Exercise alone won't make you thin - but odds are you still need to exercise more

SHOOT: I hate articles like this because it's a fact that the a huge porportion of the US population is obese and could do with exercise.

What's the takeout? Just this: It is a holistic balanc e that allows us to lose weight. Try to enjoy it. If exercising is an emotional struggle, you'll probably compensate or reward yourself by eating chocolate bars. The whole campaign towards wellness must be something you fully subscribe to, in terms of lifestyle. A great way to lose weight is to quit letting machines do the work. Drive less. Don't use the escalator or the elevator. Above all, try to enjoy the process. If you can do that, you have truly internalised that it is something you want, rather than simply accepting that it is what you think society wants for you.

clipped from www.time.com "In general, for weight loss, exercise is pretty useless," says Eric Ravussin, chair in diabetes and metabolism at Louisiana State University and a prominent exercise researcher. Many recent studies have found that exercise isn't as important in helping people lose weight as you hear so regularly in gym advertisements or on shows like The Biggest Loser — or, for that matter, from magazines like this one. The basic problem is that while it's true that exercise burns calories and that you must burn calories to lose weight, exercise has another effect: it can stimulate hunger. That causes us to eat more, which in turn can negate the weight-loss benefits we just accrued. Exercise, in other words, isn't necessarily helping us lose weight. It may even be making it harder. Whether because exercise makes us hungry or because we want to reward ourselves, many people eat more — and eat more junk food, like doughnuts — after going to the gym.