title: Exercise in weight management.
abstract: Exercise is integral to successful weight loss and maintenance. When talking to patients about exercise, consider their readiness, and address the barriers that prevent exercise. Physicians can help those patients who already exercise by encouraging them to continue and helping them anticipate, and recover from, lapses. Providing resource material to patients on behavioral strategies for exercise adoption and weight management can supplement the physician's efforts. Overall, patients need to hear that any regular exercise, be it step-aerobics, walking, or taking the stairs, will benefit them.
authors.affiliation: Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI 02906, USA.
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Pinto
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Szymanski
mesh_terms: D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015431:Weight Loss / Q000502:physiology*