Get Rid of Love Handles

Similar to a beer belly are the love handles which appear on the sides of your midsection, caused by an over-excess of food and alcohol. Again, similar to the beer belly article, these parts of your body can be easily flattened using three main techniques.

These techniques are the following..

1. Having a Healthy Diet

2. Cardiovascular Exercise

3. Physical Tummy Exercises

We will now go into more detail on how to use these techniques to rid yourself of your love handles.

Have a healthy diet

It is well known that introducing a healthy diet into your lifestyle is the first thing you should consider when planning to lose weight on any area of your body. If you eat healthy you will reduce your stomach fat and in due time reap the rewards.

To get the flat belly you have always wanted, then we recommend the following..

• Drink plenty of water(at least three litres)
• Eat your five a day of veg or fruit
• You want to cut back on fatty foods such as cheese and anything with high carbs
• Also limit the amount of sugar foods you intake such as biscuits and sweets
• And not forgetting to introduce our MUFA's into your diet!

When considering a diet, it is imperative that you maintain a balanced diet. Fad diets do lose you the weight, but you need all vital nutrients in order to get the flat belly you crave. It may be the slower option, but you will get results if you persist.

Cardio Exercise will burn the fat off!

Using a healthy diet is great for losing weight but sometimes it is not enough. Mixing a combination of cardiovascular exercise with a well balanced diet will assist you in losing more weight, at a quicker pace too.

The problem with your love handles is that it's normally the last area of fat in your body that is burnt off when exercising. Therefore you need to work out a fitness program that you are going to stick to. A cardio program is the main way to burn calories as the exercises make you produce sweat, which in turn burns off your fat deposits.

Some of the exercises you can do include going to the gym and using the cardio equipment such as the cross trainer, rower, bike etc. Other exercises are more sport related and still burn your calories in a similar fashion like football, swimming (very good for all over your body), tennis etc.

When you start to lose, tone up!

When you start to see your stomach looking a little trimmer, then you can start to include stomach exercises into your fitness regime. The reason we advise you to lose weight first is because these exercises are designed mainly to tone your body up, rather than burn excess calories off.

We now insist you view our top ten tummy exercises tips on toning your body up.

Now that you know how to lose the weight, along with the handles, get out there and get exercising. Good Luck!