Did your face fill back out in maintenance?
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lightenup2016
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I’ve only lost 13 lbs so far, but I’m already seeing more lines in my face, and I look older and tired. I’ve read that some people who have seen the same thing, see their face fill back out a little in maintenance. How many have experienced this? I’m hoping it’s temporary, maybe from the calorie deficit? I am 46, so maybe just age? But I’ve seen a definite change in the last two months...
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I've lost 16 lbs and am also seeing some emphasis on my smile and squint lines. It usually appears when I've lost a lot of weight quickly and settles back down after a few months of losing slowly or maintaining. It's not the same as my "heavy" face, but I stop looking like I've been deathly ill with consumption or some other Victorian wasting disease...
I seem to lose my weight from the top down, chest and face going gaunt before my body will even consider making a dent in the old muffin top. Once I can slow my weight loss from 2#/week to something more reasonable like .5#/week that usually starts to even out a little. Maintenance is usually even better.9 -
I found this as a side effect too...the fat in my face went away and so I looked less soft and rounded in my face, and yeah, that looked gaunt rather than fashionable. I think I've rebounded a bit and have moisturized religiously. But still, I think 40 year old skin just doesn't rebound like it did when I was younger.
Still wouldn't want to regain the weight, though.9 -
lightenup2016 wrote: »I’ve only lost 13 lbs so far, but I’m already seeing more lines in my face, and I look older and tired. I’ve read that some people who have seen the same thing, see their face fill back out a little in maintenance. How many have experienced this? I’m hoping it’s temporary, maybe from the calorie deficit? I am 46, so maybe just age? But I’ve seen a definite change in the last two months...
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Wait till you hit 54 like me 😛 I figure if my face doesn't fill out a little, dealing with that and some squishy skin is much better than the alternative of being obese again!12 -
I’ve experienced this too, around my eyes and neck. I moisturize like crazy, but.... oh well, I’m 39, so I know I’m no spring chicken. I don’t really mind it, I guess, it’s just.... different.5
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My face has filled out some after a couple of years. It's still easy to slip back into "diet face" though. My mother swears she can tell from my face if I drop calories for any length of time. What I think helped most was talking to the doctor that does my Botox. We added a few units on each side of my mouth to ease some of the lines that were getting altogether too comfortable on my face. A few tweaks like that and the passage of time have helped tremendously!5
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Yes. Skin shrinks more slowly than fat depletes. Also, there's some glycogen depletion, often, from the calorie deficit, while weight loss is still in process. Maybe there are other factors.
I looked pretty haggard in the face at goal, but it improved over several months at the same weight at maintenance calories.
I still have some deep wrinkles and droop that I didn't have when obese, but I lost weight at age 59-60 (now 64). It's better than it was at first, definitely.
I suspect regular exercise, good nutrition, adequate hydration, and not losing at too fast a rate are good allies. Skin is an organ, and the same things that make other organs healthy are likely to keep skin as healthy, supple and elastic as is possible.15 -
Yup definitely better now after a couple of years. Everything seems to tighten up and redistribute. Patience is the key.11
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How long does your botox last?1
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I'm 46 and my face is definitely showing more lines that weren't there when I was chubbier. Around my mouth .. and while I don't have loose skin, the skin on my neck and also underside of my upper arm are a bit wrinkley. I wouldn't want to go back to being overweight again but my 'diet face' definitely does make me look older. I'm not sure if it will change because let's face it, I'm getting older so wrinkles are normal I guess.3
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Mine may have filled out a bit in the past year, but not significantly. I consider it a small price well worth paying - of course, being a guy I know there are double standards, though!5
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I've been in maintenance for about a year and a half. My face hasn't exactly 'filled back out' - I still have quite hollow-looking cheeks - but the skin has tightened up a lot so that most of the lines are gone and I'm back to my accustomed youthful appearance.7
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Yes, I am more wrinkled with the weight off. I started taking collagen supplements about two months ago. I was hoping it would help my other saggy weight loss issue, 85 pounds and on maintenance now for a year and two months.
I think the collagen has helped my joints thus far, otherwise I may be just wasting my money, time will tell.
Doe some research and make up your own mind. The below article briefly discusses potential benefits and safety concerns:
https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/news/20180308/collagen-supplements-what-the-research-shows5 -
I will probably collect a whole load of disagrees for this but high dose liposomal vitamin C has been reported to improve skin elasticity. I have been taking it for a year and my skin is in great shape. I'm early 50s. My weight loss has been large but slow and steady. The bingo wings are an issue but facially I'm in good nick. That's probably mostly down to good genes and skincare but since taking the vitamin C my facial skin feels bouncier.5
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I'd add that there's a whole 99-page (!) thread over in Success Stories with before/after face photos - huge range of ages & weight loss amounts. It's a reasonable caveat that people might not post on that thread if they thought they looked really bad after weight loss . . . but also that a super-common comment by others on those photos, in that thread, is some variation on "you look so much younger". FWIW.
It's here:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10207059/before-and-after-face-edition
. . . so others can take a look, if feeling that I'm biased.6 -
Nope. My face is looking gaunt at the moment unfortunately. I’m 46. I’m gonna gain a bit thro bulking. Maybe my face will fill out a bit. Fingers crossed !6
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Give it time. It all redistributes. And it gets worse, then all the sudden better. I promise.7
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agreed ^2
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