High Physical Activity During a Weight Loss Intervention for Breast Cancer Survivors and High Risk Women

Participants will take part in supervised exercise activities two times per week at a YMCA. Length of the activity will be increased during participation in study. Participants will start at 40 minutes per week and work their way up to 120 minutes per week.

Aerobic exercise activities to be completed at home. Participants will be asked to start out doing 60 minutes at home and work up to 180 minutes of purposeful aerobic home exercise per week.

Diet is a nutritionally balanced, reduced energy diet recommended by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Sessions are weekly months 1-3 and every other week months 4-6. The calls will discuss lifestyle changes specific to participants and cover the effects of diet, physical activity, and weight on breast cancer risk, as well as body image and emotional eating.