# 25 - Exercise is the Key

At our weekly meeting with our social worker Alizah Shapiro and nutritionist Judy Kizer at the Efrat Women's Health Center we discussed the key to weight loss.
EXERCISE.
In fact, one of my friends mentioned a study that she had just read that stated that two groups were chosen for a weight loss experiment. The first group ate 1200 calories a day with no exercise. The second group ate 2000 calories a day and walked eight kilometers daily.
The second group proved to lose more weight, and also have all kinds of other benefits.
The message was clear. The key to a healthy life (including weight loss for those who need it) is to put exercise into your life, and increase its intensity with time.
Judy explained, "If you exercise now and can speak in paragraphs while exercising, notch it up by exercising to the point when you can only speak in short sentences."
We're back to the old adage, "Eat less, move more."
And I'm saying, even if right now you can't eat less, then at least move more!!