Men of Reddit (age 30+): How did you get rid of these pesky love handles?

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1. Diet and exercise my man

2. Change how you eat and walk 3 miles a day at a fast pace.. This is the minimum

3. I grew mine into a full sized keg… Sorry i can’t help you.

4. I’m 35, and I’m the only person in my family who has never struggled with obesity. A few years ago, my weight started ballooning a little bit, though. I think I got up to a size 36 in pants. Once the 36s started getting a little tight, and I decided enough was enough. I made the decision that day to make a change in my lifestyle.

   …specifically, I refilled my adderall prescription. That was all I did.

   Haha, look, I do believe in good diet and exercise. But you do need to realize that a lot of the people you see in your day-to-day life are on drugs. Once you start paying attention to it, you realize most people are on some sort of drugs.

   Adderall, Concerta, Ritalin, Vyvanse, Focalin… these are the most commonly prescribed drugs in the United States, and they’re speed. Half of them used to be diet pills.

   Idunno, I just feel it’s kind of attendant upon me to inform you, as a skinny middle aged guy, a lot of us are on speed.

5. I have them as well. They are the very last things that leave.

   The areas your body burns fat first is genetic. Nothing you can do exclamation keep cutting til they are gone.

   Your body burns fat as a whole, not site specific according to anything you are doing.

   Just keep cutting weight with caloric deficit til you get there and then slowly add the calories back as you bulk back up

6. Diet, those ultimately come down to diet. Exercise helps, and make em disappear faster but what your eating is the main reason.

7. Take another look at your diet and have you considered running?

8. Maybe Try a combination of intermittent fasting and keto diet. Bicycle sit-ups are also good for the love handles.

9. Calories in Calories out.

   How on earth are there still people asking this?

10. Switch to intermittent fasting. It isnt necessarily better for fat loss but it metabolizes excess skin in the process. If you are dealing with injuries then skip HIIT and do zone 2 cardio on a stationary bike. 4 x 45 min sessions a week will burn a ton of calories. Make sure you optimize your sleep and that you accurately are counting your calories. If you arent using a food scale you most likely arent.

11. Eat less, lift more

12. Keto & very low carb has worked well for me to lose weight fast. It is difficult to stick to.

    I also lost a lot of weight by a lot of cardio, weight lifting and strict diet, fasting some days. Keto is easier because I lost weight faster and without a ton of cardio

13. As a competive bodybuilder the only way your love handles will go is when your less than 8 bodyfat. That being said all people are different and some people will lose them before others but generally it’s the last place to lose fat and first to gain

14. Swimming daily did it for me

15. Diet + try incorporating these two exercises into your workouts:

    Seated one arm cable rows, light weight, focus on pulling with your elbow and keeping your arm parallel to the floor.
    https://fitnessvolt.com/seated-one-arm-cable-row-back/

    Wood chops, regular and reverse:
    https://irongrif.com/exercises/71-reverse-cable-woodchop

16. Diet, exercise.

    You need to lower your bad fat percentage

17. Liposuction could help.

18. Stopped drinking “just 2 or 3” beers every night.

19. If you are american, cut your portions! Our portion sizes are out of control, just like the enormous amounts of sugar in absolutely everything, so be conscious of that too. We slowly cut our portion sizes down and now when we go out, we leave behind almost half our meal because it’s simply too much food.

    Then a combo of cardio and weight training. Whether that be actually lifting weights or doing exercises that use your body and gravity as weights. Sit ups, push ups, lunges, etc

20. Your body is genetically designed to store fat around the stomach as man. I don’t know if it it to maximize your center of balance for hunting.

21. it’s all genetics. i’m like you, the very last place I lose fat is my love handles. looks like we just gotta get shredded!

22. German body comp training and counting calories

23. I have them too. 1.90cm Weigh 85 kg, still there.

    Donnu what to tell you. Get to zero % bodyfat and work out like an olympic athlete?

24. Check out the body type diet. It gives a lot of good insight on how our glands affect what areas of the body we store fat in. For people like us with bigger love handles, it’s usually connected to sweets and caffeine. Good luck! (Full disclosure, I’m a woman)

25. easy

    100 push ups
    100 sit ups
    100 squats
    and a 5 mile run

    do this everyday and those love handles will dissappear so fast

26. In my country bigger belly for men over 30 is very common. It’s becouse many are in relationship/married at that age or just don’t care. Kinda funny if you consider most men here under 30 have good figures. I guess 30+ is that magical age lol.

    Fun fact : having belly while being married is even considered positive, since your wife is good cook lol.

27. ketogenic diet and exercise worked for me

    then I hurt my back and got fat again

28. I run 3-5 miles a day. Everyday.

29. Lmao I haven’t

30. By not giving a shit about love handles.

31. I get a lot of exercise on the weekends from processing firewood which is like a more dangerous version of cross fit because it involves chainsaws. But I also fast until at least 2pm most days mainly because im not a morning eater and it works for me.

32. Eat healthy

    Exercise