Chances are, if you are reading this article, you have been working hard to achieve your ideal weight. Either you have been actively attending the gym, or you have been working out at home. As a result, you are probably starting to see some muscle come in within your stomach area, arms, and thighs. However, some lingering fat in your waist area doesn’t seem to budge no matter how many stretches, sit-ups, cardio, jumping jacks, or other fat-burning techniques you try.
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If you have made it this far, congratulations! Losing weight is not an easy feat. Now, you must tone and sculpt your body to get the solid midsection you desire. This last step in the process is one of the hardest. However, it is possible. So, just how do you get rid of love handles that are wreaking havoc on your perfect physique? Read on to learn more about decreasing stubborn fat in these areas.
What Are Love Handles?
Before diving into techniques for dealing with this tricky body area, it’s a good idea to know what it is. Even though they are called love handles, you may not “love” how they look on your body. Love handles are flabby pockets of fat that tend to hang out around your sides, usually located around the waistline. When you want the perfect body, this fat can be pretty annoying. Whether you are a man or a woman, you want this area to be perfectly contoured. However, love handles don’t allow you to have that perfect body you seek and won’t let your clothes fit perfectly. The older you get, the more likely there will be plenty of fat build-up in this area. However, if you are still relatively young but have gained weight, this is also an area where fat tends to stick in the form of excess triglycerides.
Typical Ways to Get Rid of Love Handles
How exactly do you get rid of this unsightly fat? There are two approaches. One is to watch the types of food that you put into your body. The other is to perform exercises to get rid of love handles.
Food Intake
If you want to reduce fat in these areas, you will have to commit to either reducing or increasing certain foods or liquids into your diet. One beneficial way to reduce fat in this area is to increase your fiber intake. You can get fiber from beans, nuts, vegetables, and fruit. However, you can also get fiber by taking supplements. Another essential thing to add to your diet is plenty of protein. This helps minimize the fat build-up by making you feel fuller so that you are less likely to snack throughout the day.
You may hear that you need to cut out carbs, but this advice is partially true. While it is good to reduce refined carbs such as white bread and pasta, complex carbs like sweet potatoes, beans, and brown rice can help minimize body fat. One more important thing is to watch your liquid intake. It is an excellent idea to reduce alcohol and sugary drink intake. These drinks tend to stick to the mid-section because it has plenty of added calories and sugar. Upon minimizing or removing these drinks from your diet, it’s a good idea to load up on water. Drinking more water keeps you hydrated without stacking on pounds from sugars contained in alcohol, sodas, and juices.
Exercises
In addition, working out can also help you get rid of love handles. Weight training and cardio, in general, can help reduce fat in those areas, especially if they are high-intensity interval training, which is short but very intense exercises. More specifically, you can include the following common exercises to get the results you seek:
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- Planking
This involves a floor exercise where you lie down flat on your stomach and gently push yourself up onto your elbows. It is followed by holding this position for a few seconds.
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- Abdominal Scissors
For this exercise, you will lie on your back, slightly raise your glutes, and put your hands underneath for support. This is followed by kicking one foot and then the other. You can do small kicks at about 45-degree angles from the floor or full 90-degree angle kicks.
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- Russian Twists
This exercise involves laying on your back. The upper body is slightly off the floor at about a 45-degree angle, while the legs can also be held upward at a somewhat lower angle or bent. You will twist from right to left in a series of reps which will affect the mid-section area.
How Coolsculpting Can Target Love Handle Fat and Eliminate It
Sometimes the previously mentioned techniques won’t work. You may be rigorously exercising and minimizing foods that build up such fat in this area. However, this fat just doesn’t seem to go away. If you are having trouble with fat in this area, it’s good to know that one more fantastic alternative can get you the body that you seek. It is a procedure called Coolsculpting.
Coolsculpting is the brand name for a procedure known as cryolipolysis, essentially freezing fat off the body. A specialized applicator is used to freeze fat, particularly where the love handles develop around the waist. In an hour or less, the non-invasive procedure is complete. After getting the procedure, you can expect to see results in the area in one to three months.
Trying to get rid of stubborn fat can be frustrating. Luckily, there are several ways to eliminate it, including the Coolsculpting procedure. If you are not getting the results you want with your love handles, call our body spa today to learn more about how we can help you get rid of them.
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