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Weight: 322.3 lbs ( 146.2 kg) BMI: 41.4 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Fried Chicken Pringles Cheddar Cheese Dinner: Bone in Rib-eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 424) Keto Day 0 (38/365 Days 2026 Keto) I was excited to wake up this morning to see my Federal Tax Return landing in my checking account. I went ahead and paid off the remaining four months of the car insurances and re-balanced my budget to hopefully have that budgeted to be paid off all at once in the six month sections. It is cheaper to pay it off all at once. It was just last year right after I had paid off the first six month section my car's oil pressure sensor decided to crap out and I had to pay an extra $455 dollars right after I had paid off the monthly bills and bought a 3D printer. I'm going to be quite a bit more careful this year with the returns and I'm going to be loading up the saving accounts like I was wa...

Weight: 325.0 lbs ( 147.4 kg) BMI: 41.7 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Rib-eye and Eggs Lunch: Keto Goulash   Dinner:  Smithfield Pork Loin Garlic Herb Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 422) Keto Day 1 (38/365 Days 2026 Keto) Woke up with a surprise this morning. I checked my bank balance expecting my pay check, but was pleasantly surprised to see my State Tax Refund is already in my checking account and looking at the record the Federal Return is usually a day or two behind the state refund. It could take up to a week for that to come in. But for today I was able to transfer into Bill Savings instead of from bill savings for the rent check that I'm expecting to come through this week. That's a really frustrating number on the scale this morning. Ups and downs happen, but this morning was one of the few mornings that I was more than I was at the end of last year. So all of the projections are going way up. At lea...

Weight: 323.2 lbs ( 146.6 kg) BMI: 41.5 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Keto Goulash https://youtu.be/-RcxiXu4zLM Dinner: Pizza Hut Pizza and Cheesy Bread sticks Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 421) Keto Day 0 (37/365 Days 2026 Keto) Slight error in the title, I usually would have just labeled it "Sobriety Blog" on days that I mess up on the diet, but I only noticed the error after I shared the link and changing the title of the post changes the link to the post making the link I shared a dead link. Oh, well, I'll just leave it as is.   When I got groceries yesterday I picked up a “Family Pack” of Bone-in Rib-Eye steaks that had 3 steaks in it for ~$42 (not sponsored) I thought about having steak and eggs this morning however when I woke up this morning I just wasn't in the mood for that big of a steak for breakfast as these steaks are pretty chunky stea...

Weight: 322.1 lbs ( 146.1 kg) BMI: 41.4 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Mom's Chili Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 420 he-he-he) Keto Week 1 (Day 14) (37/365 Days 2026 Keto) Woke up with a jolt this morning. All day long I had a feeling that I needed to get up and run to do that thing. I'm not sure what that thing is, but all day long I've been thinking that there was something that I was going to do or there as something that I was waiting to happen. Yesterday was really warm and calm so yesterday I had told my Grandma that I would come by today to take down her Christmas lights. However today the wind was blowing really hard all day today so she suggested that I come by some other day, and I am off on Friday so I should be able to come by then to finally take down her decorations I normally would have had the grocery list mostly planned out on Monday and do the ...

Weight: 322.9 lbs ( 146.5 kg) BMI: 41.5 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Stuffed Bell Pepper soup   Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 419) Keto Week 1 (Day 13) (36/365 Days 2026 Keto) The scale is teasing me. It just wants me to think that I was starting to make progress. I was scheduled to work 10:30am to 8pm today. I worked the longer day because I was scheduled to do some of the yearly re-certification training. But running the desk a lot the last week or two I had a lot of standing around time so I was able to finish the training lessons that I was supposed to have been doing today all of last week. Today was a real run around. I was scheduled to do the training for an hour and a half, but since I had already finished I just went ahead and did the carryout thing that was scheduled to do the rest of the day. But the lady who was working in a lot of differe...

Weight: 319.9 lbs ( 145.1 kg) BMI: 41.1 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Stuffed Bell Pepper soup https://youtu.be/JA2XLNoM9_g Dinner: Ham steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 418) Keto Week 1 (Day 12) (35/365 Days 2026 Keto) Good trend on the scale over the last couple of days. The waistline has been annoyingly stable, but it is under the average. Crazy busy all day today. Frustratingly I was stuck in the desk by myself for most of the first half of the day. So there wasn't much I could do to help as I was the only one in the desk and it wasn't like I could go open another register without leaving the desk unmanned. And for most of the day that none of the carryouts knew how to check. There was a lot of back and forth between running the desk and being supervisor in the first half as the kid who was supposed to run self checkout for the middle of the day had a...

Weight: 321.5 lbs ( 145.8 kg) BMI: 41.3 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Pork Steak and Eggs Lunch: Stuffed Bell Pepper soup   Dinner: Keto Cheeseburger Helper  Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 417) Keto Week 1 (Day 11) (34/365 Days 2026 Keto) I was able to wake up early enough to have the pork steak and eggs. I do say that Beef and Eggs>Pork and Eggs. But it is always nice to cook eggs in butter. Not sure why eggs and butter work so well, but I'm not complaining. Today was a really busy but smooth day. There was another “Store Walk” when the big wigs come through the store making sure that we're doing everything right. They were kind of obvious when they came through so I really made sure that I kept acknowledging the lady at the front of the store as in a previous store walk I was called out on because I wasn't standing in front of the registers where the supervisor is “supposed” to stand. It was ...

Weight: 323.1 lbs ( 146.6 kg) BMI: 41.5 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Strip Steak and Eggs Lunch: Stuffed Bell Pepper soup   Snack: BBQ Pork Rinds  Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 416) Keto Week 1 (Day 10) (33/365 Days 2026 Keto) I was able to wake up just in time to cook that strip steak and eggs. But was only able to get half of the pot of coffee before I had to run off to work. When I got to work there was a bit of confusion of what I was supposed to be doing as my schedule online said that I was in the service desk for just about the entire day so I wore my apron, but when I got to the front of the store and saw the paper showing the list of where everybody was supposed to be it was showing that I was supervisor the entire day so I went back to my locker to grab my supervisor vest however when I got back up to the front the list was showing that I was in the service desk all day. It turn...

Weight: 323.5 lbs ( 146.7 kg) BMI: 41.5 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Stuffed Bell Pepper soup   Dinner: Grilled Strip Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 415) Keto Week 1 (Day 9) (32/365 Days 2026 Keto) I noticed that I had transposed the digits from yesterday's weigh in I had written 324.3 instead of the 323.4 that I had on my phone. I'm not sure if I should go back to yesterday's post to correct that or just let it go. It's a bit odd that the check that I wrote on Tuesday for Groceries hadn't came through today. Usually when I write a check on Tuesday it'll go through on Thursday when I get paid. I'm not too worried about it coming through, it's just another day or two when I'm going to be doing extra math to see how much I have left in the checking account. I worked 1pm to 9pm today. Usually when I close the desk I'd have came...

Weight: 324.3 lbs ( 147.1 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Stuffed Bell Pepper Soup   Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 414) Keto Week 1 (Day 8) (31/365 Days 2026 Keto) I didn't get the chance to make the post yesterday. I'm a fan of the Fallout Video Game Series. There is a streaming series on Amazon Prime (Not Sponsored) I haven't seen the series as I don't have the money for all of the dozens of streaming services that you need to have to keep up with the cultural zeitgeist. They did the season 2 finale last night and I heard from Reddit that the Fallout Website had a mysterious countdown that was coinciding with the season finale. The company who make Fallout also makes the game series called The Elder Scrolls and last year they released a remade a game in The Elder Scrolls Oblivion so people were thinking that the studio was about to release a remak...

Weight: 320.7 lbs ( 145.4 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 53.5 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Egg Stuff   Lunch: Fathead Lasagna   Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 412) Keto Day 6 (29/365 Days 2026 Keto) Scale was down this morning. Not by much, but down is down. And waist is also down. Err downish, annoyingly enough it is at the same measurement it was at the beginning of the year so the projection is completely flat. When I got to making breakfast there were only three eggs. When I cook bacon and eggs I eat 4 eggs and 4 strips of bacon. There's nothing saying that I'm required to have 4 eggs and 4 strips of bacon. But I feel like it would have thrown things off to only have 3 eggs. But it was an excuse to run to the store and grab the stuff to make Egg Stuff. It's been a while since I've had the egg scramble. I do have to say that my stomach really didn't like my breakfast decision. I swea...

Weight: 321.1 lbs ( 145.6 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 54.0 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Snack: Cashews Lunch: Fathead Lasagna   Snack: Pistachios Dinner: Rib-eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 411) Keto Day 5 (28/365 Days 2026 Keto) Wasn't able to post in the last couple of days as I worked until close and by the time I recovered after work I didn't have time to write out a blog post. And I've slept in a day or two so I didn't have time before work to do much either. So it kind of felt like I was waking up and going to work, then going back to bed.  I have been having a hard time cooking over the last couple of days. On Thursday I was happy that I had paid all of the bills that morning so I baked a Fathead Pizza. But the crust had completely carbonized to the baking sheet. Not sure what happened there. I've cooked Fathead Pizza before and had burnt it more than once, but never that badly before. And...

Weight: 322.3 lbs ( 146.2 kg) BMI: 41.4 Waist: 54.0 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Fathead Lasagna https://youtu.be/Bd4KXuuh9yw Dinner:  Bratwurst Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 407) Keto Day 1 (24/365 Days 2026 Keto) Scale and waist is both up for the day, but not by much. Annoyed that the numbers are above the start of the year so all of the projections are showing up. At least the weight is still under the average for the year so far. The apartment complexes around here all have metal roofs (odd spelling on the word roofs, you'd think that it'd be “rooves”) so as it's starting to get above freezing outside and the snow starts melting on top of the roof the snow slides off in a kind of avalanche. So this morning I was sitting here listening to videos and then hear a “Slooumph” as snow and ice slides off of the building. It keeps sounding like something fell down, but...

Weight: 321.3 lbs ( 145.7 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 53.5 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Snack: Mozzarella Cheese Sticks Lunch: X Dinner: Pork Steak Fried in flour, Homemade Bread Dressing Snack: Kroger Sour Cream Cheddar Potato Chips Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Dr Pepper Zero Sugar Sober Year 1 (Day 406) Keto Day 0 (23/365 Days 2026 Keto) Yeah, that's the direction that I'm wanting the scale to go in. I'm a little annoyed at the tape measure, but fluctuations happen. I was going to do a couple of video shorts while Roommate was at his appointment, but I needed to run by Walmart to grab a Blue T-shirt as I have been wanting to do some political opinion videos with me wearing Red, White, And Blue shirts to represent various opinions that I am wanting to mock. But strangely when I went by Walmart there weren't any just plain blue T-shirts. I did come by some darker blue s...

Weight: 322.9 lbs ( 146.5 kg) BMI: 41.5 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: AI Pizza Casserole with Garlic Cream Sauce Dinner: Strip Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 405) Keto Day 6 (23/365 Days 2026 Keto) Was just about to make an early post, but then the writing program decided to crash and wiped out everything I wrote, and took out all of the spreadsheets as well. So I'll have to try to rewrite everything that I had written before. I really need to learn to save more often. Thankfully I had put the weight for the day into my phone's health tracking app. And it is kind of exciting to lose 5 lbs (-2.3 kg) in one day. Not sure if that's going to happen very often, but I'll take it when it does. I did the grocery shopping for the day today as I'm planning on doing laundry tomorrow. It's still strange to use the debit card to pay for groceries. ...

Weight: 327.9 lbs ( 148.7 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: AI Pizza Casserole with Garlic Cream Sauce Dinner: Pork steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 404) Keto Day 5 (22/365 Days 2026 Keto) The nerd in me is chuckling at the number of days sober. Error 404 is what you get if a website is broken or if you type in a website address wrong. Weight's been tracking up in the last couple of days. More than a bit annoyed by that. Chat GPT says that it's just water weight from the Spaghetti I ate Tuesday. But it's just that I was 4lbs (1.8 kg) away from one of the major goals and then, oops never mind weight goes back up again. The AI is saying that the waist staying the same is a good sign and what I should focus on while the weight goes up and down. The first half of the day was quite quiet. Not a lot of people out after the “great blizzard of '26”. The roads are snow-p...

Weight: 325.1 lbs ( 147.5 kg) BMI: 41.7 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Snack: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Sausages Lunch: AI Pizza Casserole with Garlic Cream Sauce Dinner: Basic Chili   Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 403) Keto Day 4 (21/365 Days 2026 Keto) Rushed post as I was closing cashier this evening. I got off at 10pm, but it takes a while to recover from working. I set up the chili before heading off to work. I took my lunch with me to work today as the snow finally came in and it looks like we did get several inches (about a couple dozen centimeters ). I was scheduled to work 2pm to 10pm but I left for work quite early to give plenty of time to drive through the snowy roads. I was being careful driving to work, but other drivers were irritating me as I was being careful, however other drivers seemed to be fearful. The speed limit is 30 mph (48 kph) on most streets on the way to w...

Weight: 322.6 lbs ( 146.3 kg) BMI: 41.4 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Pork Steak and Eggs Lunch: AI Pizza Casserole with Garlic Cream Sauce Dinner: Bacon Cheeseburger Soup https://youtu.be/YAlxm-rdAe8 Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 402) Keto Day 3 (20/365 Days 2026 Keto) It is kind of strange to wake up “disappointed” at the weight being at 322.6 lbs (146.3 kg) Was able to cook the pork "steak" chunk this morning. It took a while to cook because there was a lot of fat in that chunk and it didn't feel like it was cooked properly. And to be honest there was a lot of it that was under-cooked.  I'm not sure if it's a good idea to eat pork steak medium rare, but that's what breakfast was this morning.  Today was a runner. Feet feel considerably better with the new shoes. Left heel is still a little sore when I'm not careful walking around. But at least I'm not limping and screwing up my bac...

Weight: 320.0 lbs ( 145.1 kg) BMI: 41.1 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs cooked in butter Lunch: AI Pizza Casserole with Garlic Cream Sauce Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 401) Keto Day 2 (19/365 Days 2026 Keto) I was going to go buy new shoes before work this morning. But I was scheduled to work 10:30 to 7:30 and slept in a bit this morning. I was able to finish eating the bacon and eggs for breakfast, but I wasn't able to finish the coffee. This morning I was planning on cooking a pork steak for breakfast as when I was doing the meal planning for the week I noticed that one of the pork "steaks" was the kind of knobby end of the pork butt that I had cut into steaks. But when I got it out of the fridge it was still frozen from Tuesday. I should be glad that the fridge is keeping things cold, but I had already melted the butter in the pan in preparation for the steak. So I jus...

Weight: 321.2 lbs ( 145.7 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 53.5 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: AI Pizza Casserole with Garlic Cream Sauce Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee with cream, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 400) Keto Day 1 (18/365 Days 2026 Keto) Disappointing jump on the scale this morning, but I did have a lot of spaghetti last night. Even if I wasn't trying to do Keto, two full plates of pasta really isn't good for trying to lose weight. Still down for the year so most of the projections are going down. Belly was up .5 inches on the measurement, however was surprising that it wasn't up more. My stomach felt like it was really bloated this morning. Again, not sure how much of that is because of the two big plates of pasta I had last night. I work 2pm to 10 today. The time before work today wasn't very productive as I'm used to waiting around until I have to go to wor...