The real reason you may not be losing weight

The exercise-more, eat-more attitude can backfi re, according to a recent study . After 328 overweight women exercised for six months, those who had worked out for 190 minutes a week lost the same amount of weight on average as those who exercised just 70 minutes. "The frequent exercisers said they felt entitled to eat more ," says lead study author Tim Church, M.D., director of preventive-medicine research at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Reward yourself with a hot bath instead. After all, what you really deserve is to see your work pay off.