FWIW, my experience disagrees with this. I was overweight, started running (starting around 9mi&#x2F;wk, when I got bored and stopped I was up around 24mi&#x2F;wk), and started losing weight quickly, lost a ton of it over a year, after which I was at a very good weight for me. Now, as the piece touches on, that exercise did change my eating, but the outcome of that isn&#x27;t clear to me -- I stopped eating&#x2F;snacking for a few hours before a run so I wouldn&#x27;t cramp. But I also started eating a lot more outside of those exercise windows, as running so much made me quite ravenous at times. Ate anything and everything I wanted and I just kept dropping weight as long as I kept running.<p>Haven&#x27;t looked at the data cited in the article, but my guess is that these studies are looking mostly at what&#x27;s often defined as &quot;moderate&quot; exercisers, that is, people who walk an hour every day or something similarly unintensive. Which is vastly better than nothing, but it isn&#x27;t exactly a hard workout like what I was engaging in, and I wouldn&#x27;t expect to drop much weight if that&#x27;s all I was doing.