Does losing weight make you put ok younger or older?

lady_ghost

Heavy ppl look younger because they have more fat in their face. The firmness and plumpness of their added fat to their face makes them look youthful but once they loose the fat on their face they looks old, if they loose weight too quickly and unhealthy or perhaps have done gastric by pass then their face looks old, haggard like a shriveled up old raisin. You may look a little older when you loose weight, however some people just naturally has more fat in their face even when they are skinny, they often have big heads. Don't worry too much about it. You should try and loose weight through strength training and cardio- NOT JUST CARDIO, and drink a ton of water also use hydrating lotions or creams specifically to prevent stretch marks because I have gotten more of those since dropping 30 pounds. And eat a lot of protien to maintain muscle. This will also help reduce sagging skin.

fastingrabbit

The title of this thread ("Does losing weight make you put ok younger or older") has a typo. Is that something that can be changed?

("Does losing weight make you look younger or older?")

DebSozo

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I haven't been overweight, but my body type looks younger when I am underweight, and older when I am fit & carrying more weight. For now. Eventually I guess underweight reads as frail.

I think I look my age, and good for my age, like a reasonably healthy example of how this age looks; but have had people show absolute shock sometimes when I tell them my age if they ask.

I do think that how people judge age is largely contextual though, not based entirely on looks, so if they've only seen me with my younger kids they tend to assume I'm younger, and if they've seen me with my college age kids they see me as around my age.

Face - wise I do better thinner, I think more prone to sagging/puffing/skin tone stuff than wrinkles, so less fat around face looks better to me.

I agree with the contextual part and also whether people dress their age or not. I have two grown sons plus a much younger boy. I was always low to mid-"normal" BMI until I hit my 40s when my third child was born. I had difficulty losing the "baby weight" like I did with the first two and edged into overweight BMI.

When I'm around the older boys people do the math and guess closer to my age. When they see my youngest with me people think I am 10 years younger than I am.

Anyhow, I'm happy to look like my youngest son's mom and not his grandma. I am worried whether my skin will snap back as easily with the next weightloss.

When I was in "overweight" BMI I looked older because I tended to wear layers, looser clothing, and longer tops to cover the midriff. When I weighed less I had a great waistline, wore body conscious clothing and could fit into Junior/teen clothing which runs smaller than Misses regular clothing styles.

elisa123gal

The majority of people look older heavier. Yet..some who lose a lot of weight and fast who are past 45 can show sagging skin and wrinkles in their faces. At your age of 26.. i'd say extra weight makes you look older.