re: Study of Biggest Losers finds that the body wants and will fight to be Fat

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and you really run close to 50 miles a week? I'm not judging I asking honestly, do you believe this to be healthy and good for your body?

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50 miles a week is on the moderate side. It sounds like most of the folks you know who are runners are primarily recreational runners (not that I'm denying I am one now).

I have no idea what "real" weight lifting and the science is all about. I know running and what my experience was. Depending on what I was doing I averaged 70 for anything under 1/2 distances and up to 115-120 for marathon training. Please understand the distance was never static. I believed in periodization. My mileage in the winter might be as low as 50 or so. I liked to race in the fall because that was the season I was accustomed to as a young guy. Spring races were never my best as I was rounding into race shape.

I wish I could say I ran with the true elites. I was on the outside looking in. I once smoked a guy who ran in the 84 olympics. I was pretty cocky until a mutual friend told me that he was coming off of a serious knee injury.

I can't speak for how healthy running is as it is my lifestyle. I'm not a drinker or smoker. Running has always been my physical outlet and my passion athletically. Only fishing compares, well that and sex.