How to lose love handles and get rid of them the natural way. A pro bodybuilder reveals his secrets

1. Eat about 15-20% below your calorie maintenance level. If you use a more aggressive calorie deficit of 25-30%, then do not keep calories too low for too long; increase calories to maintenance or maintenance +10-15% 1-2 days per week.
2. Spread your calories into 5-6 smaller meals instead of 2-3 big ones. Be very conscious of portion size. If you eat too much of anything (even "healthy" food), you can say goodbye to losing your love handles. Period.
3. Eat a source of complete, high quality lean protein with each meal (egg whites, lean meat, fish, protein powder, etc)
4. Choose natural, complex carbs such as vegetables, oatmeal, yams, potatoes, beans, brown rice and whole grains. Start with aprox. 50% of your calories from natural carbs and reduce carbs slightly (esp. late in the day) if you are not losing fat.
5. Avoid refined, simple carbs that contain white flour or white sugar.
6. Keep total fats low and saturated fats low. Aim for 20% of your total calories from fat (and no more than 30%). A little bit of "good fat" like flax oil, fish fat, nuts & seeds, etc. is better than a no fat diet. Essential fatty acids actually assist in the fat burning process.
7. Drink plenty of water - a gallon is a good ballpark to shoot for if you are physically active.

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Did you know that even if you did 1000 crunches every day it may not help you get rid of your love handles? I’m not telling you this to scare you! On the contrary, you need to know the TRUTH about abdominal training and the bodyfat surrounding your midsection. This may sound counter-intuitive, but if you have love handles, it's not an issue of “muscle development” at all. You simply have too much body fat in that area. The love handles are an area that happens to be the one place that most people - especially men - store their body fat first.

This helps to explain why ab exercises have little impact on getting rid of love handles. It's a huge mistake to think that hundreds or thousands of reps of ab exercises will remove your love handles, except to the degree that it burns calories and contributes to the calorie deficit. What removes the love handles fat - and all over your body - is a calorie deficit and that comes from decreasing food intake, increasing activity, or a combination of both.

What I suggest to those looking to get rid of their love handles is cutting back all excessive ab training, spending that extra time for more intense, calorie-burning cardio and weight training for the rest of the body. I also suggest you do an accounting of your food intake, get your nutrition in order and decrease your calories slightly, if necessary

1000+ reps of daily ab work is an amazing feat of endurance, but that’s not how you get rid of love handles or get visible, 6-pack abs! If you were to do 1,000 reps of ab exercises every day, you would have outstanding development in your abdominal muscles and you would definitely have great muscular endurance. Unfortunately, if your abs are covered up with a layer of fat, you will never see them even if you do 10,000 reps a day!

Nutrition experts love to say, "You can’t out-train a lousy diet."

It's a monumental error to think that 1,000 reps of ab work a day will make your love handles disappear when your diet is a disaster and that's leading to fat storage. It’s not that ab exercises aren’t important. But all the ab exercises in the world won't help as long as you still have body fat covering the muscles. You can't "spot reduce" with abdominal exercise and YOU CAN'T SEE YOUR ABS THROUGH A LAYER OF BODY FAT!

Try out this advice and you will be on your way to a leaner, healthier body. For a complete program that will show you exactly how to get rid of love handles permanently and naturally, check outwww.BurnTheFat.com

Train hard and expect success,

Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS
Fat Loss Coach
www.BurnTheFat.com