Does face fat come first?
Often, the face is the last to shape up, and the first to puff up.It doesn't help that your double chin is the first thing anyone notices about you, and by then your toned arms don't matter anymore. Everyone's body, say experts, follows a fat-storing order. The order is not the same for each individual.
Waking up to a puffy, swollen face due to lack of sleep, stress, too much salt intake or just a poor lifestyle is very common for many people. Puffy face gradually goes down to its normal shape and size after some time. Face fat, on the other hand, is somewhat permanent and results of a body type.
The reason behind excess face fat is poor diet, lack of exercise, aging, or genetic conditions. Fat is usually more visible in the cheeks, jowls, under the chin, and neck. Facial fat tends to be more noticeable in people with rounded, less-pronounced facial features.
Coming to the point, you will first lose “hard fat” (visceral fat) that surrounds your organs like liver, kidneys and later, you will burn soft fat (belly fat, thigh fat, back fat, etc.). Women accumulate fat cells around their belly area, hips, thighs and these areas are usually the last from.
Mostly, losing weight is an internal process. You will first lose hard fat that surrounds your organs like liver, kidneys and then you will start to lose soft fat like waistline and thigh fat. The fat loss from around the organs makes you leaner and stronger.
For some people, the first noticeable change may be at the waistline. For others, the breasts or face are the first to show change. Where you gain or lose weight first is likely to change as you get older. Both middle-aged men and postmenopausal women tend to store weight around their midsections.
Just like some people carry extra weight in their hips, some people carry it in their face. In general, facial fat tends to be more noticeable in people with rounded, less-pronounced facial features. Additionally, your diet can also contribute to weight gain in the face.
If you have a double chin despite being skinny, your body just happens to genetically store extra fat around the jawline. There's really nothing unusual about it, but it does present a challenge in that your chin fat is much harder to target through diet and exercise alone.
For a weight change to show up on your face, you'd need to change your BMI by 1.33 points, the study found. That means a woman and man of average height would need to gain or lose eight pounds and nine pounds, respectively.
Although genetics prompts variations, the cheeks tend to be one the first parts of the face to change as we grow older.
How soon do you lose weight in your face?
For a weight change to show up on your face, you'd need to change your BMI by 1.33 points, the study found. That means a woman and man of average height would need to gain or lose eight pounds and nine pounds, respectively.
Specifically, most men need to get to the 10% body fat range before they see a noticeable shift from facial roundness to angularity, and most women need to get to around 20% body fat. As you can see, 10% in men and 20% in women is quite lean.
