1st Knee of the Curve
Now I may be wrong with this because really hard to tell where I'm at with the feminization progress till its all done. Also if you read my last status update, this may seem counter intuitive. So I want to put that into context first.
The heading of my last blog implied that I'm slowing down. And in a sense I am slowing down. Whereas the first several months the lifestyle changes were pretty rapid and I was working on trying to make as big of gains as I can healthy speaking, now I have to slow down with some of my effort aspect. Meaning I need to be more realistic with how much I can accomplish every week from sheer force of will. This blog is more concerning the inflection point of my passability.
Just for common basis. The knee of the curve is the part of a curve where either in my case the change starts being noticeable over a short period of time or change stops being noticeable over a small period of time. I drew a fast picture to show what I'm talking about.
Hehe, I'm such a nerd! Anyways! I officially started my HRT treatment mid to late November. Between starting new habits with diet/exercise/lifestyle along with the HRT just beginning you would expect to see things happen slowly over a longer period of time. Which makes sense if you look at the curve above between November and April.
At some point, the hormones will be going and full strength and my diet/exercise/lifestyle changes will be starting to make appreciable changes. Originally I thought this would happen sometime around May, give or take a few weeks, because thats when the noticeiabel things are supposed to start happening with the hormones on the 'ball park' timeline. Though it could of happened anywhere as late as August. The slang term for this is 'knee of the curve.' Well I have a very strong feeling that I'm hitting the first knee of the curve right now or close to now.
If I'm right, and i'm right on thinking my transition will kind of be modeled like it is above, I think there will be very fast progress to my transitioning/passability over the next few months. When it ends is just a guess at best. But right now I'm thinking this will be happening between April And September an when I make rapid progress. The reason for this is the September/October is when I think I'll hit my target female weight, and September is a little after when 'phase 1' of my medical transition should be ending. Also that would be about the same amount of time from right now to when I started so kind of makes sense the timeline would be similar. Once again, if I'm right on this, then by end of September I'll have the 'lion share' of my passability accomplished with the refinement period (around the last 15%-25%) getting started.
So when i'm talking about the last 15-25% i'm not talking about the full transition to female physically but more so of how passable/attractive of a female I would be. It makes sense medically that there is only so much I can improve my body through diet and exercise and so much effects hormoens will have before they start slowing down. But I'm still early on in the physical transition. The hormones takes about 5 years from start to finish before all the changes they will make is made. I still have the gender reassignment surgery, breast implants, and any other surgeries to do that might end up being needed like facial feminization surgery. Furthermore there is lots of refinement to get done such as fashion/makeup/behavior skills along with adjusting exercise/diet to emphasize/de-emphasize/improve my body physically.
A lot of what I say here is feelings backed up with firm rationalization, hehe. I've always felt like I will make large changes in my lifestyle over the summer and I'm starting to feel more confident about it now. So the question one may ask is why do I feel like I'm at the knee of the curve?
I touched on a few reasons on my last medical update blog before this. For the first time in a doctor's appointment, I feel like I can attribute changes to my body moreso to the hormones then to my improved lifestyle. When I look in the mirror, without much effort I feel like I can see some of the feminization. I'm starting to swim in some of my old clothes which when I glance in the mirror I can see the stereotypical girl in her boy friends clothes look.
Besides the feelings and first glances at myself there is the actual health. I'm probably about 2-3 weeks away from being in fantastic shape for a guy. At that point I'll probably be the beste shape in my life physically speaking. That also means that my muscle mass is close to as high as it will be. Chances are any time now in the next month or so, I'll start losing the muscle mass. I think the fat redistribution has already started. So all the exercise I've been doing which would of been 'bulking' me up is about to reverse and slim me down faster then I was before hand. Kind of like losing fat and muscle. Add onto that and with my hormones being full raging, I think there is good reason to believe I'll physically improve as well.
The heading of my last blog implied that I'm slowing down. And in a sense I am slowing down. Whereas the first several months the lifestyle changes were pretty rapid and I was working on trying to make as big of gains as I can healthy speaking, now I have to slow down with some of my effort aspect. Meaning I need to be more realistic with how much I can accomplish every week from sheer force of will. This blog is more concerning the inflection point of my passability.
Just for common basis. The knee of the curve is the part of a curve where either in my case the change starts being noticeable over a short period of time or change stops being noticeable over a small period of time. I drew a fast picture to show what I'm talking about.
Hehe, I'm such a nerd! Anyways! I officially started my HRT treatment mid to late November. Between starting new habits with diet/exercise/lifestyle along with the HRT just beginning you would expect to see things happen slowly over a longer period of time. Which makes sense if you look at the curve above between November and April.
At some point, the hormones will be going and full strength and my diet/exercise/lifestyle changes will be starting to make appreciable changes. Originally I thought this would happen sometime around May, give or take a few weeks, because thats when the noticeiabel things are supposed to start happening with the hormones on the 'ball park' timeline. Though it could of happened anywhere as late as August. The slang term for this is 'knee of the curve.' Well I have a very strong feeling that I'm hitting the first knee of the curve right now or close to now.
If I'm right, and i'm right on thinking my transition will kind of be modeled like it is above, I think there will be very fast progress to my transitioning/passability over the next few months. When it ends is just a guess at best. But right now I'm thinking this will be happening between April And September an when I make rapid progress. The reason for this is the September/October is when I think I'll hit my target female weight, and September is a little after when 'phase 1' of my medical transition should be ending. Also that would be about the same amount of time from right now to when I started so kind of makes sense the timeline would be similar. Once again, if I'm right on this, then by end of September I'll have the 'lion share' of my passability accomplished with the refinement period (around the last 15%-25%) getting started.
So when i'm talking about the last 15-25% i'm not talking about the full transition to female physically but more so of how passable/attractive of a female I would be. It makes sense medically that there is only so much I can improve my body through diet and exercise and so much effects hormoens will have before they start slowing down. But I'm still early on in the physical transition. The hormones takes about 5 years from start to finish before all the changes they will make is made. I still have the gender reassignment surgery, breast implants, and any other surgeries to do that might end up being needed like facial feminization surgery. Furthermore there is lots of refinement to get done such as fashion/makeup/behavior skills along with adjusting exercise/diet to emphasize/de-emphasize/improve my body physically.
A lot of what I say here is feelings backed up with firm rationalization, hehe. I've always felt like I will make large changes in my lifestyle over the summer and I'm starting to feel more confident about it now. So the question one may ask is why do I feel like I'm at the knee of the curve?
I touched on a few reasons on my last medical update blog before this. For the first time in a doctor's appointment, I feel like I can attribute changes to my body moreso to the hormones then to my improved lifestyle. When I look in the mirror, without much effort I feel like I can see some of the feminization. I'm starting to swim in some of my old clothes which when I glance in the mirror I can see the stereotypical girl in her boy friends clothes look.
Besides the feelings and first glances at myself there is the actual health. I'm probably about 2-3 weeks away from being in fantastic shape for a guy. At that point I'll probably be the beste shape in my life physically speaking. That also means that my muscle mass is close to as high as it will be. Chances are any time now in the next month or so, I'll start losing the muscle mass. I think the fat redistribution has already started. So all the exercise I've been doing which would of been 'bulking' me up is about to reverse and slim me down faster then I was before hand. Kind of like losing fat and muscle. Add onto that and with my hormones being full raging, I think there is good reason to believe I'll physically improve as well.
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