Love Handles Diet

Love handles are fat deposits on the lower external oblique abdominal muscles. When you overeat or don’t get enough exercise, it’s down to genetics as to where fat may build up. Men tend to become apple-shaped as fat deposits grow on the chest, stomach, hips and buttocks. Women tend to go pear-shaped as fat deposits grow on stomach, hips, buttocks and thighs. Some women put on weight on their breasts and stomachs only whilst others may gain fat on their hips and buttocks only.

However, these individual areas cannot be targeted for special attention as far as weight loss is concerned, so there is no specific ‘love handles diet’ or ‘hips diet’. Embarking on a diet to reduce total body fat will of course also reduce the size of the love handles.

Targeting that specific area of the body to exercise will not reduce the size of the love handles significantly. Love handles will be reduced by the same proportion as the fat on all other areas of the body.

One pound of fat equals 3500 calories. Reducing your calorie intake by only 100 calories per day means that it will take 35 days to lose 1 pound of pure fat. Exercising for just half an hour can easily use another 100 calories per day. This means that with very little effort, you could lose around 2 pounds of pure fat per month. What are you waiting for? Go for it!