To lose weight and get abs effectively there are two things you have to do:Get rid of you existing fat, and develop some muscle in your abdominal region.
You can accomplish both of these at the same time by doing the following: For getting rid of your existing fat: Do cardiovascular exercise 3-4 times a week at a moderate pace for 30 minutes.
This does work for burning fat quickly and effectively.
The key is to get in the fat burning zone and to do that you can't over exert yourself during your cardio exercise.
For instance if you choosing walking as your exercise, walk at a pace where you can still barely carry on a conversation.
Not too hard, but not too easy.
This is the fat burning zone where you'll burn off your existing fat.
For diet, focus on cutting down on you heavy carbohydrate consumption, such as breads and pastas.
Switch over to vegetables and some fruits.
The heavy carbs raise insulin levels and will prevent you from burning off fat.
Many people experience excellent results at losing weight simply by switching to vegetables over the heavy carbohydrates.
For getting your six pack abs: This will require performing abdominal exercises which focus on developing the ab muscles completely.
Both the upper abs and the lower abs, plus the side oblique muscles.
There are a whole lot of different exercises you can do to hit all these areas, and quite frankly you can get caught up in weeks of trial and error trying to find the best one's.
That's why I recommend you simply get yourself on a ab program which has the best exercises all laid out, and all you have to do is follow it from day one.
This way you cut straight to the chase and eliminate the weeks and weeks of trial and error most people go through.
A good ab program will get you the six pack results as fast as possible.