What are the most effective ways to lose weight in the abdominal, hips and upper leg areas?

Cardio: I suspect this is where you have been gaining most of your weight. If there is diabetes, carbohydrate intolerance in your family lineage this would make sense why you gain weight there. If you're eating lots of carb's.Grains you're doing the same thing we do to fatten a cow.. We grain them! increasing your protein decreasing your carbohydrate intake drinking water and stopping soda!