How To Get Rid Of Love Handles With A Weight Loss Exercise Program

Author: Steve Gee

2006-12-01 Word Count: 669 Category: Weight Loss

Regular exercise is the key to how to get rid of love handles

The phrase "girl with love handles" is such a lovely description of a woman and I imagine someone with a nice shapely figure that has all the curves in all the right places. They would be a warm and cuddly person and it doesn't take too much imagination to see the reason why those extra folds of skin around the waistline are called love handles.

But not everyone finds love handles that attractive and they do have a habit or turning very ugly if they are left to grow unhindered. They're also excess weight that isn't good for your overall health whichever sex you are. Yes men do get love handles too and frankly they are a lot less attractive on men than they are on women. So lets have a look at the best way to lose love handles.

Wondering what love handle fat is?

Love handles are made of fat that your body has produced from the excess calories in your food and stored it for you. You must understand that there is no difference between love handle fat and fat elsewhere on your body; it's just stored in a different place. If you had burned off all the calories you ate by doing exercise then no additional fat would be stored.

In the past your ancestors were lucky if they found food every few days and they had no way of storing it in those days. If your hunting party were successful you would have to eat the whole lot in one go while it was fresh. To keep you alive until the next meal came along the excess energy in the feast was converted to fat and stored in the body where it would be gradually released over the next few days when you didn't eat.

Your body remembers how to store food from that time and it can't predict when you're next meal is going to arrive so it stores the energy for you in the form of fat. You now eat more often than your Stone Age ancestors did so you need to be very careful to use up your fat store or better still, don't allow it to get stored in the first place.

Your love handles are part of your store of energy. It just so happens that your body finds that your waistline and stomach is a very convenient to place to put it.

You must exercise to get rid of love handles

Losing love handle fat is a matter of losing fat all over your body. You can't tell your body to lose fat in any specific place even if you exercise all the muscles in that area. What you will do is strengthen and build the muscle underneath the fat but the fat will still be there. Losing fat can be accomplished using a combination of good nutrition and regular exercise to make sure that you burn off more calories than you consume.

Don't just starve yourself to reduce your calories below the rate at which you can burn them. If you do that you are risking burning not only fat but also lean muscle and other body organs. Your metabolism will slow down and your appetite will increase which will make it very difficult for you to stay trim. You must balance your energy intake with exercise and you must keep up the exercise for life if you want to lose your love handles permanently. Try to take up something you enjoy doing to give yourself a chance of keeping it up. Increased exercise while paying attention to good nutrition will allow you to burn fat while building your muscle.

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