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Doctors tell us to simply work out and eat well? Why doesn’t it work?

Several UGA professors are trying to tackle that exact question by looking at the psychological factors behind compensation during exercise programs. For example, people often overeat to reward themselves for working out.

“They don’t have a good sense of the calories being burned versus how much they can ingest,” says Michael Schmidt, a kinesiology professor and leader of the study said in an October 3 story in The Flagpole.  “It’s much easier to ingest calories than burn them.”