What exercises work for female waist area?

you cant spot reduce areas fat comes off where it wants. eat in a deficit and you will lose the fat. enter your stats into my fitness pal,put how much you want to lose a week and eat to that calorie goal. exercise is for health and can help with fat loss too but a caloric deficit will help even without exercise.

All that is true, but Jillian Michaels' BodyShred and also her way cheaper Six Week Six Pack videos always reduce my waist measurement even if nothing else changes much. Her exercises seem to pull everything in. That said, I don't carry much of my weight on my waist.