If you're working out hard but CAN'T lose weight 🥲

22 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, Eric Roberts explains why people who engage in intense workouts such as HIIT, sprints, or running often struggle to lose weight. He describes how such exercise initially suppresses hunger hormones, making the individual feel less hungry right after the session. However, a few hours later the hormones rebound, causing a strong appetite, especially for sweets, leading to overeating. Roberts uses a shaken‑soda analogy: shaking a soda can does nothing until the lid is opened, at which point it explodes—mirroring the delayed urge to eat after intense exercise. He emphasizes the practical calorie balance, noting that it takes roughly 50 minutes to burn 500 calories through exercise, but only five minutes or less to consume the same amount of calories, which explains why many hard‑working exercisers see little change on the scale.

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Here's what nobody tells you about exercise and hunger. When you do intense exercising like HIIT, sprints, running, your hunger hormones go haywire. In the short term, they usually get suppressed. That's why you're not really that hungry right after an intense workout. But a few hours later, they overshoot. And by 9:00 PM, you're standing in your kitchen and you just can't stop yourself from getting something to eat, especially sweets or sugar. Think of intense exercise like shaking a can of soda. While you're shaking it, nothing happens, but the second you pop that lid open, it explodes everywhere. And that's the overeating. It takes you 50 minutes to burn 500 calories. It takes you 5 minutes or less to eat 500 calories. That's why so many people work out harder but don't see the scale go down.