All in all one could hope so. But alas, this article - like SO many about dieting - so annoyingly focuses on the "not losing, must be eating more calories" as a given.

What about actually considering biochemistry: how exercise directly affects insulin and whether that directly affects fat storage, whether exercise stress contributes to cortisol rise that complicates weight loss, etc. etc. Rather than like a kindergartener assuming it's all tied to eating more. I do of course expect that eating more is a factor for many, but there are also plenty of people on these boards who've toed the line with calorie counts (and sometimes in tandem with carb-counting), exercised earnestly and well, and watched their weight inexplicably rise - where the prevailing 'wisdom' math is not valid at all.

Until more researchers look at what is actually happening as opposed to making assumptions about overeating, and until the media and the public start to look at things with more scientific-method legitimacy, we're all still living in the metabolic dark ages, with an obesity burden in the U.S. costing lives and tons of healthcare dollars and a whole load of fatty-mc-eat-a-lot insults. It is pathetic.