I agree that the problem has nothing to do with workout, from what I've observed working out over the age of ~35 only increases appetite and increases weight. When you're in your 20's its easy to burn lots of calories working out, when you hit that wall ~35 you workout, burn about 200 calories...and then get hungry and eat 400 more. It's all about not eating as many calories.

The thing we are fighting is...our brains. Call it the way god made us or millions of years of evolution, we are hard wired to crave those calories and eat them whenever we can. The more the better, like oreos, and things with butter . We're flooded with easy accessible calories. And just telling people not to eat, or to have willpower isn't going to work. So what we really need is a way for people to reduce calories.

We need a doughnut that has a net negative calorie somehow. Come on science!