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Weight: 331.0 lbs ( 150.1 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Pizza Soup   Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 9 (Day 283) Keto Day 2 I was woken up in the middle of the night last night as my right eye and nostril were in a competition on which one could run harder. I took some allergy tablets, it is interesting how quickly those take effect (affect?) I do have to wonder how much of that is placebo. Does placebo work if you know it's placebo? Brains are weird. But it is a very strange feeling when the eyes dry up and sinuses drain out. I was too busy this morning paying bills, balancing and rearranging my budget to cook the goulash that I was wanting to. It was a bit annoying to see that it was already 10:15 by the time I was done paying and moving things around and I had to work at 11. so All I had time to do was cook breakfast and get ready for wo...

Weight: 331.4 lbs ( 150.3 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Steak and Eggs Lunch: Lasagna Soup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGUk1rwXaAc Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sober Month 9 (Day 273) Keto Week 3 (Day 28) I forgot to post yesterday as I was too busy playing with the new spreadsheet. I had put the pay check into the sheet to see how the paycheck this year compared to last year. And somehow it was saying that my net balance more than $400 over than what I had this time last year. And that REALLY didn't seem right as my grand total is sitting at $147. So I had spent WAY too long over the last couple of days putting the totals of the different accounts into the spreadsheet to see the balances of the different accounts and see how they compared to each other. So I had put the totals of each account for every day for the last three years. Making me think of all of the stuff that I had to deal with the last three...

Weight: 331.4 lbs ( 150.3 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Bacon Cheddar Member's Mark Hot Dogs Lunch:  Lasagna Soup   Dinner: Tilapia Fillets Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Month 8 (Day 270) Keto Week 3 (Day 25) Growling at the scale this morning. But fluctuations happen. I was wanting to find something to do. So I thought of coming up with a spreadsheet to show and compare my spending this year compared to this time last year. Because I know that I had a pretty expensive car repair earlier this year, but I wanted to figure out why I can't get ahead any further than treading water. And looking at the spending categories I am spending less on Food and Dining, not as less as I would like. By this time last year I had spent $2,625.73 on beer. Disappointingly so far this year I've spent $514.12 on Nonalcoholic Beer which is $2,111.61 down from last year. I really could have used that $514. It...

Weight: 331.4 lbs ( 150.3 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: AI Chili   Dinner: KC Strip Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Month 8 (Day 266) Keto Week 2 (Day 21) Another not very productive day. I was going to start out filling out the map in Minecraft. Roommate had installed a mod that if your character is killed in the game they'll leave behind a tombstone. Without the mod your character will drop all of your stuff which will all disappear if you don't get back to it, but with the tombstone it will hold all of your stuff and give you a pamphlet telling you where your stuff is. It took me a while to get started as I wanted to make a second map and fill out two maps at the same time. But I did get around to starting out and when nighttime fell and monsters were going to start coming out I put up a camp site that's supposed to have the game skip until day when the monsters are suppose...

Weight: 331.0 lbs ( 150.1 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Strip steak and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken Quarter  Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Month 8 (Day 260) Keto Week 2 (Day 15) Forgot to post yesterday. I just got distracted by Minecraft. I had finished the Grand Staircase down to Bedrock. And got the idea of making a REALLY BIG ROOM. I had “finished” a 20X30 room that was 10 high. Then the mental nagging got to me. That's not square. Why isn't it square. I had to make it square. I spent all of yesterday and a good chunk of today making it a square 30x30 room...but that's not a cube. Why isn't it a cube? So I'm not exaggerating when I say that I spent the last two days just sitting here at the computer making the REALLY BIG ROOM. Right now it's 30X30X20. I hope I don't get too absorbed by this but I will work on it from time to time to make it the 30 cube. But I really don...

Weight: 331.0 lbs ( 150.1 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken   Dinner: Diced Beef Taco Salad Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Month 8 (Day 248) Keto Day 3 When I went to bed last night I was going to read for a little bit, but I just went right to bed. The last thing I remember is that I haven't tried to meditate in a long time...and then I woke up this morning. So I guess that it worked. Kind of growling at the scale this morning. Happiness is not a number on the scale, fluctuations happen, still under average yada yadda etc etc. It is exciting that this weigh in brings 2025 under the average for 2023 making this year have the lowest average weight of the decade (so far) It would be fun to have a year that would be lower than any in the 2010's as I had stared back in 2014.  It is curious that the checks I wrote on Tuesday hadn't landed by Noon. Tuesday's check usually dr...

Weight: 331.0 lbs ( 150.1 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Zuppa Toscana   Dinner: Grilled Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee with Cream, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster Sober Month 7 (Day 222) Keto Day 5 I just said some bad words.  I forgot to post yesterday as I had gotten distracted by an idea of a new spreadsheet. I was going to stack up the data from one of them to get an idea of what an average weight per day was and maybe get a projection of the future weights. I had worked on that spreadsheet for the better part of two days...without saving. I really need to start remembering to save projects. I had all three original spreadsheets and the Daily Blog open and they all decided to crash just scrapping the data from the last two days. I'm going to pass on making that new spreadsheet it was just coming out as just a bunch of noisy data and the graphs on that spreadsheet just didn't want to work out. I'll just stick wi...

Weight: 331.4 lbs ( 150.3 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 54.5 in (138.4 cm) WtHr: 73.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken   Dinner: Baked Boneless Rib Eye Drinks: Salted Coffee with Cream, Kroger Seltzer Sober Month 7 (Day 219) Keto Day 2 Spent all day yesterday playing Minecraft. Spent a lot of time of it just respawning. Getting started in that game is pretty brutal. Thankfully one of the Mods Roommate installed was “Tombstones” where when your character is killed it leaves a tombstone where all of your in game items are stored and when you respawn you're given a note showing the coordinates of where all of your items are. The frustration there was another Mod that Roommate installed was for a specific enemy mob that would be swarms of this wizard that you're supposedly supposed to find the “real” one, but there will be swarms of clones running around attacking you. So I would go looking to find my last tombstone, and run into another swarm of wizards and end up droppi...

Weight: 331.4 lbs ( 150.3 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Pizza Soup  Classic Potato Chips Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee with Cream, Sugar Free Red Bull, Michelob Ultra Zero,  Sober Month 5 (Day 172) Sorry that I haven't been posting like I've been wanting to lately. On Sunday Mom threw a party for Grandma as it was Grandma's 80th birthday. And after the party I was in a strange mood. I sat down and I just didn't wanta. I didn't wana anything. I'm not sure what that mood came from. I don't know if it was because of all of the family members that I was supposed to know, but didn't know. All of the stuff people were talking about progressing their lives and I'm just still sitting here just trying to get my bills paid. I know this blog is about me. But it didn't feel right to make a post saying, “Yay, I went to Grandma's Birthday, and now I'm sad” I feel guilty for tha...

Weight: 331.4 lbs ( 150.3 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 54.5 in (138.4 cm) WtHr: 73.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Basic Chili Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Kroger Energy Shot, Unsweetened Tea Sober Month 5 (Day 152) Keto Week 1 (Day 7) I didn't post last night, I just didn't feel like it. I tired to explain why in this post before going to bed, but brain just didn't want to comply. It was almost like the Windows Shutdown Sound went off as soon as I got home last night. A piece of good news, my feet have stopped hurting. I was nervous about my left foot for a couple of days as it was sore on the top outside. I guess that I just stepped wrong, but it seems to have sorted itself out. Forgot my freaking notes again. I do remember that there were things that I wanted to write about, but I can't remember them now. I guess there was a Tornado Warning last night around midnight. It wasn't a very effective warning as nobody seemed...

Weight: 331.4 lbs ( 150.3 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Basic Chili Dinner: Texas T-Bone Steakhouse Onion Straws, 2x Dinner Rolls, Prime Rib, Salad, Loaded Mashed Potatoes Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Unsweetened Tea, Diet Pepsi Sober Month 4 (Day 142) Woke up with a bit of a headache again today, at least it faded over time today. But it does make me wonder if I'm missing something. Finished off the last of the Sugar Free Monster yesterday and I didn't want to spend more money on energy drinks and Roommate keeps brewing Green tea so that inspired me to brew some tea for myself. I would have some of his green tea, but I'm pretty sure he puts sugar in his tea. The cheese that I put into the chili at lunch kind of smelt like it had gone bad. I didn't see any mold on it, but I did end up throwing out the last little bit of that cheese that was left. I hope it doesn't make me sick as that would be ...

Weight: 331.4 lbs ( 150.3 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 55.5 in (141 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Bar-S Hot Dogs Lunch: Cheesy Chicken Chili Dinner: Meat Loaf, Green Beans, Garden Salad Drinks: Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Keto Month 1 (Day 35) Sober Month 4 (Day 129) Really had a hard time getting going this morning. I was surprised when I woke up and it was already 9:30am. And I had to work at 11am. I spent the most of the next hour and a half doing math of how long I have left until I have to get up and start getting ready for work. I just could not get up and going. So I didn't have time to have breakfast. I was able to get in a minute or two early to grab a pack of hot dogs and a red bull (not sponsored) Frustratingly everybody seemed to get in my way and just plod along. It took a lot of self control to not just put my shoulder down and charge through the crowd. I was in a really sour mood all day. You could probably tell by the post. Somebody said that it ...

Weight: 331.4 lbs ( 150.3 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 55.5 in (141 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausages Dinner: Chuck Roast with Onion Mushroom Gravy Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Keto Month 1 (Day 33) Sober Month 4 (Day 127) hit the ground running today. I was starting to wake up around 7:50 and I was wake, but not quite out of the sleep when Roommate knocked on my door saying that he needed to go to his appointment at 8am.  When I went to go pick him up I saw someone get pulled over. There was a pretty serious rain storm coming through and someone had their back passenger car door open. They were just going down the road in a downpour and their back door was just hanging open. I would really like to know the reason they gave for that.   Something is going weird with my feet and left knee. They were hurting when I was closer to 350 lbs (158.8 kg) they had stopped hurting for a while as I was l...

Weight: 332 lbs ( 150.1 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 55.5 in (141 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup Dinner: Rib Eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Keto Month 1 (Day 32) Sober Month 4 (Day 126) I wasn't scheduled to work until 11:30 this morning. I normally work at 11:00. but they had scheduled to close on Sunday and they scheduled me late today so if I would have gotten out late on Sunday I wouldn't get any overtime for the week. As I was leaving for work there was a National Weather Alert tone that went off on the car radio announcing that there was a severe thunderstorm in the area. And then on the way to work the Classic Rock Station played ACDC Thunderstruck. I got a good chuckle out of that there was no way that was planned. I had saw the storm coming in so I had went in a few minutes early so I wouldn't be walking through the rain. And that rain came down hard. I could hear it coming down in the break r...

Weight: 331 lbs ( 150.1 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 55.5 in (141 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Bacon Cheeseburger Soup Dinner: Grilled Burger Patties, Hot Dogs, and Pork Rinds Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Keto Month 1 (Day 31) Sober Month 4 (Day 125) A full month of Keto. The goal was to do a full month of Keto and then talk to the doctor about how I'm doing. Now just to build the courage to actually talk to them about doing that. Not that I'm afraid that they'll say anything scary. It's just outside of the of the normal thing that I do. The game studio Bethesda released a remaster of their game Oblivion. And yes I'm laughing that they released a remaster of a game that I just downloaded a couple of weeks ago. I haven't looked up the comparison of my computer vs what it would take to run the remaster, but I'm going to guess that isn't going to happen. But Roommate downloaded it on his X-Box with Game Pass (...

Weight: 331 lbs ( 150.1 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 56 in (142.2 cm) WtHr: 75.7% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Keto Clam Chowder & Tuna Mornay Dinner: Baked Salmon Fillets Drinks: Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Keto Week 3 (Day 28) Sober Month 4 (Day 122) YMCA: No Kind of slept in today and that kind of sucks because I was scheduled 10-7 instead of the usual 11-8. so I had to hurry to eat breakfast. And didn't get any coffee. Nice to see another record low weight for the morning. Or at least I think it is I didn't have much time to test the scale a lot to see if it was glitching again today. I thought about getting a new scale when I get groceries next week but looking at the app the only bathroom scale that they have only reads up to 330 lbs and it would be nice to be at that level, I'm just not there yet. I have to say there's nothing that encourages me more to get the savings plan going than listening to Roommate playing Call of Duty. Every time he get...

Weight: 330.1 lbs (150.2 kg) BMI: 42.4 Waist: 54.5 in (138.4 cm) WtHr: 73.0% Breakfast: Pack of Bar-S hot dogs (regular) Lunch: Fried Chicken and Macaroni Salad Dinner: Taco Chili Mac Drinks: Kroger Seltzer Orignal and Blackberry Citrus, Sugar Free Rockstar, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Week 2 (Day 15) Really slept in today. Not sure why, it wasn't really that late when I went to bed. Later than I've been wanting to, but not really as late as I have before. I woke up early enough to wake up properly, but not early enough to get a proper breakfast or do anything that I want to do. I took the time to scarf some hot dogs, but not the ideal breakfast that I would prefer. Work was a bit strange, people were acting like it was three times busier than it was. This became a really long “Mark whines about work” post. But I don't want these to be that. But I did get a chuckle at one guy. We were down two people because they called in “”Sick”” right before they were supposed to get t...

Weight: 331.2 lbs (153.5 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 56.5 in (142.2 cm) WtHr: 76.4% Breakfast: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausages Lunch: Low Carb Goulash Dinner: Center Cut Pork Chops pan seared in butter Drinks: 2x Sugar Free Rockstar, Kroger Energy Shot, Kroger Seltzer Water Cranberry Lime Weeks Sober 2 (Day 21) Didn't wake up in time to get a proper breakfast or any coffee. When I did get up the ankles were really angry at me. The shoestring on my newer shoes had broke a week or so ago so I've been wearing an older pair and I think that's starting to have an effect. I'm going to pick up a new pair of strings on my way home from work tonight. But as for breakfast I was able to get up early enough to run into work and have some Johnsonville Sausages and some Sugar Free Rockstar Energy. I did have to clock in a minute or two late to finish eating, but I don't have a job where I can get "hangry" It is interesting that I felt more energized by the can ...

Weight: 331.2 lbs ( 150.2 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 56 in ( 142.2 cm) WtHr: 75.7% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Lunch: Bacon Cheeseburger Helper Dinner: Boneless skinless chicken breasts, grilled Drinks: Most of a pot of coffee; ~3600ml Water      It took longer than it should have to get yesterday's post written. I'm guessing that it was a matter of momentum, I hadn't written a blog post in a while so I kind of struggled with coming up with something to say and formulating those things into a fluid thing. I do have to say though; this morning writing all of this just FEELS good. When I try to look over this last week or two it's just a giant blank to me. But as I'm writing this down it feels like I'm contributing to something.      I didn't sleep very well last night. I was sweating like crazy. The strange thing was that it wasn't very hot last night it was only 63 degrees outside (17 C) but I was sweating like I was running through a boiling rain fo...

Weight: 331.4 lbs ( 150.3 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 55 in ( 139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: leftover Nachos Lunch: Grilled Pork Steaks Dinner: Those were really big steaks      My brain just went flat after work last night. The first half of the day went just fine and smooth for those five hours, but when I came back for the remaining three hours people had just went bonkers. I think people had realized that it was a holiday weekend and they hadn't planed on anything after the weekend so they had to catch up. And I have a theory that the more people in an area, the dumber the individual person in the area and people were reinforcing that theory. Had nachos for dinner last night because I was really in the mood for some comfort food. But the corn chips I picked up were “Guacamole” flavored. But were just a nasty sour salt flavor. I do like very salty corn chips, but these had a really sour flavor.      Paid the natural gas and electricity bills today. Th...