You hear a lot about them and many people dread getting them. But what are they? What can you do about them? Are you forever doomed to have extra fat hanging off your sides? So let's talk about love handles. Stomach fat not only will cover the front of your belly, but it will also hang off the sides and that is what love handles are. You need to decrease the fat amount your stomach has in order to reduce their appearance.

What are Love Handles?

Love handles, despite their name, do not inspire much deep affection from people but they do inspire passion to see them disappear. Their technical name is 'obliques'. It's the area around the sides of the stomach that make it spring out sideways and make your shape disproportionate. This is a result of excess fat that no longer hangs off the front, it gets pushed to the sides and causes your stomach fat to expand outward.

Learn about what you need to do to Lose Stomach Fat.

Can Exercises Help You Reduce Love Handles?

While you can't spot tone them to reduce their fat, toning up your middle muscles will definitely give them a tighter, flatter, firmer appearance. You can exercise all you want, but it will not by itself help you to lose that excess fat that is around your stomach. You need to lose that weight and get to a point where your stomach is flat.

How to Lose Your Love Handles

Love handles are a result of extra stomach fat that has nowhere else to go but sideways. So you need to reduce the amount of stomach fat that hangs off the sides of your body. And eeight loss is a key part of getting a flat stomach. You need to reduce your body fat to a level that is acceptable to you.

Want to get an idea of what your body weight goal should be? Check out the Ideal Body Weight Chart.

Final Thoughts

Love handles are an annoyance in life and you could spend a lot of time worrying about them, trying to conceal them, and trying to lose them. It doesn't have to be an impossible hill to climb, you just need to follow the process that is layed out on this site. The path is layed out for you, now you just need to the commitment and follow through to complete your goal.