I am a trans dude, and have been fat all my life. I've never been able to do a sit up, for instance. For most of my adolescence, my opinion of losing weight was 'why bother?' I didn't care about my body in any sense beyond the fact it caused me pain. When a thirteen year old is desperately hoping for breast cancer so they can get a mastectomy, losing weight is kind of a minor issue. I was also extremely anemic the whole time, which caused a host of issues that prevented me from exercising in any sense.
Now I have actual access to hormone therapy, and have been on it for a while. I pass well, everyone I know in my new city knows me as male and male only, and I actually have reason/motivation to lose weight. But like........I still don't like my body, and probably never will. I'll never be able to get many of the surgeries necessary, they are incredibly expensive. At the best of times, I can consider my body tolerable. It'll be years at least before I can actually go swimming, for instance.
I also genuinely do not have the money to buy a scale, at least not for a while. For like a year I didn't own a pan because I didn't have the money. I'm pretty broke in general.
I've been making changes in my lifestyle in general after moving out, eating more vegetables and less meat, that sort of thing, but I'm generally apathetic beyond that. Is there any way to actually navigate this and motivate myself enough to lose weight in the long term?
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