I try to stay fit by utilizing an elliptical trainer 30 minutes at a time at least 4 days a week.   I also perform some ab exercises as well as light weights and stretching. 
 
However, it seems like I'm not seeing any results.  Meaning, I just had to get a new belt because the old one no longer circumvents my girth.
 
Jesse Q. Screed

Not unless you count what I do for a living (gardener), and walking the dog. My waistline increases during the winter when I'm not busy and decreases from spring to autumn.

I go to the gym regularly and find that doing fitness classes is far more effective than working out on my own because the teacher is barking orders at you for 45 minutes or so and there isn't much opportunity to slack, which I'm prone to do in a solo workout.

Yes, I lift regularly. My doctor (who is amazing BTW) gave me two great quotes:
 
"You put muscle on in the gym, you lose weight in the kitchen"
and
"you can't out exercise a bad diet"
 
My experience is that 30 minutes of cardio with light weights even every day isn't going to dent your fat - unless you are already programmed to be skinny.
 
You're going to have to honestly re-assess your diet...

Hi,
 
Not enough ... but it will change real quick after this week! Guaranteed!

It's not just diet, it's lifestyle. The heaviest I ever got was 197. When I got laid off in 2004, I weighed 183.
 
Since then, I've acquired two dogs (who get one long walk (average 3 miles), plus 3-4 short walks (1/4 to 1/2 miles each) per day), gotten rid of a wife who wanted nothing more to do with me, and moved up the hill to Flagstaff from Scottsdale, where I can spend a LOT more time outside on my feet and moving around instead of parked on my a$$.
 
I drink a couple of beers a couple of times per week, otherwise water, tea and smoothies. I mostly eat stir-fry with GABA-activated brown rice, with one cook giving me 3-4 meals (only one chicken breast or one boneless pork chop goes into each stir-fry).
 
I now weigh 140, and have been stable at that weight for 3 years.
 
Giving up hard liquor and wine was easy. Giving up daily beers was kind of tough.
 
But giving up cookies, when some of my medical marijuana strains are total munchie starters? Geez, but that's been a REAL beatch! 

I also use an elliptical 4-5 days a week.  My sessions are 40 minutes, targeting the mid 20 @ an 85-90% max heart rate.  I also walk Nikki multiple times a day with a 2-3 mile target in total, weather depending.  Hot weather wears on both of us, so hot weather walks are shorter.  My results have been longer times required to achieve higher heart rates & sweat.  It doesn't seem to matter much for weight 
 
Nikki @15 mos.  She's now 10 years:
 

 
 

Absolutely.... I have already logged over 100 miles biking since Jan 1 this year, and a bunch more walking..... we do a 3 mile bike/run weather permitting.

My fitness coach insists that I work out with her on a regular daily basis.... Without the daily run we do, and the walking, she's a bundle of energy.... so she is my motivator to get off my butt and work out.
 

 
come on...lets run...
 

 
 you paddle, I'll enjoy the scenery.... and letting my tail drag in the water..
 

 
yep... she's my fitness coach.... unrelentingly so.

This is BC, but I still manage a few trees a year (or more):
 
Cutting down, cutting up oaks, black cherry and walnut (chain saw) and hand splitting. Also pretty good for the tinnitus :)
 

robbyk
 

Robbie ... catch Groundhogs' CrossCut Saw album and listen to that lead song ... it would be your theme song!