How to Get Rid of Love Handles

Love handles don’t have to drag you down permanently. With some small adjustments to your daily routine, love handles can shrink leaving nothing more than the memory of them behind.

Instructions

The first step to getting rid of love handles is dieting. Reducing your caloric intake will help you melt your love handles away. A pound is made up of 3,500 calories. In order to lose a pound a week with diet alone, you must eat 3,500 fewer calories each week.

• Cut back on sodas. The average can of soda is 120 calories. If you drink 2 cans per day, seven days a week, you could cut 1680 calories per week just by switching to diet soda.
• Eat fewer sweets. The average candy bar has 240 calories. If you eat one candy bar a day, seven days a week, you are consuming 1680 calories a week in candy bars. Instead, switch to a sugar free pudding snack of 60 calories or less. Doing so could save you 1260 calories per week.
• Eat breakfast at home. If you eat a fast food English muffin sandwich every day for breakfast, you are consuming 2100 calories per week. If you made the same sandwich at home with an English muffin, ¼ cup of egg substitute, and 1 slice of American cheese, you will be saving about 500 calories a week.

The next step in the battle against love handles is exercise. Adding exercise to your normal daily routine is easier than you think and can make a big impact.

• Take the stairs. You can burn about 7 calories per minute walking upstairs and 4 calories walking down. Climbing and descending just four flights of stairs each day can burn almost 150 calories per week.
• Give the dishwasher, clothes dryer and robot broom a rest. Housework can burn a large amount of calories. A 150 pound person who spends 10 minutes sweeping, 20 minutes hanging laundry and 15 minutes washing dishes each week can burn up to 137 calories per week.