The 10-minute routine for a face that changed after weight loss

I've watched a hundred face yoga videos and never stuck with any of them. The difference here is it's a plan, not a video. There's literally one page I open every morning, ten minutes, tick the box. I'm on week 4. My cheeks look less flat in the side photo, which I wouldn't have noticed if the guide hadn't made me take the photo on day 0. Not a miracle. But I'm still doing it, which for me is the miracle.

I'm 38 lbs down and not done yet and my face was the first thing to go. My sister said I looked "drawn." I got this because I wanted something to DO while the scale keeps moving instead of just waiting for my face to "catch up" like everyone in my group keeps saying. Three weeks in. I can't say my face looks different yet but the jaw exercise I can actually feel working and I'm doing it in the car before work. It fits.

I'll be honest, I bought it for the neck. At my age nobody is going to sell me on cheekbones. The neck chapter is short but it's the first thing I've read that didn't either promise a facelift in a bottle or tell me to go get surgery. Six weeks in and my neck is the same neck, but it's a firmer version of it when I look down at my phone, which is the angle I hated. I'll take it for 29 dollars.

I had a quote for filler. $2,400 for the first round, then again next year. I'm not saying this replaces that, the guide itself says it doesn't and I respect that. But for 29 bucks I wanted to see what I could do on my own first before I spent the price of a vacation. Week 5. My husband asked if I'd "done something" to my face. I hadn't. That's the review.

My dermatologist told me face exercises give you more lines so I'd written the whole thing off. What sold me was the chapter about exactly that. It tells you which moves to skip and to hold the rest of your face still, with pictures of what NOT to do. I do the routine in front of the mirror with my forehead relaxed like it says. No new lines. Cheeks a bit fuller in the day 28 photo. Whoever wrote this actually thought about it.

I have been burned by every face app on the planet. Charged 60 dollars for a "free trial" once. This is a PDF. You pay once. It's yours. It emailed me the link and I put it on my iPad. That alone would get four stars from me. The fifth is because the calendar page is on my fridge and I'm on day 33 and I have never in my life stuck to anything for 33 days.

The photo thing is smart. Same window, same time, no smile, day 0, 14, 28. I almost didn't do it because I hate photos of my face right now, that's the whole problem. But when I put day 0 next to day 28 the difference under my cheekbones is small but it's there and it's MINE, not a before and after of some stranger. I showed my daughter and she saw it too.

What I liked most is what it says it CAN'T do. It won't put the fat back. It won't lift heavy sagging. It says that on the sales page and again in the book. After a year of being told my face would "bounce back" by people online and told I needed a facelift by people in white coats, someone finally just told me the truth and gave me something to do in the meantime. Cheeks and jaw are where I see it. Neck is a work in progress.

Everyone in my Facebook group says your face perks up in 6 to 12 months so just wait. I've been waiting for 5 months. I bought this because the page said, basically, fine, wait, but here's something to do for 8 weeks while you wait. That was exactly my situation. Week 3 now. The jaw exercise is the one I feel the most. Ask me again at week 8.

I did two syringes of filler last year. Looked good for about 6 months and cost me a fortune, and I'm not doing it again while the weight's still coming off. This is my in-between. What I'd say is don't expect what filler does, the book is very clear it's a different thing. What it does is give my cheeks something to sit on. My makeup goes on differently now. Small thing, real thing.

I've watched a hundred face yoga videos and never stuck with any of them. The difference here is it's a plan, not a video. There's literally one page I open every morning, ten minutes, tick the box. I'm on week 4. My cheeks look less flat in the side photo, which I wouldn't have noticed if the guide hadn't made me take the photo on day 0. Not a miracle. But I'm still doing it, which for me is the miracle.

I'm 38 lbs down and not done yet and my face was the first thing to go. My sister said I looked "drawn." I got this because I wanted something to DO while the scale keeps moving instead of just waiting for my face to "catch up" like everyone in my group keeps saying. Three weeks in. I can't say my face looks different yet but the jaw exercise I can actually feel working and I'm doing it in the car before work. It fits.

I'll be honest, I bought it for the neck. At my age nobody is going to sell me on cheekbones. The neck chapter is short but it's the first thing I've read that didn't either promise a facelift in a bottle or tell me to go get surgery. Six weeks in and my neck is the same neck, but it's a firmer version of it when I look down at my phone, which is the angle I hated. I'll take it for 29 dollars.

I had a quote for filler. $2,400 for the first round, then again next year. I'm not saying this replaces that, the guide itself says it doesn't and I respect that. But for 29 bucks I wanted to see what I could do on my own first before I spent the price of a vacation. Week 5. My husband asked if I'd "done something" to my face. I hadn't. That's the review.

My dermatologist told me face exercises give you more lines so I'd written the whole thing off. What sold me was the chapter about exactly that. It tells you which moves to skip and to hold the rest of your face still, with pictures of what NOT to do. I do the routine in front of the mirror with my forehead relaxed like it says. No new lines. Cheeks a bit fuller in the day 28 photo. Whoever wrote this actually thought about it.

I have been burned by every face app on the planet. Charged 60 dollars for a "free trial" once. This is a PDF. You pay once. It's yours. It emailed me the link and I put it on my iPad. That alone would get four stars from me. The fifth is because the calendar page is on my fridge and I'm on day 33 and I have never in my life stuck to anything for 33 days.

The photo thing is smart. Same window, same time, no smile, day 0, 14, 28. I almost didn't do it because I hate photos of my face right now, that's the whole problem. But when I put day 0 next to day 28 the difference under my cheekbones is small but it's there and it's MINE, not a before and after of some stranger. I showed my daughter and she saw it too.

What I liked most is what it says it CAN'T do. It won't put the fat back. It won't lift heavy sagging. It says that on the sales page and again in the book. After a year of being told my face would "bounce back" by people online and told I needed a facelift by people in white coats, someone finally just told me the truth and gave me something to do in the meantime. Cheeks and jaw are where I see it. Neck is a work in progress.

Everyone in my Facebook group says your face perks up in 6 to 12 months so just wait. I've been waiting for 5 months. I bought this because the page said, basically, fine, wait, but here's something to do for 8 weeks while you wait. That was exactly my situation. Week 3 now. The jaw exercise is the one I feel the most. Ask me again at week 8.

I did two syringes of filler last year. Looked good for about 6 months and cost me a fortune, and I'm not doing it again while the weight's still coming off. This is my in-between. What I'd say is don't expect what filler does, the book is very clear it's a different thing. What it does is give my cheeks something to sit on. My makeup goes on differently now. Small thing, real thing.