What happens when you follow a nutrition plan and cycle every day for 30 days? If you're just joining me, today is day 61 of a 90 day cycling challenge. My goal for this challenge is to increase my FTP or wattage, or if you don't know what that is, it's basically power on the bike. And maybe to feel a lot more confident by losing this extra layer that just seems to stick around after the age of 40. So where did I start? 60 days ago, I was at 192, which is the heaviest I've been in a long time. I'm starting this challenge at 188 after a major setback. When you cycle 90 days in a row, you're definitely going to have some hurdles. On day 48, I had dental surgery, which I had two implants. Here's orders. He told me that I can only do 15 minutes on the bike. If you're new here, I've recorded every workout on Strava and on Swift. And my doctor is watching. Plus the last 30 days was over Christmas parties, Christmas, New Year's, and all the festivities weighing in. Literally. So this brings me to the rules of this challenge. I'm still in the smallest room in my house. I'm still riding a bike and a wheel on trainer. Why? To cut out all the excuses. I'm not in a fancy garage. I'm not riding a peloton. A bike on a wheel on trainer is about a $150 investment for the trainer and whatever the price of a bike is. And a lot of people have a bike because, literally, it has a peloton just lying around. I will do an hour on the bike every day. I will call this the hour of power. Each day will get progressively harder and harder because I will be pushing myself every day. I'm cutting out the gym so that in that way, I can see the effects that cycling has on my body cycling 30 days in a row. I will follow the icigenic plan the way that it was designed, which is two shakes and a few little extras and a healthy dinner. I'm doing the icigenic system because I was requested by my doctor to follow up with a soft diet. So the goal of this challenge is to increase my FTP and finish the 90 day cycling challenge strong. So for the next 30 days, I will be putting a lot of time and energy on the bike. So without further ado, let's just jump into it. Day one, day 61. I enrolled in the two of his whiff and the Wahoo climbing challenge. Day one was just like any other day one. Top. Actually, day one to day seven was top. Day two. Day three. I put up my tire. Day four. You tire. Day five. Day six. Day seven. Which brings me to a week one recap. I'm down two and a half pounds. I'm starting to get my strength back and feel a lot more comfortable in the saddle. But maybe it's because I'm only doing an hour on the bike. With only doing an hour on the bike, it was a lot easier to figure out what to watch. So I binge watched the new Ozav, the new book of Boba Fett on Disney+. And also caught up on all my YouTube strategy lessons with Think Media. Day eight. Day nine. Day ten. Day eleven. Day twelve. Day thirteen. Day fourteen. At the end of week two, I'm down four pounds. And I'm starting to notice a lot of improved strength on the bike. And the hour is starting to get a lot easier. I'm also noticing that I'm drinking a lot more water. And I have a lot less cravings for snacks at weird times of the day. It's been interesting to watch what proper nutrition can do. I'm hitting a higher wattage with less effort. Seeing that change is making it a lot easier to jump back onto the bike and do it day in and day out to finish this 30 day challenge. Because when you do a 30 day challenge of indoor cycling, you're literally stuck in a room and it gets pretty boring. So it's more of a mind game than anything. Something surprisingly happened in the next week. Day 15 to 21. Day 15. Day 16. Day 17. Day 18. Day 19. Day 20. Day 21. I actually increased my FTP totally unexpected. I obviously didn't record it because I wasn't expecting to increase my FTP. Just so you're aware, it's hard to increase your FTP. I've had the same FTP for probably about two years now. Day 22. Day 23. Day 24. Day 25. Day 26. Day 27. Day 28. Day 29 was painful. This is what we call the hour of power. We're increasing FTP. Time to see what the last 89 days did. It was a true hour of power or hour of paint, but no pain, no gain. Boom. My drop of day 30, which is also day 90. Checkmark. Done. This brings me to the moment of truth. I'm down to 180.2. A loss of eight pounds in this challenge and 12 pounds for the entire challenge. I feel great and it feels really weird not to be on the bike. If you enjoyed this video, watch my next video that covers the 90 day challenge and consider subscribing.