Losing weight around the waist is more difficult for women than men, but it can be done with a combination of diet and exercise. Whether you need to get rid of those love handles or that pooch you've had for a while, which is made worse by monthly bloating, a few simple exercises can do the trick. To create faster results, cut back on high-sugar and high-fat foods for a couple of weeks and you'll notice amazing results in no time.
Step 1
Focus on exercising every day. Resist the urge to focus merely on the stomach or waist area, as while you can engage in specific exercises that will work the abdominals, don't forget to engage in all-around body workouts that will help enhance your calorie burn and increase metabolism, which will help burn excess fat everywhere on your body. You can lose weight around the waist by exercising, but if you also decrease calorie intake or at least cut high-fat and high-sugar foods like fast food, pizza and pastries from your diet while you're trying to lose that waist weight, you'll see super-fast results.
Step 2
Twist your waist slim. Twisting exercises target and attack flab around the middle, especially the love handle areas. You know, that "muffin top" that you're so embarrassed about? Twisting exercises are great for thinning and trimming this area of the waist. Try this one: standing with feet a little wider than shoulder width apart, touch the fingers of your hand to your shoulders, elbows pointed outward. Now, keeping the head and hips facing forward, twist your torso back and forth. Start slowly at first so you don't pull anything. Try to bring your elbows in to the center of your chest to get the most benefit from the twisting motion. Suck your abs in while you perform this exercise. Now, speed it up, twisting back and forth for a count of 50. Make sure your head and hips continue to point forward, locked in place. You can do this exercise three or four times a day or more.
Step 3
Walk every day. This doesn't mean strolling, but fast walking. If you can get out and walk for between 30 minutes to an hour a day, you'll notice that your waist will start feeling trimmer in about a week. While you walk, hold in your abs and keep your butt cheeks tight. Walking is a great all-around exercise that helps maintain cardiovascular health and increases metabolism, which will help burn more calories.
Step 4
Perform crunches every day. The abdominals are a huge muscle group and can be worked every day. Lie down on your back on the floor, knees bent. Place your hands to the side of your head. Suck in your abs and exhale, lifting the head and shoulders off the floor. Hold that position for a second and then lower, keeping the head and shoulders off the floor as you "crunch" the abs inward. This exercise is great for the upper portion of the abs. Do this about 10 to 15 times. Stay in the same position.
Now, keeping your abs tucked in and the hip bones on the floor, lift the lower legs, knees bent, toward your chest. Lower the heels to the floor and gently tap the floor, then bring them up to your chest again. This is a reverse ab crunch and will work the lower abdominals. Do this exercise 10 to 15 times.
Variations of this basic form will work the side of the abs, or the obliques, where those love handles are. Lie on the floor, knees bent and hands to the side of the head. Lift your left knee toward your chest while at the same time twisting your right elbow toward the center of the chest, trying to touch your elbow to your knee. Do this 10 times and then switch sides and repeat.
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