How to get rid of a gross double chin?

Question

I'm not fat. I'm a very healthy weight, almost under the recomened weight range for my height. But I always feel self-concious becuase a lot of my fat is right under my chin and it makes me look like I have a double chin. How can I get rid of the fat under my chin with out lossing a ton of weight (which I couldn't afford to lose because I'm already on the bottom end of my recomened weight range)? I don't want any kind of surgery, I want to lose it in a natual, health way.

I'm not overweight, nor have I ever been overweight. I haven't lost any weight that would give me excess skin. The fat's always been there. The issue is not with my weight, which if you read the question you'd know.
I don't have a fitness problem either. I'm in good shape and I eat healthy foods. That's not the problem. The problem is that most of the fat I have is under my chin.

Answer 1

Double Chins

Doing some facial or more specifically neck or chin exercises might reduce your double chin. Here are a few easy to do exercises:


Press your palm to your forehead for 10 seconds while resisting with your head and neck. You should feel your neck and chin tighten. Repeat the movement with your hand on the back of your head, then on each side, with your hand cupped over your ear.

Lift your chin up and open and close your mouth as if you're chewing. Feel the muscles under your jaw and down the front of your neck tighten.

Sit up straight in an armless chair, holding the bottom of the chair with your hands at your sides, tilt your head back and alternately close your mouth pushing your chin forward and them open your mouth as wide as you can.

Lift chin slightly upward. With flat point of index and middle fingers press against indentation (hollow) formed by the two upper nodules of the larynx located at the curve from chin to neck. Do not be concerned in the beginning as to the precise location of pressure which you will discover through practice. Regard finger pressure as the resistance against the working muscles. Now press your back teeth firmly together and while maintaining this position, press the tip of your tongue against the inside of lower front teeth (gum line) increasing pressure with the tip of tongue in 10 or more gradual and definite steps (Count to 10). Hold end position of pressure for 6 seconds (count slowly to six). Release muscle work for 10 gradual steps (count to 10). Remove finger resistance. Repeat 4 more times.

Slap under the chin with the back of your hand. When slapping, start gently and build up speed gradually. Do this for a couple of minutes each time, two or three times a day.

Exercise the muscle called the platysma whose function is to pull down the corners of the mouth and pull down the jawbone. Open your mouth wide, and then pull up your bottom lip over your bottom teeth. Move your jaw up and down as if you're trying to scoop something up with it - imagine the movement of the shovel on a digger scooping up earth or debris on a building site. Perform ten repetitions of this exercise each time, and again do this two or three times a day.

Here is more advice and input:


Eat healthily. First, eat an apple or grapes with some whole grain bread or cereal. Have a snack! Like like a salad or something. Excercise lightly at first, then workout a little bit heavier everyday that you work out. This will make you look thinner and muscular too! It will also get rid of your double chin!

Facial exercices will definitely work! also eat a very balanced diet. Don't eat JUNK! because it will make you gain more than you trying to lose :) A chin exercise is to tilt your head back sitting in a chair and try to kiss the ceiling lol you will feel it work under your chin

Say NO: Lie flat on the floor, lift your head SLIGHTLY (such that it is not in contact with the floor) and look to the sides one by one without letting the head rest on the floor. Will look a bit like you are saying NO. Say YES: Again, lie flat on the floor, and bring your chin closer to your chest and bring it back making sure your head does not rest on the floor. This will look like you are saying YES. You will see the difference within a couple of weeks. No need to over do this. Just once a day ... say 20 reps.

Answer 2

There are some exercises you can do for that like stretching your head and neck up and forward. I have one too and it runs in my family so I think a lot of it is genetic. Other than the chin exercises I don't know anything except cosmetic surgery. I sympathize with you. Good luck.

Answer 3

If you are not fat, then you must have been fat and lost weight, which would cause the excess skin underneath the neck. After the skin has been stretched, there is not much you can do to shrink it back (Hence stretch marks and double chins). The skin does tighten a little on it's own, but not enough to totally reverse the effects. Don't use creams or diet, etc. They are all a waste of money. I know you don't want to hear it, but your only options are cosmetic surgery or to simply cope with it.

Answer 4

Go to this website there's a tips on how to get rid of double chin. it is on the lose weight section.

Answer 5

U can isolate areas for reduction.

Eat only when hungry and not more than three times a day. Take only water in between.

Chew each morsel at least 32 times for effective functioning of ur natural system of telling u that u have had enough.

Take light exercises and brisk walks regularly preferably twice a day.

U will achieve ur ideal weight in a reasonable period effortlessly and permanently.

Answer 6

I have one as well and I am trying to do it the old fashioned way by eating non fat foods and exercising. You might can try a firming cream as well

Answer 7

I have the same problem. I have not found a way to get rid of it. Sorry!!