Can anyone recommend some exercises good for tightening up a double chin? Thanx in advance!
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oral sex ?
Yeha(sic), exercise eating less and going to the gym more.
It’ll tighten right up.
how did it start? well i don’t know i just feel the craving. i see the flesh and it smells fresh and it’s just there for the taking…
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I fear Lex might be right. I have noticed a terrifying lack of jaw definition in the past few years—is it age or weight? So I’m eating less and going to the gym.
If it turns out to be age, I guess I’ll just have to gather up the slack and tie it in a bow at the back of my neck.
I’d say look at your parents and grandparents, first. A double chin can be lost by reducing weight, but most of the people I know with less “jaw definition” are simply suffering from gravity and genetics. Since (in my observation) the face is one of the first places to lose excess weight, a change of diet and exercise could correct the problem pretty quickly if it is actually fat that you are seeing.
Fighting a losing battle against genes can be pretty frustrating.
Tom~
Sorry to break it to you but it IS age, I once thought like you all, until I noticed my friend, who is fifty, eats very nutritiously, runs every morning, works out in the gym and has always had the minimum of body fat… she runs marathons on a regular basis… yet she has that baggy neck skin that gives her that chicken waddle look.
Come to think about it… after recalling some of hers and my conversations… oral sex doesn’t seem to help prevent it either!
I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature!
Unfortunately, double chins are very hard to get rid of and any exercises you do will only yield minimal results…but here goes.
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double chins are often compliments of flat feet. People with flat feet have poor posture (usually) and the muscle under you chin is comprimised. so, improve your posture. not only will it properly exercise that muscle, but it’ll make everything else look better too.
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lay on a bed, on your back, with your head hanging off, and lift you neck. warning: this exercise, while benefitting then chin, may tax the rear neck muscles. plus you feel silly and quit far too soon to do any good.
It’s amazing how some people will spend 2 hours a day on there biceps, but have never exercised there legs, necks or backs
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But you have to admit it won’t hurt. Maybe more long term experiments are called for.
Thank you, Metro. I don’t think it’s fat, I think the muscle is slack. And this started developing around age 21, so it’s not age.
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I used to do this exercise all the time to define my neck. You can do it laying on your sides too. I got to where I was putting a light weight(on top of a towel) on my head when doing it. Caveat: This exercise gave me a KILLER headache every time I did it. It went away after a few minutes, but it hurts. I’m sure strengthening the underlying muscle structure would help tighten up the loose skin too.
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Rilchiam,
A droopy double chin thing runs in my family, no matter how fat or thin we are we have all got that saggy thing going on.
Having said that, here is what I do.
Holding your head tilted back as far as possible, open your mouth as wide as you can.
Then slowly close it, tightening your jaw as much as possible. You will be able to feel the muscles under your chin tighten. Do this several time . And do it at least twice a day.
It really does help.
Ayesha
One of my favorite jabs of all time was when Joan Rivers said that Liz Taylor had “more chins than a Chinese phonebook”!
::snort::
well well said the royal desiccation my political opponents back home always maintained
that i would wind up in hell and it seems they had the right dope
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I tried what you said, Ayesha, and it seems like it will help. Thank you!
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I’m curious, do the people here with double chins, have flat feet.
Usually it’s slack muscle rather than fat.
how’s your posture at the computer. do you slouch down and end up looking “down the end of your nose”?
get a chin tuck, ask your dentist/oral surgeon. They are as qualified if not more than anyother doctor and usually cheaper. I know dentist that to eye/face lifts, chin implants, etc.
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I have no idea if I have flat feet, but I have excellent posture—and my double chin has only made its debut since I hit my late 30s and put on about ten additional pounds (which I am striving to lose).
But if it does turn out to be age and not weight, I’d rather live with it than get a chin-tuck done. I’ve seen the results of even the “best” surgeons and they all look creepy and strained.
This is interesting…
I have been fat (and less fat) most of my life, and have had almost no double chin. I remember a neighbor girl who was approx. the same weight as me, and always had a double chin, even when she was 10! I have seen people far thinner than me with more of a double chin than me.
I think it is weight (I can get a little bit of a double chin when I gain weight) but a lot of it is genetics. However, I do believe the exercises will help. I have been doing a varation on the exercises described here for several years now, and I guess they do help. I have a little bit of a double chin, but not much. Even though double chins don’t run in my family (unless a lot of weight is gained) I don’t want to take my chances.
Flat feet. It’s flat feet. (And, consequently, posture).
I am in my mid-twenties, not overweight. None of my genetic material would indicate a propensity towards a double chin, but my throat is all saggy-like. It’s a waddle to be, I’m sure. And I won’t make it out of my twenties without it.
I have THE flattest feet on earth. I can clap with them.
Nope - not entirely flat feet. I’ve had flat feet since I was 8. But no double chin, at least nothing more than a teeny one, when my weight is up.
I also have not-so-great posture.
My theory is that (at least in some cases) it has something to do with body type. When I think of people I know who are overall not as fat as I am, but have pronounced double chins, they have more of an “apple” shape, or straight up and down. (i.e. heavy around the middle, yet with thin legs, thin arms, not a big-sized butt.) I, on the other hand, have heavy arms, legs, butt, boobs, etc, but everything is distributed evenly throughout. So maybe that’s why I don’t have a pronounced double-chin - the fat is spread evenly everywhere else.
Just a theory, mind! I still think that exercises will help, and I plan on continuing doing them.
One thing that I forgot to mention is that a lot of times peoples neck muscles are fine, they just don’t have boldly defined chins, or possible class 2(?) malinclusion. (overbite) which accentuates the muscle. I new a girl in high school like this. she looked like Moe (from simpsons), but got her chin displaced and got braces, now she has an absolutely beautiful face. (please no flames about how people which double chins aren’t pretty, you know what i mean). the correction even enhanced her cheek bones.
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