Strenuous Exercise Can Make You Gain Weight?

There was an interesting article recently on Huffington Post about weight loss. Now, the health/medicine stuff on HuffPo is often rife with pseudoscientific garbage, so I don’t take anything they say that seriously, but this article sounded plausible to me. First it said that unless you’re Michael Phelps, the amount you exercise basically has no effect on your weight, because, if you do the math, you’ll see that you have to do just an insane amount of exercise to burn off the amount of calories you gain by eating say, half a cookie. Losing weight is all about diet. That much I already believed. The next thing it said though, which had never really sunk in before, was that you can actually gain weight by exercising too much, because strenuous exercise makes you really hungry, and then you get back from your workout and eat way more than you would have otherwise. It said light exercise like walking can actually be better in this regard for losing weight.