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

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

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?

But while this might be a familiar pattern, it’s not necessarily a super-sized hunger at play. Let’s see what the science says.

How exercise impacts our appetite

While many people report that exercise…

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