fairness, previous me was very insecure, and current me still does not "pass" perfectly well or anything, but considering that I'm still feminizing rapidly, I think the end result is going to be amazing. Even if I stopped here, this is better than I ever imagined.)