Keto Sobriety Blog Wednesday March 4, 2026

Weight: 320.7 lbs ( 145.4 kg)
BMI: 41.2
Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm)
WtHr: 71.6%

Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs  
Lunch: Mom's Chili
Dinner: Corned Beef
Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull

Sober Year 1 (Day 441)
Keto Day 4 (48/365 Days 2026 Keto)

Trying to get back to this. I've been sober, but haven't been very Ketogenic.

Spending way too much mental energy re-balancing my budget. A couple of weeks ago Roommate was screeching about how bad the internet was and he seemingly figured that the modem was starting to go bad. But it was hard to tell the difference between that screeching and all of the other screeching. But I eventually ran by Cox (not sponsored) to get a new modem. While I was there their associates were really rather excitedly tried to get me to sign up for their mobile phone service. I had to tell them several times that I was just there to switch out modems, I wasn't looking to sign up for any other services. But they were saying that if I were to sign up for their mobile service it would lower my internet bill from $160/month to $80/month. The way that they were saying it they really sounded like it would make the phone and internet bill a combined $80/month. That would lower my $160/month internet and $150/month phone bill to $80/month. That's $80/month down from $310/month. Which did sound really exciting, but I was just there to get a new modem. But I took a day or two re-balancing my budget to fit the new telecommunication bill of only $80. So I went ahead and paid off my phone with Verizon (not sponsored) and went back a couple days later to ask more about it. They clarified that the internet bill would lower to $80/month, but the phone service would be $45/month. That's still $125/month as opposed to $310/month. So I was going to go ahead and sign up for that new service. Unfortunately the phone I have now wasn't able to be switched over to their service, but I would get a $500 credit and have a $20/month payment plan...if I passed the credit check.

I didn't pass the credit check.

So all of that work re-balancing my budget was for naught and I went ahead and re-balanced it, again. But with the phone paid off the Verizon bill (not sponsored) was lower, and I got an email saying that there was a 10% discount for 12 months special going on. So that lowered my phone bill from $145/month to $112/month.

And as Roommate has been declining the various meats that I've been cooking for dinner I've decided to go ahead and lower how much I've been budgeting for the weekly grocery run. And since the car insurance is paid off and I won't need to pay it for several more months. I went ahead and re-balanced the budget again. And it looks like I'm going to reach my savings goals later this year, even without signing up for the other mobile service.

And as I was spending so much time and effort on budgeting and rethinking the budget and not really doing the blog I had decided not to follow the diet as I really wasn't logging the eating anyway. I was weighing in each morning and tracking the weight with my phone. But I wasn't doing the spreadsheets that I want to do. And WOW, it didn't take long for falling off the diet to effect me mentally. I believe there is connection between Body, Mind, and Spirit. And healthy body will make for a healthy mind, and healthy spirit. And falling off the diet really made me feel like crap all around. From feet burning, to stiff uncomfortable legs, to brain just not wanting to do anything. I just couldn't think straight. I tried to tell myself that I was just spending too much mental energy on the budget and the mobile word match game that I've been trying to do. But it was just like I fell in a hole and couldn't get out. 

A couple of weeks ago Mom gave me several jars of chili that she had prepared but didn't like herself. I had the last of those jars at lunch today. On Monday I made another batch of chili as I thought it would be funny to finish off a batch of chili and have another batch of chili ready to go. When I was at home for lunch I set up the slow cooker with a Corned Beef Brisket, Roommate didn't want any so I had the whole thing,