Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss?

antdude writes "The New York Times' Well blog reports that 'for some time, researchers have been finding that people who exercise don't necessarily lose weight.' A study published online in September 2009 in The British Journal of Sports Medicine was the latest to report apparently disappointing slimming results. In the study, 58 obese people completed 12 weeks of supervised aerobic training without changing their diets. The group lost an average of a little more than seven pounds, and many lost barely half that. How can that be?"

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Cause you eat to much fat f*ck!

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Cause you eat to much fat f*ck!

Body weight management is a basic input/output formula (barring influencing medical conditions). I have no sympathy for the majority of obese people, a little self discipline goes a long way.

Oddly the article does not list exercise duration, but assuming that the 500kcal per session is accurate, these people are eating the equivalent of a small African village, which is hardly surprising.

Seems that the conclusion that this study found is that, getting a bunch of people consisting of mostly fat, make em actually move, generates muscles, weight reduction is not that significant, as they are mostly replacing fat with muscles. Any gym bunny could tell you that...