Cardio & Weights For Weight Loss

Diet = looking good with clothes on
Diet + Exerecise = looking good without clothes

Your diet is the most important part of your weight loss program. Exercise is obviously good for your health but will not necessarily speed up your weight loss. You will look and feel better though ... go for it!

In order to lose weight you need to create a calorie deficit. To do this you need to use energy by doing exercise, either cardio or weights. They both have there benefits and you should do both. Weights help you build and maintain muscle, keeping you strong and will help with posture and movement as you get older.
Cardio burns energy mostly while you're doing it, whereas, weight training will continue to use energy even after you're finished because the body repairs the muscle fibres and bone density increases

If your gaining muscle forget the scales go by tape measure only

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First phase is being lean/slimming & then when I am at an reasonable weight say 75-70kg I will start weight training that is the second phase.

You'd be better off preserving your lean muscle mass while losing weight than trying to add muscle back on later.

@ninerbuff @SideSteel maybe you'd like to chime in here.

To me it is easier to build muscle when the body is lean because I will be able to
see it when the body fat percentage is like 10-15%!!!

You're not getting it...when you diet, you lose muscle mass as well as fat...if you're doing resistance training, this mitigates the loss of muscle mass to a significant extent...it's already there, why not preserve it...it's much more difficult to build it than to preserve it.

^ correct, as usual