johnsresolutions

Numbers Started the month at 182.5. Ended it at about 181.5lbs. I was trying to lose weight this month but didn’t find as much success as I expected. I went to the gym every week this month, and did my resistance training every week, though I kept resistance training lighter, since I was (at least intending to be) fueling my body with fewer calories this month and didn’t want to push myself too hard, just enough to maintain muscle mass basically. I was very successful with my idea of trying to educate myself via ai. I put together, over the course of the month, a list of three dozen or so areas of governance that I want to learn more about, and I’ve made pretty good progress on about a dozen so far, which is pretty exciting. Reflections So I went into the month planning for it to be another slow bulk month, but it didn’t take me long to make it a fat loss month instead. There were two main reasons for this. The main one, actually, was fatigue. My muscles were tired - or rather, my nerv...

Numbers Started the year at 189lbs, having already lost almost 80 pounds in the previous four months, dreaming (without much optimism) of getting down to 173 or lower before I stopped losing weight; I reached that goal twice this year, with my lowest weight of the year being about 171. Started the month at 180, aiming for 181-182 at the end of the month, and then ended the month at 182.5. I blame Christmas. :) I wasn’t doing any BJJ at the start of the year; I began doing weekly classes in July, and now have a full half a year under my belt. This month I missed one week because I hurt my back shoveling snow - and the following week I found out that half the gym came down with some awful illness while I was gone, so although I had been feeling bad about missing a week, I felt a fair bit better about it after that. Even the classes I managed to attend this month didn’t feel great; I don’t know if December is just a month where I have less energy or what was going on, but hopefully in fut...