My Body

How To Get Rid of Love Handles
Nov 1, 2005, 15:47

Being a lazy guy I find it much easier to research getting rid of love handles than actually getting rid of them.

There are lots of ab-thingies that say that you can tighten up the mid section and have rock hard abs, but the predominance of real articles out there put it into two categories, diet and exercise.

These are two things that I’m not particular pleased to be doing but as you get older you notice a little squishing as you bend that wasn’t there before so lets take a lazy man’s look at it.

Diet:
Ok, we’re not going to diet, you know Homer’s axiom. You can’t make friends with salad. So no diet, but there are a few things you can do to try and trick your body into thinking you are dieting.

Drink lots of water
If you’re full you might eat less.

Give up the morning donut
This one is hard but if you give up the AM pastry you’re on you’re way to a fitter you.

Don’t clean your plate
Your mom has had it in for you since birth. “Clean your plate, there are starving people in Africa”. I’m not in Africa, and I don’t know where to send my food, so I had to eat it. If you stop eating when you’re not hungry it’s less to burn off with exercise.

Skip dessert
Self explanatory, but very sad

Exercise:
Just like dieting, we loathe exercise. I have a treadmill, it mocks me daily.

To get rid of the layer of you need to lower your body fat percentage. About 30 minutes of cardio work 3 or 4 times a week would be good. Tennis, Walking, Bicycling even Basketball counts as exercise.

Crunches
Would a few stomach crunches in the morning hurt. Yea, probably but it might help

Walking
It’s not really exercise, and if you get one of the pedometer things (they give them to you with an adult happy meal at McDonalds) then you could almost call it exercise.

Fat Supplements
They have lots of diet pills, one of them might work.