ABSTRACT
The importance of exercise in weight management is a source of confusion and frustration for both health-care professionals and laypeople for a constellation of reasons. Individuals are confused by the discrepant and often conicting recommendations regularly put forth by a variety of private and public health organizations, and the concepts of weight gain prevention, and of weight loss and prevention of regain can be confusing even to professionals who are not weight management specialists. It is compounded by the observation that while updates to exercise recommendations are often specic to weight gain prevention, weight loss, or prevention of regain, this nuance is often lost in translation by the press and an exercise recommendation for the prevention of weight regain may be incorrectly described as the amount of exercise needed to lose weight. To further complicate the issue, there are exercise recommendations focused specically on general health, which are not focused on weight management.
