Weight Loss: Easier than you think?

Hey guys, just offering up a little something that's been quite a thing for a while now: I'm loosing weight and not really even trying.

That's a hell of a thing for me to say. And be damned, it feels like I'm not even trying. To cement the concept, lets deal with one thing off the bat: I own a bicycle because I am too poor to own a car. Really? Who isn't? Talk about a secret group of people -you've- never heard of called 'everybody' right?
When I graduated from College and managed to get a decent job, commuting became part of my regular day. I started, much like you would, by walking. Walking, it turns out, isn't really an effective fat burner. You have to do it for hours to get anything approaching effective caloric burn and even though you're working the largest muscles on the body, they are evolved for energy economy. We're a species of runners after all.
Tell you what's not easy to do: Cadence. No, I don't mean the princess. Cadence is the speed with which you turn your cogs (the front gears of the bike) in terms of Rotations/Seconds. When I bought my first bike (DO NOT MAKE AN ELECTRA TOWNIE YOUR FIRST BIKE) I was clued into this phenomena at the start and got with the program fast. Man alive did my Quads kill me the first couple of months!
See, Cadence is the rule with cycling. Modifying the speed of the pedal pumping is how hard you're working, not your travel speed! I found that as I became able to turn the cogs at a set rate, doing that but faster made me tire sooner and breathe harder. My muscle pain would jump and my body temp would rise and I'd only be able to keep it up for a little while. Obvious as that was, thinking only that I should be able to turn the pedals faster if I'm doing it right, I started loosing weight without noticing.
Making it to 350 was incredible. That already sounds to most of you like the upper limits of morbidity but it was even higher. (Let that frighten you!) It's just that I was never slow, did Karate for many years and had always been active. Thing is, as the years tick up, the amount of weight your body is willing to put up with changes and it is time, at my age, to deal with this beast. I was shocked to find that I wasn't killing myself to do it.
I wager that, at this point I was tooling around with a 2200-2800 calorie diet. If that sounds like a joke, it is. Most of that wasn't even the good stuff mom wants you to eat. Considering that I've rebuffed Diabetes this entire time, I guess that I am lucky. It sure as hell never felt like I was eating that much. However, on those days where I eat out with friends and start tickling the edge of 2200 Kcals, I feel like I've eaten half a brick wall with a mortar chaser! Even with a horses rations, I was -still- burning up the pounds and reducing. I started to wear smaller clothing, stopped needing to snack so much, and actually started looking into healthier options! I didn't even think about it!
And then the mental shift. I don't know when it started or even how, but I discovered that I love cycling. You could argue that I always have, especially since I have owned a bike of some make or model for almost every year of my life, but this fundamental shift from necessity to need was the turning point in all of this. I didn't bike to work because I didn't own a car, I biked to work because, even if I owned a car, I love the feeling of kicking down the street under my own power! It continues to fill me with joy to this day!
Now that I have coasted down to 335, I still bike daily and eat even better than before. I've just opted into an 1800 Kcal diet plan which lets me eat every 2 hours and I cycle 6 miles daily to work and back. I've even started biking in the morning to help out! I fit into clothing I stopped being able to wear long ago and just generally feel terrific! I search out the best and healthiest meals I can afford, recently traded up in bicycles to a Giant brand Hybrid, and fear nothing when I go to see the doctor ever year! I am still loosing weight and literally NOT. EVEN. TRYING! I just get on my bike and go to work.
Take -THAT- Jenny Craig.