How to Lose Weight on Face

Chubby cheeks are good only in rhymes! Ask those people who have these chubby cheeks and double chins on their bloated faces. They just want to get rid of all the face fat. But how to lose this fat on a face? While losing weight is always a task that needs determination and continuous efforts, losing weight on face needs a lot of extra efforts. In fact, a bloated face is not only a matter of looks but it may indicate a serious health issue. Let’s see why we get a fat face!

Causes for Facial Fat

Here are the top reasons why your face looks all blown up when you see it in the mirror every time, more so in the mornings.

Junk Foods

Whenever you eat those burgers and pizzas, try to evaluate the nutrients in them! Did you find any? They are pure ‘junk’! You need all the vitamins and minerals and other essential nutrients to look at your best. To be specific, lack of vitamin C and beta-carotene can make your face bloat. Not only this, whenever you eat such foods, you are pushing carbohydrates and salt into your system. These two things too cause puffiness of the face. So, start having a balanced diet full of nutrition. Fruits, vegetables and herbs are good for losing weight, not only on the face but from all over your body!

Dehydration

This is due to water retention. When your body craves for water and doesn’t get it, it tends to retain water. A face is one of the areas where your body can retain more water. So, start drinking lots of water. If it isn’t possible for you, have more watery fruits and vegetables as well as healthy drinks.

Aging

When you age, the hormonal changes in your face leads to bloating and puffy face. However, it’s not too hard to delay these aging symptoms. Just eat right (the nutritious balanced diet) and exercise a lot while maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Alcohol

Do you drink a lot? If yes, expect your face to become puffy and fat. Why does this happen? This is because alcohol dehydrates your body. This leads your body to again retain water which makes your face look fat. So, cut back on your alcohol consumption.

Heredity

Sometimes it may be your genes that give you a fat face. While you cannot do a lot in such a situation, you can at least try to tone your facial muscles with some toning exercise.

Medical conditions

Facial fat is not always due to the above causes. It can be a symptom of something that’s not right in your body. For example, kidney problems, sinus infections, allergies, insect bites, mumps, dental issues, edema etc. Take steps to treat these conditions and you’ll get rid of your facial fat.

Now when you know what might be causing your facial weight, you may definitely try to eliminate that cause and lose your facial weight. But the question is, how to do so?

How to Lose Weight on Face

There is a three-pronged approach to losing face fat:

• Lifestyle and diet changes
• Face exercises
• Home remedies

Lifestyle Changes for Losing Facial Weight

Drink Water

This is the most essential step you can take to keep yourself away from body weight, including facial fat. Drinking enough water throughout the day will keep your body hydrated to a level where it would not require to retain water and give you a bloated appearance.

• Drink 8-10 glasses of water daily
• Have more water-based fruits and vegetables like cucumber, tomatoes, watermelon etc.
• If you can’t drink plain water, have healthy drinks like fruit juices, herbal tea, vegetable smoothies, soups etc.

Limit Salt Consumption

Salt leads to water retention in your body. This happens because your body tries to dilute the salt with larger amounts of water. This not only makes your face look fat but also leads to serious health issues. Too much salt intake puts pressure on your heart and may lead to heart failure or stroke over time. You may also get kidney problems due to excessive salt consumption. So, stop taking too much of salt. But how?

• Cut back on processed and fast foods. They are loaded with salt. Instead, have more fruits and veggies.
• Avoid sprinkling salt on each and every food item you eat. All natural foods have adequate amounts of salt. You need not add more salt to them. It is a matter of few days only when you will start liking foods with low salt levels.
• Have lots of water to help your body flush out the excessive sodium you have stored in your body through the salt intake.
• Have natural diuretics as they eliminate sodium and water from your body. Cranberry juice and cabbage are good examples of such natural diuretics.
• Eat more potassium-rich foods. Potassium balances sodium in your body by flushing out water and sodium out of the body. Bananas, carrots, spinach, raisins etc. have high amounts of potassium in them. Have them daily.

Have Balanced Diet

A wholesome diet loaded with all the essential nutrients will not only reduce facial weight but will help you lose weight from all over your body.

• Have more fresh fruits. Avoid having canned or preserved fruits. They might contain sugar, sodium or other preservatives that can further lead to bloating and weight gain.
• Have more vegetables. Fibers in the vegetables help eliminate toxins from your body which is essential to losing weight. They also give you all the essential minerals and vitamins.
•  Don’t skip meals and eat your meals regularly, preferably at the same time every day. This helps in better digestion. As you might be knowing, indigestion is the cause of almost all the diseases.
• Eat smaller meals many a time instead of 2-3 big meals. This will help boost your metabolism so that you get rid of fat.

Avoid Junk Food

Processed as well as fast foods, all are junk foods. Avoid them. This would help you avoid excessive salt and carbohydrates. You should know that unhealthy carbohydrates are a big reason for fat as they lead to bloating.

• Avoid packed foods
• Avoid processed foods
• Reduce the frequency of visits to restaurants.
• Eat more home cooked food
• Eat more raw foods, fruits and vegetables by adding them in salads
• Instead of such snacks as cookies, biscuits, popcorns etc. snack on dry fruits, peanuts, date, coconut etc.

Take enough Rest

Lack of sleep can give you puffy eyes, dark circles, saggy skin, fine lines and wrinkles etc. all of which can make you look aged and sometimes bloated. So, have enough rest by sleeping for adequate time every day. Also, not taking rest breaks during work can make you overstressed that will lead to various medical conditions including bloated body and face.

• Take breaks from work frequently.
• Sleep enough every day.
• Try to go to bed at the same time everyday and wake up at the same time in the morning, even on holidays. This sets a rhythm of your body and you can sleep easily.
• If needed, you can learn some meditation techniques. Calming your nerves and mind can give you deep rest and relaxation. 

Correct your Posture

If you are in a habit to sit wrongly, correct it now. Hunched back can make your face look fat. Additionally, it also leads to double chin. Always stand straight. Do not bellow your face down while talking or walking. This can make the fat get stored in your chin area.

Exercise

Exercise is the healthier way to keep your body fit and fine. When you exercise regularly, you help your body work naturally. Your metabolism improves and you start losing weight. When you lose weight, it is obvious that fat on your face too reduces.

• Move your body daily, be it walking, swimming, cycling, dancing, do whatever you like, but move it.
• If possible, do intense exercise, at least 2-3 days a week, such as cardio, aerobics, yoga or any other such exercises.
• When it comes to facial weight, you also need to do face exercises. The next section deals with this elaborately.

Face Exercises to Lose Weight on Face

Here are some face exercises that can help you lose fat from a face.

Lift your Chin

Chin lift works up all the muscles on your face. You not only tone your facial muscles but also the muscles of your neck.

• Sit or stand straight
• Take your head back so that you can see the ceiling.
• Keep on looking at the ceiling while you pucker your lips as if you are going to kiss the ceiling
• Hold this position for 10 counts
• Relax
• Now repeat for 5 times.

Do Fish Face Yoga

This exercise tones up your facial cheek muscles and thus helps you a lot when it comes to losing facial weight.

• Sit or stand straight
• Suck in your cheeks
• This will make your lips pucker in a way that they would look like a fish face.
• Hold for 10 counts.
• Relax
• Repeat 5 times

Release your Jaws

This exercise will help stretch the muscles around your lips, jaws and cheeks giving you a toned face which is free of puffiness.

• Sit or stand
• Keep your lips closed while you act as if you are chewing something
• After a few seconds, open your mouth wide. Keep your tongue pressed against your bottom teeth.
• Hold for 5 counts
• Relax
• Repeat for ten times.

Blow Air

This is one of the best face exercises that works up your cheeks, chin and neck muscles. You can easily get rid of chubby cheeks, double chin and thick neck.

• Sit straight on a chair
• Look towards the ceiling by taking your head backwards, as much as you can. This will stretch the muscles of your neck.
• Now pull your lips as if you are going to whistle.
• Blow out air from your mouth while counting till 10
• Relax
• Repeat again, for 10 times.

Smile

This can be the happiest exercise you can do to tone your facial muscles. Toned muscles will ultimately help you burn fat.

• Smile the widest smile you can
• While doing so, resist your smile by pushing the cheeks down with your fingers
• Relax after a few seconds
• Repeat 5 times

Home Remedies to Lose Face Fat

Apart from changes in your diet as well as lifestyle and exercising your facial muscles, you can take help of certain home remedies that can help you get rid of your facial weight.

Give your Face the Cold Therapy

When you apply cold water or something is frozen on your face, you actually help constrict the blood vessels. This reduces puffiness in that area. So, if you apply something cold over your face, you will reduce puffiness of the face.

Get this:

• Water
• Ice cubes
• Large bowl

Do this:

• Take a large bowl and fill it with water till halfway
• Now add ice cubes to it
• Close your mouth and eyes, hold your breath and lower down your face into the bowl. Be very careful.
• Hold your face there only for 5-10 seconds or even lesser, till the time you don’t feel uncomfortable.
• Repeat for 3-5 times.
• Alternatively, you can soak a washcloth in the chilled water and place it over your face for few minutes.

Use Cucumber to get rid of Puffy Face

You can eat as many cucumbers as you want, it will only help you lose weight. The interesting part is that you can also apply cucumber or its juice to your face. The water in the cucumbers soothes and refreshes your swollen face.

Get this:

• Cucumber

Do this:

• Cut the cucumber is roundels.
• Lie down
• Place these slices all over your face.
• Relax for few minutes.
• If needed, change the slices.
• Let them be on your face for 15-20 minutes or more.
• Alternately, you can extract the juice from cucumbers.
• Soak a cotton ball in this juice and wipe your face with this.
• Let it dry out on its own.
• Again apply cucumber juice with the help of soaked cotton.
• Keep doing this for 15-20 minutes.
• Finally, wash off your face with cool water.

Lymph Drainage Facial Massage reduces Face Fat

Massage is always an effective way to tone your body parts and face is no exception. When water retention and excessive fluid build-up is behind your bloated face, lymph drainage massage is what can give you a slimmer face. Massaging your face will stimulate blood circulation and drain the lymphatic build-up to help reduce water retention. Lymph face massages help drain lymph nodes which in turn restores balance to your facial contour by reducing water retention.

Get this:

• Oil (olive/coconut/wheat germ/ginseng)

Do this:

• Apply oil on your face and neck.
• Starting at your chin, gently massage your face with upward strokes in a circular motion.
• Do 5-10 strokes.
• Now, using your fingertips, gently tap from the corners of the lips and slowly move towards your ears
• Repeat 10 times.
• Finally, using your fingers or thumbs, massage your jawline with upward strokes.
• Repeat for 5 times.

Clay Mask to Lose Weight on Face

Clay masks can effectively contract the facial skin and tighten it to give you a youthful face without puffiness.

Get this:

• Bentonite clay- 1 tbsp
• water- 1-2 tbsp
• Ground oats- 1 tbsp

Do this:

• Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well to get paste-like consistency.
• Apply this all over your face
• Let it sit there for 15-20 minutes
• Wash your face and pat dry
• Apply moisturizer to avoid dryness.

Tips to Manipulate Face Fat

Sometimes the situations are not in your hands, you cannot do much. For example, when your face is fat due to genetic reasons, you can simply adopt ways to make your face look slimmer. The healthy lifestyle and exercises can ensure that you do not get more fat on your face but the fat already there could not be reduced for obvious reasons. In such situations, you can at least adopt some tricks to make your face look slim. Here are some tips to do so.

Makeup Tricks to make your Face look Slim

• Use contour colour one or two shades deeper than your skin tone. Lighter colours enhance your facial features. So avoid using them.
• Create an illusion of slim cheeks. Apply the contour shade in a diagonal line from the middle of your cheek toward your ear. Always blend well. When you place your contour shade higher,  your cheekbones appear to be sharper.
• Use bronzer along the jawline, this will define the area. Blend the shade for seamless contour. This hides your double chin
• Be careful about your eyebrow shape. Keep them higher and with a more pronounced arch.

Hairstyles for Fatty Face

If you wear a wrong hairstyle, your chubby face can further become rounded and fuller. To avoid this condition, choose those hairstyles that will make your fat face look slimmer.

• Layers of varying lengths- Mix the layers. Short layers, medium layers and long layers, all mixed up layers will give your face a textured effect.
• Bob hairstyle- A chin-length bob style is what is needed by those having a round chubby face. It will make your jawline stand out and give a slimmer appearance to your face.
• High buns- These buns make your face look longer and longer is always slimmer!

Don’t shy to experiment with the hairstyles that your stylist says will make your fat face look slimmer.

Don’t believe the myth of spot reduction

If you are overweight, face this- you need to lose all your excess body weight. Then only can you reduce fat from your face. There’s nothing called spot reduction. It’s true that you can build muscles of a specific body area but you cannot reduce fat from only a specific area. Fat has to be reduced from all your body! So, take steps to slim down your body weight and you’ll see you have also got a slimmer face.

For this, exercise and maintain a calorie deficit.

If you need 2000 calories a day, eat it but spend around 3000 calories. Then only will you reduce fat.

• Reduce your calorie intake. Instead of fatty and fried foods, have more fruits and vegetables.
• However, do not cut too many calories at once. This can send your body into starvation mode.
• Exercise regularly, daily.
• Do strength training exercises 4-6 days a week. Don’t go for a session lesser than an hour.

That’s it! You can lose weight on a face but you need to do it wholeheartedly and lose weight from all of your body.

Don’t lose heart, lose weight from a face. All these ways to lose fat from the face will also make you healthier from within. It’s not only about losing fat, it’s about losing the bad habits and following the right ways to live and stay fit!