weight loss and worsening facial wrinkles

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I'm 60, so passed menopause. I've lost quite a bit of weight in the last couple of years and my face looks awful now. A friend took me aside yesterday and suggested it was time to stop the weight loss because of it.

The issue is I have deep wrinkles where the fat was. Other than waste money on trying every single anti wrinkle cream out there, I'm looking for recommendations on best way of dealing with them?

Not sure this is the right sub forum for cosmetic work, but you would always have had these wrinkles at this age, you can book fillers if it really bothers you,

Well done on the weight loss!

how rotten though to have to bloody decide between face or figure as we get older eh. Bloody shouldn't be allowed 🤣

The only way to change now will be a face/neck lift. Have one, show your 'friend' your fabulousness, then ditch her

Botox? I have it every 5 months and it's made a huge difference, along with a little bit of filler in my nasiolabal lines (lines from side of nose down to mouth/chin) and that's been the best yet at making me look better. I won't have cheek or lip fillers as want to stay looking exactly like 'me' but can't believe the difference (I'm 54).

Thanks for the responses. I posted the question here because the sharp increase in wrinkles has been caused by the weight loss, so wanted to see if others have found ways of dealing with it.

I still want to look like me, I'm not trying to look like a 20 year old, just a little less like a melted candle.

I don't think there is anything apart from Botox, fillers or a face lift that can help this. I'm getting jowls as I'm mid 40s and where the fat is disappearing my face is dropping. Can't be helped.

Well not really. Your face was just swollen/fat before, the wrinkles were always there, loosing weight didn’t cause them,

my face was the same, but honestly looks way more youthful now all the fat and swelling is going down.

Well done on losing the weight, as others have said, you could look at having some fillers. Your face may recover a bit once you actively stop losing weight and you could try some facial yoga to try and tighten things up a bit.

If it’s been two years it’s not just jabs, you must have done this on willpower? How much weight have you lost, big congrats!

sadly ageing is what causes wrinkles, not weight loss and at 60 you were always going to have them. Yes they can be disguised if your face is fat and swollen, but for me you could still see the creases if you looked carefully.

the only thing really is Botox, fillers or surgery, very little will turn back the aging process. I’d embrace them, be healthy, find some good skin care, some nice luminous foundation or bb cream. No shame in getting older.

I was the same. A three and a half stone weight loss from my 5’1” frame and I lost much of the fat in my face. I go to an extremely good aesthetic practitioner and she has done some Botox at various points on my face and neck. My most recent visit was to put some volume back into my face, mainly in my cheeks. The difference is so good. She is very skilled and I am so pleased with the results. If this is what you decide make sure you choose a qualified medical practitioner who specialises in and has a lot of experience in aesthetics.

To be honest this is my main concern about the injections. I’m a skincare junkie and on loads of forums and Facebook groups and in the past year or so all I am seeing on these groups is women posting how they recently lost a lot of weight recently with the injections and now they have a saggy lined face and neck. There was a post on here elsewhere from someone who works in a skin clinic saying the same thing people who’ve been on these injections who end up with quite bad facial aging.

Its the dramatic weight loss that does it and they advised to not use the medic to lose weight super fast and eat too low an amount of calories as once facial fat is lost it’s very hard to get back and filler has its own issues,

I think that’s the one downside of these medications is that they are so good that it’s much easier to push your calorie intake very low and lose weight really fast to the point where your body struggles to maintain itself and other tissue is lost.

But the op has taken two years, so unlikely to be rapid unless she was losing 15 15-20 stone , which is a different impact.

I've lost 2 stone over 18 months. (Not consistently on injections). Hardly rapid weight loss. Unfortunately you can't control where fat goes from and no matter how quickly or slowly you lose fat the facial ageing will show, I don't think my face looked better fat though, a fat face might be more smooth but it's also more shapeless and lumpy. Besides the change in face is a price very much worth paying for the better looking body 🤷🏼‍♀️

Oxempic has been available for weight loss for over 2 years, just FYI

Me too, my face genuinely doesn’t look better fat. It looks swollen and puffy. Some might look better with a fat face, but very few.

In the OPs case it is possibly that the weight she was carrying was just masking her signs of aging. Also estrogen is produced by the body fat, that is where most post menopausal women get their estrogen so if you lose the fat you will also lose estrogen.

At 60 I would consider filler for volume loss if procedures like a facelift and fat transfer are not an option.

Perhaps but in general many people are losing huge amounts of weight and seeing sagging faces as a result. Losing weight more slowly with a good diet and good nutrition is generally better for this. There is also a huge focus on eating loads of protein on the glp-1 medications which could be counter productive as a high protein diet inhibits autophagy the process by which the body recycles damaged proteins. One of the more recent findings with autophagy is that it can help with issues of lose skin and tightening skin during weight loss but when you are constantly eating a high protein diet then you can actually stop that happening. Autophagy is one of the bodies major anti-aging pathways. I think that cycling protein intake might be a better approach so that we are not always activiting Mtor which promotes growth and muscle development but inhibits autophagy. Fasting or abstaining from animal protein for a period can induce atuopagy.

Im not against GLP-1 meds and have used them myself and yes saggy face is better than dying young from obesity related conditions but I’m just looking for ways to do it smarter. Also if someone has not been wearing high factor sunscreen daily most of their life or using proactive skincare then my their 60s they will see signiffacial aging that is just normal.

I feel you OP.
This is what I'm doing.
Keeping up with my skincare regime. Upping hydrating and moisturising products.
Skin boosters.
Collagen and vitamin supplements.
PRP
Botox.

Again though, rapid weight loss doesn’t appear to apply here, the op says it’s taken her two years. So potentially she started on saxenda as that’s all ypu could get two years ago, but it would indicate if she’s been using medication she had an extreme amount of weight to lose if it has taken her 2 years. It would be in the region if 15 stone plus. Which of course will leave someone’s face looking more wrinkly, but again, they are the wrinkles you’d have had anyway had you never got fat. As that’s just ageing.

I would recommend cheek fillers to lift your face. I had really deep naso-labial and marionette lines and they've disappeared. I have it done twice-yearly. Also Tretinoin for general skin smoothing.