05-13-2019, 04:06 PM
What happened to my obsessive long bike rides? I think I figured out what the metoprolol has been doing to me. It doesn't reduce my metabolism directly; it makes my heart more efficient. On a really long ride I noticed I never got hungry. It was as if my stomach shut down. On those long rides, my system would switch over to high efficiency. I still got sore muscles, but no significant extra calorie burn. So to trigger the extra calorie burn, I have to do something the shocks my system, something with an extra punch during a 20-30 minute period of exercise. I don't just ride any more; I stop and do something strenuous in the middle of shorter rides now. And when I walk, I stop to do some kind of workout on the way. Seems to be working.
It puzzled me why my heart was telling me that the long rides were not important any more.
I no longer have much interest in spending time with military folks. Instead, it's something totally different. It's almost as if I am expecting to see more people in that same kind of distress as troops face when far away from home. They are out of their comfort zone and life seems to be asking much bigger questions for them than before. So I'm trying to understand how that could be here in America, because I'm pretty sure I'm not leaving the country. It's more like the country is leaving us, if you can make sense of that.
Somehow I have peace about waiting for this thing. Last night I awoke sometime after midnight and never did get back to sleep. Instead, I lay in the bed just worshiping and thanking the Lord for everything under the sun. Stuff is happening, but I'm not feeling antsy any more.
It puzzled me why my heart was telling me that the long rides were not important any more.
I no longer have much interest in spending time with military folks. Instead, it's something totally different. It's almost as if I am expecting to see more people in that same kind of distress as troops face when far away from home. They are out of their comfort zone and life seems to be asking much bigger questions for them than before. So I'm trying to understand how that could be here in America, because I'm pretty sure I'm not leaving the country. It's more like the country is leaving us, if you can make sense of that.
Somehow I have peace about waiting for this thing. Last night I awoke sometime after midnight and never did get back to sleep. Instead, I lay in the bed just worshiping and thanking the Lord for everything under the sun. Stuff is happening, but I'm not feeling antsy any more.