Keto Sobriety Blog Wednesday February 18, 2026

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...

Worried About The Paycheck Keto/Sobriety Blog May 22, 2025

Weight: 332.6 lbs ( 150.8 kg)
BMI: 42.7
Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm)
WtHr: 74.3%

Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs
Lunch: Big Mac Casserole
Dinner: Strip Steaks
Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Unsweetened Tea

Keto Day 2
Sober Month 5 (Day 154)

A little disappointed that the weight is up a couple of pound since yesterday. But I'm REALLY KIND OF FREAKED OUT that the paycheck hasn't landed in my bank account this morning. The pay stub usually updates on Wednesday around 7pm and I usually check the site as I'm leaving work on Wednesday, but I was off yesterday so I didn't bother checking the site and I was just expecting the deposit at midnight like usually happens. I checked my balances after posting last night...and it wasn't there. I tried to check the website were the pay stubs are posted and it wasn't responding. So I downloaded the related app. After a bit of login and signing up drama, I was able to check my pay stub...and it wasn't there. The last pay stub that is available is last weeks pay stub. I had already written a check for groceries, my phone bill is on autopay and that comes off this week, and my gas bill is already overdue. I CANNOT not get paid today. I called tech support and through their heavy accent I think that I could just barely tell that somebody had submitted the payroll later than they should have and the pay slip should (I noted the “should”) update around 5 pm.

Roommate suggested that I go to the bank at lunch time to talk to them. I didn't know that there was much that they could have done. But by chance of luck the guy who was working the desk at the time was the lead of the overdraft team. And he was able to flag my account to let payments to go through without overdraft fees, as it was due to no fault of my own. And that was a MASSIVE relief as the check that I had written to pay for groceries had already came through. While I was at lunch I poked at my phone and found a setting to “pause” the autopay. The Phone Bill is still due by the 1st of June, but at least it wouldn't come off when I'm still waiting for the paycheck to come around. The autopay doesn't pay until the 28th which is going to be Wednesday and if the paycheck hadn't came through by Wednesday and I'm supposed to be paid on Thursdays I'd be really quite heated but I didn't want that to be an option.

Lunch was a couple of servings of Big Mac Casserole and once again the relish in the casserole gave me really pickely burps for a while.

When I got back to work from lunch there was a memo saying that the payment issue was a known issue and they were working to fix it. And the payslips will be updated at 4pm and the deposits will go out at 5pm. So yeah I was checking my bank account hourly. And it was a massive relief when I saw my bank account back into the positive. I know that the guy at the bank said that I wouldn't get overdraft fees for any purchases, but I didn't want to test that too much. And being stressed out all day and then the massive relief of the paycheck being deposited really wore me out. I wasn't a very effective Supervisor today and I think I'll be sleeping quite soundly tonight.

I did notice that I had received a 25 cent raise. I can't help but notice the time a couple of years ago when the paycheck glitched and it turned out that it had just been because the retro pay had screwed it up. There didn't seem to be any retro pay in this weeks paycheck. Maybe next week? Maybe they implemented the raise at the right time so they won't have to pay retro pay? I can't say that I care much, I'm just glad that I did get a paycheck this week. 

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