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Worth getting a hormone test?
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19, male, 5'11'', no scales in house but I'd say ~160lbs, caucasian, complaint since puberty I guess, UK, no medications but I'm mildly asthmatic (not sure if relevant).

Because I'm not 100% sure about all the factors that might be relevant this could be rambly.

I've been doing some light reading on hormones and their relationship to body fat.

I'm very fit, I do Insanity-level cardio workouts, P90X type intensive stuff. You need to be very fit to keep up. But you wouldn't tell from looking at me. Not only do I have seemingly permanent puppy-fat on my belly with complementary love-handles, my arse and back of my legs look like a fat old woman's. Now my diet is far from perfect and apart from workouts I'm usually sedentary but you'd think I'd have a better time of losing weight and gaining muscle considering how much work I put in? Also, I'm not just chubby-fat, it's almost all packed onto my arse and thighs, a typically feminine trait.

My arms are spindly, my hands are small with thin feminine fingers (I keep them in pockets in public out of self-consciousness). My hip-bone seems strangely pronounced. I can gain upper-body muscle but's not substantial and I don't think I'll ever get the upside-down triangle look.

In my early teens I was very fat. At 14 years old my weight matched my age in stone (almost 200lbs). My uneducated guess is that my estrogen levels where way too high at a time where I had a significant growth spurt and it fucked with my body proportions. My weight above is pretty much what I attained after about a year of work at 14-15 years old. No real loss or gain since then despite my fitness being far beyond that.

Emotionally speaking most would tell you I'm probably one of the most grounded people they've met. I wouldn't say I'm depressed, but I don't really care about things much, both positive and negative. Yeah, typical teenager you might reply, but I surprise myself sometimes. I'm a virgin, never had any romantic female contact at all ever, but I don't care - I'm sexually attracted to women and masturbate a few times a week but I don't really have any drive to go beyond platonic with women in real life.

I get the feeling that none of this is 'normal', but I'm not sure if it's the result of a chemical/hormonal imbalance or if that's just how I was supposed to turn out. If it's fixable I'd like to do so.

If you've read through all that then thankyou x1000 :) Any advice and information is greatly appreciated.

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