There are things you can start doing now if you are going to go on HRT. One is lose all excess body fat particularly around the belly area and if you are a smoking I strongly urge you to quit.
You want to work toward being in the best possible physical condition you can be.
Exercise and nutrition are crucial and if you abuse alcohol or drugs this will only add to your problems
Your mind and body must be built up to have the strength to go forward.
It is a paradox that to survive the process you must be psychologically strong but to be psychologically strong you must transition.
It is an extremely invasive experience leaving you with no sense of privacy. It will strip you down like no other experience leaving you exposed in every sense imaginable.
Some commit suicide from living as a transsexual and some from trying to escape living as a transsexual.
Suicide is a shadow you always live within and even afterwards this shadow may haunt you.
You will have to fight for your life like you never have had to before.
You must go into this possessing a mental and physical strength or the very process will kill you.
Transitioning is not for the faint of heart and afterwards you will be shocked that you had the strength to do it.
You need to be brutally disciplined in all your life habits or you simply will not make it.
Think of it like surviving war because that is what it is.
You cannot afford to feel sorry for yourself when the enemy is shooting at you.
Mental toughness is mandatory.