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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Etymology of the term ‘love handles’

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.

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