I now have 31" waist circumference, and 38" hip circumference. Interestingly, since the last time I measured, I lost exactly 1" at the waist, and gained it in the hips. This puts my Waist-to-Hip ratio at 0.82. My old masculine pot-belly is almost completely gone. I'm now wearing my pants and shorts between my hips and waist at a point where the circumference is 32".

As a male, I've well exceeded the point where I'd be considered low risk from body fat for health problems, which is 0.95. As a female, I'd be in the moderate risk category. As a male with an herbally-manipulated hormonal balance that probably is more like that of a female? I really don't know and I'm not sure anyone does. Do I go according to the female chart? The male chart? Somewhere between the two? *shrugs*

Other news regarding the changes my body is going through. First, hair. My back and chest and beard have all been being effected as well now. My beard still grows in, still just as thick, but it's slower. My back hair is all but gone, my chest hair is just doing a combination of what my arm hair and leg hair were and (I think) are still doing.

I don't know if this is related at all, but when I was young, I had a bit of an accident involving my face and a bunch of broken glass. As a result, my eyebrows had to be shaved off. Shortly after they'd finally grown back in, I had a charcoal grill backfire into my face when I was trying to light it, and burned my eyebrows clean off. They've never really grown back since. Now they finally are.

My boobs have become a lot more... responsive... after the recent blog entry. They did grow a little more, but only maybe at most between a quarter to half inch circumference at the bust. They are becoming a bit tougher to camouflage. Since my boobs have become as sensitive as they have, I have finally taken to wearing bra's, at least at work. First day, it felt really strange, and I was constantly hiding somewhere and adjusting it. Second day, similar, though I was able to fight the urge to adjust it. Third day, that's today, it felt perfectly natural and I hardly noticed I was wearing it unless I thought about it. I have a feeling the bra is going to eventually go the way of the wrist watch for me, and I'll never feel fully dressed unless I'm wearing one.

I do have to make an admission though, with the noreaster hanging in the region, I would normally go into a deep depression. Constant cloud and drizzle tends to do that to me, so yeah, I have SAD. As a preventative, on Monday, I doubled my Chasteberry dose... boy does it make me feel good. I'm concerned what effect this might have on me long-term, so I'll be going back down when the noreaster leaves the region.

I still have to warn you, my experiences are in no way indicative of what anyone else might experience. In fact, according to Amyzing from #gabyzone, according to her doctor, my experiences with progestins is quite unusual.

Please, do NOT try to do anything with HHM without at least consulting a medical professional if at all possible. Preferably, just don't do it. It's still a very untried territory.