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"Diet Face" - should we choose face over body or vice versa?
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I'm sorry, what the *kitten* is "diet face"? Sounds like another invented thing for people to be insecure about so that other people can sell them stuff to make them feel better about themselves.
Or rationalize not losing weight.11 -
After a bit of digging I’m going to chalk up “diet face” to complete and utter ignorance and impatience. I get that the aesthetic can be unpleasant, but most people can avoid it by losing weight sensibly: slow and steady with nutritional dietary choices (exercise of course will help as well!)4
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middlehaitch wrote: »Ok, the what is diet face.
It’s the gaunt, sunken, wrinkled look you get when you initially lose weight.
Here is an example.
Left is mid 40’s pre weight gain, so same weight as I am now.
Centre was a year or so ago with my mid 60’s face. Nicely settled into its lack of fat and multitude of wrinkles.
Right is my mid 50’s face just after I had lost weight. Gaunt, angular, hollow eyed and wrinkled.
Cheers, h.
(I couldn’t get the whole article either. I did google her and found she is 3years older than me, just to give the aging face as well as weight loss context)
Is that really diet face? Or just natural aging.
I don’t get what a diet face is... does this only happen to people who are older- ish in age?
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Middlehaich--sorry I can't really discern what you are talking about. To me those just look like pics at 40's, 50's, 60's. Also, you have a cute face, lucky you, work it gurll!middlehaitch wrote:Centre was a year or so ago with my mid 60’s face. Nicely settled into its lack of fat and multitude of wrinkles.
Right is my mid 50’s face just after I had lost weight. Gaunt, angular, hollow eyed and wrinkled.
She said the middle picture she's in her 60's, the one on the right her 50's. Her skin does seem to have tightened after a few years of maintenance which is encouraging. She looks like she's "aging" backwards.
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middlehaitch wrote: »Ok, the what is diet face.
It’s the gaunt, sunken, wrinkled look you get when you initially lose weight.
Here is an example.
Left is mid 40’s pre weight gain, so same weight as I am now.
Centre was a year or so ago with my mid 60’s face. Nicely settled into its lack of fat and multitude of wrinkles.
Right is my mid 50’s face just after I had lost weight. Gaunt, angular, hollow eyed and wrinkled.
Cheers, h.
(I couldn’t get the whole article either. I did google her and found she is 3years older than me, just to give the aging face as well as weight loss context)
Is that really diet face? Or just natural aging.
I don’t get what a diet face is... does this only happen to people who are older- ish in age?
I remember a thread on here awhile ago there was a girl in her 20's struggling to accept her skin's appearance after weight loss. She was happy with her health improvements but sad about her appearance. I hope it improved in time for her. I don't think everyone experiences this.1 -
healingnurtrer wrote: »middlehaitch wrote: »Ok, the what is diet face.
It’s the gaunt, sunken, wrinkled look you get when you initially lose weight.
Here is an example.
Left is mid 40’s pre weight gain, so same weight as I am now.
Centre was a year or so ago with my mid 60’s face. Nicely settled into its lack of fat and multitude of wrinkles.
Right is my mid 50’s face just after I had lost weight. Gaunt, angular, hollow eyed and wrinkled.
Cheers, h.
(I couldn’t get the whole article either. I did google her and found she is 3years older than me, just to give the aging face as well as weight loss context)
Is that really diet face? Or just natural aging.
I don’t get what a diet face is... does this only happen to people who are older- ish in age?
I remember a thread on here awhile ago there was a girl in her 20's struggling to accept her skin's appearance after weight loss. She was happy with her health improvements but sad about her appearance. I hope it improved in time for her. I don't think everyone experiences this.
I agree. I think it's most common for women, and those who are either a little older and/or didn't have a lot of excess fat on their faces such as very full cheeks and double chins. I think I had a comparatively "thin" face for my morbidly obese body and no double chin etc...therefore I noticed a more aged look to my post-weight loss face, despite being "just" mid-30s. For example, fine lines & wrinkles tend to show up a little more especially around the forehead, eyes & mouth then you lose weight at an older age and by that I mean anything from 35 like I was, to 60s and older.
Just my .022 -
I think I have a petite face naturally. I’m 5’3. At my lowest (132) my face looked kinda gauntley and old! I also had flaccid flap-jack boobies but thats another story for another day. Oh, and I had bad iron-deficiency. Gaining back 50 pounds has fixed those “problems” but I’m now obese again. Go figure3
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healingnurtrer wrote: »middlehaitch wrote: »Ok, the what is diet face.
It’s the gaunt, sunken, wrinkled look you get when you initially lose weight.
Here is an example.
Left is mid 40’s pre weight gain, so same weight as I am now.
Centre was a year or so ago with my mid 60’s face. Nicely settled into its lack of fat and multitude of wrinkles.
Right is my mid 50’s face just after I had lost weight. Gaunt, angular, hollow eyed and wrinkled.
Cheers, h.
(I couldn’t get the whole article either. I did google her and found she is 3years older than me, just to give the aging face as well as weight loss context)
Is that really diet face? Or just natural aging.
I don’t get what a diet face is... does this only happen to people who are older- ish in age?
I remember a thread on here awhile ago there was a girl in her 20's struggling to accept her skin's appearance after weight loss. She was happy with her health improvements but sad about her appearance. I hope it improved in time for her. I don't think everyone experiences this.
Was she complaining about her face though ? Or her body?0 -
I didn't have to choose. I like being a little bit fat, and with that comes having a little bit more fat in the face.2
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My choice would be a healthy body over appearance, at 59 I expect my face to look my age.
But when I was losing weight it was noticable that my face lost a fair bit of weight early on in the process - enough for friends to opine I was losing too much and looking unwell. (In reality I wasn't losing too much as my initial goal was 7lbs over the top of BMI normal range.)
But having maintained a while my face did regain some fat and the skin tightened. The same friends that thought I had lost too much were mistakingly "glad I had regained some weight" whereas in fact I had lost a few more pounds. One of my less diplomatic friends said "your face looked kinda weird for a while". Thanks mate!
My fat distribution and how I regain and lose fat has definitely changed - my arms and legs appear to remain lean when I regain some weight and it all goes on my stomach. Arm and leg muscle definition and vascularity varies hardly at all while my weight fluctuates, I just get a more podgy stomach.
Specualtion alert!!
Fat isn't completely static and especially when you do endurance exercise more fat get mobilised than is typically used in the exercise period. Maybe not such an effect for people who do short duration exercise as that mostly uses intra-muscular fat and triglycerides circulating in your blood for the fat part of energy expenditure.
Maybe that extra mobilised fat settles somewhere else determined by a person genetics?5 -
healingnurtrer wrote: »middlehaitch wrote: »Ok, the what is diet face.
It’s the gaunt, sunken, wrinkled look you get when you initially lose weight.
Here is an example.
Left is mid 40’s pre weight gain, so same weight as I am now.
Centre was a year or so ago with my mid 60’s face. Nicely settled into its lack of fat and multitude of wrinkles.
Right is my mid 50’s face just after I had lost weight. Gaunt, angular, hollow eyed and wrinkled.
Cheers, h.
(I couldn’t get the whole article either. I did google her and found she is 3years older than me, just to give the aging face as well as weight loss context)
Is that really diet face? Or just natural aging.
I don’t get what a diet face is... does this only happen to people who are older- ish in age?
I remember a thread on here awhile ago there was a girl in her 20's struggling to accept her skin's appearance after weight loss. She was happy with her health improvements but sad about her appearance. I hope it improved in time for her. I don't think everyone experiences this.
Was she complaining about her face though ? Or her body?
Her skin in general but especially her facial skin1 -
Does the perception work differently for evaluating men? I already have strong cheekbones (I actually was told I could not do LASIK because the blade would not work with how deep set my eyes are), and yet have never been thought old looking whether fat or thin. I tend to actually have problems with having my age underestimated; I've had multiple instances of people asking if my sons are my younger brothers.3
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I think a lot of us can have our cake and eat it too on this, as at least for me, diet face and diet body have both been an improvement. But I'll play. For me, it would be body over face.
While it is nice to have a pretty face, I'm never gonna be model pretty so my face isn't exactly gonna be a money maker. And it doesn't really have any functional advantages.
But if I get the diet body I'm looking for, I'll be stronger, more athletic, more functional overall. That has already been the case with the progress I have made. I love being able to do more outdoor activities and fitness related things than before I lost weight. I do things now I never thought were possible before weight loss. So I'll definitely take the body first.11 -
I would rather have the body I want, since my face is skinny and bony anyway. That's just how it naturally is. When I was at my highest ever weight, my face still looked like it belonged on a scrawny body. I just don't gain weight in my face.2
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healingnurtrer wrote: »healingnurtrer wrote: »middlehaitch wrote: »Ok, the what is diet face.
It’s the gaunt, sunken, wrinkled look you get when you initially lose weight.
Here is an example.
Left is mid 40’s pre weight gain, so same weight as I am now.
Centre was a year or so ago with my mid 60’s face. Nicely settled into its lack of fat and multitude of wrinkles.
Right is my mid 50’s face just after I had lost weight. Gaunt, angular, hollow eyed and wrinkled.
Cheers, h.
(I couldn’t get the whole article either. I did google her and found she is 3years older than me, just to give the aging face as well as weight loss context)
Is that really diet face? Or just natural aging.
I don’t get what a diet face is... does this only happen to people who are older- ish in age?
I remember a thread on here awhile ago there was a girl in her 20's struggling to accept her skin's appearance after weight loss. She was happy with her health improvements but sad about her appearance. I hope it improved in time for her. I don't think everyone experiences this.
Was she complaining about her face though ? Or her body?
Her skin in general but especially her facial skin
Ok. I only had 15lbs to lose maybe that’s why I didn’t experience the diet face, but if I did.... i think I’d rather gain the 15lbs back and have a healthier looking face.3 -
It's hard to say because I've never had to lose such a large amount of weight to where it would affect my face. but my body tends to carry excess weight in my lower half.
I think I'll say body over face. health is more important than how my face looks. The face should get better in time, especially with a good skin care routine I would think?1 -
I've definitely noticed a "diet face" in those who have lost a significant amount of weight quickly, but not really anywhere else. It just takes the skin a little bit longer to bounce back, and the amount it bounces back depends on age, genetics, etc. I'm fortunate that I carry a decent amount of weight in my face, so I likely won't experience it at all.
That being said, I'd rather be prematurely aged through "diet face" on the outside than prematurely aged on the inside through being in poor health due to being overweight.8 -
For those suspicious that diet face isn’t a thing, here’s a pic I snapped where my face looks like a deflated balloon.
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Diet face probably happens more to those of us who are older and have lost weight, probably more so if a lot of weight has been lost.
I'm now 50, lost 30lbs back in 2012 and have been maintaining that loss ever since. Because my loss was slow, approx 18 months my face didn't perhaps take the hit it might have done had I chose to lose faster, plus I 'only' had 25-30lbs to lose. I'll choose body over face because its being fit and at a healthy weight which counts IMO and I'm hoping it will help the aging process.1 -
I'll take the body and cover the face with a beard (not that it was much to look at in the first place) 😝4
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