A. Yes, losing a lot of weight will generally change the face for most people. Take an 32 BMI obese guy with a bloated round face and multiple chins. If he is able to slim down to a 25 BMI, his face will likely become more angular and those multiples chins will become one. Now if someone goes the other extreme - say from 23 BMI to 16 and looses almost all their body fat, they might go from having a healthy looking face to an emaciated hollow and aged look.momopi wrote:1. The primary reason for eating less and exercising more should be to improve your health and reduce your chance of heart attack. Like Spock said in Star Trek, to live long and prosper.Winston wrote:I've been eating only one meal a day and losing some weight.
However, 2/3 of the way through this video on male shaming tactics, Steve Hoca explains why losing weight or getting in shape isn't going to make you more attractive with women, because looks is 90 percent from the neck up. He gives some examples and makes some good points. What do you think?
I think the same applies to clothes too. If Steve is right, then all the talk in this thread is just a waste of time isn't it?
2. Attracting women should not be the first or primary reason. However, your weight does affect how you look above the neck. You can take a handsome man with symmetrical facial features, make him 100 lbs overweight, and he'd become much less attractive, huffing and puffing from just walking across the parking lot.
Depending on circumstances, significant weight loss for certain overweight guys could lead to a much more attractive face. Round full faces on adult men are generally not appreciated (except for some exceptions who pull off that look well) where as slim faces strong angular jawlines and chins plus somewhat hollowed out mid faces are often seen on male models. I remember my ex showing me a photo of Emenim after he had gained like 30 lbs. giving him a bloated face. She said he went from hot to ugly.
B. I believe the correlation between facial symmetry and attractiveness is highly overestimated. Proportion (relative length to width, relative heights of upper, mid, and lower third, relative feature size, etc.) has a much higher correlation to beauty and attractiveness. If u take a very unattractive face and make it perfectly symmetrical (using either a mirror image of the left side or right side), its still going to be very unattractive in most cases. OTH, many very attractive faces have a significant and noticeable degree of asymmetry. Of course, an extreme degree of asymmetry will detract from looks but such cases are rare.
I even remember seeing a billboard photo of a western model for an international clothing brand in Bangkok with very obvious facial asymmetry (one side of face was higher and larger than the other). Yet he was very attractive and qualified to be a photo model.
I tried to explain to Rock that his opinion doesn't represent that of everyone in the universe. lol
