Okay I am averaging 3 days a week on my bike for approximately 20 miles a day. 5 of those miles are what I call piddle-fart miles, time spent with a friend pedaling while we talk of the prior day and what the day ahead will require of us. We do ride at 4:00 am and I am sure we are getting some points for that alone. I do the piddlefart ride regardless of whether I bike to work or not. But on the way to and from work, I am pedaling an avg. of 15 miles per hour for 22 to 25 minutes. Now look, I don't want to be a sad-sack, but my legs are aching and quite frankly, I am feeling beat up for nothing. I have not lost a pound. Not one. And I can not swear to you that I have lost any inches. I have basically ridden my ass off, withstanding the stares of passers-by, who I am convinced sing, "she's a brick house" as I ride by. I don't want muscle!!! Well, I do, but not two tons of it. I live in fear of looking like The Hulk on a bike.
Somebody, puh-leeeeeez splain to me...........if i don't have any thyroid, i don't have any metabolism. If I don't have a metabolism, how can I up it to lose weight? In essence, I have this feeling that EVERYTHING, good, bad, or otherwise, that I eat is retained on my bones, except for what explodes from my body every couple of days or so. I am not gettin' it. Help me out. I have a feeling I am riding for nothing. I take thyroid meds....so I must have thyroid juice in me. I get tested, the doc just reduced it 6 weeks ago cause I was running on the high side of normal. I haven't heard from him so I guess I am "normal. So if anyone has any appropriately related info,,,lay it on.
As for me, I'll be back at it in the am.
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Keep riding. Even if you're not losing weight, your body will work better if it's in tune. :) That's all I got, Geo - sorry. Ask the doc?
Sorry I missed your posts for the past few days, but I've been really entertained by the udda brudda's 3-weekday visit to the Thought Dock. Anyway, about 15 years ago, I started cycling for exercise. I averaged about 100 miles of riding per week over the hills and through the winds of the High Desert. Never lost any weight, but I felt good. I loved it and my goad was to ride from home to Vegas some day over a few days. Never followed through on that one though. Anyway, keep it up. Even though you, like me, will never be skinny, you'll live longer and better.
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