Post #2033859

@autumn As far as I understand it, it only new fat cells are build in the regions dedicated by your *current* hormones. I.e. if you gain weight with you AGAB hormon levels, it is placed where those fatcells go in an AGAB / CIS person. In your case, this would be "male fat" (belly and so on). However, if you're on hormones, this changes accordingly (since the fundamental principle stays the same): again, in your case (MtF) this would mean on sufficent enough hormone levels, new fatcells would be "female fat". However: old fatcells dont magically get rearaged. They still are there and can get filled with new fat. Loosing weight is actually not loosing fatcells: it is the *content* of those cells that is empties and thus they "shrink", but dont go away. They only go away if the fatcell itself "dies" because the body has determined it is not needed anymore, like any other cell. This however can take *years*. I myself am also on estrogen (monotherapy) and I sadly can attest to that: I had some weight before starting in 2024, and while I certainly have some good amount of "female fat" now gained, my "male" belly fat is still there and also grows / shrinks with my calories intake / weigthgain; while I feel it's not as bad as when I would be on T still, it didn't vanished neither or "moved" or "redistributed". You generaly dont have to think of "redistributed" to mean the body moves existing fat; it's rather new fat that is created (after some of the olf cells are filled).