How do I get rid of the "love" handles that I hate.

not sure i have the same problem though

When you lose enough weight, your shape will have sorted it all out. If you are carrying fat around, then it has to be somewhere.

So lose the fat, and your body will be the right shape.


Exercise, instead of just dieting, helps.

If you exercise, then the weight goes off faster AND the proportion of unsightly fat shifts as well.


Don't be fooled by measuring and thinking, oh, my waist is the same even though I've lost 5 kilograms... It's gone from somewhere, after all. Just not somewhere where you've been measuring.

I lost 6 inches off the waist and hips then stopped - thought I was doing something wrong. But it was coming off the thighs, as I found when I looked at my trousers. But I hadn't got a base-line measure for that, so I hadn't noticed.

You may never lose them. If they bother you, look into liposuction.

You dont need to lose weight, you need to lose body fat. You lose body fat with a small caloric deficit (20% less than tdee) and do heavy resistance training. And when i talk heavy, i mean you fail at 8-12 reps. If you RT 3-4 times a week and eat fairly clean, then you can cut fat.

side crunches, any oblique excerises with weights. I know u can't "spot reduce" but those excersises helped me! herers a link that will give u an idea.. www.sixpacknow.com/obliqueexercises.html

Theres one execrise I find helps. Lie on your stomache, raise your upper body of the floor keeping eyes focused on the ground. Raise it no more than a hand or two. Hold for a couple of seconds and lay down, repeat 10 times or so. Then raise the upper bodyand lung one hand forward and one hand backwards down your sides at the same time focus eyes onto the floor to keep position. keep hands tight to the sides, keep lunging 10-10 repetitions. Anyone with back problems should speak to their doctor or physio before doing this exercise. Hope it helps!

You may never lose them. If they bother you, look into liposuction.

This is terrible advice and very discouraging. Love handles are difficult to lose because most people do not property train their core. Focus on true core exercises especially those that engage your inner and outer oblique and you'll start to see them go away. Strength training and building lean muscle around your body will help to get rid of those stubborn fat reserves

You may never lose them. If they bother you, look into liposuction.

This is terrible advice and very discouraging. Love handles are difficult to lose because most people do not property train their core. Focus on true core exercises especially those that engage your inner and outer oblique and you'll start to see them go away. Strength training and building lean muscle around your body will help to get rid of those stubborn fat reserves

I don't think that's terrible advice, even if I wouldn't do it. The idea that you can mold your body into any shape you want merely through diet and exercise is inaccurate. I think the OP should keep losing weight and exercising to see if she can get rid of the fat without surgery. But she may not be able to. Some things bug people a lot.

You can mold your body into a certain shape when it comes to losing fat. She isn't talking about making her hip bones more narrow or changing her bodies tendency to hold fat. She needs to change the amount of fat in her body and these reserves will disappear leaving only the muscles to show. This happens at around 15-17% body fat for women. For people to say its impossible or needs surgery they are just leaning on the fat disgusting lazy lifestyle of today's western world and trying to blame genetics for their flaws instead of their lack of ambition and hard work.

You may never lose them. If they bother you, look into liposuction.

This is terrible advice and very discouraging. Love handles are difficult to lose because most people do not property train their core. Focus on true core exercises especially those that engage your inner and outer oblique and you'll start to see them go away. Strength training and building lean muscle around your body will help to get rid of those stubborn fat reserves

I don't think that's terrible advice, even if I wouldn't do it. The idea that you can mold your body into any shape you want merely through diet and exercise is inaccurate. I think the OP should keep losing weight and exercising to see if she can get rid of the fat without surgery. But she may not be able to. Some things bug people a lot.

You can mold your body into a certain shape when it comes to losing fat. She isn't talking about making her hip bones more narrow or changing her bodies tendency to hold fat. She needs to change the amount of fat in her body and these reserves will disappear leaving only the muscles to show. This happens at around 15-17% body fat for women. For people to say its impossible or needs surgery they are just leaning on the fat disgusting lazy lifestyle of today's western world and trying to blame genetics for their flaws instead of their lack of ambition and hard work.

Some people do have a predisposition to put more weight in places than conventional beauty standards dictate. I have no idea if the OP is one of those people. I told her she should keep losing weight and exercising. But if she does that and can't lose them and is still bothered by them, that's a decision for her to make. As I said, I wouldn't do it. Not everyone who decides to have plastic surgery is lazy.

You may never lose them. If they bother you, look into liposuction.

This is terrible advice and very discouraging. Love handles are difficult to lose because most people do not property train their core. Focus on true core exercises especially those that engage your inner and outer oblique and you'll start to see them go away. Strength training and building lean muscle around your body will help to get rid of those stubborn fat reserves

I don't think that's terrible advice, even if I wouldn't do it. The idea that you can mold your body into any shape you want merely through diet and exercise is inaccurate. I think the OP should keep losing weight and exercising to see if she can get rid of the fat without surgery. But she may not be able to. Some things bug people a lot.

You can mold your body into a certain shape when it comes to losing fat. She isn't talking about making her hip bones more narrow or changing her bodies tendency to hold fat. She needs to change the amount of fat in her body and these reserves will disappear leaving only the muscles to show. This happens at around 15-17% body fat for women. For people to say its impossible or needs surgery they are just leaning on the fat disgusting lazy lifestyle of today's western world and trying to blame genetics for their flaws instead of their lack of ambition and hard work.

You are the offensive one here. Women are lazy and need to beat themselves up for having fat pockets in places that may NEVER disappear. Women stay away from this guy.

As Dolly Parton said in the movie "Joyful Noise", "God did not create plastic surgeons for them to starve to death!" I stand by my original reply. If something bothers you, fix it.

You may never lose them. If they bother you, look into liposuction.

This is terrible advice and very discouraging. Love handles are difficult to lose because most people do not property train their core. Focus on true core exercises especially those that engage your inner and outer oblique and you'll start to see them go away. Strength training and building lean muscle around your body will help to get rid of those stubborn fat reserves

I don't think that's terrible advice, even if I wouldn't do it. The idea that you can mold your body into any shape you want merely through diet and exercise is inaccurate. I think the OP should keep losing weight and exercising to see if she can get rid of the fat without surgery. But she may not be able to. Some things bug people a lot.

You can mold your body into a certain shape when it comes to losing fat. She isn't talking about making her hip bones more narrow or changing her bodies tendency to hold fat. She needs to change the amount of fat in her body and these reserves will disappear leaving only the muscles to show. This happens at around 15-17% body fat for women. For people to say its impossible or needs surgery they are just leaning on the fat disgusting lazy lifestyle of today's western world and trying to blame genetics for their flaws instead of their lack of ambition and hard work.

People that believe plastic surgery is the answer should not be allowed to post on this site! There is nothing more defeating, than to say to someone, hey you are never going to be able to do it just go see a doctor and cut or have it sucked off!!!!!!

We live in such a superficial world! I promise you that if you start doing a full body tone you will shrink those trouble spots and completely love the skin you’re in and if not then maybe your problem area isn’t the problem, maybe you need to work on self-acceptance and tune out what society considers being normal now!

People that believe plastic surgery is the answer should not be allowed to post on this site! There is nothing more defeating, than to say to someone, hey you are never going to be able to do it just go see a doctor and cut or have it sucked off!!!!!!

No one said that. They said that some people do require plastic surgery to treat certain areas that bother them even after they've lost all unhealthy weight.

... I promise you that if you start doing a full body tone you will shrink those trouble spots and completely love the skin you’re in and if not then maybe your problem area isn’t the problem, maybe you need to work on self-acceptance and tune out what society considers being normal now!

You're contradicting yourself. Self-acceptance is wonderful, but the issue was whether the OP can lose the love handles. What she decides to do is up to her. I've learned not to judge people who try to fix things that really bother them, although I'd never recommend plastic surgery.

Lay on your side and do a crunch.. you might need help at first if your balance is as bad as mine.. =/ Or start out doing leg lifts on your side.. Love handles don't get much of a work out with normal exercise..

I have had those freakin' love handles almost all my life, and i am over fifty.
I have noticed that if I am 20 or more pounds overweight, ..here they come.

I have used a combination of diet, and exercise to rid myself of them:happy: .

The exercises I do are:
Side bends: Hips shoulder width apart, both arms straight out to the side, and then alternate bending to the right and left, 3 reps of 15 to tart and then build up.

Also, do the same exercise, with 5 pound barbells, arms straight don, and do left side 15 reps, then right side 15 reps.
Then, if I want to get jiggy with it, I alternate those too, but it is harder to keep perfect form with the weights.

I think why it works for me, is that I do each of the exercises slowly, in good form. I don't rush those ones.

BTW, my daughter also has them..and she did have LIPOSUCTION..they went away for about 4 months, but when she gained weight they have come home to stay.

Hope this helps, Nicolette

side crunches, any oblique excerises with weights. I know u can't "spot reduce" but those excersises helped me! herers a link that will give u an idea.. www.sixpacknow.com/obliqueexercises.html

^ Great site - thank you for sharing.