Lose your love handles in 3 weeks!

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I was going to devote this week to explaining nutrition to your finance geeks who seem to frequent my site However, something else caught my eye. While perusing some of the articles at eDiets, I found this little gem on losing your love handles in 3 weeks. Now I usually like eDiets, but I personally think that this article is utter and complete trash! So instead, I’ve decided to devote this week to silly exercise and diet ideas like this one.

The Myth

How many of you watch late night infomercials? Have you seen all those advertisements for machines that will make your abs look better? Or maybe you saw the ones that will make your butt look slimmer? Well, what they’re selling you is a myth. They’re saying you can lose weight in a certain part of your body through targetted exercise of that region.

The Truth

The truth is that your body deposits fat in various portions of your anatomy based on gender and genetics. Men tend to deposit fat in their bellies. Women tend to deposit fat in their thighs and butts. Some people tend towards a pear shape while others tend towards an apple shape. Where your body deposits fat is not up to you. Where your body burns fat is also not up to you.

You can exercise your abs and nothing else but your body may still decide to burn fat from other regions of your body. The only thing you’re doing with exercise is toning the muscle, but that will not get rid of the specific layer of fat covering that muscle. So you can work your abs all your want, but your body may still decide to cover them with fat.

Lesson Learned

There are no spot solutions. You cannot fix one area of your body. If you want your abs to look good you will need to lower your overall fat level. Yes, you may want to workout your abs since that will add definition, but if you want that definition to show, then you will need to remove fat in general. So stop all this nonsense about spot fat reduction and thousands of ab crunches. Eat a healthy diet, exercise your whole body with weight training and add some cardio to your routine. It’s that simple. The fat will come off all over and underneath it you will find beautiful and toned muscle.

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