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So you see a really great looking black dress in your favorite shop. You try it on but the dress bulges out all around your love handles – those ugly bulges of fat at the sides of your waist. Major disappointed, right?

The kicker is that another woman walks over and tries on the very same dress, which to your utter dismay looks absolutely dazzling on her.

And of course, not only is it obvious that having excess fat on your body can make you feel less attractive, but it can also prove to be dangerous as well – even for those who are just a few pounds overweight.

But if you put-off doing something to lose your love handles, you’re in fact moving towards potentially serious health complications. This should be reason enough to make you want to fight against the problem.

And what do you know? There are a couple of answers to how to get rid of love handles.

You should start with some physical exercises such as vigorous walking, dancing, kickboxing, or martial arts. These cardio-vascular exercises get the heart pumping, which is essential for reducing body fat.

As you begin to see some fat loss, you can start some toning exercises to improve the firmness of your torso such as crunches, side bends and sit ups. If done on a continuous basis, you can confidently bid goodbye to those protruding and annoying love handles.

Love handles are essentially the storage of fat in and around the thoracic and the pelvic areas. It is gravity which causes the fat in our bodies to move to these areas where it tends to hang and form bulges.

Sometimes it may be easier to blame your genes, but it’s tougher to admit that more often than not, it is a problem with your general lifestyle. If you’re overeating, you’re increasing those fat cells around your torso, which makes it even more difficult to lose the love handles.

Though a wholesale lifestyle change is the best option, some prefer a faster method – liposuction. This is the surgical withdrawal of excess fat from local areas under the skin (including double breasts in women) by means of a small incision and vacuum suctioning (with the help of a ‘cannula’). Being a rapid and safe process, it appeals to those who can afford it.

But of course, those who get this procedure done often revert back to their former shapes. This is because while surgery may change your outer appearance, it is the person within you who has to find the dedication to maintain what surgery has given you. In other words, when it comes to figuring out how to lose those love handles, there maybe shortcuts available, but there’s really nothing as great as sweating it out and watching the fat disappear naturally!