Lost a Brick!

Today, we're celebrating three weeks of daily bike workouts and I've lost about a brick of weight (six pounds)! This bike here only set us back about a hundred bucks on Amazon and we've already put a few hundred miles on it. Bonnie likes to watch The Good Place while she rocks out for around an hour. I've subscribed to Peloton Digital and have been doing various interval rides, as well as some strength training classes and even some yoga. In 30-minutes on the bike, you can easily sweat off 400 calories.

So, you don't need one of the fancy Peloton bikes to get a killer work out. While I'm sure they're great, we save a couple thousand dollars and we are losing weight, have more energy, and sleep better. Thanks to Tequila, we still enjoy our evening cocktails.

The other thing we do is keep a very close eye on our calories by using My Fitness Pal. We still eat very few carbs (under 30% mainly naturally occurring) and make up the other 70% of our food with protein and fat. Yerba Mate teas keep us focused, and less hungry though most of our meals are so filling, that's rarely an issue. We drink a couple of protein shakes a day generally pre-and-post workout and we've found some really interesting foods like Shirataki--a Japanese noodle with no carbs and virtually no calories, more on that later.

So, three weeks of fitness and now we come to the real test--travel. I'll be on the road for a few days, where things generally fall apart for me. Let's see if I can stay on track. I don't know if any of this will be interesting to anybody but hopefully, there's at least a tidbit of useful information for you.

The Magic of Tequila

We're starting our second week of eating clean and we've made a few interesting discoveries--the best of which is the health benefits of tequila! During the first week of our health regimen, we still had a few glasses of wine in the evening. While we were staying on track of our calory count, the weight loss was slow. Turns out that even a few glasses of wine can really slow down weight loss results.

After doing some investigation, we stumbled on a few articles that mentioned the health benefits of tequila. So, we switched from white wine to tequila and soda and our weight has been steadily dropping. I've now lost nearly four pounds in just under two weeks.

Here are a few other tactics we've implemented:

1. We count our calories using My Fitness Pal (my goal is around 1500 calories a day).
2. I've started wearing my Garmin VivoFit band again which reminds me to get up and move around every hour.
3. We try not to eat snacks after dinner with the exception of some nuts right before bed.
4. We're both logging at least six miles on the upright bike every day. I do a high-intensity interval work out every other day.
5. On cheat days, we eat the foods that we want but we still stick to our caloric budget.

We could probably lose weight faster by not drinking at all but for now, we're really happy with the progress we're making. Salud!