How to Rid Love Handles Fast

Trying to lose love handles can be tough. The rest of your body may slim down nicely, but those pockets of unsightly love handle fat clinging to your sides seem impervious to diet and exercise. But you can win the love handle battle and create a tight, symmetrical mid-section. Read on for tips on how to rid love handles fast!

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Effort
• Diet Plan
• Exercise Plan
• Willpower

1. START RUNNING
   
   Running is one of the best calorie-burning forms of exercise and is a great cardiovascular form of exercise for helping to rid love handles fast. Burning a lot of calories through exercise will help you lose body fat -- including your pockets of love handle fat.

2. START STAIR-CLIMBING
   
   A close second to running in the calorie-burning department, stair-climbing, or stair-stepping, is a great tool for helping to rid love handles fast. Whether you use the stair-stepper machine at the gym, or run up and down flights of stairs, doing regular stair-stepping routines will help you tone your midsection and lose your love handle flab!

3. FORGET SIDE BENDS OR TWISTS
   
   When trying to rid love handles fast, forget about doing side bends, side twists, or even crunches. While these exercises are great for toning, they do nothing to help you lose abdominal and love handle fat. All of your physical efforts should be geared towards performing cardiovascular exercises that burn a lot of calories!

4. SLASH YOUR CALORIC INTAKE
   
   You must drastically reduce your caloric intake in order to rid love handles fast. The best way to do this is to simply replace high-fat, high-sugar, overly-processed foods with low-fat, low-sugar foods, minimally-processed foods. To speed up weight-loss and love handle fat loss, eat foods that are fresh and natural: veggies, fruits, whole grains, and lean meat and dairy.

5. DO CIRCUIT WEIGHT-TRAINING
   
   2-3 times per week, do an intense weight-training circuit workout to help rid love handles fast. This means do a series of weight-lifting exercises with little to no rest between each exercise. For example, do a set of bench presses, and then immediately do a set of squats, and then do a set of curls. This is a great way to burn a lot of calories and lose love handles fast.

6. DO FASTING CARDIO
   
   To increase fat loss during your cardio workouts, and to help rid love handles fast, aim to do most of your cardiovascular exercises in a fasted state, when blood sugar levels are low. Doing this enables your body to burn more fat, as opposed to carbohydrate (sugar), during a cardiovascular workout. First thing in the morning or several hours after your last meal -- these are great times to do fasted cardio to increase fat loss!

Tips & Warnings

• Diet is very important. Eat as clean and as healthy as possible.
• Fill up on low-calories, bulky foods
• eliminate beer, soda, fruit juice, etc. Get your calories from food -- not liquid.
• Exercise hard -- the harder you workout and sweat, the better!

Resources

• How to burn more calories weight-lifting