Analysis: You Counteract Your Accomplishments With Sabotage

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Exercise Fail! 4 Reasons You're Not Losing Weight

Working out all the time without seeing results? Driving yourself mad trying to figure out why even with regular, rigorous exercise, you're failing to reach your weight loss goals? Science has been contemplating the situation, too, and produced some very reasonable explanations:

You Counteract Your Accomplishments With Sabotage!

While you do deserve a pat on the back for a great workout, having a juicy cheeseburger as a reward will unequivocally counteract all the good you did for yourself!

Scientists refer to such rewards as compensation calories and millions of people are guilty. Society in general tends to be driven by rewards, however, all your exercise efforts are in vain when you congratulate

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