Sobriety Blog July 8, 2025

Weight: 331.6 lbs ( 150.4 kg) BMI: 42.6 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Taco Casserole   Dinner: Bubba Nachos Drinks: Salted Coffee with cream, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Month 6 (Day 199) Keto Day 0 Got distracted by Minecraft last night to do a blog post. What I was trying to do was to fill out the entire local map. The problem was that as I walked around the sun would go down and monsters would come out at night. I carried a bed with me to “Sleep through the night” but a lot of times when I placed the bed down the monsters would spawn too closely to my bed and I would try fighting them off to sleep, but a lot of times when I was fighting one monster another one would come up behind me and blow me up. If you can get back to the point where your character was killed quickly enough you can pick up the stuff that you had, but the thing is that a lot of time the point where I died would be on the other side of the play area ...

April 23, 2021 Getting Back into It

Weight: 352.0 lbs (159.7 kg)
BMI: 45.2
Waist: 58 in (147.3 cm)
WtHR 78%

Breakfast: Kroger Shells and cheese
Lunch: 4 Piece Deli Baked Chicken, Sugar Free Monster
Dinner: KC Strip Steak, 6pk Bud Light

Had another one of those phase out periods where I just coasted along with life. This is a source of frustration for me. There are so many things that I want to do, have to do, need to do, but I just fall back into a vegetative like state where I'm either staring zombie style at my computer while YouTube plays or lumbering around the store at work. And I'm getting back into the frustrated mood where I feel like I'm waking up to go to work and then going back to bed to wake up to go back to work. And working at a grocery store is frustrating because it's impossible to tell yesterday from last week from six months ago from six years ago. Everyday I go back to work, stand around seeming waiting to go home and start over the next day.

I really do want to be doing the Keto diet. (I am writing that as I'm eating Mac and Cheese for breakfast) The frustration that I keep running into is that I just haven't gotten into the habit of making a meal plan and sticking to that plan. So I keep eating fast food for my lunch breaks and buying quick foods like Velveeta dinner or Mac and cheese or frozen pizza etc. And even if Keto wasn't the plan all of these foods are designed for an entire family to eat and I'm one guy sitting here at my computer watching YouTube stuffing my face.

Something other than diet that I need to work on in my life is that I really need to try to avoid social media more. Way to far often I catch myself “Doom Scrolling” I have (several times) removed the Facebook and Twitter apps from my phone, and then I fall back into old traps and reinstall them (several times). I need to tune out these sites/apps. This might just be excuses, but it really is something that would be good to work on. I'm sitting here at my computer while surrounded by a filthy house. There is a strategy of using YouTube as (more or less) background noise as I clean house, but then I catch myself back at my computer scrolling through social media.

Had baked chicken from deli department for lunch. I did kind of have a strange experience because everyone in the deli know how I always buy a 4 piece fried chicken and when I asked for baked chicken it caused confusion in the person serving up the chicken. And it just caused more confusion when I said that I was trying to avoid carbs and the crust of the fried chicken is basically just flour. The lady working in the deli kept insisting that the crust was the best part of the chicken. And I'll admit our store's fried chicken has an awesome crust on it. But again I'm trying to avoid carbs and flour crust is all carbs. They've recently updated the recipe on the baked chicken and it kind of has a crust of seasoning on it. I do like this new recipe. Although now that I think of it, it might be a good idea to ask some questions about that seasoning. But I do think it will be over all better to get back into cooking big casseroles stocking up the freezer and bringing my lunch to work with me. There are just so many great reasons to get back into that plan.

After work for dinner I grilled up a KC Strip steak. Or at least it was labeled as a KC Strip steak. It didn't look like the pictures online of a KC Strip, It looked like a T-bone that only had meat on one side of the bone. I've had this cut of meat before and people told me that the pictures didn't look like a KC Strip. I didn't think of taking pictures of this meal until I had finished. (It wouldn't have been as weird as that sounds. Sister-in-law has a Facebook group for people to share pictures of their dinners) <Okay, that's kind of weird.> I do plan on grilling out more now that the neighbors next to me have moved out. I didn't have any personal issues with them. But they were chain smoking alcoholics (not sure if I have much room to talk about the alcohol use as I did pick up a six pack of Bud Lite after work) it seemed like they spent almost every single waking moment out side smoking and opening cans of beer. I never really engaged with them other than a nod of recognition or a quiet, “hello” but I have to spend four to eight hours a day six days a week pretending to engage with people. I really don't want to do that when I'm trying to cook dinner. But I really do want to grill out more often.

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