How To Lose Love Handles | Belly Fat | Weight Loss | Nutrition

Love Handles: Do You Really Want To Lose Them? Read This!

There have been countless articles on how to lose belly fat. You can now add this one to the mix as well! Who knows, maybe this one will give you that “AH-HA” moment!

Let me be clear about this and say it as simple as possible…..

You CANNOT spot reduce fat! In other words, if you want to lose your love handles, or your belly fat, doing sit ups and crunches will NOT give you a small midsection!

Let’s face it folks, when you’re getting older and older, this whole “I can do a 2 hour workout at the gym” thing just isn’t as sexy as it was when you were 25 years old.

But, at the same time, you have learned to be more efficient with things in our life at this age as opposed to the younger you, right?

I’m here to tell you we can all be more efficient with this “reduce belly fat” thing as well.

I’ll give you something to think about, we ALL have a six pack in our midsection, but it’s mostly covered up with that unwanted fat.

So the question then is,

“How do I get rid of the fat in the most efficient way possible?”

Let me see if I can explain this in simple terms. (I like to keep things simple)

In order for this to make sense, you may need to change your mindset just a tad. In other words, instead of focusing on doing mid section exercises, focus on total fat body fat loss. Let me explain?

I’m going to outline a thought process that, hopefully, will make sense and could be labeled in the “more efficient” category, like I already mentioned, sound good?

The First Thing Is:

Understanding that your body is ALWAYS burning energy. When your body burns energy, it’s actually burning calories. And, when you burn calories, what does that also mean? You’re burning fat! Even while you’re resting!

Here’s the rub though, the older you get, the less energy your body burns while you’re resting.

Now granted, it isn’t all about age, there are other factors as well. As I’ve stated quite a bit in the past….LIFE HAPPENS! With this comes things like…..stress!

Also, let’s not kid ourselves, we don’t move as much as we did when we were younger. We like our “quiet time” and our “beer time” too, which all comes into play with this energy use thing as well.

I say this because now our metabolism is different than when we were 25 years old, it’s now used to all this Life Happens stuff, so we have to consciously make a change to fool it into using more energy.

To do this leads to…..

The Second Thing:

Figure out how to burn more energy/calories/fat while you sit on the couch.

Oh, here’s a bit of trivia for you:

Every pound of muscle you add to your body, your body uses up to 50 more calories a day while at rest. So, we just need to figure out how to add more muscle to your body is all. Simple, right?

What happens when you add more muscle? You lose more fat……..WHILE YOU’RE RELAXING.

Think about it, how would you like to reduce the fat around your arms, in your legs, maybe in your butt, and AROUND YOUR WAIST? And what happens when that fat reduces and melts away? You lose your love handles AND your muscles start to show more and more!

Remember when you used to show off the “guns”? Well, with this reduction of fat, the “gun show” will come back in town baby!

Think about this for a minute, and I’m showing off that Saint Joseph’s College Mathematics Degree here… if adding one pound of muscle burns and extra 50 calories a day just when sitting around, how much does two pounds of muscle burn? 100 calories!

So, you literally burn an extra 700 calories a week, just when you’re relaxing! Now THAT’S some math I can enjoy!

The Third Thing:

How do you add that 2 lbs of muscle?

Believe it or not, it’s easier than you think. AND, 30 minutes a day, 4–5 times a week is all you’ll need. But I’m talking a good solid 30 minutes of some sort of exercise, not doing one set of something and resting for 5 minutes.

Remember how I talked about that efficiency thing earlier? Well, it REALLY comes into play now.

There has been all kinds of science showing how a good solid 30 minute workout can add muscle to your body just as a 90 minute workout can, but we’ll save that for another time.

The purpose of this writing was to get you thinking in a different way, about how your body works and yes, how you can reduce that belly fat too!

I talk about the “How to be more fit and healthy after age 50” thing in more detail on my YouTube Channel and my website Top Fitness Strategies.

Maybe, just maybe, this “how to lose belly fat” article triggered something you may not have known. If it did, GREAT! If not, at least now you know someone else who wrote about it! And, if you enjoyed my writing, I have links to other articles below!