They say that two heads are better than one. But in no way are two chins better than one.
It’s good to always have an extra tire for your car, but carrying around a spare chin won’t do your self-confidence and self-image any benefit.
Having a double chin adds years to your age you and makes you look a little unhealthy.
But there’s a practical and inexpensive solution to get rid of unwanted double chin by way of working out the flaccid muscles surrounding the chin area.
Many people, particularly women, are wondering about how to get rid of double chin without wanting to be rumored of having gone off for a serious money-blowing yet temporary treatment when they can just stay home and work on their problem spots themselves.
Double chin exercises will result in a double chin reduction without you having to break the bank to pay costly doctor’s fees and avail of procedures that are not long lasting yet very expensive, be they surgical or non-invasive face lifts using state of the art equipment.
So why go through all the trouble when you can fix the problem yourself?
Double chin exercises
The main facial muscles to be flexed in order to eliminate double chin are the mentalis and platysma muscles. Try to do at least one double chin exercise everyday to firm and tone the chin area.
The exercises below will also help firm the neck, throat, and jowl areas, preventing pouches, turkey wattles, and dowager humps.
Say goodbye to your spare chin and make your jaw, throat, and neck look slender and graceful by following these double chin exercises:
Exercise No. 1
While standing up, pull your head slightly back such that your face is tilted towards the ceiling.
Now try to kiss the ceiling by stretching your lips and puckering up. Hold for five seconds. Repeat five times.
Remember to leave the other facial muscles that are not engaged in this exercise as relaxed as possible.
Exercise No. 2
This exercise can be done on a seated or standing position. Pull your spine straight up and leading with the chin, gently rotate your head from one shoulder to another.
Do not hurry while performing this exercise, and make only slight, precise movements. Work your way to doing full head rolls. Stick to semi circular motions if full circular rotations bother your neck. Do a full roll three to five times.
Exercise No. 3
Assume an Indian seat position on the floor. Place your left hand on the floor, fingers down, approximately ten inches away from the left side of your hip. Do not lean or rest heavily on your left fingertips.
Raise your right hand straight up with your palm facing toward the side of your right cheek. Then bend your extended right hand at the elbow and grasp your left ear using your right palm.
Without getting your head out of alignment with your neck, bend your head toward your right shoulder. With your right hand still clasping your left ear, apply gentle pressure to the area without straining or pushing the neck further down.
Now take your left fingertips off the floor and place them on your left upper arm. Apply gentle pressure to your left arm and with your head still bent towards your right shoulder, hold the position for five to ten counts.
Repeat on the other side, this time resting your right fingertips ten inches from the right side of your hips and extending your left hand vertically with your left palm facing your left cheek.
Additional tips on how to lose a double chin
The exercises above are aimed to treat collapsed throat muscles. This is caused by aging, excessive weight, gravity, and an unhealthy lifestyle.
If you are overweight try to follow the guidelines on how to lose facial fat and how to lose cheek fat. These will help you achieve a healthy weight loss, whereas face exercises will help treat sagging muscles and loose skin that are consequences of releasing unwanted weight.
Exercises for double chin, if done along with other face firming exercises will give your whole face a better lift, so it would be ideal to do various face exercises to achieve an overall toned and finely chiseled look.
Something that would also help facilitate the reduction of double chin is physical exercise. Running, weightlifting, and traditional yoga poses can help your double chin exercises work faster and better.
Chewing your food really well will help define your jaw line and therefore reduce the appearance of a double chin. You don’t have to masticate your food as much as yogis do, who chew their food fifty-one times on each side (a total of 102 chewing motions).
The point is to chew your food at least 20 times, or until it’s almost of liquid consistency. This will also keep you from overeating. If you don’t overeat, then you won’t gain weight and this will help to somehow control the amount of face fat you have.
If having a double chin is hereditary then you would just have to do all the natural means previously mentioned to reduce your double chin. If you are persistent and optimistic enough then your double chin will not just be reduced; depending on your age it could even disappear.
Also, according to the yogic system negative emotions can be stored in some parts of the body. It is believed that repressed anger takes its toll on the jaws, and since the jaw muscles are connected to the chin and neck muscles then releasing tension in this area will help a bit in fixing a double chin.
This can be done by shaping your mouth to a perfect “o” and saying “aaaaaaah” to release your lower jaw while the tip of your tongue is touching the back of your lower teeth.
By adopting positive lifestyle changes, regularly practicing a full range of face exercises, doing physical exercise daily and correcting your poor posture, in one month’s time you will have reason indeed to hold both your head and chin up high.
The 30-Day Facial Fitness Program is a comprehensive program that explores both the lifestyle and anatomical causes of a double chin and unattractive facial fat. It provides not only well-designed double chin exercises but dietary and lifestyle-related solutions as well.
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Hi, I am thin and i have a slight double chin problem.
I havent yet decided to start the exercises but i soon will….
There is just one little question.
Suppose i spend 2 months trying to loose the double chin. Will it reappear if i stop the exercises. I mean am i bound to do the exercises for the whole of my life???
Please reply…
Thank you for such lovely information. Because of my double chin people think that I am in my late 50′s however I am in my early 40′s, I am really really glad to have found the cure of my double chin. In my car I always keep two tyres but to have two chins can make people automatically tell me to forget about marrying as I look a bit too old now, you can’t believe the depression I go through when I have to hear such comments.
Thank you again for helpin me out of my double chin.
me too!i am a size 5 (at times) i use to be a barley 1( my pants would be lose, ..ugh) i decided to gain some weight ( i really wanted a bigger booty :) ) so i started to take Macca Root, it helps weight gain, and supposedly to the ”perfect” spots. I’d say yes my booty got bigger, my thighs now touch in the middle, my top half def. gained a cup. So. anyways, i’m a decent 5 now, but i have this double chin that i hate!!! i feel so insecure..this article help, but know your not alone!
…if your curious, all the Macca root did was back me up full time, i went from bowl movements 3-4 times a day to trying to have at least 1! it blocked me for a couple of weeks, with a few luck here and there.
Hi,
I guess I am one with a “hereditary” double chin problem. My face has always been more on the chipmunk side…I am 5’8″, 125lbs, 29yrs old, been a size 2 or 4 since middle school. I have been doing the first two stretches for years with no benefit, but #3 may turn out to be the key. I am wondering if playing a brass instrument (I play trumpet for a living) could affect this- we have to bring our chins down and in for the best sound. It’s sort of like talking with an “actor” voice: one wouldn’t stick his or her head out like a turtle to do this. Now that I think of it a lot of brass players I know have a double chin, but I don’t know if it’s attributable to aging, not living healthy, or what.
Hi im madison , I am 14 . I am not fat AT ALL but I have a double chin when I look down & when I lay down . Its really unatractive ! if I do these excersises it will go away or just not be as bad
i am going to begin the face exercise
Mouthing your abc’s or even just vowels when you are in private also helps reduce double chin.
Chew low calorie gum. Moves the entire jawline.
hi i have a double chin and because of this i look so fatty.. honestly really want a skinny face what is way i can rid off from it…pls inform me…
I hope this works i’m gonna start doing this everyday. My whole body’s skinny except my double chin.and my stomach.
I am a walking twig, 18 years and I have a stupid double chin. According to my mother, we are late “bloomers” so I may still just have baby fat in face and chin? I have been doing chin exercises for weeks now and I have not noticed any difference. :(
I would like to get these books! Please let me know how to get them. I’m lousy at using a computer, so help me!
Hi i am rahul from india, I am 27 . I am not fat AT ALL but I have a double chin when I look down & when I lay down . Its really unattractive ! if I do these excersises it will go away and ll i get rid of this
Wouldnt this just stretch out the skin under your chin?
props to whoever wrote this article