Q: Can I calculate the calorie cost of my favourite cheat meal and then use my fitness tracker to ensure I burn off the same number of calories during exercise to prevent weight gain?

A: You’d be better placed as a tax consultant than a fitness enthusiast. The whole point of adopting a healthy lifestyle is to, well, adopt a healthy lifestyle, and not to spend mental energy finding ways to cheat the system...

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