# Chapter 267

You cannot outrun your fork. I am reminded of this each morning when I get on the scale to measure the changes in my weight. The scales do not lie. You cannot outrun your fork. You may for short periods of time, but in the long run the folk keeps perfect count and will not miss a single calorie. While your exercise keeps trying (and succeeding!) to burn those calorie more and more efficiently. It is how every single human body was designed to function and you will not win this battle. You simply cannot run or bike or swim more and burn more calories indefinitely. Your body will adjust, become more economical and efficient and you have lost weight so it takes less calories to do what you did before. You have become stronger so it takes less energy to accomplish the same as you did previously. You will burn less, and the only way to compensate for that is to eat less. And that is constant contest, to find the balance to keep your weight where you want it and to find our how much you can eat and not start gaining it back.

In a perfect world where you could exercise all day you would reach your perfect weight and eat all you want. But that world doesn’t happen often for most and sooooo . . . you realize how very little to takes to live and stay at your current weight and you keep moving because fitness gives you so many great gifts and you want those, you need those! But don’t even try to outrun your fork, it can’t be done.