Love Handles

Love handles are accumulations of fat on the sides of the waist, sometimes medically called a muffin top. Diet, stress, and sleep changes are necessary but not sufficient on their own to eliminate love handles. Both visceral fat around the organs and subcutaneous fat just beneath the skin contribute to love handles. Love handles are essentially overflow fat that accumulates on the sides of the waist when there are few other places in the body left to deposit fat. Love handles develop through a two-stage process in which fat first fills the liver, then spills out as visceral fat around the organs.