Odds are if you have found this site, you have already tried several of the “Miracle Diets” that promise you will lose weight with NO work or diet involved… well, you probably found out how untrue that is!

I would also be willing to bet that you have tried TONS of different Love Handle Exercises on your journey to lose love handles… and also found that they are not always the answer either.

It really is hard to find out the truth about how to lose love handles. The reason for this is that the weight loss industry has become one of the biggest industries in the world! These people that are making billions upon billions are lining their pockets while selling information and products that will keep people with those love handles.

It is NOT YOUR FAULT!!! How can you be expected to lose love handles when the ones you are taught to trust and listen to are the ones that are actually mis-informing you? They don’t want you to know the correct love handle exercises… they don’t want you to know the correct nutrition… they want to keep you completely in the dark.

Out of all of this madness has come one person that is taking matters into his own hands to spread the truth about love handle exercises and getting fit.

Ever since the release of his program, he has had the “big shots” of the weight loss industry gunning for him and trying to get his system pulled!

If you want to learn the truth about love handle exercises and get rid of love handles once and for all, then check this out before it is too late!! (If it won’t load, it might already be too late)

Who Gets Love Handles?

Got a spare tire? Wearing a donut? A man’s love handles will sometimes, in pronounced cases, make him look as though he has a tire or donut-shaped floatation device stashed underneath his t-shirt. More than likely, he’ll be wearing an oversized shirt, hoping to hide the rubber-‘round-the-middle problem but everyone knows it’s there.

Unless you’re on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, you won’t see a woman with love handles sporting a bikini or ultra low-waisted pants. Love handles are much more common in men due to the fact that men’s bodies store fat around the midsection as they get older. Women also have problems with love handles, although, most women store excess fat or lingering weight gain around the thighs and buttocks.

Whether you’re a man or a woman, the problem with love handles is the same for both genders. Getting rid of them! These pesky rolls of fat that hang on for the long haul around your midsection are the kind of love that just keeps on giving. You can try all the “lose your love handles” exercises on a 7-minute ab burning workout DVD, seven times every week and still you will see that spare tire hanging on for dear life.

The key to losing your love handles lies in the perfect combination of a healthy diet with low caloric intake, exercising your abdominal region with all varieties of crunches and old-fashioned cardiovascular workouts.

So, you say you’ve been doing seven thousand sit-ups per week and you still have fat melting off the side of your body, hanging over your favorite jeans? That’s because you’re still having double desserts or you haven’t even looked at the treadmill since you began your abdominal assault.

Cardiovascular exercise is the only way to lose the fat from your abdomen that hangs on as a love handle. Because love handles are pure fat, the abdominal muscles you are building from all your ab workouts will be hidden under these handles of love until you burn them off by raising your heart rate, getting the body moving and kicking some cardio booty in the gym.

What are love handles?

“I like a little something to hold on to, so why don’t you grab onto my love handles and we’ll take a ride?”

No, he’s not talking about his Harley.

If comments like these make you grab on to your waist and pinch the fat that’s hanging over your jeans, you might be familiar with the term “love handles”. Love handles don’t have much to do with love but it sure is a sweet way to refer to the fat covering our out-of-shape external oblique muscles of the abdomen.

Love handles hang off the male physique more often than women’s bodies because more fat is stored in the midsection in men. Women’s bodies store fat a bit lower to the ground in the areas commonly referred to as “thunder thighs” or “junk in the trunk”. We all know that the aging process slows everything down and as we reach our salad days, the body’s processes begin to crawl at a leisurely pace.

Our bodies also digest food slower, creating energy at a much more relaxed rate, which encourages weight gain and fat, and love handles in particular, to accumulate and become more pronounced as we reach our twilight years.

Love handles, despite their name, do not inspire much deep affection from their host bodies’ egos but they do inspire passion to see them disappear. Many men and women who are genetic victims of love handles become obsessed with them, leading to a negative body image and a lifetime of worrying about their love handles hanging in the breeze. Of course, the best way to rid oneself of the pesky flab around one’s waist is through regular exercise and a healthy diet, lowering your caloric intake and making sure to get your love handles on the treadmill at least 3-5 times a week.

Plastic surgery or liposuction is a permanent way to eliminate the stubborn love struck fat from the body’s midsection and provides new meaning to the idea of being a “sucker for love”.

Maybe they are called love handles because they love to stick around and hang on tight, almost like they are in love with you!

Ways to get rid of love handles

“Hey, buddy, I got a flat, would you mind if I borrowed your spare tire?” If reading this joke makes you think of your own guts hanging out over the edges of your pants, maybe it’s time you paid a little attention to your constitution and made a choice to crunch the competition. In this case, the enemies are your love handles, those stubborn handfuls of fat that hang around above your hips, and they are in need of an old-fashioned beat-down.

Other loving terms for the opponent are potbelly, beer belly, donut, paunch and “hey, fatso”. You want to get to work and get yourself back in shape, don’t you?

4 ways to get rid of your love handles

1. CHANGE YOUR WAYS: The starvation diet is only making you resemble a skeleton with a life preserver and the high-sugar, fast food cuisine you ingest on a daily basis has given you the look of a potbellied pig in winter. Learn the Food Pyramid. Eat whole grains. Eat lots of protein and cut down on the carbohydrates (look it up). Limit dairy products. Do some homework and find out how to eat right.

2. CRUNCH TIME: Work those abs. It’s true that you may already have rock-hard, six-pack abs but we just can’t see them. Why is that? Because they are hidden behind the beer belly, that’s right! Drop and give me 20. Push ups, pull-ups, strength training and, yes, thousands of sit-ups will lead you to your ideal Mr. Universe stomach.

3. DA-DOO.-RUN-RUN: Get thee to the track! Cardiovascular training burns fat and burning fat is the only way to lose your love handles. Running, swimming, treadmilling, elliptical-ling and any activity that gets you sweating and short of breath (and, no those 20 minutes don’t really count).

4. OPEN UP AND SAY “AH”: Drink your water. I know, you hate it. “It doesn’t taste like anything”. Yeah, yeah. Just drink up. 8 glasses a day, every day. The more you drink, the more you want to drink. Think of water as the new crack and you’ll be on the right track.

As the “Dating Game” turns into the “Aging Game”, many women opt for plastic surgery to fix problem areas of the body where fat deposits linger and no amount of exercise or vegan, non-dairy, high-protein diet can destroy them. More and more men are following in women’s shoes to find themselves on the surgeon’s operating table, looking to recapture the body of their lost youth.

The most popular cosmetic surgery for men is tumescent liposuction for the love handles, followed by gynecomastia (the surgical removal of fat deposits in male breasts). Women, no strangers to plastic surgery or going to great lengths to preserve their beauty, commonly go under the doctor’s knife for far smaller problems and have been trimming and tucking their tummies for decades, the old-fashioned way, with liposuction.

Liposuction and ‘body sculpting’ are booming business and have become a standard part of aging, culture and class as evident by the popular TV show “Nip/Tuck” and many men and women set out to buy the body of their dreams. Body sculpting contours the body into a “more desirable shape” by conventional standards and many men and women invest big bucks to reshape their bodies and eliminate the fat from their abdomen, thighs, buttocks, hips, ankles, knees, love handles, arms and facial jowls.

Many people opt for cosmetic surgery or liposuction when they have worked very hard on their bodies and stubborn, unwanted fat remains in troublesome areas. Love handles, the unsightly fat that hangs above men’s hips and forms a spare tire, and on women, can roll over the jeans, may be hereditary. This means that no amount of exercise or strict dieting will ever completely eliminate the genetic trait. Since this is the case for many, and love handles are notoriously difficult to exercise off even when not DNA coded, fitness freaks and gym heads are making a special trip to the local plastic surgeon to get their love handles sucked out.

These days, it seems like everybody’s trying to get a handle on his or her love handles and is willing to go under the vacuum for ideal, cosmetic beauty.

Liposuction for love handles

As your body matures, the systems in the body begin to slow down through poor diet, lack of exercise or the natural aging process. The contours of the physique may begin to change and a man may notice he now has more flabby flesh in his midsection than in previous years. These pockets of fat hanging onto the side of the torso are affectionately known as “love handles” and they are notorious for sticking around for the long haul.

Like the girlfriend who wouldn’t leave you no matter how badly you treated her, these babies may exhibit the same patience and tenacity, never leaving your frame no matter how much you diet or exercise. Love handles are, by and large, genetic. If your grandfather sported a spare tire in his later years, chances are they are riding in the genes and you may inherit them too. If you spend countless hours at the gym working out and your six-pack is still covered by a beer belly, you may be S.O.L. as far as eliminating your love handles.

Many men are obsessed with having a perfect physique, a rock hard stomach and are determined to kick their love handles to the curb. For these men, plastic surgery is the chosen method used to annihilate their enemy, the love handles. Liposuction for the love handles is the most popular plastic surgery procedure in men, followed only by gynecomastia (reduction of “man-boobs”). These surgeries are often performed in tandem, as many men also gain unwanted fat deposits in their breasts. Liposuction for love handles is a relatively safe procedure and, as long as the patient does not gain a significant amount of weight after the surgery, the results should be permanent.

Tumescent liposuction, a process whereby a long tube is stuck through the body, breaking up the fat and then sucking it out of the abdomen, does not offer much in the way of actual weight loss but improves upon the body’s contouring. Liposuction is very precise and general anesthesia for simple procedures like the removal of love handles has been replaced by safer local methods of anesthetizing. The recovery time for the surgery is generally short, with the patient being able to walk the same day and recovering fully within a few months.

Have you been carrying around your spare tire for ages, only to see it grow from a spare to a Perelli super deluxe all-weather belt radial? Your high-performance machine could probably use a transmission overhaul if this is sounding familiar to you. Your love handles, the flabby area that hangs at your waist, is the most common area where men gain weight as they reach middle age. Love handles are notoriously stubborn and like to hang in there for the long haul. What can you do about it?

Maintaining a fit body is a combination of proper diet, exercise, getting plenty of sleep, drinking lots of water and living a healthy lifestyle. I am sure it’s no surprise to you, as you sit there hunched over at your computer eating a bag of Doritos and sipping on a Coke, that most of the population is lacking on complete total body fitness. Sedentary lifestyles and lack of exercise can wreak havoc on our bodies and mental state. If you want to change the tire, you have to first unscrew the lug nuts and that means disassembling your poor eating habits and popcorn bowl-to-mouth exercise regime and starting to build a program of good health.

Good health starts with good nutrition and eating right. Combining a healthy diet with exercise will take you on the road to physical fitness and working out your love handles will be a side effect of better overall health.

A program of intense cardiovascular exercise such as running, swimming, biking or any activity that gets the heart racing and burning fat will get you in good shape.

In addition to cardio training five times a week, you should work out the abdominal muscles with a daily series of crunches and oblique exercises. Spot training the abdominals alone won’t rid the body of unsightly, bulging love handles but it will strengthen the underlying muscle to tighten up the stomach once the fat is burned off.

So you have six-pack abs and a killer body but a little extra fat hanging from your middle? Don’t sweat it, you’re probably the only one who knows. While everyone else is appreciating your muscle tone and you’re thinking about your love handles, remember that some people like “more cushion for the pushin’”.

Ah, Spring. The season of rebirth arrives, bringing with it blooming flowers, budding trees and young lovers catching ‘spring fever’. The long cold winter melts away with every new blossom. Birds are singing and the daytime temperature warms the soul away from the memories of the frozen cold. ‘Tis the season of newness, joy and thinking about how many times you can go to the gym and work off your love handles before you bare your bikinied bottom for the world during your summer vacation on the French Riviera.

Love handles are a cross-cultural problem and the French refer to the lovely roll of fat that hangs around the midsection as poignées d’amour. The passionate endearment for the fleshy, unappealing life preserver that encircles the bodies of many men in their later years is not limited only to the romantic hommes de la France. Amorous neighboring Italians also lovingly refer to their gastronomic excess baggage as maniglie dell’amore, perhaps owing the term to their fondness for Vespa cruising and prowess for lovemaking.

Americans and British alike use the term “love handles” to describe the unsightly flesh that builds up around the abdomen for both men and women. The term ‘handle’ connotes ‘something to hold on to’ and the term ‘love’ implies ‘making some’ while using the blubber to balance one’s body during the physical act of passionate exchange.

The Germans, who know their brew and are more akin to our Fraternity brothers and fans of the summertime sausage, refer to love handles as der Bierbauch or, the beer belly. The Teutons were also famous for naming the post-birth roundness of a mother’s tummy as Baby Speck or, baby bacon. While the Germans love their beer and swine, the French have a long-standing love affair with pastries and thus, demonstratively dub the grand estomac after brioche.

Car trouble is as ubiquitous as love handles to the British and Americans who designate the donut shaped fat storage around the midriff as a ‘spare tire’ (or tyre in the case of the English). The French use the shortened ‘tire’ and the Spanish speak of the euphemistic ‘Michelin’.

Love handles, the excess fat that lingers above the hips in men and around the waist in women, are infamous for sticking around for the long haul. Getting rid of the ‘spare tire’ through exercise means getting in the habit of exercising your abdominals on a daily basis.

Performing a series of intense crunches will strengthen the muscles in your abdomen. This, in conjunction with aerobic workouts to burn fat 5 times a week will get you on the road to total physical and mental health. Spot training the love handles away is not possible but a conscientious regimen of good diet and exercise will get your body in the best shape it can be.

1. Leg Flutters- It’s important to strengthen the back while toning your abdominal muscles. Strengthening the back will create a balanced torso to reduce the flab in your love handle area.

    * lie on your stomach while slightly lifting your head.

    * Hold your arms straight alongside your body in front of you like Superman.

    * Lift feet and knees off the floor while rapidly fluttering your legs back and forth.

    * Perform this exercise for 20 seconds, break for 20 seconds and repeat for 2-5 reps.

2. Twist Crunches- Working your internal and external obliques and the rectus abdominis (the side muscles of your abdomen) will strengthen the muscles where the love handle fat collects.

    * Lie flat on the back with knees bent.

    * Support your head and neck with your hands without locking fingers together.

    * Bring your right elbow to your left knee while twisting and extend the right leg.

    * Perform 20 twist crunches on the left side and 20 on the right side. Repeat, with breaks, for 3 sets.

3. Standing Trunk Twists- this exercise has the added effect of being aerobic. This will increase your heart rate and burn fat around the love handles area.

    * Stand upright with feet hip width apart and soft knees.

    * While keeping your hips and legs stable, twist the torso to the left while crossing the right arm in front of the body with a punching movement. Repeat the same movement on the right side.

    * Perform this exercise for 100 reps with no breaks. Repeat.

Did life kick you in the rear this morning when you tried to put on your favorite jeans and they no longer fit? Were your love handles bulging out over your low-rider denim? Are you starting to think you might have to stop wearing cut-off t-shirts and 4-button, low-waisted pants this season?

When summer comes, you know you want to show off your fine body walking down the street or at the beach. So you lounged around all winter long and accumulated ice cream fat that went straight to your saddle bags. Get yourself in shape long before anybody asks is you’re pregnant.

4 Ways to get rid of love handles

1. Bend and Stretch: Exercise.

Do some Yoga. Get all spiritual with it and prey to the guru of love handles to eliminate the fat deposits on your midsection. Combine stretching and bending with some serious crunches. Performing a daily series of abdominal exercises to work out all muscle areas will tone your midriff into fine form.

2. Eat right.

Put down the cookies, cake and French fries and pick up carrots, proteins and fruit juices. A balanced diet with complete nutrition is optimal for burning fat. You can’t burn fat if you don’t burn more calories than you eat. The secret is to find the right balance for your body.

3. Work it out!

Learn to love the gym and go for hard-core cardio workouts. Get yourself on the treadmill 5 times a week for an hour at a time. Burn the fat. If stationary running isn’t your scene, any cardio activity such as biking, swimming or playing any sport that gets you hot, sweaty and your pulse racing (no, that doesn’t count as a sport) will do the trick.

4. Aqua.

Water, the life giving fluid. Everyone knows our bodies are 90% water and it only makes sense to replenish it on a daily basis. Drinking 8 glasses or one gallon of water per day will help to balance the body, flush out the system and promote general good health. You’ll have nicer skin, too!