johnsresolutions

Numbers I started the month at 171lbs, planning to gain, hoping not to go higher than 181 this month; this was a rough guess, based on my estimation of how much weight I’d gain from glycogen and water and gut contents, plus how much I figured creatine would add to my weight, plus how much I was hoping to gain in terms of actual tissue (muscle preferably and probably a bit of fat too). So I’d have been okay with ending up a bit higher or a bit lower for this month. I ended up at 179. I’m very happy with that. I don’t know how much was incidental weight and how much was actual tissue (muscle or fat) gained, but it was close enough to my target that I’m happy with it. What makes me even happier is that it appears that in the second half of the month, I put on one pound, which is exactly the pace I am hoping for during this surplus. I did all my planned weekly resistance training schedules (with one of them being a planned deload week, where I did exercise but a fair bit less than normal)....

Numbers Started the month at 178 lbs. Aimed to end the month somewhere between 173 and 178. For resistance training and BJJ, the goal was just to keep up the weekly habit. How did it go? The weight loss was very successful. I got all the way down to 171 (a new record - my lowest weight ever as an adult!). I did BJJ every week, and I did resistance training every week of the month except one - there was a week where I was fighting off a cold when my joints were feeling extremely achy and sensitive and I decided to take the week off. Reflections I lost considerably more than I really thought I would this month, and what makes it even cooler is that I tried (pretty successfully too!) to be at maintenance calories for a couple weeks in the middle of the month on account of a stubborn cold that I was trying to fight off. A calorie deficit weakens the immune system from what I hear, so I tried upping the intake for a bit and during those weeks didn’t see any weight loss but I did manage to h...