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 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.
Last edited by Elladorine; 09-14-2013 at 01:05 AM.
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.
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!
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.
When did your face start slimming down?
