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Weight: 316.8 lbs ( 143.7 kg) BMI: 40.7 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Low Carb Jambalaya Snack: Cashews Dinner: Baked Chicken   Drinks: Salted Apple Cider Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 452) Keto Week 2 (Day 15) (59/365 Days 2026 Keto) Supervisor all day. It was surprisingly slow today for being a Sunday with a big weather change come through. The desire to move out of my current apartment has grown exponentially over the last couple of days. I was going to try to talk to Roommate about it as I really didn't want it to feel like a rug pull. Something evolved this evening. I don't know if I care about his feelings anymore. I'm going to talk to Mom about her expectations if I were to move back in with her.

Weight: 318.6 lbs ( 144.5 kg) BMI: 40.9 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Low Carb Jambalaya Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 451) Keto Week 1 (Day 14) (58/365 Days 2026 Keto) The weight is down. It's a good down. Strange the waistline is up 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) overnight.  Over the last couple of days I've been putting a tablespoon of Apple Cider Vinegar in the morning coffee. It does make the first couple of sips rather rough. But I've been hearing a lot of good things about Apple Cider Vinegar.   Another day when I just sat around before I had to go to work. At least I worked the 11am to 8pm normal shift. It looks like it's going to suck as the day is split into a 3:5 split so I'll have 3 hours before lunch and 5 hours after lunch. I don't know if it's Daylight Savings messing with me or what, but again I'd be sitting here and then BAM oh, crap I need to go to...

Weight: 319.0 lbs ( 144.7 kg) BMI: 41.0 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Low Carb Jambalaya https://youtu.be/zVHiY9DJVjI Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 450) Keto Week 1 (Day 13) (57/365 Days 2026 Keto) Good drop on the scale this morning. Strangely dumping most of the up from yesterday. It's nice to be back under 320 lbs (145 kg). Not a very productive day before work. I am working 3:30 to 10 this evening. But today before work I just didn't have the “get it done” to find anything to do. Another day when I'd blink and it's an hour or so later. I was low on bacon so I had to run to the store before I had breakfast. I had a half hour lunch again today so I brought my lunch with me as I didn't have time to go all of the way home and back for lunch. This is going to be a short post as I was the closing cashier this evening. I was checking...

Weight: 322.5 lbs ( 146.3 kg) BMI: 41.4 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausages Dinner: Baked Chicken   Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 449) Keto Week 1 (Day 12) (56/365 Days 2026 Keto) Surprised by the weight this morning. Up 4.7 lbs (2.1 kg) from yesterday. I didn't think that I even ate/drank five pounds worth of anything yesterday. I was scheduled to work 11am to 7pm today. And strangely I was scheduled to have a half hour lunch today so I didn't have the time to run home to have lunch so I had some of the Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausages (not sponsored)  Interestingly my feet and knees didn't hurt like the last couple of times I had those during the lunch break. And usually when I'm a cashier all day my feet and knees are screaming at me. But tonight the left foot is a bit sore, but I can still stand up and walk around. I w...

Weight: 317.8 lbs ( 144.2 kg) BMI: 40.8 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Low Carb Jambalaya Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster Sober Year 1 (Day 448) Keto Week 1 (Day 11) (55/365 Days 2026 Keto) Wind is howling like crazy this morning. Last night when I went to bed I did see a couple of flashes of lightning which is to be expected for March in Kansas. Brain is really flat lined this morning. I know that there are things that I want to be doing, there are things that I should be doing. I just can't think of what those things are supposed to be. I knew that I worked 2pm to 10pm this evening. And I knew that when I work later in the evening I usually sit around doing math about how much I have left before I have to go to work. And that's all I do and I always get frustrated that all I do is sit around counting down until I have to go to work. I figured sitting down was the problem so I tried not to sit...

Weight: 317.5 lbs ( 144.0 kg) BMI: 40.8 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Instant Pot Chili   Snack: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausages Dinner: Smithfield Pork Loin Garlic Herb Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Red Bull, Sober Year 1 (Day 447) Keto Week 1 (Day 10) (54/365 Days 2026 Keto) Nice, Lowest weight of the year so far. And another lowest weight since 2019. Only 1.1 lbs (0.5 kg) from beating that record. And only 2.7 lbs (1.2 kg) from the “progress goal” of 314.8 lbs (142.8 kg), the weight where I started keeping track back in 2014 And if I'm looking at things right the 52.5 inch (133.4 cm) waist measurement is the lowest recorded on this blog. Lots of mental energy this morning, but my body is like, “cool story bro” Brain is saying, “we're going to clean the kitchen, and behind the desk, get the bedroom organized!” Body is saying, “Yeah, no we're not” Quite a bit of mental energy today, trying to conv...

Weight: 319.1 lbs ( 144.7 kg) BMI: 41.0 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Instant Pot Chili   Dinner: Basic Chili   Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Red Bull, Sober Year 1 (Day 446) Keto Week 1 (Day 9) (53/365 Days 2026 Keto) I was going to put my entire statement to management on this post, but it had taken up the entire spot and I don't know if anybody would read all of that and read about today. Then again I don't know who would be interested these posts anyway. The short version of it was a guy came into the store yesterday and asked about the Buy 2 Get 2 Free deal that we have on soda. I had explained to him that some of the sodas are Buy 2 Get 2 Free and other brands are Buy 2 Get 1 Free. He demanded to know what would happen if he were to buy a 24 case of soda. Well, the 24 cases of soda are on sale for $15.99 (This post is not sponsored or an advertisement) He insisted that he should be able to buy a 24 case of ...

Weight: 320.2 lbs ( 145.2 kg) BMI: 41.1 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Instant Pot Chili   Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 445) Keto Week 1 (Day 8) (52/365 Days 2026 Keto) Daylight Savings Time threw off the timing of this post and spent a while writing up a statement for something that happened at work. Will write a post tomorrow about what happened, but don't have time to write it out tonight.

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: 321.5 lbs ( 145.8 kg) BMI: 41.3 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Instant Pot Chili Dogs Dinner: Hormel Pork Loin Garlic Herb Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 443) Keto Day 6 (50/365 Days 2026 Keto) This morning when I woke up the wind was going crazy. I was really more woken up by the screen door slamming more than it really being time to wake up. The wind was coming out of the south-southwest and the way that my apartment building is lined up the wind was blowing exactly in the way the door would catch the wind and SLAM open and then the wind would switch and then SLAM closed. I was expecting Roommate to wake up yelling about the wind banging the screen door. Yelling at the wind here in Kansas can really keep one busy. But when he came downstairs he seemed to be in a better than normal mood. I was really mentally energized today. The energy really mellowed out during the day so this ...

Weight: 324.1 lbs ( 147.0 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Instant Pot Chili   Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 442) Keto Day 5 (49/365 Days 2026 Keto) So eating corned beef is good for Ketovore, but eating the entire brisket of corned beef in a sitting might not be good for trying to lose weight. Or at least in matter of mass. And after I ate dinner last night I was really thirsty from eating the salty meat so I was drinking a lot of seltzer water after dinner. So I'm pretty sure that's why the scale is up today compared to yesterday. Still down 12.7 lbs (5.8 kg) from this day last year. Then again trying to explain day to day fluctuations can be a fools errand Getting up this morning I was in a bit better mood and legs and feet didn't hurt nearly as much as previously. A couple of hours into the day a guy working in customer service noticed that I was li...

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: 319.1 lbs ( 144.7 kg) BMI: 41.0 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Keto Goulash   Dinner: Hormel Pork Loin Ginger Garlic Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 428) Keto Day 4 (42/365 Days 2026 Keto) Good streak on the scale over the last couple of days. It's back under the start of the year again and only 4.3 lbs (2 kg) away from the “progress goal” of where I started the tracking back in 2014, only 1.3 lbs (0.6 kg) away from the lowest weight so far this year, and only about 8 lbs (3.6 kg) away from being under 40 BMI (morbidly obese ) I took a moment before work to record the other political short video that I was thinking of making, but again for some reason when I tried to transfer the files to the computer it only played the audio of the video, but not the video. When I play the video on my phone it plays the video, but doesn't want to play on my computer. And I had a hard time getting...

Weight: 319.8 lbs ( 145.1 kg) BMI: 41.1 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Boneless Rib-eye Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Unsweetened Tea Sober Year 1 (Day 427) Keto Day 3 (41/365 Days 2026 Keto) Hey, hey, progress at last. It's been a week or two since I've had a weight that was below the beginning of the year. Waistline is still stagnant though. Since I did the shopping yesterday and Mom gave me a couple weeks worth of lunch I was able to re-record the store story that I was wanting to make. And since it was just a rant to into the camera it wasn't that hard to edit it. I was able to upload that and schedule it's release. I also scheduled the release of the political opinion short that I made. At least I hope I uploaded it as a short. Either way it's going to be a really short video. I also finished the script for the next political opinion. It was really fun to finally get aro...

Weight: 324.1 lbs ( 147.0 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Rib-Eye Steak and Eggs Lunch: Mom's Chili Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 425) Keto Day 1 (39/365 Days 2026 Keto) That was a big steak this morning. It was almost too big for my cast iron skillet. And left the heat up too high when I switched to cook the eggs so accidentally overcooked the eggs. I didn't get the chance to finish the pot of coffee this morning. But did have a bit more than yesterday.  I was going to finally get around to editing one of the videos I had recorded, but when I tried to connect my phone to the computer the computer just didn't want to load the connection to the phone. And when I did get the phone to show up on the explorer the video only played the sound of the video but not the VIDEO of the video so I'm going to have to re-record that video. Which to be honest is probably for the best, that ...

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...