The first time I heard the phrase "girl with love handles" I thought that it was such a lovely description of a woman and imagined someone with a shapely figure that had all the curves in the right places. They would be warm and cuddly and it doesn't take too much imagination to dream up a reason why those extra folds of skin around the waistline are called love handles.
Alas not everyone finds love handles attractive and they can turn very ugly if they are left to grow unchecked. They also represent excess weight that isn't good for your overall health whether you're a man or a woman. Yes men get love handles too and frankly they are a lot less attractive on men than women. So lets take a look at the …show more content…
Our primitive instinct of eating as much as you can whenever you can together with the opportunity to eat as often as you like has given all of us a challenge to keep our bodies in shape.
So your love handles are made up of rolls of fat covering the muscle on your waistline. They hang over your clothes, which is where they get their lovely name.
You have to exercise to get rid of love handles
In order to lose the fat on your love handles you have to persuade your body to burn it off for you. This will only happen if you expend more calories in exercise than consume in food. You can get this into balance by reducing the calories that you eat or increasing the exercise you take, or preferably both.
If you merely reduce your calorie intake then you will burn fat and lose weight. Unfortunately your body will also start to burn some of your lean muscle and other body mass too. You can't afford to lose your lean body mass so you need to compensate by increasing the exercise that you take. Exercise breaks down your muscle and encourages it to regenerate itself bigger and better than it was before. This way you can burn the fat but maintain your muscle.
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