Skip this one if you want to continue eating those chips, it'll only make you feel bad.

This day is dragging. I'm excited about so many different things in my life these days, but the present moment in this armless swivel chair is not one of them.

Good comment as always Nikhila. It's interesting to hear this article is old news to you and many others in the long-term dieting fitness crowd. I guess only people like me who in the past haven't really exercised or thought about weight loss much might be surprised, basing our assumptions on advertising propoganda and popular culture which point towards exercise as an effective weight loss tool. I'm still surprised that the effect of exercise on mood, indirectly causing a lowered calorie intake, has no effect on the studies supporting this article. I'm always interested in studies like this breaking down results based on various population variables, such as salary/standard of living, education, age, gender, genetic propensity towards mental illnesses such as depression/anxiety, etc. Maybe if we teased out the variables a little more we could find a significant effect on people who eat for depression/stress, versus people who are only overweight because of lack of consideration or genetics. I for instance, definitely belong in the first group. Most of the time I eat healthily, in moderate portions, don't tend to drink a lot, and my family isn't fat. If I'm going through a stressful situation or have PMS though, you can forget it. I am nuts. This Sunday is a good example. It was the day before my period. I got home at about 2 or 3pm after having breakfast at Marine Manor and then snacking at the vegetarian food festival. I opened up the box of Turkish Delight I had bought and promptly ate a third of it. Then I ate 3 friggin pastries from the lovely bakery down the street. THREE. Then I fell asleep from the sugar crash, woke up later, had a small amount of veggie stir fry as my "dinner," and went to Ken and Jeanne's for a roast chicken, baked potato, cake feast later on. The next day I got my period and ate about 5 tablespoons of Nutella while cleaning my room.

Here it is Wednesday and I have almost no desire for that crap. I ate a salad for lunch. Mood is a powerful thing. Exercise seems to make a majority of my days like this one, although it definitely can't fix everything.