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Fitness & Health

You Worked Out Once. You May Now Eat Whatever You Want Forever.

14 minutes. 1 set. ~120 calories burned. Ordering: pizza, large fries, cake — ~1,950 kcal. “I earned this.” We document the compensation and licensing effects, do the maths nobody wants to do, chart calorie burned vs reward consumed across five exercise types, and explain the actual relationship between exercise and eating when you remove the reward logic from it.

Fitness & Health

How a $200 Gym Membership Made an Excellent Coat Rack

The gym bag has been on the coat rack since January 14th. The membership is $47/month. Last visit: January 12th. Current cost per visit: $80 and declining daily. We trace the twelve-month lifecycle of an unused gym membership, audit the psychology of not cancelling, and produce the Exercise Reality Matrix showing that the highest-consistency exercise options are largely free.

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