We’re thinking about merging this section, what do you think?

Completely nonsensical to even consider merging exercise into Weight Loss Chat, as I think of you polled the users in this area you’d find that many are NOT trying to lose weight

Exercise could be merged with Weights Room.
Does there really need to be 7 different weight loss/special diet/slimming club groups?

Women's health could include Menopause group
An unbrella long-term conditions group could replace Diabetes/Autoimmune/Lifelimiting/Allergies/++ groups.

If you're looking for merger opportunities.

Baffling. I'm not trying to lose weight so I'd never have though to look in that section. I wanted advice as a newbie to running. Find the suggestion that it belongs under weight loss a bit disturbing actually. Like others I'd just go back to HealthUnlocked boards.

I agree with the others - exercise and weight loss are very different things, so it's a no from me.

I actually think that's quite worrying / depressing that HQ think it's right to put exercise with weight loss.

I agree. Several of the merger suggestions I’ve seen have been nonsensical but this one is completely warped!

No.

Exercise is a health/wellbeing issue, which is nothing to do with weight loss.

Now, people who are interested in losing weight might also be interested in exercise to speed it up a bit.

But many people here are a totally normal weight, and want to talk about exercise.

If this merger goes ahead I shall be looking for new sites for when I want to chat about exercise, and just not post on MN about it any more.

This cull isn't about rolling up lesser used topics, is it? This topic is well used, and next to none of the threads are about weight loss. WTAF is really going on?

As others have said, exercise & weight loss are very different things & don't really belong in the same topic.

I need both sections but they need to be separate.

Also for a person trying to lose weight it's not much fun seeing all the posts about people running marathons!

Terrible idea frankly. I exercise to gain - muscle building and appetite increase.

I actually think that's quite worrying / depressing that HQ think it's right to put exercise with weight loss.

Are we all that neurotic about what the scales say we would only ever exercise to be thin?!?!?

I train for 1/2 marathons and put weight ON during training for stamina / endurance!!!

Please don't - it's patronising and very bad for people recovering from eating disorders etc who may be using exercise as a way to look after themselves but then get drawn into the diet boards - or to viewing exercise as something intrinsically linked with weight loss rather than strength, health, fitness and fun.

I'm really quite cross about this suggestion!!

Oh it's already under health, I think that it should stay there in that case. None of the threads on here are centred on weight loss.

I think it would make more sense to put exercise under health if anything not weight loss. Agree that weightlifting and yoga etc should probably just be merged into exercise as well.

No I think exercise is totally different to weight loss. By all means put any sort of sub exercise topics such as weight lifting into exercise but it's very, very different.

I think there's more traffic in weight loss than exercise and I think that exercise threads would get lost in the mass of diet type advice. A lot of people do exercise for non weight loss reasons.

I agree; new users might not find exercise if the topic was weight loss, it would bpneed to be well signposted

Not everyone exercises for weight loss. Would you rename the weight loss area to something like "Weight loss and exercise"?