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Nick Fuller, Clinical Trials Director, Department of Endocrinology, RPA Hospital, University of Sydney

I’m trying to lose weight. Will exercising make me hungrier and eat more?

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We’ve all been there. You spend an hour in the gym, and before you even reach the change room, you start thinking about our favourite takeaway meal – after all, you’ve earned it!

Before long, you’re tucking into a super-sized meal. Then the guilt hits: what was the point of exercising to burn all those calories if it just makes us eat even more calories?

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