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How ironic that no one loves love handles !
However, if it's a normal part of living, why not just accept it and save your worries for something more that worth fretting over ?
if everyone thought like that, wed be stuck at prehistoric time
if everyone thought like that, wed be stuck at prehistoric time
Actually, preoccupation with normal physical characteristics of aging and trying to eradicate them is simple fear of death. It's a psychological problem rather than a physical problem. Certainly, stay active and strong, look decent for your age, that's fine. But resorting to surgery is utterly stupid. It does not change who you are, does not change what others think of you, and will not change the fact that life is short and you will die.
Actually, preoccupation with normal physical characteristics of aging and trying to eradicate them is simple fear of death. It's a psychological problem rather than a physical problem. Certainly, stay active and strong, look decent for your age, that's fine. But resorting to surgery is utterly stupid. It does not change who you are, does not change what others think of you, and will not change the fact that life is short and you will die.
nobody is expecting that when they go to have surgery lmao
they want experience a change in a physical part, a change that cannot be done naturally, therefore, they go for surgery, the change is done, and both the doctor and patient are happy, the economy gets stimulated, and nobody was harmed, nobody was taken advantaged, nobody force anyone into nothing, no cats or puppies were killed, no children starved for your surgery
except for high horse self righteous people who think they have a say on what you do with your money and body, and give their uncalled opinion as if the people who got the surgery are supposed to give a damn
Hitting middle age means that fat deposits are located a little differently on the body. More fat heads to the belly area, and the "love handle" location too. Hormonal changes are somehow responsible for shifting where fat sits on the body.
When you get to a certain age, it doesn't matter how much you work out, either... inevitable, everything's going to start sagging and heading south. Blame gravity.
Love handles are the last bit of fat to go on a male due to the fact that the structure of the fat is geared toward long- term energy use. On top of that, it has been proven that the fat in the love handles, are actually pockets of fat, made up of a different type of fat, geared towards survival. Love handles have a tendency to keep hangin' around. And there is generally one overwhelming reason for this: genetics!
Genetics can be a blessing or a curse. And for many unlucky people, have a predisposition to store fat in the form of love handles. Compounding the love handle problem is their tendency to fight, the best efforts of diet and exercise to eradicate them. Sure, diet and exercise are great for shrinking the gut, and thinning the face, but for some reason, love handle fat is an entirely different animal. It stays when everything else shrinks; it hangs when everything else firms. It takes up seemingly permanent residence on the sides of the torso.
Out of frustration or desperation, many people resort to liposuction as an effective and fool-proof way of eradicating their love handles once and for all. And liposuction is a damn effective anti-love handle tool, whereby the fat (fat cells) is simply sucked out, never to return.
A lucky few can manage to eradicate them totally; the majority, however, can reduce them, even shrink them significantly, but not totally deflate them.
and for that, blame mother nature..
The body is very smart and efficient survival machine. It will fight you tooth and nail to keep what little fat is left over for an extreme situation (starvation). To get rid of of what little fat is left (love handles) one MUST do extreme things. i.e liposuction/ extreme diet.
nobody is expecting that when they go to have surgery lmao
they want experience a change in a physical part, a change that cannot be done naturally, therefore, they go for surgery, the change is done, and both the doctor and patient are happy, the economy gets stimulated, and nobody was harmed, nobody was taken advantaged, nobody force anyone into nothing, no cats or puppies were killed, no children starved for your surgery
except for high horse self righteous people who think they have a say on what you do with your money and body, and give their uncalled opinion as if the people who got the surgery are supposed to give a damn
You, are an interesting person !
You start out a thread asking advise and perspective about a subject and when an opinion gets stated, you respond with what would be considered a logical answer to that response, and then a button in your mind gets pushed and you attack somebody who left voices in your head from your past.
Love handles are the last bit of fat to go on a male due to the fact that the structure of the fat is geared toward long- term energy use. On top of that, it has been proven that the fat in the love handles, are actually pockets of fat, made up of a different type of fat, geared towards survival. Love handles have a tendency to keep hangin' around. And there is generally one overwhelming reason for this: genetics!
Genetics can be a blessing or a curse. And for many unlucky people, have a predisposition to store fat in the form of love handles. Compounding the love handle problem is their tendency to fight, the best efforts of diet and exercise to eradicate them. Sure, diet and exercise are great for shrinking the gut, and thinning the face, but for some reason, love handle fat is an entirely different animal. It stays when everything else shrinks; it hangs when everything else firms. It takes up seemingly permanent residence on the sides of the torso.
Out of frustration or desperation, many people resort to liposuction as an effective and fool-proof way of eradicating their love handles once and for all. And liposuction is a damn effective anti-love handle tool, whereby the fat (fat cells) is simply sucked out, never to return.
A lucky few can manage to eradicate them totally; the majority, however, can reduce them, even shrink them significantly, but not totally deflate them.
and for that, blame mother nature..
Incorrect. First of all, different people have different places where the stubborn fat clings. There is no one size clings to all men/women fat storage theory. Secondly, love handles are NOT made of a different type of fat. Fat is fat, no matter where it is on the body. I'm with you on the genetics thing, however. That can really count against us. My half sister has that odd looking square shelf butt, courtesy of our dear old Mom. Although she was never able to eradicate it, its appearance improved drastically when she was doing P-90X. Now that she doesn't exercise, it has returned to its original genetic state.
I, on the other hand, have saddlebags that I have never been able to totally eliminate, but regular cardio and strength training has kept them to a minimum. Although I hate exercising, it fights the effects of genetics, so off to the gym I go
Hitting middle age means that fat deposits are located a little differently on the body. More fat heads to the belly area, and the "love handle" location too. Hormonal changes are somehow responsible for shifting where fat sits on the body.
When you get to a certain age, it doesn't matter how much you work out, either... inevitable, everything's going to start sagging and heading south. Blame gravity.
I am middle age and no love handles are present. No belly either.
I do have slabs of muscles where love handles are located(obliques) are but they are recognizable as being muscle-no sagging. No bodybuilder. Just train hard and eat reasonable.
But I know it will all go away eventually. So savor every second of it.
Love handles (and a pudgy mons pubiteris) have been my bane (of an otherwise groovy body shape) all my life. I had to go total "Karen Carpenter" to ever get them to disappear. My college room mate not only had love handles, but (if you've ever seen it) the complete "apron" totally around the front to boot. And he wasn't all that overweight either.
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