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  One of the most common things you hear of in weight loss circles is the statement of, 'I have not lost weight on the scales but my clothes are looser'. The common explanation for this is that muscle weighs more than fat and so if you are losing size but not weight on the …

  One of the most common things you hear of in weight loss circles is the statement of, 'I have not lost weight on the scales but my clothes are looser'. The common explanation for this is that muscle weighs more than fat and so if you are losing size but not weight on the …

It's a message that's got louder over the last few years: exercise doesn't work for weight loss. There was the 2009 Time magazine cover story The Myth about Exercise featuring a photo of a woman pounding a treadmill, her eyes trained on a cream-topped cupcake. It symbolised the story's thrust: research suggesting exercise won't help weight loss because it makes us eat more to make up for the kilojoules we burn. It's a message repeated recently in the new book Big Fat Lies in which author David Gillespie - a lawyer - describes exercise for weight loss as 'pointless'. But is it really true?

he battle of the bulge is on -- any movement on the scale yet? "Losing weight is one of the top resolutions made every year, yet only 20 percent of people achieve successful weight-loss and maintenance," says Jessica Bartfield,MD, internal medicine who specializes in nutrition and weight management at the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery & Bariatric Care.

Does an empty stomach effect our workout and why? Does it improve weight loss or not?