Have you experienced starting an intense workout program, diligently sweating and working your butt off every day, and then gotten on the scale and seeing the number stay the same, or even go up? The Sedentary Athlete and Compensatory Eating saboteurs may be to blame. They go together like a couch and potato chips ! As we saw in the post on NEAT, calories burned from traditional exercise compared to calories burn from staying active throughout the day show that the latter is more important for overall energy expenditure. That leaves the question of the role of exercise. Exercise is…