How to maximise facial leanness and reduce bloat and water rentention?

[Deleted member]

title, btw I'm 9% bf

 

[Deleted member 14274]

Just anecdotal, but I’ve noticed that consuming high sodium foods tends to bloat my face up. I’m not sure if this is true but I think stimulants like nicotine/caffeine can debloat you due to their dieuretic affects.

Drink water, reduce sodium intake, and try going into a caloric deficit for a few days as well as using stims such as caffeine/nicotine to temporarily debloat.

 

[Cali Yuga]

dry fasting all day and drinking at night

keto debloats me

low inflammation helps too

 

[Deleted member 7725]

Might be genetics. I'm in the same boat, when I push my skin in my cheekbones and jaw are actually visible but normally my cheeks look blubbery and hide any angularity. I think some people won't lose cheek fat no matter how much they cut. I've been taking MK677 and eating like shit for the past 6 months so I'm going to wait a few months while eating healthy and see how I look. If I'm still bloated I'm going to get facial lipo or buccal fat removal.

I look similar to Tim Tebow (in terms of bloated face), even at 11.9% BF:

 

[Deleted member 14274]

Might be genetics. I'm in the same boat, when I push my skin in my cheekbones and jaw are actually visible but normally my cheeks look blubbery and hide any angularity. I think some people won't lose cheek fat no matter how much they cut. I've been taking MK677 and eating like shit for the past 6 months so I'm going to wait a few months while eating healthy and see how I look. If I'm still bloated I'm going to get facial lipo or buccal fat removal.

I look similar to Tim Tebow (in terms of bloated face), even at 11.9% BF:

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Stop the MK677. It is a garbage compound. I was using it at the beginning of my cycle but it had zero impact so I cut it out completely.

 

[Deleted member 7725]

Stop the MK677. It is a garbage compound. I was using it at the beginning of my cycle but it had zero impact so I cut it out completely.

Only used it for appetite. Works very good for me.

 

[Lawton88]

Icing your cheeks area can lessen the bloat some people claim. Put the ice cubes right to the skin until its pretty painful and do it a few times over a few minutes. I guess it works like that cool sculpting treatment.

 

[Prettyboy]

- avoid carbs like it's cancer , keto or straight up carnivore / zerocarb diet is ideal if you are natty
- drink lot of water (minimum 1 gallon a day, preferably more)
- reduce sodium intake to minimum (even better if you work out regularly as you sweat out lot of sodium)
- sleep a lot
- ice your cheeks after waking up (not that much of an effect and is temporal)
- workout your jaw's muscles (masseters), can be done with few hours a day of chewing gum for example <-- some people will say it's cope but it really isn't, you just need to be lean enough to see results
- sauna

Appart from these it's mostly hormonal (more T = more leanness) and of course genetic

 

[Deleted member 13409]

Could just be you have shit bones. At 10% bodyfat as long as your bones aren’t bad you should look sharp. I look sharp at 15% for example. You might need fillers or implants

 

[Cristiano88]

- avoid carbs like it's cancer , keto or straight up carnivore / zerocarb diet is ideal if you are natty
- drink lot of water (minimum 1 gallon a day, preferably more)
- reduce sodium intake to minimum (even better if you work out regularly as you sweat out lot of sodium)
- sleep a lot
- ice your cheeks after waking up (not that much of an effect and is temporal)
- workout your jaw's muscles (masseters), can be done with few hours a day of chewing gum for example <-- some people will say it's cope but it really isn't, you just need to be lean enough to see results
- sauna

Appart from these it's mostly hormonal (more T = more leanness) and of course genetic

What he said is very true.
I would add to this the following:
-make sure you are not taking any kind of meds. There are countless that give you water retention. Most commonly used are:
1) NSAIDS(ibuprofen, ketonal, naproxen-shit you take when you have pain/inflammation, usually from a sports injury, ketonal is also given to people who have tooth pain).
2) Vasodilatators like: Cialis, Viagra etc.
3) Alpha blockers like Flomax
4) SSRI(anti depressants)

I know 3) is not very commonly used by young people but as for the rest they are pretty used. I know a lot of guys microdosing on Cialis or who are on SSRIs since puberty.

 

[untouchable_coper]

How much water do you currently drink daily? Also do you have seasonal allergies?