Stupid Love Handles!

I don't post in here much, but:

You can't really spot train to lose weight from a particular area. YOu can do cardio to lose fat overall, and HOPEFULLY it'll come off of your love-handles. You CAN, however, do some toning exercises to tighten up those muscles - there are lots of good oblique exercises out there, ranging from fairly simple to oh-my-god-I-wanna-die. But as I said, if the fat is covering the toned muscles, it doesn't matter.

This is true, but to lose weight and maintain it, you still need to do cardio. Having muscle mass alone won't do it. And keep in mind that muscle weighs more than fat because it's more dense - so if you don't see the scale drop much, but your pants are falling off, you're doing well

 Wurkit gurl said most of what I was going to say. You cannot spot lose. I find that weight comes off from the place you have had it the shortest. The longer the weight has been on you the longer it takes to work it off. Cardio and diet should do it. It took me 45 weeks to lose 85 lbs. and I have kept it off  for 6.5 weeks so far. I would like to lose a little more from my waist and butt. Toning is a great idea for its own sake, but it will not reduce the fat in that area.

Doug