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Old 07-12-2008, 12:02 PM   #1  
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Question Silly Love Handles

I swear I could do just about every exercise out there and don't know how to rid those silly 'ole love handles. So, I ask... what is it that you all do to rid or deplete those love handle probs. ??? Should I twist and turn all day long... I can picture myself walking and twisitng and turning, eating and twisting and turning, sleeping and... twisting and turning ACK!
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Old 07-12-2008, 12:12 PM   #2  
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I don't think you can "spot reduce". Staying OP and exercising your core are the best thing you can do. Keep at it - it seems like the areas we want to go away the worst are always the last ones to go
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Counting is right. Sorry to burst your bubble but the only way to reduce them is to reduce your body fat overall. Also I have heard that you should not work those muscles too much. If you have lots of fat on them building muscle is just going to make the illusion that they are bigger. Good luck. It will happen in time
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i have the same problem. usually when i lose body fat overall they go away. right now i'm 122. they usually disappear at 115. that's what i'm working at now. good luck.
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Thanks for the replies. I did know that my twisting and turning bit wouldn't actually work. Hehehe... But like mentioned it is the part I want gone the most and will be the last I am sure. I don't have HUGE LH's, but just enough so to bother me. I was a Skinny Minny all my life, but having my two kiddos back to back didn't help that at all. I love ab workouts, and do my fare share, but also don't over do it either... Just hoping that one day I wake up and they've decided to slip off themselves during the night- one can hope can't they!?!?!
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It took getting down to my lowest weight to get rid of my love handles.
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Old 07-16-2008, 01:59 PM   #7  
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A personal trainer I once had said that your body lets go of fat in places it doesn't really need it first... like shoulders, chest, fingers, etc. Basically the outer extremities of your body. It holds onto fat in the stomach as best it can because that's where it will get its emergency energy supply from, say if we get caught in a snowstorm and can't eat for days...

I like to think of it that way, like, my body is holding on to fat for dear life and then slowly surrenders it when it has no other choice... our bodies are our friends and the things they do is meant to help us survive... love handles are annoying but like everyone else said, with weight loss they will eventually minimize.
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Its impossible to spot reduce. However... I do Ab boot camp and that has helped firm things up a bit.
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A personal trainer I once had said that your body lets go of fat in places it doesn't really need it first... like shoulders, chest, fingers, etc. Basically the outer extremities of your body. It holds onto fat in the stomach as best it can because that's where it will get its emergency energy supply from, say if we get caught in a snowstorm and can't eat for days...

I like to think of it that way, like, my body is holding on to fat for dear life and then slowly surrenders it when it has no other choice... our bodies are our friends and the things they do is meant to help us survive... love handles are annoying but like everyone else said, with weight loss they will eventually minimize.
Great way of explaining it. Thanks.
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no problem!
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