Targeted exercises can help you lose stubborn back fat, love handles, and armpit fat. Discover the most effective gym classes like Zumba and at-home routines designed to trim your waist and thighs.
You want nothing more than to don a tank top this summer, but thick arms make you self-conscious when you go sleeveless. Selectively losing fat in your arms isn't possible, however.
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You dilly-dallied, and now only a few days remain before that big event for which you want to look just smashing. It's silly to think you can lose substantial weight in a matter of days, but you can create the appearance of sleekness while reducing any extra water weight and bloat.
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The shape of your face is genetically determined, although exercises that tone your facial muscles might have a modest impact on your face's appearance. However, no amount of weight loss can turn a round face into an oval or rectangle, and you can't target the face, or any specific body area, for weight loss.
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Where you store fat determines whether or not you're at a higher risk for metabolic and heart diseases. Too much belly fat -- the kind that spills over your waistband -- is the type to avoid. Love handles and hip-bone fat aren't only an aesthetic problem -- they're a health problem.
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A teen may achieve six-pack abs by losing fat and gaining lean muscle. Not all teens are developmentally ready to take on such fitness goals, however.
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Whether your fingers are short and pudgy or long and lean is a matter of genetics, and you can't change your genes. But, if you're finding your fingers a bit fatter than usual and they feel tight and puffy so that it's hard to remove your rings, you can take some action to slim them down.
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Flabby upper arms may make you feel self-conscious when you bare your arms in summer clothes. Although where you store fat is largely a matter of genetics, some people's bodies, especially women's, use the arms as a stubborn fat depot.
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A spare tire around your middle that forms a muffin top above your waistband may make you self-conscious when you’re in and out of clothes. You desperately want to slim this area down, but the way your body gains and loses weight is a set pattern -- you can’t target certain places for loss.
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Excess fat in your abdomen should not be dismissed as a natural part of aging. The middle-age spread and love handles increase your risk of developing chronic disease more so than other fat in your body.
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A six-pack is coveted by many a fitness fanatic, but takes incredible dietary and fitness dedication to achieve.
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You're fed up with your belly fat, and you want it gone -- now. Your abdomen didn't expand in one week, so you can't expect it to slim down in that short time either. Use a week to introduce measures to help you lose belly fat over time and reduce bloating.
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When you make the commitment to lose weight, you want to see the results of your hard work in a relatively short period. You can't specifically target your belly, arms and legs for fat loss, though -- you lose weight proportionally all over your body.
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You're thrilled with the prospect of losing weight and creating a new physique, but you're not so jazzed about the possibility that your breasts may sag if you lose weight. Yo-yo dieting exacerbates the natural sag that results from gravity, pregnancy, breast-feeding and adolescent growth spurts.
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When women lose weight, they usually want their hips and belly to shrink -- not their breasts. You can't control from where you lose fatty tissue when you lose weight, though. The amount your chest reduces depends on your genetics and the amount of weight you lose.
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Your baby face may influence how people treat you. As pointed out in a 2008 paper published in Social & Personality Psychology Compass, people associate a baby face with childlike, immature traits. You're viewed as cute and approachable, not strong and authoritative. (ref 1, under "
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Belly fat, sometimes called "middle-age spread," is an affliction that's hard to avoid when you're over 40. You don't like how that excess weight looks in the mirror, and what it does to you internally is even worse: It raises your risk of chronic disease. You're not stuck with it though.
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Drastically cutting calories to lose belly fat when you're a teenage girl isn't wise. You need optimal nutrients because your body and brain are still growing, and you're building bone. Calories provide you with the energy to be alert and focused during school, too.
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Celebrities, including Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian, purportedly wear corsets to help them slim down. This process supposedly "trains" your waist to a smaller size. However, corsets only make you appear thinner when you’re wearing them – they do nothing to burn off belly fat.
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Losing belly fat at any age is a challenge, but it seems even more difficult to achieve over age 60. As you age, having a more sedentary lifestyle, changes in hormones and a natural loss of muscle mass makes it more likely that your waistband will expand.
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Chances are you didn't gain all your stomach fat in three weeks, so you can't expect to lose it all that quickly. If you do nothing, your risk of health problems remains high. Fat deep in your middle surrounding your internal organs -- called intra-abdominal obesity or visceral fat -- is particularly dangerous.
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