Originally Posted by
Spectral
If you want to lose weight healthily, continuing to lift weights is a very, very good idea. There's a substantial "afterburn" effect that's induced from resistance training that increases your calorie consumption rate for more than a day following the training, as your body works to build and rebuild the muscles in response to the training. Whether you're going for aesthetics or health, lifting weights for strength and fitness should remain an important consideration.
If you're concerned that lifting weights will make it difficult to lose weight, don't be. Getting large muscular gains is difficult and requires significant amounts of food. If you're running a calorie deficit, the goal should be to keep as much of your muscle as possible, and that's encouraged by resistance training, getting enough protein, and getting enough fat (this emphatically does not mean a lot of fat, just that you don't want to go on an extreme low fat diet - cutting out fried foods and fatty cuts of meat is a good idea, avoiding all fats is not).