Learning how to lose your love handles is an age-old problem that has had men baffled since they knew they wanted to look great shirtless.
When you look at yourself in the mirror every morning and see those two bulges on either side of your hips, it embarasses and has you thinking about skipping your meals or fasting and doing thousands of crunches, right?
Well, it’s good that you’re thinking of alternatives of how to get rid of them, but starvation and crunches are not the solution to the problem.
In this article, I’m going to disclose the best 4 secrets of how to lose your love handles.
The best part is, if you follow the secrets and stick to them, you can use them for longer life.
1. KEEP YOUR NUTRITION IN CHECK
Healthy food (avocado)
When it comes to getting rid of your love handles, proper nutrition is going to be a key component of your plan.
Many guys who want to lose their love handles will think about going on ‘a diet’, which usually involves cutting carbs or only eating fruits and salads.
These approaches are very much practised, but merely work for the long-term goals. They’re quick fixes that eventually lead to falling off the diet, and oftentimes gaining more weight back than before.
Basically no matter how much exercise you do, if you’re not eating healthily, you’re wasting your time and effort !
If your eating habits are poor, you’re not going to be able to reduce those inches near your belly.
Essentially, there are two elements to healthy eating. The first is to eat a balanced diet; the second is to intake fewer calories than your body needs.
To manage these two things effortlessly, start by auditing your meals.
The balanced meal plate is a ½ plate of vegetables, ¼ plate of protein, and ¼ plate carbohydrates.
This is enough basic nutrition advice to improve your nutrition and is very simple to put into practice.
2. DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A SOUND SLEEP
We know as a busy Father or an employee of an organisation it’s not always simple to get a good amount of sleep each night, but it is essential for your well-being AND your efforts to lose your love handles.
In order for your body to balance hormone levels and rebuild muscles especially oblique muscles in your case, it’s recommended that you get a minimum of 7 hours sleep each night.
When you sleep, there are a certain different hormones that get affected, that can directly influence your ability to lose belly fat and your love handles.
Cortisol is your stress hormone. Higher levels of cortisol have been shown to store stubborn fat around your midsection, which is what leads to the development of love handles.
Action step: Set your bedtime today, at least 7 hours before you need to be up.
3. REGULAR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY & FORMAL EXERCISE
Once you’re eating right, you’re ready to start moving more.
Physical activity is as simple as walking for 30 minutes, swimming, playing golf or even digging in the garden.
The point here is that you need to commit 30 minutes every day to moving around.
You will start to feel the benefit in your body but, more importantly, you’ll be developing a habit. This will allow you to commit time to formal exercise when you are ready.
By developing a habit you’ll have passed the major hurdle to exercising regularly… finding the time.
Start today by booking a half hour slot in your day to simply move around.
Once you have the habit of taking regular physical activity, the next step is to upgrade your physical activity to formal exercise.
Formal exercise means a particular workout plan or more intense session of physical activity or sport.
You can challenge yourself to a more intense cycle ride, start visiting the gym or even take a look at our free 24-minute fat burning workout.
Continue your 30-minute slot, but undertake exercise which incorporates both cardio and resistance training.
This type of training is known as Metabolic Resistance Training, or MRT.
We certainly didn’t invent this type of training, but we are big advocates for it and it’s what our 24-minute fat burning workout is based on.
Getting into a formal exercise plan will burn more calories, so mixed with your healthy eating plan will increase the amount of fat you’re getting rid of.
