Does anybody else have big love handles?

You can't really control where your body stores fat...mine is all love handles and lower belly, so I totally feel your pain...those are the very last places that I lose the fat...but, the reality is, if you continue to lose fat it will eventually come off even those stubborn areas.

You are losing in your waist and upper abdomen, it will eventually start to lose further south and hit the love handles, just keep up the good work and give it time.

Guy here, with huge love handles. I am loosing weight, my chest, shoulders, arms etc got quite dry, but I keep the love handles (however smaller than before). The only way to go is to keep cutting the bf% and they will eventually disappear. If your body is programmed to store fat predominantly in that region it will probably be the last place for the fat to disappear, but it will at sufficiently low bf.

In me it is ridiculous because I have a quite broad muscular chest, then a somewhat thin natural waist with a pronounced curve from the chest, but then my lower abdomen is again extremely broad bc of the love handles. It is almost like an hourglass silhouette (not in a good way, even more in a guy) but the lower broad part is from the love handles instead of hips

Yes, look up exercises that work your oblique muscles.

@dVe002 This is complete non sense, you cannot spot reduce with local muscle work!!! When your body needs to use stored fat for energy it will convert them into glucose and release it into the blood stream, which carries the glucose to the muscle needing it. The fat converted can originate anywhere in the body, it is not a local process, and it is determined by many factors, mainly the differential between the body fat distribution programmed into ur genes and the amount of fat u currently carry in ur different body regions .

The only local energy supply process in our bodies is the consumption of the muscle own glycogen stores, which will be fastly replenished if you have proper nutrition. They can even be replenished by the glucose originated from fat conversion, however this requires extremely specific insulin (mainly, other hormones also have a role) response states and it is not very usual (the insulin levels for converting fat into glucose are opposite of the levels required to convert glucose into glycogen and store it into the muscles). Most glycogen is replenished with your liver reserves and the liver reserves replenished using your meal macros and converted fat).

I had love handles, losing weight really helped although they were pretty much the last to reduce - genetics mean that I'm still curvy - I still have slight love handles but in order to fully lose them I'd look too thin. Embrace your curves, a lot of women have them and look great. IMO most of us are predisposed to have them.