Regular exercise doesn’t always show on the scales. Here’s how to make your workout work
It is a universal frustration that even the most diligent gym regimen does not always pay off with pounds lost on the scales. Why exercise won’t automatically make you thinner has been the subject of a raft of studies over the years, but the upshot is usually that it has the annoying and inconvenient effect of making us hungry. After a workout we eat more, often without realising it, which ensures those pounds stubbornly resist all the sweaty effort to shift them.
In the latest study to demonstrate this, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers followed 171 inactive men and women, putting some of them to task with a plan that required them to exercise three times a week on treadmills or…