Carol, I have a good friend who is a counselor for the Weight Watchers group in my community. She's about the same age as you, but now you mention it, she is *very* wrinkled! She's never smoked, never drank, never hung out in the sun a lot, but she is very wrinkled! I'll bet it's that diet that did that! Of course she's about the same size as an emaciated 4th grade boy. But I never thought about her wrinkles until now... On the other hand, she's never been extremely overweight either. I think she had to lose a whopping eight pounds to reach her goal weight and become a counselor.

I, on the otherhand, never had problems with wrinkles for the ten years I did low-fat. That was because I *gained* 100 pounds! I kept thinking if I followed that diet and walked far enough every day, my fat-o-stat would finally kick in and I'd start losing tons of weight. I tried to walk four hours every day. Truly! What a waste! All that time I lost that I could have spent with my family and friends! And the fat-o-stat never kicked in.

And my skin was in *terrible* condition during those ten years! Breakouts and boils *all* *over* my body. I just chalked it up to getting older and my hormones changing. Since I've been seriously low-carbing though, my skin is in the best condition it's been since I was about ten years old! No more boils. Never a breakout. I look like a different person. I'm still constantly amazed when I hear very intelligent dietitians, doctors, and nutritionists telling people to eat low-fat! One day they'll regret saying that stuff...

Karla, thanks for the web-site of the Face Lady and your testimonial! Your URL worked just fine on my computer, and I tried a couple of the Face Lady's exercises! But especially thanks for your personal experience. A lady I knew on another low-carb newsgroup said that whenever she knew she was going to have her photograph professionally taken, she would start doing facial exercises about two weeks in advance. She had always been quite heavy, but the exercises helped define her jawline, emphasized her cheekbones, and gave a lift to her eyebrows. It makes a lot of sense to me that exercising the muscles under the skin of your face would do the same thing as regular exercise does for your arms and legs.

But then later I heard an infomercial say that exercising your face actually causes more wrinkles! Of course those guys were trying to sell one of those $200 electric shock facial masks. They scared me enough though, that I didn't want to try anything more daring than my Taut masque.

But if you swear by the Face Lady's plan, I'll try it!

Mae West
"I never diet. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond." The Other Mae West