Lose Love Handles Fast – Can it Be Done?
It would be easy to underestimate the seriousness of excess fat around the waist, the term love handles and spare tire are commonly used, and someone accused of having a spare tire may even feel somewhat pleased as it is something people think of as an indicator of good living.
The reality is somewhat different however, talk to any health professional and they will tell you very clearly that carrying extra weight around the waist can quite dramatically increase health problems in later life and may even leave you running the risk of early death.
There is considerable research in the public domain that will confirm the link between waist fat and other health problems. In November 2008 the BBC reported on a study of almost 360,000 people from nine European countries that showed that each extra 2 inches (5 cm) of fat around your middle raised the chance of early death by between 13% 17%.
The research further established that even people with a normal BMI (Body Mass Index) could still have a larger than average waist. Some researchers also believe that abdominal fat is different from other fat reserves around the body and could have a direct influence on the development of disease within the body.
There should be no doubt in anybody’s mind therefore that excess fat around the middle is something to be avoided.
There are really only two things that can make a significant difference to the amount of weight we carry, firstly exercise, some sort of cardiovascular and strength exercising is essential. many of us are forced into lifestyles that leave us little time and opportunity for any sort of exercise, we sit at desks, we sit in cars, we sit on sofas and we lead very sedentary lifestyles.
The starting point for exercise has to be cardiovascular as this has the greatest effect on your metabolic rate and therefore the greatest effect on burning calories. Although easy to do, even pleasurable, cardiovascular exercise does take time whether you choose jogging, cycling or swimming they should all be done four or five times a week for at least 30 minutes at an intensity high enough to keep your heart rate in the aerobic zone.
Frankly there is little point in carrying out targeted exercises for the waist if there is no cardiovascular exercise in the mix. Although targeted exercises such as side planks, side bends and torso twists will help remove fat they are predominantly strength exercises and of greater benefit once the fat has been removed.
Love handles are simply excess fat around the middle and a clear indicator of an imbalance in the body. The solution is simple we need to make sure that we consume fewer calories than we use. It’s no secret that the most calories come from excessively fatty foods and carbohydrates and that the total quantity of food consumed should also be considered.
Alcohol is also another big culprit, not only is it fattening but excessive alcohol consumption is very likely to end up creating fat around the waist hence the term’ beer belly’.
Having discussed the importance of exercise it is necessary to apply the same logic to diet, it is pointless to rely on diet alone to remove love handles. Despite all the new fad diets available there is a simple underlying truth, any form of starvation diet may well be very effective if it can be continued and whilst it is continued however as soon as it stops the body will overreact and immediately start storing additional fat from the extra food that it has been craving so long.
The only way that love handles can be effectively eliminated is to use a combination of all of the above, cardiovascular exercise, targeted exercise and a sensible balanced diet. Getting information on suitable exercises is easy there is a wealth of videos and instructional content freely available on the Internet. Sensible information about diet is harder to come by but is available for those prepared to filter out the dross.
My intention in this article was to try and establish if it was possible to lose love handles fast.As I hope the information above clearly shows there are a number of things that can be done to eliminate unwanted excess waste fat but no single one of these things will be successful in isolation.
If however the right combination of exercise and diet is put together there is no doubt that good results will be obtained quickly. At the end of the day however, as with many things, success will ultimately be dictated by the willpower of the individual concerned.
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