johnsresolutions

Weight. At my heaviest, in 2016, 315lbs. Mid-2024, about 265 (and that was back up after getting as low as 199 in January 2021). January 2025, when I started tracking numbers more publicly on my blog, 190. Mid-February 2025, my lowest weight so far of 173 (technically normal BMI! though only for a single day). Then I went back to a calorie surplus a couple weeks later when I wasn’t having any more success losing and my body was really run down by the months of calorie deficit, and got back up to 210 (putting on 35lbs in just 28 days!), using that surplus to kickstart a resistance training regimen which I’ve kept up ever since. And now, in late August, I’m back down to about 178, but with a much smaller waist and more muscle mass than back at the beginning of 2025. I started resistance training at the beginning of March 2025. My specific exercises have evolved and changed as I’ve experimented and researched. I’m currently doing about 18 or 19 different exercises, one set of each per wee...

I’ll soon be shutting down my old blog, at which I had stopped doing the sorts of writing it was originally intended for and which I’d switched to using  basically just as a public resolution tracker to keep myself accountable. This year (2025), in January, I resolved three things: to get down to a healthy BMI (achieved, in February, though only for a day; I’m hanging out five pounds shy of that goal currently as I write this, but I hope to get back down to there before too long), to build up a consistent calisthenics or resistance exercise habit (accomplished, in March, and sustained to now without interruption), and to join a BJJ gym and start training consistently (achieved in June and sustained to now without interruption).  I give monthly updates about these goals. There’s a numbers portion, where I report what I accomplished the previous month (which usually involves seeing how closely my weight at the end of the month aligns with my goals at the end of the previous mont...