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Weight: 321.0 lbs ( 145.6 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Instant Pot Chili   Dinner: Chuck Roast with Mushroom Onion Gravy Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 444) Keto Day 7 (51/365 Days 2026 Keto) Woke up with a lot of mental energy again today. It helps that when I woke up this morning I didn't have to immediately have to sit back down because of the pain that I used to have in my feet and legs. Being able to wake up and immediately start getting going is a really motivating thing. But I had some real scatterbrain (that's a word?) this morning. I was going to try to work on a video script, but I kept going back to the various social media sites to zombie scroll. I keep telling myself that I'm going to limit the time I spend on those sites and apps, but then I keep finding myself back on those sites and apps. I keep coming up with a plan of just limiting my time on social media to a...

Weight: 320.7 lbs ( 145.4 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Mom's Chili Dinner: Corned Beef Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 441) Keto Day 4 (48/365 Days 2026 Keto) Trying to get back to this. I've been sober, but haven't been very Ketogenic. Spending way too much mental energy re-balancing my budget. A couple of weeks ago Roommate was screeching about how bad the internet was and he seemingly figured that the modem was starting to go bad. But it was hard to tell the difference between that screeching and all of the other screeching. But I eventually ran by Cox (not sponsored) to get a new modem. While I was there their associates were really rather excitedly tried to get me to sign up for their mobile phone service. I had to tell them several times that I was just there to switch out modems, I wasn't looking to sign up for any other services. But th...

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: 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: 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...

Weight: 320.7 lbs ( 145.5 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup   Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 396) Keto Week 1 (Day 12) (15/365 Days 2026 Keto) Late to work this morning. I was awake and moving around. I had finished breakfast and was watching a video interview on YouTube between Laura Spath and Dr Eric Westman. I noticed that it was 10:08 and I had to work 10 to 7. So I went from just sitting here kind of chilling to running out the door calling the store to tell them I'm on my way. I was glad that I was supervisor and wasn't taking over for somebody's lunch or something. First half of the day was pretty active. That wind is cold and blustery. It was sunny, but the wind was holding a grudge. There were some times when it was starting to get busy, but the Customer Service Manager really didn't seem to want me to be on a register....

Weight: 320.9 lbs ( 145.6 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken Drumsticks  Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 392) Keto Week 1 (Day 8) (11/365 Days 2026 Keto) Woo-hoo Finally have a day where I'm back under the start of the year! Of course happiness is not a number on the scale, but at least this makes (almost) all of my projections go down. That last projection won't go down until I get under 314.8 lbs (142.8 kg) where I was back in 2014 when I started this whole project. But at least that goal finally looks like it's within possibility. It was fun to mark where the “Lowest Last Year”, “Progress Goal”, “Morbidly Obese”, and “Short Goal” will be on the yearly projection. “Over Weight” and “Target Weight” are still too far away to show on the projection, but time will tell. And I shouldn't get too excited for one day under the start weight. When...