Thoughts On How To Lose Excess Fat and Love Handles

     How come some women are happy even if they are a few pounds overweight? And what can you learn from them? You can't lose weight, get rid of your love handles and look good just by eating less .. there's more to it than that!

On the other hand there are women who are five, ten or more pounds over their ideal weight but who live happy, fulfilling lives, because they aren't obsessing over every little morsel, they simply enjoy life. They don't worry!

Who's having a more fun and fulfilling life?

Weight is relative, it is dependent on your height, bone size and much more. It is very much tied in with how you view yourself .... if you love yourself you will be attractive, happy and radiant even if you are carrying a few pounds over the "ideal" weight.

Yes, that's true even if you have love handles!

Besides, who decides what is ideal, anyway? Just think of the great classical paintings and their ideal women. The women in those would today be considered overweight in our eyes, but back then they were deemed beautiful and sexy! ... and you can see they are quite "rounded" .....

To be healthy you should have little fat and lots of muscle (within reason, no need to be a body builder). Women normally have a higher percentage of fat than men (unfair, but true!) due to the different hormones in play in their bodies.

To be long term healthy you should have a low fat percentage, a woman around 25 years of age might have about 25 percent body fat, whilst the same woman at 65 might have more than 45 percent body fat!

If said woman exercises and avoids being a "couch potato" she might well have a much healthier 30 percent even at age 65 ..... and then she probably does not need to get rid of love handles ... because she won't have any!

Since muscle is far more efficient at burning calories, it makes sense to build muscle - then you'll automatically burn more of what you eat - in other words, lose weight. 

As an aside - having a bit more muscle makes you look sexier ... and you feel better, you look and feel attractive and sexy!

Fat tissue is very different from muscle tissue. It does not need oxygen, nor does it create activity and it cannot repair itself. All things muscle tissue is capable of. Basically, body fat is as close to "dead flesh" as you can get ... a good reason to minimise your fat percentage and building healthy, living muscle instead.

More muscle means more hormones, meaning healthier skin, increased sex drive and a more vital self. In short you need to build muscle!

Regarding your excess fat the word is: location, location, location! The amount of fat is not quite as important as where you have put it on. Love handles and stomach fat is about the worst places to deposit fat in. A bad place to carry excess fat is on your stomach and as love handles.

If you're lucky to have a slim waist and big hips you're much more likely to live longer and stay healthy. You have lower levels of the "bad" cholesterol, for example.

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