Keto Sobriety Blog Friday December 19, 2025

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 me or everybody around me is just that dumb. I would try to hurry to somewhere, but people will swarm in front of me and just kind of meander around. People will be screaming at me for me to help them, but they can't seem to see the people standing in front of me. I don't want to “shoulder down and plow through” just because you can't understand what the register means by, “if you've finished scanning push PAY NOW”

People scream at me about how much they hate self checkout, but we really are just that understaffed. Or at least that's my guess. We've lost about four or five people in the last month from people getting fired, quitting, transferring away etc. People just don't understand, WE DON'T HAVE MORE HELP. You can yell at me if you want, but I still can't open more registers if I don't have more cashiers. Somebody working for one of the third party delivery companies demanded to know why we didn't have a special register just for her and her delivery company, She's “timed you know!” It doesn't matter, I don't have enough help to have a cashier to stand there staring at the wall waiting for somebody maybe hopefully probably comes through with a delivery service order. I'm sorry you have to wait your turn like everybody else. From time to time we have people come through with their special type of order and they demand that we should have a special register just for them. We don't have enough help for the registers that we need open, we're not going to have special registers just for your special order.

The wind wasn't quite as crazy today as it was yesterday. It was a bit cooler and more cloudy. Still really not bad for mid-December 

At lunch I picked up a pack of hot dogs to go in the chili I had for lunch as I was getting really hungry before lunch break.  The cheese that I had in the fridge smelled kind of bad when I put it in the meal, but I didn't feel sick after eating it. I went ahead and threw the rest of that bag of cheese away just to be safe. 

I think I figured out why the “$17 off of a $170 order” coupon didn't work on this week's grocery order. When looking at some of the coupons that I had on my desk that I didn't use this last week I found that coupon underneath my keyboard on my desk. I'm going to take it in tomorrow and turn it in. The little demon on the shoulder said, “Hey, there's nothing saying that you couldn't just keep it and use it on your next grocery order.” Yeah, but I just couldn't. I'm too honest to do that.

Today is the anniversary of the day that Roommate came home. I did think of buying a cupcake for him and making a deal out of it for him. But he's been in a sour enough mood to make a scene out of it. I doubt that making a party would help his mood.

The internet on my computer has been kind of wonky over the last couple of days. I've been hoping to use my Tax Returns (or the $2k Tariff Refund that His Holiness is promising lol) to upgrade my computer. I'm really hoping that it's just the WIFI adapter going bad and not the entire computer.