The one thing you need to know about weight loss and diet studies

Why studying diet is almost as difficult as losing weight
Studying diet is difficult. If you stick people in a lab and carefully measure everything they eat, you'll get an accurate picture of what went into their bodies, but the results won't reflect what goes on in the real world. If you set participants loose and ask them to report back on their calorie intake with little monitoring, you'll still get an inaccurate view because people are notoriously bad at remembering what they ate and frequently underestimate their calorie consumption.
Studying diet is also really expensive. So studies tend to be short term, and again not reflective of real-world outcomes. And we know most people, sadly, regain the weight they lose after a while, so in order to understand whether a diet truly works, a study needs to run for more than a year... and it's therefore more expensive and difficult to fund.

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TOPFIT Daily Activities --- Active Recovery Day
Sometimes after an high volume and/or intensity week you need a day of active recovery.  And boy was today active!  I started with a few hours of active time with Hailey and Mason.  The first hour or so were just moderately active, but the last hour and a half or more was a real workout.  Hailey wanted to run almost non-stop, racing me back and forth in the yard and running up and down the little hill I have.....plus we threw in lots of somersaults, spinning, jumping and hopping.  Hmmm......I wonder where she gets her energy from?
Later, I spent time giving my car the bath it needed so badly, and even cleaned the inside a bit.

~Feelin' Alive!~