How to Get Rid of Baby Fat on the Cheeks

Love Your Babyfat

Baby fat usually disappears during teenage years and sometimes after adolescence. With a few tricks and a committed regimen, you can get a toned, sophisticated appearance. These techniques can also help you later on in life when you may experience other matters with facial skin and muscle tone.

Things You'll Need

• Sweet almond oil
• Lemon essential oil
• Weight-lifting equipment

Instructions

How to Get Rid of Baby Fat on the Cheeks

1. Massage your face twice a week. Mix 2 tsp. of sweet almond with 3 to 4 drops of lemon essential oil and massage this over your entire face and neck. Use upward, smooth, even strokes, starting from the base of your neck to the top of your forehead. This cleanses and invigorates your skin, pushing toxins and water retention out of your face, while tightening and toning your cheek muscles.

2. Exercise your facial muscles with a scream expression. Your mouth and eyes should be wide open and your jaw dropped, just as you would if you were screaming. Hold for five seconds, release and repeat three times. Favor facial exercises during a facial massage for best results so the massage oil prevents overstretching or breakage of your skin.

3. Exercise your facial muscles with another facial expression. Choose any exaggerated or dramatic facial expression to tone and strengthen your facial muscles. Try mimicking the natural expression that occurs when applying mascara, with your eyes wide open and your lips pursing downwards.

4. Use bodybuilding machines or lift weights that tone your facial muscle. Weight machines provide muscle-building exercises for primary and secondary muscle groups. The primary muscles gain the most benefits and the secondary muscle groups receive consequential benefits as well. For instance, lateral lifts strengthen shoulder muscles as a primary muscle group, but your neck, shoulders and face also tone up as a secondary muscle group.

5. Eat plenty of protein, fiber and green leafy vegetables. Protein builds muscle and gives you energy to do sports and other activities so you can lose weight. Fiber makes you feel fuller longer and cleanses your body of excess toxins and retention fluids stored in your fat cells. Green leafy vegetables provide vitamins and minerals that give your face a healthy glow.

6. Avoid junk foods like candy and chips. Sugar prevents weight loss and salt causes water retention, giving you a bloated, puffy appearance, especially in the cheeks and eye area.

7. Take a cold shower and air dry your body. Shivering helps burn glucose stored in baby fat. Dr. Sven Enerback, a researcher at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, recently reported in the "New England Journal of Medicine" that baby fat, the calorie burning fat, may never disappear. Shivering from cold temperatures creates heat from energy stored in fat cells. You may not have the appearance of baby fat one day, but some of it remains to keep you healthy and fit when you are older.

Tips & Warnings

• Play sports to lose weight and tone your body. Join a team at school, sign up with a community softball team or become a member at a tennis club. You can lose baby fat and make new friends. Give yourself time to let nature design your body and face. You might not want the baby fat in your cheeks now, but you may want it back after it is gone. Your face resembles someone in your family that loves you, and your face is a reflection of that love. Find sentiment and satisfaction in your facial features no matter what stage it goes through.

• Never apply essential oil directly on the skin. Use a safe carrier oil like olive oil or jojoba oil. For oily or combination skin types, use grape seed or rosehip oil for mixing essential oils.

References

• The New Englad Journal of Medicine; "Functional Brown Adipose Tissue in Healthy Adults"
• The New Englad Journal of Medicine; "Origins of Adipose Tissue", Sven Enerbäck, M.D., Ph.D.

Resources

• Baby Fat Could Make For Leaner Adults
• Fat Could Help You Lose Weight, Someday