Hi, I'm Brenda Thompson, registered dietitian and owner of Life Skills Nutrition. In this segment I'm going to talk about incorporating exercise in your life for weight loss. Before you start any exercise regimen, you definitely want to talk to your doctor first so that you don't have any complications that might occur. When you start an exercise program, you always want to remember that it is calories in, calories out. Diet and exercise work hand in hand. There is no secret to losing weight like I said, it's the amount of calories that you take in and the amount of calories that you expend. Aerobic exercise helps you burn those calories. Strength training helps you increase your metabolism. The reason is because when you're strength training, you increase the muscles, and muscles take more calories than fat take to maintain. So the more muscles you build in your body, the more calories you're going to burn throughout the day. The more aerobic exercise you do, the more calories you're going to burn. It is recommended that you exercise 30 minutes at least five days a week. Here are some examples of things you might want to do for exercising. Brisk walking, you want to make sure that you can still talk when you're walking, but make sure that you're breathing a little bit heavily. Dancing is a wonderful way to get aerobic activity. Biking, low-impact aerobics, including water aerobics, swimming and playing tennis. Then we move then to lifting weights. You can also do bands, pilates, and yoga are also great ways to get in strength training. You do want to make sure that when you start an exercise program that you make stretching part of the regimen. It's important to warm up for about five minutes before you begin stretching. Stretching will help prevent any injuries that might prevent you from exercising and decreasing the weight that you might be able to lose during that time. So be careful, but however, find an exercise that you love. Exercise should make you feel good, it should relieve stress and be something that you love to do.