> You can't outrun a bad diet

In spite of jamming as much junk food down my throat as I possibly could, I struggled to maintain weight on the Appalachian trail. You can definitely outrun a bad diet. (Not that it's a healthy way to live either.)

Not everyone can. Genetic factors and how your body handles insulin determine almost everything about how your body will gain or lose weight and in what conditions.

Gary Taubes book “Why we get fat,” is a great read on this subject.

I agree that outrunning a diet is something that outliers do, but has Gary Taubes found a way for his foundation to confirm his claims after it refuted them? There's little doubt that genetics and how your body handles insulin have influence, but the variations still don't compare with how many calories you consume versus how much you move, given a healthy diet.

You can eat a lot of calories and lose weight.

I have lost weight like that before, but can't maintain a 2 hour a day exercise routine.

I imagine you can't stay on the Appalachian trail forever.

So eventually a bad diet will lap us.

I had the same problem on the AT.

But, yknow, HYOH