Exercises to Help With Weight Management
It’s common to gain weight after a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. Exercise offers many benefits for people with a history of breast cancer – easing fatigue and other side effects, building strength, reducing the risk of recurrence – and it’s also key to losing weight.
In this video, Sami Mansfield, a certified cancer trainer, demonstrates a short series of strength exercises designed to build muscle, which will boost metabolism and help you lose weight.
Sami Mansfield is an exercise oncology and lifestyle medicine consultant.
As the founder of Cancer Wellness for Life, Sami has dedicated her career to empowering cancer survivors and clinicians through innovative, evidence-based programs that improve health outcomes while optimizing cost-efficiency. With diverse experience in clinical practice, research and consulting, she has pioneered sustainable wellness strategies that integrate AI, enhance accessibility, and bridge equity gaps.
Sami’s expertise extends across healthcare organizations, cancer centers, and policy-making initiatives. She is a contributing author to groundbreaking guidelines, including the ASCO Guidelines on Exercise, Nutrition, and Weight Management, and has helped shape numerous state cancer control plans. She is the current chair of the Cancer Member Interest Group for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, where she drives forward initiatives emphasizing the connection between science and implementation. Her patient-facing programs like BUILD and My Lifestyle Shift have reached global audiences, transforming lives through the pillars of lifestyle medicine.
An engaging speaker and prolific thought leader, Sami inspires audiences worldwide to embrace active lifestyles, highlighting the transformative power of exercise and lifestyle to thrive for not only her patients but her colleagues.
— Last updated on July 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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