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Weight: 328.0 lbs ( 148.8 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 55.5 in (141 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Tuna Mornay Casserole Dinner: Rib-eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster Keto Month 1 (Day 39) Sober Month 4 (Day 133) I didn't get around to posting yesterday. I really slept in. I only woke up when I heard Roommate screaming at his video games. Turns out playing the games for 20 hours a day for five months straight is rough on controllers. He said that he ordered a new controller, and he insisted that he would be sending me his half of the rent this week. Which if he was buying gaming accessories without paying his half of the rent would be quite frustrating. But he did send me his half of the rent this afternoon. What's kind of fun is that since he sent it to me on a weekday, and I sent it to my bank account during business hours I'll get it tomorrow, and tomorrow is a regular payday also. I did get around to taking inventory of the food ...

Weight: 330.6 lbs ( 149.5 kg) BMI: 42.3 Waist: 55.5 in (141 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Keto Month 1 (Day 37) Sober Month 4 (Day 131) The weight this morning is back over the short goal. Kind of why I'm not saying that the particular goal is “beaten” just yet. I'm not too worried about it being up today, I had a bit of a large dinner last night. Although in a couple of days when the new month comes around I think I'll set the goal down from 330 lbs (149.7 kg) to 320 lbs (145.2 kg) Not that I think that I'll drop an entire 10 lbs (4.5 kg) in a single month. Or if I think that is a sustainable rate. But I just like setting the goal in that increment Didn't do much today. I just played Minecraft. I am still corridor mining. I dug down to the bedrock and and am digging hallways every 10 meters and digging until I get to the other end of the corridor I set. I've found a ...

Weight: 329.6 lbs ( 149.5 kg) BMI: 42.3 Waist: 55.5 in (141 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Broccoli Soup Dinner: Pork Loin Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster Keto Month 1 (Day 36) Sober Month 4 (Day 130) Had a slight moment of euphoria this morning when I weighed in and the weight this morning was below the short target. But it faded as I had to get ready for work. At least I had time to make breakfast. I could feel the good mood deflate as I drove to work. After I clocked in I stopped in the restroom real quick, and the belt buckle snapped off. So that put me into a great mood. The jeans that I was wearing fit enough that they weren't immediately dropping off, but I had to keep adjusting them the entire first half of the day. And naturally I was working a 5:3 split today, so I had to work five hours before lunch. I ran home for lunch and grabbed the old belt that was stretched out to hell and back. The old belt is so stretched out tha...

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: 331.6 lbs ( 150.4 kg) BMI: 42.6 Waist: 55.5 in (141 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: AI Chicken Lemon Parmesan Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Keto Month 1 (Day 34) Sober Month 4 (Day 128) I keep getting a notification about a “Volcano Observatory” I'm not sure if that's an observatory observing a volcano or an observatory on top of a volcano. The notification is supposed to be headlines and news stories, but when I tap the notification it just comes up with a google search of the coordinates of a volcano in Alaska. I never get the notification when I can look too closely at the google search, but apparently there is a volcano in Alaska. Yeah, there are a lot of volcanoes in Alaska. But I do keep coming back to the idea of an observatory on top of a volcano. That would be an epic place to work. An observatory, on top of a volcano, in the arctic. Man that would be like winning the lottery for a science nerd ...

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: 332.6 lbs ( 150.8 kg) BMI: 42.7 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Keto Week 4 (Day 30) Sober Month 4 (Day 124) YMCA: Canceled Rest in Peace Pope Francis. I'm not Catholic, but it does seem like the Catholic Church has lost a very good person. Almost forgot to post today. I spent all day playing Minecraft. I didn't “craft” all that much all I did was dig a stair case down to the bedrock. They say that the further down you dig the more stuff you'll find And I was finding more Gold and Diamonds down there than I have found so far while having this play through. The hardest part was when I came across a cave so I had to constantly build rocks up to connect to the stair case that I was digging through the rock. It took a while to dig it all because my home base is at 173, and the Bed Rock is at -60 and I was building a diagonal staircase...

Weight: 330.2 lbs ( 149.8 kg) BMI: 42.4 Waist: 55.5 in (141.0 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Sausages Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Keto Week 4 (Day 29) Sober Month 4 (Day 123) YMCA: No Had another disturbing dream last night, or rather this morning.  In the morning while I was drifting in and out of sleep I had these weird dreams where I found online where you could find Batman Memes. And found a GIF where Val Kilmer's Batman would wink at you when you opened your phone. And in the dream I dreamed that it was $600 for these memes, but I didn't buy them. But then I "woke up" in the dream, so dream inside dream I checked my balances and I had bought the $600 Batman memes, and then spent another $800 X-men memes. I woke up, truly woke up, in what felt like having a heart attack immediately checking my bank accounts. There'...

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: 333.2 lbs ( 151.1 kg) BMI: 42.8 Waist: 57 in (144.8 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: AI Chicken Lemon Parmesan Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Kroger Energy Shot, Powerade Zero Orange Keto Week 3 (Day 27) Sober Month 4 (Day 121) YMCA: No trying to think of something to say about today. But as soon as I got home I just kind of shut down. It was crazy busy all day long. I didn't have a chance to take any notes. I had several people ask if I'm working on Easter. And they ask if we're open on Easter. And they'll act shocked that the store is open and I'm working on a Holiday. I'm pretty sure that they would be the same people that would complain that the store was closed if they would have had let us have the day off. Allergies are going nuts again today. Nose is plugged up like hell. I've had several people once again tell me that if I'm sick I need to stay home. But again. It is j...

Weight: 331.6 lbs ( 151.6 kg) BMI: 42.6 Waist: 56 in (142.2 cm) WtHr: 75.7% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Cheesy Chicken Chili Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Powerade Zero Orange Keto Week 3 (Day 26) Sober Month 3 (Day 120) YMCA: No It is fascinating when I put the link to the Bacon and Eggs in the top part of the post the link box will always try to bunch the words “Bacon” and “and” together so if I'm not careful it will show it as “Baconand Eggs” It is strange that it doesn't do that with any other recipe it's only the bacon and eggs that get smashed together. Another great drop in the weight. The short goal is 330 lbs (149.7 kg) Not sure when to consider that goal “Beaten” I don't want to say it as soon as the scale shows a weight less than that because it could be up the very next day. I think that I'll just keep that the goal until the end of the month. If it is under 330 lbs by May I'll change the ...

Weight: 334.2 lbs (151.6 kg) BMI: 42.8 Waist: 56 in (142.2 cm) WtHr: 75.7% Breakfast: Pork Steak and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken Dinner: Rib Eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster Keto Week 3 (Day 25) Sober Month 3 (Day 119) YMCA: No Had a hard time falling asleep last night. The inside of my nose was burning. It reminded me of when I was a kid and heard that smelling pepper makes you sneeze, so I snorted some black pepper to see if it would make me sneeze. (Pro-tip: Don't do that, it sucks) I was going to do Bacon and Eggs , but decided on one of the smaller pork steak and eggs. It was a bit of a challenge to cook the steak because it split into two parts, but had a connecting piece that just got tangled up. All day it felt like I took a baseball bat to the sinuses. I do believe that the medicine that I bought yesterday did help. But the nose was still running like crazy. There was a bit of an air show in my neighborhood this morning. The National Gua...

Weight: 334.2 lbs ( 151.7 kg) BMI: 43 Waist: 56 in (142.2 cm) WtHr: 75.7% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Jumbo Hot Dogs Dinner: Hormel Pork Loin Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer,Sugar Free Monster Keto Week 3 (Day 24) Sober Month 3 (Day 118) YMCA: No Was quite busy this morning. Roommate had his appointment this morning at 8:45. So I ran him by the hospital, while he was at the hospital, I decided to go do the grocery shopping. As soon as got done with that I went home, when I got home I went ahead and took shower. As soon as the shower was done Roommate was done with his appointment, but he needed to run by Walgreen's (not sponsored) on the way home he was in a bad mood so he wanted McDonald's (Not Sponsored). So I ran him by McDonald's I was trying to decide if the one on 4t h street or the one on 11t h was closer, but he said that the one a block and a half away from the Walgreen's was the closest one. But he didn't say that until I was already hea...

Weight: 332.2 lbs ( 150.7 kg) BMI: 42.6 Waist: 57 in (144.8 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Johnsonville Double Cheddar Sausages Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Keto Week 3 (Day 23) Sober Month 3 (Day 117) YMCA: No Feet hurt again today. But only when I first stood up. Was excited to see another record low for the year. Still 8.4 lbs (3.8 kg) from the lowest weight of last year. But I'm still glad for the progress for the year. When I woke up this morning my right ear felt plugged up. Nose was drippy all day long. Not enough snot to get a good blow to clear the entire thing, just a bit of annoying little stream. I was really tired the first half of the day. I'm not sure if it was the weather or what. The last couple of days was really warm and sunny. Today was dark and cloudy. The ambient temperature wasn't that bad, but that wind was biting. The Google Doodle today celebrated World...

Weight: 335.2 lbs ( 152 kg) BMI: 43 Waist: 57 in (144.8 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Pork Steak and Eggs Lunch: Broccoli Soup Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Keto Week 3 (Day 22) Sober Month 3 (Day 116) YMCA: No Good drop in weight. Resetting back to a couple of days ago. So back to making progress for the month. Feet really hurt this morning. They stopped hurting as I got up and moving around. As I was leaving for work (dressed, so I know it wasn't a dream) I noticed that the windows were down a bit. I hurriedly thought if it had rained last night. I don't think that it did. I'm sure that I had just left them down a bit because of the great weather we've been having the last couple of days. On the way to work I am starting to wonder if the sensor on the traffic light is working or not. I was sitting at the light for quite a while and it only turned green when a car came from the other way. ...

Weight: 338 lbs ( 153.3 kg) BMI: 43.4 Waist: 57 in (144.8 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Keto Clam Chowder Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Red Bull, Sugar Free Monster Keto Week 2 (Day 21) Sober Month 3 (Day 115) YMCA: No Last night I had another really weird dream. I was dreaming that I was too busy watching videos on YouTube to get ready for work. I had started taking a shower, but concluded that I didn't have time to do that so I ran out the door. And I had hurried out the door to drive to work, but I was more than halfway there before I realized that I had left the house naked. I started to turn around, but figured that would just make me more late for work. So I ran into the store, buck ass naked ran up to the self checkout register grabbed all of the money out of it so I could do the audit to run the register, but decided to run home first to get dressed. The dream jumped to “the next day” and when I got to work I brought the money...

Weight: 335.4 lbs ( 152.1 kg) BMI: 43.1 Waist: 57 in (144.8 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Fajita Soup Dinner: Taco Pork Loin Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Red Bull, Sugar Free Monster Keto Week 2 (Day 20) Sober Month 3 (Day 114) YMCA: No Last night I had a strange twitching in my left knee. Right below the kneecap. It didn't hurt, it was just like there was like a cricket or something jiggling around inside of my knee. I don't think that it's anything to be worried about just yet the knee is working fine this morning and again there is no pain. But it might be something to keep an eye on. Used up the last of the bacon this morning. I debated on wither or not to buy another thing of bacon. But I settled on just buying a smaller pack of bacon. It should last me until Tuesday when I can do the proper grocery shopping. When I got to work there was a new carryout guy. By the end of his three hour shift he was laying on the end of the ...

Weight: 335.2 lbs ( 152 kg) BMI: 43 Waist: 56 in (142.2 cm) WtHr: 75.7% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Red Bull, Keto Week 2 (Day 19) Sober Month 3 (Day 113) YMCA: No The weight was up today. But still down for the month and amazing progress for the year. The bacon was looking a bit rough when I cooked it this morning. It was just kind of gray while it cooked. I don't know if it's going bad on me, but I'm hoping it can stick it out until Tuesday. I did get around to getting the guts to share my opinion on what is probably going to happen when/if President Trump gets his way with the tariffs  Amazing weather outside today. It was nice enough to open up the windows and turn off the heater. When I came home for lunch Roommate was taking a nap, but I heard a strange banging coming from upstairs. It sounded like he kept slamming his door. But then I remembered that I had my wind...