John Goodman Details His Weight Loss Journey & Says He's Stepping Up His Routine For The Summer
John Goodman is opening up about continuing his weight loss journey.
The 70-year-old The Connors and The Righteous Gemstones actor recently stepped out as jury president for the 2023 Monte Carlo TV Festival in Monaco over the weekend, where fans really noticed his weight loss.
John‘s transformation actually started in 2007, where he made it his goal to just get moving. Since then, he’s lost around 200 pounds.
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“In the old days, I would take three months out, lose 60 or 70 pounds, and then reward myself with a six-pack or whatever and just go back to my old habits,” he told ABC in 2017. “This time, I wanted to do it slowly. Move, exercise. I’m getting to the age where I can’t afford to sit still anymore.”
That meant hiring a personal trainer and to stop drinking alcohol altogether, which he did.
However, that sort of took a back seat as he started to book more roles in the recent years.
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, John said that he’s looking to get back into a routine.
“I’m trying to squeeze all the medical s*** in that I’ve missed over those years,” he told the outlet.
John adds that he kind of kept up by “just getting out and walking the dogs. I was boxing up until then [my Broadway role] and I haven’t been able to do that since Covid because I’m lazy.”
“I haven’t been exercising, but I’m going to start a routine again this summer where I can get some stuff done. I’ve just let everything go just because I haven’t had the energy because of the jobs,” he shared.
John has a plan though, and that’s to get back into boxing.
“I dug that. I dug it. Yeah. Nobody’s going to get hurt, but it’s just hitting the mitts and trying to learn,” he shared. “Just hitting the mitts. I never got good enough where I would trust myself to spar because once I get whacked in the face, I don’t know if I wouldn’t lose it.”
He also says that he’s looking to learn more about boxing beyond just that: “Someday I’d like to get that far advanced. But it’s usually just an hour, hour and a half of hitting the mitts, hitting the bags, learning footwork. It’s great.”
John is the latest star to open up about their weight loss journeys, following Eric Andre and Billy Gardell.