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> >.  Until you have lived with a
> person who is hyperthyroid, you don't see the flip side, and that is the
> flip side, that those people burn extra calories not because they won't
> sit still, but because they CAN'T sit still...they end up having all
> kinds of trouble.

My father was hyperthyroid for but took an artificial anti-thyroxin for a 
number of years and eventually the chronic surplus level of thyroxin fell, 
permanently it seems.    So I am quite familiar with the condition.  But what 
you 
bring up very much illustrates the point.

In one of the old sitcoms, don't recall because it's been years and years 
since I've been exposed to broadcast TV, there was a fat slobby obnoxious guy 
who 
was always hitting on all the women who universally gave him the brush off.  
Everytime it happened he'd turn to his buddies and say, "Obviously a Lesbo 
..."

The women I described do not have hyperthyroidism.  It's rather rare, at 
least acute enough to cause uncontrolled jitters.  And it is like or would be 
Romeo in the above illustration to encounter a group of 13 women, seven of 
whom 
were rail thin and active, and say "Obviously they all have hyperthyroidism."

I do wonder if people go about their lives basing their conclusions and 
actions on the possiblity of very rare phenoma.

> 
> >I am already more fit than most women my age, because of my lifestyle, I
> think.  I just want more.

The question remains, and in fact becomes much more germane.  Do you know of 
any fit women your age who gained significantly greater strength and 
flexibility from the sort of regimen that you propose?

James