Keto Sobriety Blog Saturday March 7, 2025

Weight: 321.0 lbs ( 145.6 kg)
BMI: 41.2
Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm)
WtHr: 71.6%

Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs  
Lunch: Instant Pot Chili  
Dinner: Chuck Roast with Mushroom Onion Gravy
Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster,

Sober Year 1 (Day 444)
Keto Day 7 (51/365 Days 2026 Keto)

Woke up with a lot of mental energy again today. It helps that when I woke up this morning I didn't have to immediately have to sit back down because of the pain that I used to have in my feet and legs. Being able to wake up and immediately start getting going is a really motivating thing. But I had some real scatterbrain (that's a word?) this morning. I was going to try to work on a video script, but I kept going back to the various social media sites to zombie scroll. I keep telling myself that I'm going to limit the time I spend on those sites and apps, but then I keep finding myself back on those sites and apps. I keep coming up with a plan of just limiting my time on social media to an hour or so a day. But then I keep going back to those. I swear this addiction is harder than alcohol

Cooking breakfast this morning the first two strips of bacon were really quite thin and I had to be careful getting those strips out of the packaging to keep them from ripping apart. But the third piece was THICC. I spent a bit trying to get the “two” pieces apart as it felt like it was two pieces stuck together. Strangely cooking the bacon this morning didn't generate much bacon grease. Normally I cook the bacon and then cook the eggs in the bacon grease. But this morning there just wasn't much grease in the pan so I added a couple tablespoons of butter. The bacon and eggs had a strange flavor, they didn't taste like they were going bad, just a strange flavor. Hard to explain.

I set up a chuck roast in the slow cooker before I left for work. I make this from time to time, forgetting how much Roommate hates the smell that it produces. It is an amazingly simple recipe. It's just a chuck roast, a can of condensed cream of mushroom soup, a packet of onion soup mix, and a stick of butter set to low. It is an easy setup, but it makes a smell that pretty much fills up the entire apartment. When I came home for lunch Roommate was grumbling under his breath with a scented candle lit next to him with all of the living room and kitchen windows open. 

I saw something kind of exciting. I don't know all of the details, but I saw a post on Reddit and the Customer Service Manager said it was real. It looks like they're getting rid of the "for only one transaction" limit on Digital Coupons. The digital coupons are currently "Use up to Five Times For a Single Transaction" and they will be changing to "Use up to Five times For Unlimited Transactions" This is a MASSIVELY helpful thing if I'm understanding what they're going to do. There are so many people who use a digital coupon to buy three things one day and then come back the next day to get two more and then get angry because they can't understand that they've already used that coupon and they can't use it again. If they're eliminating the "use only once" limit on digital coupons that will eliminate so many frustrating arguments. 

The Assistant Customer Service Manager was off today, but she had came in to pay some bills and she had her young daughter with her. A coworker asked me if I had ever considered having kids of my own. The thing is that I've never been against the idea of having a family of my own. It's just that I've pretty much spent my entire existence just trying to survive. Seriously just recently have I reached a point where I have more money than I have bills due or things to buy. I know that there's more to life than just trying to build wealth. But I feel like I'm finally doing more than just treading water or running my ass off just to stand still. Will I ever feel like I'm ready to finally “start” my life? I don't know, that seems like a pretty big jump, particularly for somebody who's never even had a romantic partner.

So with that very heavy thought Roommate's half of the Rent/bills had landed in my account yesterday. I had been thinking about coming up with the grocery list and filling up the car with gas. But hadn't had a chance to make much progress on that list. I'm thinking that I'm going to make Jambalaya for the next batch of lunches. And it should be pretty easy to stay under the new budget of $100/week for groceries as I have quite a bit of food in the freezer and a bit of that I hadn't been having as Roommate said that he wasn't a fan of some of it. But as he has recently been declining the food I've been offering I'll just cook the food he doesn't like for myself. (Trying to avoid the stronger smelling stuff like the fish or pork ribs) I'm also going to just list the energy drinks as "Monster" or as "Red Bull" as you could probably just assume that they are the low carb version. I've been going back and forth on tagging the Monster as "low carb" and "No Sugar" and I've lost track on which one is which. I have thought about cleaning up the tags on the posts, but that will take...a while. 

Tonight is the transition to Daylight Savings Time. I have to say that I can feel it. I've been checking the time as I've been writing this out and am surprised that the time isn't later. It is kind of strange that I didn't hear anything about it until this afternoon. I'm kind of glad that I did come across some posts complaining about the time change or I would have missed it. I am glad that most of the modern devices can change their time on their own. That really makes for an easier transition to the new time. A lot of people are wanting Daylight Savings Time to be abolished. But I am flexible enough for it to not bother me personally too much. It would be nice to have it abolished to get rid of those extra steps during the year. But it's not really a big deal to me.