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Weight: 324.6 lbs ( 147.2 kg) BMI: 41.7 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup   Dinner: Smithfield Pork Loin Apple-Wood Smoked Bacon Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 386) Keto Day 2 (5/365 Days 2026 Keto) Weight is up 1 pound (~0.5 kg) I'm not too worried about the day to day ups and downs. I see an up weight like a opposing team in football getting a touchdown. Yeah, it kind of sucks, but the game isn't over yet. Mom made a Facebook post saying that she's not going to weigh in outside of her doctor's visits. And I understand and respect that as she's focusing on “Non Scale Victories” And I respect that, but I personally like to see the line move over time.  This morning my feet weren't hurting as much as previous days. I'm not sure if that's because I've been off of my feet for the last couple of days or if something else. Legs were stiff and sor...

Weight: 323.6 lbs ( 146.8 kg) BMI: 41.5 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Enchilada Soup   Snack: Baked Chicken Drumsticks   Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 385) Keto Day 1 (4/365 Days 2026 Keto) Exciting to see three days in a row of down weights. Still not back to the beginning weight of the year (+2.1 lbs <~1 kg>) so the yearly projection is still saying that I'll be 627.3 lbs (284.5 kg) by the end of next year. A point of excitement is that I'm just 8.8 lbs (~4 kg) away from the 314.8 lbs (142.8 kg) That I started this project back in 2014. And if I get under that weight the Full Projection will start showing the weight going down towards my other targets! Roommate got up early because he had his appointment at 9am. He told me that he tried to sign up for Food Stamps, but apparently he's making too much from his insurance to get the SNAP benefits. I told him b...

Weight: 324.4 lbs ( 147.1 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Enchilada Soup   Dinner: Turkey Taco Mac Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 384) Keto Day 0 (3/365 Days 2026 Keto) Good drop on the scale this morning. It's not down below the beginning of the year so no progress yet. But at least the highest projection so far is under a full ton (849.3 lbs <385.2 kg>) The waist is back down to 54 inches (137.2 cm) so I'm not sure what was going on yesterday. The waist is usually pretty stable, so I'm not sure why it'd be up 2.5 inches (6.4 cm) one day and then down 2.5 inches (6.4) the next. The money Roommate sent me on Friday night for Rent and Bills came through this morning so I went ahead and did the grocery shopping for the week and renewed the YouTube Premium. I didn't tell Roommate that I made those purchases as it would look like I used the money he gave me for ...

Weight: 328.2 lbs ( 148.8 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 56.5 in (143.5 cm) WtHr: 76.4% Breakfast: Rib-Eye and Eggs Lunch: Enchilada Soup   Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 383) Keto Day 3 (3/365 Days 2026 Keto) Good to actually see a down in the weight. Still up 6.7 lbs (3 kg) for the year and the yearly projection still says that I'll be 1,947.4 lbs (883.3 kg) by the end of next year. But hey, it's a down. And lol I had a typo on the BMI. I had accidentally typed in "76.4" as the BMI. I'm glad that I got that corrected, that would have been quite an entry. As anything over 40 is considered "Morbidly Obese" There was a bit of a jump on the waist measurement, not sure what's going on there. It's usually pretty stable.   Decided to have that last Rib-Eye for breakfast before it went bad. Eggs cooked in beef drippings are amazing. Bit expensive to do that too often though.  I thought that ...

Weight: 328.5 lbs ( 149.0 kg) BMI: 42.2 Waist: 54 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Enchilada Soup   Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 382) Keto Day 2 (2/365 Days 2026 Keto) Weight was up again today, at least it was only up 0.1 pounds today unlike the 6.9 lbs yesterday. That really was unsettling seeing that jump yesterday. The projection on the spreadsheets still look silly. Of course it's not going to start showing the charts going down until I start having weights below the start of the year. 2026 is still the third lowest year average so far. Left foot is still really cranky at me. I'm thinking that it's because of how close I am to 330 lbs (150 kg) when the weight goes this high it really starts hurting my feet. It might just be time for some new shoes. The ones I have now are a full year old. As my left foot was hurting I had to walk strangely and it was s...

Weight: 328.4 lbs ( 148.9 kg) BMI: 42.2 Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Rib-Eye Snack: Enchilada Soup   Dinner: Taco Salad Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 381) Keto Day 1 (1/2 days 2026 Keto) It's a little annoying to reset the Keto Kount, but it is kind of fun that the days sober and the days Keto have the same “ones” number. A bit irritating that the day of the year is 2 though. That's a pretty big jump on the scale this morning. I don't think that I ate 7 pounds (3.1 kg) of food yesterday. But when I got home from Grandma's house last night eating a lot of not very keto food I was REALLY thirsty and drank quite a few cans of seltzer. But that's about 9 cans of seltzer, not counting now much I would have peed out. Oh well, it's not a good idea to try to overanalyze the day to day fluctuations. Strange that Google recognizes the word “overanalyze” but spellcheck flags it...

Weight: 321.5 lbs ( 145.8 kg) BMI: 41.3 Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Snack: Black Eye Peas Breakfast: Members Mark Hot Dogs Lunch: Johnsonville Beddar with Cheddar double cheddar smoked sausages Snack: Bar-S Jumbo Jumbo Hot Dogs Dinner: Christmas at Grandmas Drinks: Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 380) Keto Day 0 Had a hard time falling asleep last night, but was still able to wake up and get to work on time. Really good drop on the scale this morning. I haven't started a year under 330 (149.7 kg) since 2015. I've been lower in weight a couple of times last year. But I haven't been this constantly low for quite some time. I went ahead and updated my current goal to 310 (140.6 kg) as it's so close to the 320lb (145.2 kg) goal that it seemed silly to set that goal for the new month.  Roommate had started a tradition of eating a can of black eyed peas right at midnight. And eating an entire can of beans right before made me wake up with...

Weight: 324.1 lbs ( 147 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Enchilada Soup   Dinner: Grilled Bone In Rib-eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 379) Keto Day 2 The store was too busy to take many notes during the day and I spent, probably, too much time this evening getting the weigh in spreadsheets ready for the new year. Roommate was up all night last night screaming in pain. I'm a bit nervous to ask him what's wrong, only because I'm pretty sure that I already know. I'm willing to bet that his problems are something to do with his “Werther's Original Meal Replacement Plan” he's never been a big fan of the Keto/carnivore diets (The Proper Human Diet as Dr Berry calls them). He came up with the idea of whenever he gets hungry, instead of eating he'll have a piece of candy instead of eating real food. Kind of like how when people try to quit smoking they suck...

  Weight: 327.1 lbs ( 148.3 kg) BMI: 42 Waist: 54.5 in (138.4 cm) WtHr: 73.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Baked Chicken https://youtu.be/rfHQy-XdDxE Dinner: Chuck Roast with Mushroom Onion Gravy Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 378) Keto Day 1 Buying the coffee pot and vacuum seal bags, and a couple of other things actually made the grocery bill go over budget. But I'm not too worked up over it. It's not like the more expensive things that I bought today was stuff I have to buy every week. Or at least I hope I don't have to buy a new coffee pot too often. Not sponsored but Mr Coffee>>>Toastmaster. The toastmaster coffee pot had spilled a lot whenever I poured from the carafe. The Mr Coffee carafe poured a lot more smoothly and controlled way and it brewed faster than the other pot as well. I got the stuff to make Enchilada Soup for this weeks lunch plan. That REALLY triggered Ro...

Weight: 325.5 lbs ( 147.6 kg) BMI: 41.8 Waist: 54.5 in (138.4 cm) WtHr: 73.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Snack: Members Mark Hot Dogs Lunch: Bratwursts Dinner: Taco Mac Drinks: Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 377) Keto Day 0 I tried to run the coffee pot again this morning. But no, no luck there. The sound it made is the sound it makes when the water is used up, but the tank is still full of water and the little stream of fluid that comes out is this nasty looking black fluid. Not coffee black, but darker. I'm guessing that there's a clog in the system somewhere. I'm more than a little annoyed by the coffee pot dying. The last coffee pot lasted like 10 years, and this one couldn't even last 10 months. I did think about getting back to the “Decaffeination” blog. But I did just buy two rather large cans of coffee and a new pot will just be about $25 (not sponsored) Spent a lot of time at the computer today, but it w...

Weight: 325.7 lbs ( 147.7 kg) BMI: 41.8 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausages Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Kroger Energy Shot Sober Year 1 (Day 376) Keto Day 6 The wind is going absolutely crazy out there this morning. I saw a clip on Facebook of another town their power lines are sparking as they sway in the wind. Praying that their (an our) power stays on. Coffee pot decided to give up the ghost this morning. That and some of the videos that I've been coming across about how caffeine blocks some nutrients kind of makes me think of getting back to the roots of this blog. When I started this it was to be a “Decaffenation” blog (lol the spell check wants to correct it to “Defecation”) Roommate let his dog out of his bedroom, but he didn't come downstairs. I went ahead and took the dog out because Dog was whining pretty hard ...

Weight: 327.2 lbs ( 148.4 kg) BMI: 42 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Bar-S Jumbo Jumbos Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 375) Keto Day 5 Woke up in a really comfortable mood. I'm working 10-7 today so a little bit earlier than I'm used to. And I did wake up naturally right at 8am, but I kept trying to tell myself that I have less time than normal to get things done. It was like my brain was saying, “we need to get up and hurry!” and my body was like, “cool, cool story bro” The weight has tracked up over the last couple of days, but not nearly as much as the last several years. In the previous years I had thought that it was because of the onset of winter. When I did get up and going and took my watch off to put it on the charging pad I noticed that there was some puss on the inside of my wrist. I had noticed a sore developing where the buckle (?) is on my wrist and it s...

Weight: 326.4 lbs ( 148.0 kg) BMI: 41.9 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Bar-S Jumbo Jumbos Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 374) Keto Day 4 Didn't get to post last night as Roommate had put on The Fellowship of the Ring later in the evening and I decided to watch it with him. It's been a while since I've watched the Lord of the Rings movies. Yesterday wasn't a very productive day. I really just kind of sat here at the computer kind of dozing. I was going to clean out the fridge, but I never got around to it as I was just tired all day. When I woke up this morning there was a bad stench in the fridge. The freezer had clogged up the vents again. I was going to thaw it out yesterday, but I decided to go ahead and to do it today. This time I made sure that the ice was completely gone before turning the fridge back on. As the last couple of ...

Weight: 324.2 lbs ( 147.0 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: X Lunch: AI Chili Members Mark Hot Dogs Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Sugar Free Red Bull, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 372) Keto Day 2 I got to sleep pretty quickly last night, but the watch gave me a pretty low “sleep score” for last night because I woke up early and there seemed to be some updates during the night so it interrupted the tracking. I didn't wake up, but it didn't track my sleeping so it gave me a bad score because it didn't track any sleep several times over the night. I was able to wake up pretty good this morning before work. I was kind of worried as I was scheduled to come in at 7am which is quite a bit earlier than I usually work. I did buy a Sugar Free red bull the other day when I got groceries. I drank that this morning as I woke up, but I don't think that it was really necessary. I didn't have time to have proper breakfast thou...

Weight: 323.0 lbs ( 146.5 kg) BMI: 41.5 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausages Dinner: Hormel Pork Loin Lemon Garlic Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 371) Keto Day 1 Spent quite a bit of the morning updating the weigh in Spreadsheets for 2026. That was a really good weight this morning. Bit of a frustration with the waist, but still down 3.5 inches (2.5 cm) for the year. As Christmas Day is on Thursday this year I'm getting paid on Wednesday so I did the grocery shopping yesterday so the check will clear tomorrow. So I usually do the grocery shopping while Roommate is at his weekly medical appointment, but as I already did my grocery shopping yesterday I just came home and waited for him to call. I was going to do laundry this afternoon so I was going to gather up my laundry while Roommate was at his appointment, but I got distracted by a “50 Facts about K...

Weight: 326.5 lbs ( 148.1 kg) BMI: 41.9 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: X Lunch: AI Chili https://youtu.be/t-PM8kMmu10 Corn Chip Snack: Corn Chips Dinner: Pork Ribs Drinks: Sugar Free Red Bull, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Michelob Ultra Zero Sober Year 1 (Day 370) Keto Day 0 Surprisingly I was able to wake up in time to go to work this morning. This week they're scheduling Supervisors at 7am. The guess is because of the holiday. But even the Customer Service Manager doesn't know why, she just has to schedule what they say that she does. That's why I don't blame her for the scheduling me only 39 hours for most of the year. She can only schedule what they allow her to. I have to laugh I'm writing this later in the evening while playing the word match game that I've been kind of obsessing over lately. And it just played an advertisement for “Glycol Storage Tanks” You know, to deice your airplane! Yeah, they missed their target audience on...

Weight: 325.4 lbs ( 147.6 kg) BMI: 41.8 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin Apple-wood Smoked Bacon Dinner: Taco Velveeta Dinner Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 369) Keto Day 0 Hooray Happy Solstice Day. True it is technically the first day of Winter, but today is the day that the sun starts coming back and it starts to have more light during the day. A couple of days ago Grandma had messaged me telling me that some of her lights had started to come off of her house so I went over this morning to put her lights back up. Well, it was technically morning, but I had a bit of a hard time getting the momentum going this morning. And it was noon by the time I got the single line of lights back up. While I was in the neighborhood I went over to say hi to Mom. While I was there she gave me a couple of vials of homemade lotion for my hands. We also talked about the delay of Christmas. The o...

Weight: 325.6 lbs ( 147.7 kg) BMI: 41.8 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: AI Chili Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 368) Keto Day 7 I worked 10am to 7pm a little earlier than I normally do so I had to eat breakfast in a bit of a hurry. I had woke up slowly and was just kind of puttering around I noticed that it was getting on a little past 9am while I was cooking breakfast and that would have been a little more than an hour before I started getting really ready for work as I had already showered. And then I realized that, “Oh yeah, I work early today!” I'm glad that I figured that out at 9:23 and not 10:05 when they would have been calling me asking where I was. I did have time to eat breakfast properly, but I didn't have time to drink all of the coffee that I would have. A couple of the doctors that I follow online are saying that drinking too much coffee is a really b...

Weight: 327.3 lbs ( 148.4 kg) BMI: 42 Waist: 55.5 in (141.0 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: AI Chili Hot Dogs Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 367) Keto Day 6 Elbows, wrists, knees, and ankles are popping and snapping like crazy today. There was a strange stabbing pain in my lower left back that seemed to go down to my left foot. It felt like if I could just stretch right it would work itself out. It is kind of fun when I shift in the chair my entire spinal column seems to crackle and pop. That was quite a jump in the scale this morning. It was strange that the waist was also that far up from yesterday. I'm writing this after work. And I'm trying really hard to keep this from becoming another “Mark Whines About Work Blog” post. As it is the Friday before Christmas, that's going to be a challenge. Another day when I'm not sure it's something wrong with ...

Weight: 324.1 lbs ( 147.0 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 54 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: AI Chili https://youtu.be/t-PM8kMmu10 Dinner: Smithfield Pork Loin Apple-wood Smoked Bacon Bagged Salad Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Sober Year 1 (Day 366?) Keto Day 5 If you're following along, no you didn't skip 12 days. I was thinking that it was getting pretty close to the yearly mark, but something wasn't lining up correctly so I went back and looked at the date where I started this last attempt at sobriety and it was (more or less) the day that Roommate came home and looking back I had started this Sobriety Streak on December 17, 2024. (Got a bit distracted looking over the notes for the year) I haven't been perfect at uploading or even making an entry on the writing program. So Happy S oberversary to me. And good God, this year has been the shortest longest year of all tim...