How to tighten the skin on the face and body after losing weight
Everyone dreams of being slim and having a beautiful body and supple skin on the face and body. This can be achieved through sports or dieting. However, too sharp weight loss will lead to the fact that the skin on the problem areas will become saggy and flabby. To prevent this from happening, a complex method of restoring the cover at home is used. This process has been going on for some time, so be patient.
The easiest way to bring body weight back to normal for young people. They have an accelerated metabolism and skin tightening is very fast. A much more pressing problem for the older generation. Even in the case of slow weight loss, the skin sags and becomes flabby. This is due to low levels of collagen and elastin. These are proteins responsible for the firmness and elasticity of the skin.
Preparation and Precautions
Rapid weight loss allows you to quickly acquire ideal forms, however, the use of diets, physical activity or losing weight with the help of medications has a number of contraindications. Therefore, before starting to lose extra pounds, consult your doctor.
There are two types of contraindications for losing weight:
- Relative - with their help, the probable health hazard with a specific method of losing weight is determined.
- Absolute - factors that exclude a particular method of losing weight.
The following categories of people are not recommended to lose weight:
- Children and adolescents. They have not yet formed an organism and during the diet some of the necessary compounds are lost.
- Pregnant and lactating women. They are subject to stress and a restriction in nutrition will lead to fetal rejection or affect lactation.
- Women during menopause. At this time, excess weight is gaining, but doctors do not recommend resorting to diets. We must wait until the body adapts to a new rhythm.
- People with chronic ailments of the endocrine, cardiovascular, digestive or immune systems, or with diabetes.
- People undergoing surgery or a chronic disease.
How to tighten your skin
Before you begin the procedure for a facelift, pay attention to your diet and daily routine. Otherwise, losing weight may not produce results.
Refuse alcohol and smoking, avoid long walks in the sun, which has a negative effect on the skin of the face. These factors contribute to the appearance of wrinkles and nasolabial folds. To get rid of them, use the services of professional cosmetologists or proven home methods.
Folk remedies
Honey mask
Honey has a positive effect on the epidermis and promotes the production of elastin. For cooking, you need 30 grams of honey and 40 ml of water from rose petals. Mix the components and apply on the face. The mask lasts 40 minutes. Perform the procedure daily.
Cabbage mask
Cook 150 grams of slaw, 50 grams of oatmeal, 30 grams of honey and 1 egg white. All ingredients are mixed until a thick composition is formed. The mask is applied to the face and washed off after 45 minutes. The procedure is carried out 1 time in 3 days.
Lime wrinkle mask
Prepare 20 ml of lime juice, the same amount of aloe vera and a similar amount of mint decoction. Shuffle all components and apply the mask on the face for 25 minutes.
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Medical facilities and salon procedures
You can put your skin in order in the salons. Masks applied by cosmetologists are much more effective than procedures carried out at home.
Types of salon masks:
- Alginate. They are based on seaweed.
- Biomatrix. Masks from the gel.
- Collagenic. Skin tightening agents are used that have a lifting effect.
- Paraffin. Apply wax.
- Plasticizing. The basis of such masks is a gel and a special powder for reproducing the facial contour.
- Placental
- Vegetable. At the heart of extracts from medicinal plants.
The salon uses moisturizing, anti-aging, anti-inflammatory, drying and other types of masks.
In medical offices, thermolifting or radiolifting is used. Radio wave lifting or RF lifting is a procedure using a special apparatus with several nozzles, with the help of which the activity of intercellular membranes is restored and stimulated, and elastin and collagen are intensively produced.
Lifting can be bipolar - with a mild effect on the skin or monopolar. The latter is powerful and does not require a repeat procedure. Applied IT tripolar radiolifting, which uses several electrodes. Using this method, get rid of ptosis, wrinkles, scars, wilting of the skin and double chin. It is also used for recovery after surgical tightening.
Plastic procedures also apply to facelift medical procedures. The following types are distinguished:
- Browlift. Eyebrow plastic.
- Implants.
- Blepharoplasty. Surgical eyelid lift.
- Beauty. Improves the aesthetics of the face.
- Rhinoplasty The nose area is adjusted.
- Otoplasty. Surgical correction of the ears.
- Fillers. Wrinkles and folds are filled with biomaterials.
- Endoscopic and circular facelift.
Physical exercise
It is possible to strengthen and smooth the skin of the face with physical exercises at home. To do this, pronounce vowels. Training helps to tighten the facial oval and strengthen lips and cheeks. At runtime, the neck muscles must be involved.
You can remove the second chin and strengthen the facial muscles by moving the lower jaw forward.
After the start of exercises for tightening the skin of the face, the first serious results notice after 3-4 weeks, if you adhere to the following recommendations.
- Training is performed with tension.
- Doing exercises stands in front of the mirror to see if everything works out.
- Do not be shy if it looks funny.
- Original gymnastics is best done alone to feel free.
The exercises themselves are simple - pronouncing the sounds “U” and “I”, inflating the cheeks with closed lips with a delay of 5 seconds, tightening the muscles by touching the chin with the tongue.
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Folk ways
Unfortunately, not everyone uses salon services to tighten sagging skin. However, similar procedures can be done at home.
- Water massage. It involves the use of a contrast shower, which leads to an increase in the collagen frame and activates blood circulation. Similar procedures are repeated every other day, and their duration does not exceed 15 minutes. A greater effect will bring massage with a washcloth.
- Tonic masks. For cooking, fruits and vegetables are used. Applied to problem areas.
Beauty and beauty treatments
You can tighten sagging body skin with the help of salon procedures, among which are popular:
- Hydrotherapy;
- Mesotherapy
- Body wrap;
- Acupuncture lifting;
- Hardware procedures.
Plastic surgery
You can get rid of excess fat with the help of a panniculectomy. During this operation, the “fat apron” on the abdomen and excess skin are removed. The price range in different cities and salons is different, therefore, to understand the pricing, you should contact the plastic surgery clinic.
Massages
Popular with visitors to salons, have a beneficial effect on the restoration of the skin and make it supple. The most famous types of massages:
- Manual;
- Honey
- Hydromassage;
- Vacuum;
- Anti-cellulite.
Where does excess skin come from?
The main question is, where does the extra skin come from? Most often this happens due to an increase in volume, or, conversely, from a sharp weight loss.
This is most noticeable in the following parts of the body.
- Hands.
- Face.
- Chest.
- Buttocks.
- Stomach.
- The inside of the legs.
It is not easy to prevent such a situation. The effective method is slow weight loss, which will allow the skin to tighten naturally. If losing weight or gaining weight quickly, problems can not be avoided. They can be solved by salon or home methods.