We only have a limited amount of willpower every day. While we’re hungry we have less. We have to find ways to help us stand being on a calorie deficit for the length of our diet Featuring: Kristen Vickers is the director of wellness coaching for the Mayo Clinic Healthy Living program. Her primary research interests include patient education, health behavior change, and patient self-management of chronic conditions. Richard Weil is an exercise physiologist, certified diabetes educator, and...

It turns out exercise doesn’t help us lose much weight. But it has plenty of other benefits including weight maintenance and muscle retention.

While we’re losing weight by definition we’re on a calorie deficit-- not eating enough food for our body to continue at its current size. Which means that we’ll be hungry.

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