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MCM Fall 2018 My Connections Magazine Fashion Statement Entertainment Simple Ways to Lose Love Handles and Lower Belly Fat Fast Love handles are the layer of side fat spilling over the waistline of pants. The fat spillage is also known as “muffin top” or “spare tire”, taking its name from its resemblance. Without a doubt, side belly fat's got many cute, harmless nicknames. But that's as far as the cuteness of the love handles and muffin top goes. Then there is lower belly fat, the center abdominal fat that creates crates when you sit. Love handles and lower belly fat are not only the most dangerous fat in the body but also hardest to lose. Many attempts to spot reduce this specific belly fat with countless sit-ups. While others fiercely target the obliques and repeat gazillion side crunches. But the truth is, that's not an effective approach to losing love handles and getting rid of lower belly fat. 21
MCM Fall 2018 My Connections Magazine Fashion Statement Entertainment To get rid of love handles and lower stomach fat for good, you need to change your diets, exercise, and lifestyle. Luckily, these changes are simple and easy to make, and the results are to last for the lifetime. If you are ready, here are 14 simple ways to get rid of love handles and lose lower belly fat. 1. Reduce Your Stress According to a Yale study, high-level stress may cause excess abdominal fat, even in slender women The study explains that high level of cortisol (stress hormone) can be responsible for fat storage around your midsection. Simply put, stress formulates the perfect path way to the lower belly fat. The more stress you have, the more cortisol you'll build up, and more fat you accumulate, especially in the belly area. In addition to an increase of fat storage around the abdominal region, stress also drives people to eat more than they normally do. And for most women, when the stress hits and the hunger skyrockets, they often reach out for comfort foods like fatty fries and sugary cakes. British Nutrition Foundation calls this phenomenon "stress-induced changes in eating behavior . In easier terms, we are wired to grab sugary, fatty food during cortisol surge and high-stress time. This is true even for healthy weight women. In fact, their study notes anywhere from 65-85% of women are at risk of stress-induced changes in eating and body weight changes. After all, all those foods we call comfort foods truly send our brain the signal of pleasure and comfort and really comfort our brains at the time of stress. This makes reaching for healthier alternatives really hard when everything your body is craving is fatty, sugary foods. All these excess calories do not get distributed and stored as fat evenly throughout the body. Instead, cortisol promotes fat storage in the stomach area. And this can be cyclical. A recent sutudy show women with a larger waistline is more prone to secrete cortisol at the time of stress, creating a recurring cycle 22
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