A great diet program without a decent fitness program will get you slim but you will lack tone and you won’t shift that waist fat.

You can’t just eat well and expect a great body, you have to have a good regular exercise routine to get rid of love handles and shift that loose belly fat.

Regular exercise without good diet will get you fit - fit but overly fat.

Eating well without exercise will make you slimmer, but lacking in attractive body tone. 

If you really want to get rid of love handles, you have to eat properly and exercise well.

Once you admit this fact to yourself, you can begin to work on any negativity you have toward exercise.

It’s all a state of mind.

Give yourself a 6 week trial to learn to enjoy exercise so you can burn waist fat.

Don’t sabotague your efforts, do some fat burning exercise you can learn to love at a time of day you can stick to.

You will never look back.

It’s one thing to have a slender body, but any ectomorph will tell you, being slim without muscle tone is not a good look or a good feeling.

Have a listen to my latest short podcast on why you have to exercise and get some more fitness programs information from my website to help you on your way.

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Yes, you can eat dessert and still get rid of love handles

No, you cannot eat a massive tub of double chocolate icecream and still see your 6 pack abs - let’s get that straight from the get go.

No use moaning about it - you know that you have to make some sacrifices if you want to get rid of your ab fat and stop that loose belly fat wobbling all over the place.

You know by know that to get rid of belly fat takes the right mindset and dedication to the cause, planning and enjoyment of food that is excellent for you and some brisk regular exercise with a decent fitness program.

Well today, I’m going to share with you the dessert I eat EVERY DAY.

I eat it around an hour after my evening meal (of mainly lean protein and leafy veggies or salad and a minimum of carbs).

I eat dessert at least an hour before going to bed.  The timing is for several reasons.

I separate dinner from dessert to have 2 small meals rather than one big one and dessert for me  happens just at my old evening cravings time.

I allow time for digestion of dessert before hitting the sack.

The trick with dessert is to learn to love stuff that is really good for you and your waist fat.

It’s a matter of breaking old bad habits and forming new good ones.  Give yourself a couple of weeks to get used to it and you won’t look back.

Take a couple of minutes to listen to my eat dessert every day and still burn waist fat podcast and head on over to my website for a simple diet plan if you need some more tips.

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To get rid of love handles, you have to cut back on certain foods. You may just be eating too much of a good thing to trim your waist fat, but most people eat not just too much but too much of the wrong stuff to be able to burn the ab fat. 

Carbs get good and bad press, but within the carb world there are “good” and “bad” carbs and it is really easy to tell them apart.

The good carbs (complex) take longer to eat, make you feel fuller and give you sustained energy.  Think wholegrain bread, legumes and veggies. Fantastic food to help you get rid of love handles.

The bad carbs slip down the throat quickly and easily and make you yearn for more – food cravings almost straight away. Anything highly processed with plenty of sugar content could be thought of as a “bad” carb that gives you hunger pangs.

A handy way to think of the 2 different types of carbs is unrefined and refined carbs. The more of the unrefined ones you include in your daily diet, the more fit, trim and healthy you are going to be in your quest to fight off the waist fat.

Think of unrefined carbs as a once-a-week treat, not a several times a day staple and the loose belly fat will fall off your frame. 

Take a couple of minutes to listen to my latest podcast to find out when you should eat more carbs to increase your energy and metabolism.

If you think you have what it takes to undertake a low carb diet pop on over to my website for more information. But be warned,  low carb is excellent for fat loss, but hard to stick to.

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If you really want to get rid of love handles and burn off that waist fat for good, consider a high protein (or at least moderate protein) diet.

Why a high protein diet?

Most importantly, a high protein diet is not restricted to fried bacon and eggs and sausages or processed hamburger “meat” on a greasy breakfast plate. Do you really think you can get rid of love handles on such a shonky diet plan?

You may be familiar with a fairly notorious high protein diet that encourages you to eat fatty protein at the expense of everything else.

This radical, knee-jerk diet has done a lot of harm to protein.

You need protein.

Probably much more than you are currently eating.

Lean protein, not fatty highly processed rubbish masquerading as meat product. Ditch the bacon, fried eggs and sausages of questionable composition, not to mention the greasy burgers and get hold of good lean cuts of red meat, chicken and fish, legumes and cottage cheese.

A moderate to high protein diet is an excellent choice for fat loss, especially ab fat, and for muscle growth, either lean or mass muscle, depending on how you choose to exercise with it.

Find out more about the best high protein diet plan for you at my website and take a couple of minutes to listen to my protein podcast.

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That old question, cardio or weights to get rid of love handles?

Cardio or weight training for ab fat? What’s going to burn off your waist fat faster and give you permanent fat loss?

Opinions are of course divided and if you want to tone up and drop weight, the best place to start is just walking your butt off.

However, if you do a routine that mixes up cardio and weights in a single workout you’ll want to know.

Cardio first or weights first.

And if you look around any gym, you’ll see heaps of people obviously getting it wrong.

Very wrong.

What are people getting wrong at the gym re their loose belly fat?

Well, it comes down 3 very basic things.

Firstly, they are not following a program of exercise to suit their natural body type (somatotype), but hopping around from machine to machine just having a bit of a puff and raising a little sweat over machines that look interesting or easy.

Related to this, they are not considering their purpose for exercising. Folk who want to lose belly fat and gain impressive muscle mass need a very different workout than people who want to burn off waist fat and look lean and toned.

Secondly, many people in the gym use poor form. They cheat their workout without even realising it by going fast and furious with the weights or by setting long or even short distance cardio at such a pitifully low rate that they burn barely any calories.

Thirdly, heaps of people you will see in the gym who have a program of cardio + weights in a single workout do their cardio first and follow that up with their weight training program.

Why might cardio first be a bad idea to get rid of love handles?

Have a listen to my latest podcast for a couple of minutes to find out. You can also visit my website for more health and fitness information. The smarter you can work out, the less hard it will be for you to get rid of love handles.

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My hairdresser is a serial dieter

The starve yourself all day and exercise manically till you drop type dieter.

She has treated her body very badly in the years I have known her and has been “rewarded” for quite some time with a slim, but gaunt and starved appearance.

Now, in her mid 50s, she is becoming increasingly chubby and she tells me she is desperate to lose waist fat.

She thought that there was no way she could do more than keep to her spartan routine of many years and was totally confounded that she was steadily putting weight on, including the dreaded loose belly fat, with the tiny amount she ate and the huge amount she exercised.

Long runs on the beach several times a day coupled with a few meagre pieces of fruit for lunch and a vegetable pasta for dinner had kept her slim for a long time.

And now, it no longer worked.

She had no idea how she could stop this waist fat relentlessly creeping across her midsection or how this could be happening at all. She had always eaten so little and burned so many calories.

But the other day, she found out 3 little known fat loss tips when she visited her son in Sydney. Her son’s boss was in the habit of taking him to the gym and from this clued up guy, my hairdresser learned 3 things that will make her slim again.

Not just slim, but brimming with energy she has never experienced before, because let’s face it, if you keep your ab fat off by starving yourself and working out like a headless chicken, you are going to have no energy for anything else in your day. You are no way going to look your best and you are going to feel totally flat.

Listen to my podcast for a couple of minutes to find out what my hairdresser learned from someone who understands how to get rid of love handles.

For more simple tips to get rid of love handles, visit my website.

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This is not a question you’d expect

But it has an awful lot to do with whether you are going to get rid of love handles. It’s both personal and very pertinent.

What you eat is what you are

And what you excrete is testimony to the reality of how your diet affects your body.

If you eat irregularly, bingeing or starving, if you eat mainly fatty and sugary junk, your body is not going to function at all well and your waist fat is destined not to budge.

The proof of how well you eat is in your bowel movements.

In respect to how often you “go”, how easy or difficult the bowel movement is and in the appearance of your stools.

If you are not having an easy, firm bowel movement at least once a day, then you need to change your diet. You need a more high fiber diet.

Good bowel health depends on you eating enough fiber (and drinking enough water).

The excellent side effect of eating enough fiber for your loose belly fat is that fiber attaches itself to fat and takes fat out with it.

Fiber helps to boost your metabolism and gets you feeling much better about yourself so that you are more eager and able to exercise regularly.

Fiber makes you feel fuller longer and so fights food cravings.

You need to consider what to eat to increase your fiber intake so your body functions at an optimal level, especially while you are striving to get rid of love handles.

Have a listen to my personal question podcast for just a couple of minutes to learn what you need to know about this very important but often neglected health and fat loss issue.

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You need a really good reason to lose waist fat

How are you going to burn off your loose belly fat if you don’t have a good reason? Time and again, people start out on a diet to get rid of love handles once and for all.

Often they are enthusiastic and full of excellent intentions about changes to diet, starting a comprehensive exercise routine, fitting into skinny jeans and dreaming of success.

Unfortunately, most people who embark on a diet or exercise program to lose ab fat (or any other type of fat) are doomed to fail.

Why do people fail to get rid of love handles and other horrible body fat?

Basically they fail to lose fat simply because they fail to plan.

In order for any major change to work for you in any aspect of your life, you have to have a plan and stick to it. Enthusiasm without a diet and exercise plan will not work. A diet and exercise program without enthusiasm and commitment will likewise fall in a big flabby heap!

To develop a diet and fitness plan to get rid of love handles, you need a good reason to lose fat.

What’s a good reason for you? Listen to my A Good Reason podcast for a couple of minutes and get some inspiration.

How do you put together a fat loss plan that will work for you?

Start by reading my diet programs page and the information I have written for you about fitness programs. Information is empowerment and that means success for your fat loss program.

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WHEN to eat? To get rid of love handles!

Yes, when to eat is just as important as what to eat and how much to eat when you want to get rid of love handles and burn that waist fat.

Way too many people go into fat loss and diet mode thinking if they only starve themselves, they can drop off the ugly love handles and get back on with life as normal as soon as possible.

This can work when you are in your teens and early 20s - the body is very obliging at that age, but as we get older, say 25+, to get rid of love handles we have to make a commitment to changing bad eating habits and yo yo dieting or the waist fat clings on.

To drop off the loose belly fat and tone up, you can do with a few simple tricks and tips that are dead easy to follow.

You can easily reduce your ab fat more quickly by eating at the right times and correct intervals throughout the day. This boosts metabolism and burns fat faster, with no great effort on your part.

Your personal eating pattern depends a lot on your body type (somatotype), but whatever your natural shape, you have to start the day with breakfast.

Listen to my when to eat podcast for more details about the right times to eat to move your waist fat. It’ll only take you a couple of minutes to get all the right information so you can get moving on this and see some reduction in your ab fat really quickly.

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No one helps you lose waist fat

Why aren’t people more supportive of your efforts to get rid of love handles and burn off your ugly waist fat?

Surely your nearest and dearest should be happy to help and support you in your tough quest for a better body, a healthier lifestyle, a happier and more active you?

You would really think so, wouldn’t you?

Well, I used to think so too, till I got very successful at burning off my waist fat and ditching my loose belly fat.

The more fat I lost, the less helpful and happy many people around me seemed to be. People you would not expect put a downer on my fat loss successes!

The obese checkout chick who told me every week at the supermarket that I might as well give up now - she knew that it was impossible to lose fat and keep it off.

My “concerned” parents - I just didn’t look the same as I used to. Surely I was getting too thin? Wasn’t I tired of all those time consuming fitness programs? Didn’t I want a nice big slice of my favourite cake, made especially for my visit?

My (ex) best friend - why could she not be happy for me as I got rid of my love handles and started to look younger, more vibrant, self assured and totally toned?

Have a listen to my podcast for a couple of minutes to find out exactly why many of your close family, friends and coworkers may not support you as expected when you try to get rid of love handles.

You will lose your waist fat anyway when you put your mind to it; you don’t actually need support (though it would be more than nice).

All you really need is self confidence and here’s how you are going to get it.

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