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.

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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.

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Plastic surgery for love handles

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.

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