It's a popular belief that with exercise, calories in = calories out, so it's just a matter of burning enough calories to lose weight. On the surface, this makes sense. However, over the past month, I've been jogging about 4 hours a week on average, and the stubborn last bit of weight I was trying to skim off stuck around, and I even gained a couple pounds! My finding from negative results when jogging so much is that different intensities of exercise have different metabolic effects. It's probably not a matter of how many calories someone burns off and consumes in a day, but how the body is activated to process the calories. With jogging, my body wasn't being pushed enough, and probably went into 'storage mode.' This is why I've stopped jogging and have decided to do a combination of boxing in place on a mat and intervals of jumping jacks for 30 minutes. The boxing/jumping jacks is more intense, and the first time I did this, I was so sore I h...