She said women use many excuses to avoid exercise. One must learn to structure exercise into daily life. Another problem is society's constant messages to women to be thin. McElroy said many women will watch infomercials or exercise videos and expect to experience immediate results. If they don't see instant weight loss, they lose interest in exercising and quit altogether.
Women see the reason to exercise as to lose pounds, lose inches or drop dress sizes.
I call this cosmetic exercise. It's a side benefit. It's not the main point. A research team led by James A. Levine of the Endocrine Research Unit at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., gave 16 volunteers more food than they needed to maintain their weight. The study found that the degrees to which the subjects' bodies stored the extra food as fat varied ten-fold.