Love handles: how can you get rid of them?

Love handles refer to the fatty deposits around your hips, along the outside of your abdomen, which extend into the back. Love handles are little bulges of fat that you can grab in your hands like a rubber ring. They thicken your waistline above your hips and are a real headache when you’re choosing your clothes.

Love handles develop more easily on women, who are more naturally predisposed to storing fat. It is quite difficult to get rid of them even with a strict diet and intensive exercise.

What causes love handles? 

Love handles are often due to too much sugar in your diet, combined with a sedentary lifestyle. The body stores fat when the calorie intake is higher than the energy expenditure of the body, creating fatty deposits particularly on your love handles.

Hormonal variation can also cause love handles to form. In this way, they can appear after pregnancy or menopause however, men are not spared this phenomenon. Indeed, around the age of 40 their muscle mass tends to droop, which can cause love handles to form.

Love handles: what treatments are available?

There are many ways of getting rid of excess fat on your hips and create a fine waistline without any unsightly bulges. Your doctor can explain which method is best suited to your situation and expectations.

There are many ways of getting rid of excess fat on your hips and create a fine waistline without any unsightly bulges. Your doctor can explain which method is best suited to your situation and expectations.

If your love handles are more subtle, soft liposuction may be better suited along with Coolsculpting because there is less fat to remove.

If you are slim but have unsightly love handles that you just can’t get rid of, the doctor will suggest the Accent Prime method which combines ultrasound and radio frequency or the ONDA Coolwaves system which emits microwaves.