Does Weight Loss Make You Look Older?

Losing weight definitely has amazing health benefits no one should ignore. However, losing weight may also make you look older.

In fact, just losing 10 pounds can make you look up to four times younger.

When you lose weight, and lose weight from your face, the fat that filled out your cheeks can go away leaving cheeks and eyes looking hollow. For cheeks to look prominent, they need fat. That’s why cheek implants and injectables are a choice of many cosmetic surgery patients. They want to keep that fuller, more youthful look.

Those who have undergone weight-loss surgery may also experience sagging skin around the knees, arms and legs. While exercise can increase muscle tone underneath the skin and improve blood flow to the skin, the skin itself cannot always go back to the way it looked before weight loss.

Surgery is the only way to eliminate sagging skin, and get back to a more youthful appearance.

Regardless of how you look there is no doubt that losing weight, either with weight-loss surgery or a weight-loss program, will help you feel better and may help you live longer.

And chances are that with a smaller body, you can wear more youthful clothing – something you couldn’t do with that extra weight.

Do you think your weight loss has made you look older?

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