When did your face start slimming down?
 

Just curious, did you guys notice your face slimming down at all??

I always tried to "contour" my face to make my cheekbones look more apparent, but does your face ever slim down like the rest of your body? I haven't noticed anything in my face :(

My aunt was telling me some people won't lose from the face, it's just the way they are, just thought I would ask and see how long it took people to see a difference, if any.

I would love to see my face slim down sometime down the line!!

I have the hardest time losing weight in my face. With every ten pounds, I'd notice a slight change, but not much. I've always had a rounder face, and I think it's always going to look too fat.

Absolutely I have seen my face slim down when I lose (and plump back up when I gain). It takes a lot of lbs. lost for me to notice anything in either direction though because I do see my face every day and so it's really hard for me to tell. However, I notice it a lot in photos. I highly recommend you take photos. Everyone loses differently so it's hard to predict how many lbs. lost before you notice your face slimming. Also, I don't really know when it happened for me because it's gradual.

I still think my face is as fat as ever and I'm almost 60lbs down! :(

I had a few people say my face was slimmer but I didn't see it at all. The other day I had to use my ID and comparing that picture to now, the difference is VERY noticeable... I'm not sure when it happened, but I'm 59lbs down so it was somewhere in there!

I think it's the hardest thing to see for ourselves. It's not as if we wear clothing on our faces and have to go down to smaller sizes as we lose. ;)

It will probably help to compare photos if you can. Our memories become distorted after a while. For ages I felt my face was exactly the same, and had only recently noticed a difference. Looking back at photos tells me otherwise, that it actually slimmed down with the rest of me all along.

It'll be different for everyone, but I imagine there's more of a difference going on than you realize. :)

I can tell from well, my side-by-side in my avatar as well as my passport photo which was taken back in March to where I am now is completely different.

I think it depends on how fat your face is to begin with. I know women who seem slim in face-only photos but who actually weigh quite a bit and carry it in their butt/hips/thighs. Some people (like me!) carry about half of their excess weight in their face so the change can be quite dramatic.

The difference in my face become quite noticeable when I got to about 190, at 35 pounds lost. (I think the 10 pounds between 200 and 190 all came off my face!) I happened to color my hair and get a new hairstyle at the same time and I almost became unrecognizable. I actually had someone from a different department at work ask me if I was new; I've been at the job for over a year. ;)

http://i1205.photobucket.com/albums/...ps73b070e8.jpg
left: 190
right: around 225, my start weight

I've wondered the same thing. I'm only 21lbs down but I find myself looking in the mirror trying to figure out if my face is roundish because that's its shape or if its from the weight. It would be nice to loose a little so my cheek bones are more noticeable but since I don't have a double chin I think I'll live it nothing happens.

My face is one of the first places I see a change, but it also means that if I lose too much I might get a haggard look, not good when you're older, LOL.

I've lost about 25 lbs so far, and I don't see much difference in my face, but I do see a difference in my neck and decolletage. When I flex I can see the cords in my neck, and when I shrug I can see the dips in my collarbone and clavicle. I have seen pictures from when I was in school and at a more normal weight, and my face was still rounder, so I think that will be my normal. But I am happy that I no longer have that kind of hump on the back of my neck, and I don't have a double chin (unless I tilt/bend it a certain way of course).

Maybe it's more of a confidence thing, too, but I also notice I hold my head higher to elongate my neck, and make sure I never see a double chin again. When I was bigger, my neck would always be this kind of support, where my head would almost "sink in" for lack of a better term, causing the double chin and hump in the back of my neck. When I realized I no longer had that, I was super h appy!! lol!

Below 200lbs it got DRAMATIC.

I've found when losing weight that my face gradually slims down.

When I lost weight before, there was a noticeable difference in my face when I started getting down to the low 180's. It was noticeable to me, but other people oddly enough all asked me "did you change your hair?" It was the oddest thing, the more weight I lost on my face they assumed my hair looked fuller lol.

After my boobs were all gone, sadly.

It's a little slimmer, and my chin is less - but sadly, there's not that big of a difference yet. Even in the mid-140s (my lowest), I was surprised. Starting to adjust my expectations - maybe 5-10 lbs lower than that will make a dramatic difference, but I think I just have a fuller face.

I really started to notice it at around the 50 pound mark mainly because I had a jaw line again. Of course, at 63 I also noticed that I now have jowls!

Right away. Which is worrisome. I'd hate to lose too much in the face and look haggard and jowly when I'm done. If it stays pretty much like it is now, I'll be glad.

Thanks for the replies you guys!!

Looks like the majority of you have seen a slimming effect! yay!! I think I've always had a naturally round face but if it could shrink proportionally that would be awesome!! I also have a double chin I really want to get rid of!!

So I guess I'll wait til it hits around 50lbs, even at 30lbs loss I haven't gone down a clothing size (which really irks me but whatever!) so maybe things are just a little slower for me.

False. Your aunt clearly has no clue how fat loss/gain works or she wouldn't make such an ignorant statement.

Take pictures.

We look at ourselves in the mirror every day. Some of us many times a day. Thus it is harder to see changes happening because they are gradual.

Pictures. Take them. Same lighting, same spot, same clothes (or lack of) and you will see progress happening.

Off topic for a moment here: John whenever I read your comments they remind me of the Grumpy Cat meme. I mean that in a good way, you always have great advice and information, your delivery just always makes me think of grumpy cat.

Back on topic: I noticed a difference in my face pretty quickly, it seems when I drop down 5 or so lbs it comes off my face first, or it's the easiest for me to notice.

^ This is hilarious (and true). :lol:

Bahahaha thanks for the laugh JohnP!

Yeah my aunt has a knack for these kinda comments, she has told me numerous times, I probably just don't want to lose weight which is why I haven't done so yet. UGH!

But anyway thanks for the comments guys. I have a few old pics and I'm going to start making a side by side doc and keeping adding to it!!

I suspect your aunt is trying to make you feel better about yourself. While well intentioned it simply isn't true.

In the past people tend to notice before I did, probably because I see myself everyday in the mirror. My cheeks slim in as well as my chin and jaw line become more prominent. I want to fast forward already, wish this process didn't take so long lol

JohnP- lol, thanks for taking with such a good nature, the image gave me a good chuckle on a much needed day (fussy newborn and fussy toddler...)

My face went first. About 40 pounds in.

I'm glad you replied radiojane because you're one of those types of women I referred to in my post - you look slim in your face-only photos. You do NOT look like you weigh what your ticker says you weigh. And taking a look at your fb photos, your face never reflected your weight. You may have lost some face fat (because, as Grumpy John pointed out, everyone will) but I think it's far less noticeable on you than it is on other people.

Like others have said, it is just hard to notice it on yourself. The other day I had to get my pic taken at work (they post all employee's pictures on a board) and I thought the picture was just so ugly. It was really depressing after all that work and weight loss to still take an ugly picture...A day or two later I flipped through my phone and found what is probably my only 'before' picture, I hardly recognized myself! I showed 2 of my coworkers and they both said "Wow, you look so fat there!" (I don't have the most tactful coworkers) lol

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I approve of John's post.


Be happy if your face slims down a bit slower than the rest of your body. That's the one place i probably would have left a little fat on, but we can't pick where and how we lose it.

I think I started getting 'you're too thin' comments based entirely on my face around 170.

My face start noticably slimming around 30 pounds lost. I think this is when I started getting comments about the changes to my face. I didn't necessarily notice, but when I looked over pictures I DEFINITELY could see the difference. I would recommend pictures as well. I have a naturally round face, so I think it took me a bit longer to really see the difference. Even now, in face only pictures, I look heavier than I am. It stinks. :(

I've lost almost 50 lbs and my face looks the same to me....well maybe down to two chins instead of three. I have no neck, which doesn't help matters! I always wanted a long, graceful neck, yet I have none at all :( . My head looks like a pumpkin sitting on a barrel!!

I see people who are of similar size to me who have nicely sculpted jawlines, one chin and cheekbones. I'm always sooooo jealous!

Ugh yeah so I started comparing pictures I couldn't see much of a change and neither could others (I asked a few friends who recently came into town) until they saw the rest of my body. Guess it'll take longer to see a change.

I wish I had a slimmer face in general!! I've seen pictures of "plus size" models (def not plus!! btw Omg their figures are amazing!!) and they have very slim faces with high cheekbones!!

When I lose weight I first start noticing it around my waist and my face. The hardest parts for me are thighs and arms...

Head shots really do help to see the difference. If I just look in the mirror, even after 78 pounds gone, all I see is a fat face and my double chin. But pictures are a whole 'nother story.

Me at 302:
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...2727/Me298.jpg

Me at 221:
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps2f6acd6a.jpg

I didn't think there was any difference until I compared photos from now and before I started. The weight loss in my face is actually pretty dramatic.

The issue is not so much what I look like now, but how hard it is to admit what I looked like then.

Wow you look great!!! Ok I'm definitely going to take some good full face shots very soon! I'm always angling myself is some weird angle to make my face look thinner lol

Awesome Garnet! Quite a difference. You look great.

A couple thoughts:

When I was at the 90 pound point (where I stopped losing on purpose) I was starting to look gaunt. That was one of the reasons I stopped losing. I was at a pretty good place weight-wise, so I stopped at 90 pounds. When I compare photos from that exact time (October) to photos at Christmas (same weight, 3 months later) I no longer looked gaunt. I think 2 things happened. First - I believe my face filled out a little, but more importantly, I think I got used to my "new" face and it wasn't as gaunt as I thought - it was just different.

The next point just hit me a few days ago. I'm coming up on 2 years of maintaining that 90 pound loss. All the while I was losing I had the idea that at 250+ pounds I hadn't looked "that bad." Even when I first hit my lowest and would look at pictures from just before I started losing, I still didn't think 250+ looked that big. I realized the other day when I looked at some pictures from before I lost any weight that now my brain sees me as having been fat. No other word for it. At 250 pounds I looked fat. But it's only after being at a relatively normal weight for 2 years that my mind sees this as normal and that as heavy.

Those things said, I think we are not in total control of how we perceive things about ourselves. I'm sure some sort of defense mechanism kicks in and tells us we look OK when (sorry, folks, the truths hurts) we do not look OK with a BMI of 39 (that was me at 252.) I think you will see a difference if you look at photos. I think we all lose in different places at different rates, but none of us will not have a fat face at a normal body weight.

And, Besty2013 - I'm with you on the jowls! But I realized this: most of my over 60 friends - never fat, formerly fat, still fat - have jowls! That's life and life is good.

Lin