“It’s time to ignore any advice you’ve heard about your sweat and hard work in the gym sabotaging your weight loss efforts by causing you to eat more. Every little bit of exercise can help shift unwanted flab.

“So, is dieting the only way to lose weight, or does it all boil down to becoming more active?

Some argue weight loss is all about how much (or how little) a person eats, while others support the view that it’s mostly a person’s activity (or lack of it) that most affects weight loss or gain.

“A more extreme view that occasionally surfaces is that exercise only drives an increased appetite for food, and the extra calories consumed surpass those burned during the exercise.

“If this is really the case, the argument becomes “why even bother getting active at all?” [Read the entire article here.]