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Weight: 301.5 lbs ( 136.8 kg) BMI: 38.7 Waist: 51 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snacks: Vienna Sausages, Blue Diamond low salt almonds Lunch: Bacon Cheeseburger Soup pork rinds Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Celsius Energy Sober Year 1 (Day 690) Keto Kount Day 5 Weird start to the day this morning. I just couldn't shake the feeling that I was supposed to be doing something. Why wasn't I doing this one thing? But what was that thing I was supposed to be doing? Pretty steady day all day. I was scheduled to be Supervisor all day. I was a little nervous when I saw that we only had three cashiers all day long and it was only one at a time and the cashier for the afternoon was a lady that I have a hard time saying kind things about. She's not a bad person. She's...just...very...deliberate. She...just...can't...do...any? Thing? She's been working there for several years now and she's jus...

Weight: 301.4 lbs ( 136.7 kg) BMI: 38.7 Waist: 51 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Pistachios Lunch: Bacon Cheeseburger Soup pork rinds Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Kroger Energy Shot Sober Year 1 (Day 687) Keto Kount Day 2 Rushed post as I was scheduled to work until 9 tonight, and I'm not sure what happened to the last two hours, but they evaporated as I recovered from work. I ran self checkout for several hours today. I really don't like running self checkout. The new machines run better than the old ones did. But only because they're newer machines. A lot of the hardware is new, but all of the software is the old style so a lot of the frustration of getting people through the machines is still the same frustrations as before. I tried to convince myself that I really wasn't hungry and I really didn't need a snack. But the temptation took over, I knew that the cashews were putt...

Weight: 302.7 lbs ( 137.3 kg) BMI: 38.9 Waist: 51 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Bratwursts Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 686) Keto Kount Day 1 Well, that was incredibly frustrating. I spent the last couple of hours trying to update the “Full weight tracking and projection” spreadsheet to get ready for next year. Not sure why I was doing it this early as I still have a couple of months before the new year starts. But I thought it would be good to get it done before it got here. I was rushing to get it done then ...Bad Allocation... OpenOffice just crashed taking out everything I wrote down the entire day and the couple of hours of updates to the spreadsheet. -_- It's not a hard thing to do, it's just a lot of moving things around and putting data in. not hard, just time consuming. And now I have to remember what all I had written down for the day. It...

Weight: 306.1 lbs ( 138.8 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 51 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: The Barn Chicken Fried Steak, Mac and Cheese, Mashed Potatoes Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Dr Pepper Sober Year 1 (Day 685) Keto Day 0 Okay restarting the Keto Kount. This is not a failure, it's more of figuring out the stall in the weight loss. I never uninstalled the calorie counting app on my phone from years ago. The calorie counter not only tracks the calories of the food it also gives you a breakdown of the nutritional facts of the food as well. And I was surprised to see the amount of carbs I was eating over the last few days. It isn't why I haven't been posting lately, that's been a different issue. But the other day when I put the tube of cashews into the tracking app it looked like that single serving of Cashews was almost half of the allotted for a single day. And the Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausage...

Weight: 305.0 lbs ( 138.3 kg) BMI: 39.2 Waist: 51 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Air Fried Chicken Thighs Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Dr Pepper Zero Sober Year 1 (Day 672) Keto Month 7 (Day 232) (275/365 Days 2026 Keto) It looks like I'll have to go over the numbers again to count the days sober/Keto/etc as looking at the count again it was off by a bit. Now that it's in the “creepy season” I'm a little disappointed that I missed marking the 666th day sober. That could have been fun. Really not sure what happened to yesterday (Tuesday). Tuesday is my day off so I just kind of laid around surprised by the passing of hours. I went to write down the blog of the day, but was surprised that it was half past midnight. Not that I had much to say about yesterday. I did get a set of Stuffed Bell Pepper Soup made for the coming week's lunches. It was kind of sad last night when Mom was putt...

Weight: 299.1 lbs ( 135.6 kg) BMI: 38.4 Waist: 51 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Bratwursts Dinner: Mom's Chili Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 656) Keto Month 7 (Day 225) (268/365 Days 2026 Keto) Nice to be under 300 lbs (<136 kg) again. We'll see if it stays that way. I'm pretty sure that I have a yet to see two days in a row that were under that amount. I had bacon and eggs for breakfast and that was about the last normal thing of the day. I've never been diagnosed with ADHD, but today was very kind of coded like that. Mom had a couple of Doctor appointments today so while she was out I was going to record a Store Story video. I was about to push record on my phone when the AC came on, so I better turn that off so it doesn't have the sound in the background of the video. (I'm sure nobody can hear it, but I can hear it come on and off while I'm recording.) But wait today was Tues...

Weight: 302.1 lbs ( 137.0 kg) BMI: 38.8 Waist: 51 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 69.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Bratwursts Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Dr Pepper Zero Sober Year 1 (Day 615) Keto Month 6 (Day 184) (229/365 Days 2026 Keto) I was really slow to wake up this morning. I remember waking up to hear Mom talking on the phone with Step-Dad at around 8am, then I rolled over suddenly it was almost 10am. I don't think I had a hard time falling asleep last night. It felt kind of odd to cook “breakfast” at almost 11am, but I was starting to get hungry. Good weight this morning. It's nice to start the month with a weight lower than the start of any other month this year. I went ahead and updated the “Short Goal” to 290 lbs (131.5 kg) I don't consider the 300 lb (136.1 kg) goal “beaten” just yet, but it felt strange to set the monthly goal to only 2.1 lbs (0.95 kg) away from the current weight. Even after waking ...

Weight: 302.9 lbs ( 137.4 kg) BMI: 38.9 Waist: 50.5 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.2% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Cashews Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin, Cottage Cheese Snack: Savage Slim Jim Dinner: Bone-In Rib-Eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Celsius Energy Sober Year 1 (Day 613) Keto Month 6 (Day 182) (227/365 Days 2026 Keto) Brain was really unfocused this morning. Really excited that the credit card finally came in. Not in the manner of “Whoohoo shopping spree!” but more in the manner of I've spent the last month or so planning and waiting for this puzzle piece to come in. I didn't get the posts done in the last couple of days as the other night I was watching the lunar eclipse and last night when I got home the credit card was here and I did another rebalance of the budget plan. The last rebalance was because there is a $5 bonus for signing up for autopay on the phone bill, but when I tried to put the credit card on the autopay it said that the card w...

Weight: 301.0 lbs ( 136.5 kg) BMI: 38.6 Waist: 51.0 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Air Fried Chicken Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Celsius Energy Sober Year 1 (Day 610) Keto Month 5 (Day 179) (224/365 Days 2026 Keto) Was kind of slow waking up this morning. Slept until almost 9am and even when checking my watch I tried to do mental math to try to convince myself that I, “really didn't need to get going just yet, I still have 'this' amount of time before I have to get ready. Felt kind of strange when I woke up, it kind of felt like I was hungover. I was able to have time to cook the bacon and eggs. I also threw some chicken into the air fryer. I didn't have time before work to clean it, but I cleaned it after work. I was going to put a pork loin in the fryer as I'm pretty sure that would work out fine. However when I looked up how to cook that in the fryer Google said to run it a...

8/22/26 Saturday Weight: 300.4 lbs ( 136.2 kg) BMI: 38.6 Waist: 51.0 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Dinner: Rib-Eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 609) Keto Month 5 (Day 175) (220/365 Days 2026 Keto) Finished the Old World Blues DLC for Fallout New Vegas. Took a bit as I was kind of stuck in a death loop as I had fell into a canyon with the enemy robot spiders that kept wiping me out. Luckily I found a cave that I could use to save scum. As it autosaves whenever you go in or out of a building. So I would go into the cave so it would autosave, come out kill a scorpion, and then duck back into the cave. I found a weapon called a “Tesla Cannon” that was supposed to do extra damage to robots, but if it did it wasn't much extra. It had a really downer ending as the main bad guy of the story was a scientist driven mad by the Amphetamine drugs in the game known as Mentats and the scientists...

Weight: 301.4 lbs ( 136.7 kg) BMI: 38.7 Waist: 51.0 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Bratwursts Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 607) Keto Month 5 (Day 173) (218/365 Days 2026 Keto) A little annoyed that the weight is back in the 300's, but that's scale fluctuations for you. And why I didn't consider that goal “beaten” just yet. It is kind of fun to be “frustrated” by a weight of 301.4. The average weight for the year has finally gotten below 2015 so this is the second lowest year by average so far. I was kind of nervous about my schedule for next week. I was on vacation this week so I didn't have any hours and when they released the schedule yesterday it didn't show any hours for next week. But the week after that had hours. I wasn't sure what was going on I reloaded the app several times and checked the website, but that website ...

Weight: 299.7 lbs ( 135.9 kg) BMI: 38.5 Waist: 51.0 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Air Fried Bratwursts Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Celsius Energy Sober Year 1 (Day 605) Keto Month 5 (Day 171) (216/365 Days 2026 Keto) Under 300 lbs. Kind of processing the 12 years it has been since the last time I started the body weight number with a “2” Trying to shut down the idea that all of that time was just wasted. Not going to expand on that thought as that thought gets pretty dark. A couple of days ago Step-Dad asked me why I was so hesitant to try a GLP-1 treatment. I'm just hesitant to try things that intentionally mess up the bodies hormones. I do seem to be making progress just with the Ketovore diet. And I don't see a reason, right now, to try to do extra shortcuts on something that I'm already making progress on. If I did the treatments would I make even more progress? More...

Weight: 300.4 lbs ( 136.3 kg) BMI: 38.6 Waist: 51 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Air Fryer Chicken Snack: Pepperoni Mozzarella Rolls Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 598) Keto Month 5 (Day 164) (209/365 Days 2026 Keto) Of course I had to talk about how well I was sleeping in yesterdays post as right after I posted that I flopped around for most of the night. I just could not get to sleep. At first I thought that I was getting excited for applying for the credit card this morning. Then then around 2am I was starting to get bored. I don't know how one gets bored when trying to sleep. I think the lack of sleep really messed with me today. I really should have been more excited to have a weight this low. It matched the record low of the year so far. (I guess I didn't get that other post done when it was at that weight) But I really was just kind of flat-lined mentally ...

Weight: 302.6 lbs ( 137.2 kg) BMI: 38.8 Waist: 51 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Sausage Eggs and Cheese  Lunch: Pork Steak Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Monster, Sparkling Water, Celsius, Sober Year 1 (Day 597) Keto Month 5 (Day 163) (208/365 Days 2026 Keto) The last couple of nights my phone wasn't charged all of the way so I've been leaving it on the charge plate on the other side of the room. I was listening to ASMR Historian and other science kinds of things that are supposedly supposed to help you fall asleep. But I think I slept better with the phone off and across the room. The charge plate still charges the phone even when the computer is off, I'm not sure how I feel about that. More than a little annoyed that the phone is still saying “Moisture in charge port” but the rest of the phone is working fine. This morning before work I went ahead and did the Preapproval for the credit card. It showed that I was preapproved for two cards. The c...

Weight: 301.6 lbs ( 136.8 kg) BMI: 38.7 Waist: 51 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Peanuts Lunch: Bratwursts, Pork Rinds, Queso Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Celsius, Kroger Energy Shot, 20oz Dt Dr Pepper Sober Year 1 (Day 596) Keto Month 5 (Day 162) (207/365 Days 2026 Keto) I didn't get the post done yesterday. I was in a really heavy, “What am I doing with my life” mood. It was hard to put that into a post without making it so somebody who read it pretty concerned about me. The post as I wrote it kept coming out heavier than what I was feeling. It wasn't a very productive thought, but it was a hard one to shake. Was in a lot better mood today though. Very encouraging number on the scale this morning. Happiness isn't a number on the scale, but it would be fun to beat three "Short Goals" in one year.  Still was a bit slow waking up this morning. I did get up early enough to cook breakfast a...

Weight: 302.8 lbs ( 137.3 kg) BMI: 38.9 Waist: 51.0 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Sausage Eggs Cheese Lunch: Bratwursts Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Celsius Sober Year 1 (Day 593) Keto Month 5 (Day 159) (204/365 Days 2026 Keto) Slept a lot better last night than I did the night before. Whatever was causing that soreness in my belly seems to have started healing. Still not sure what caused it, but I did notice the soreness after I was at the DMV. So maybe I sat down too long and jumped up to harshly and pulled something? IDK, but it feels a lot better this evening. Probably because I got to bed last night pretty early I woke up earlier than usual this morning. The watch gave me a pretty low “Sleep Score” because it said that I woke up at 3am and for awhile after that. I don't remember waking up. I'm guessing that there was a system update and since it couldn't track my sleep it didn't think that I was asleep. I'm...

Weight: 306.3 lbs ( 138.9 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 51 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Bratwursts Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 484) Keto Month 1 (Day 47) (91/365 Days 2026 Keto) Had a hard time falling asleep last night (Wednesday into Thursday) Just couldn't convince my body and mind that I was tired. Really good weight this morning. Not quite a record for the year, but not far off. Spent a lot of time this morning re-balancing the budget as General Savings had reached the “Full” goal. It's really exciting to reach “Full” on any of the savings accounts without it needing to immediately be needed. I needed to balance things out as since it was full and I don't need to add or remove anything from General Savings I deleted all of the reminders in Quicken of the transfers into General Savings. Now if I can only get Bill Savings and ...

Weight: 309.0 lbs ( 140.2 kg) BMI: 39.7 Waist: 51 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Baked Chicken   Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 481) Keto Month 1 (Day 45) (89/365 Days 2026 Keto) Fascinating that whenever I have a new record low waist measurement it comes with an up on the scale. The weight is still way down for the year. Kind of found myself dozing off a couple of times over the course of the day. We were supposed to be cleaning out the dinning room and kitchen so the floor guy can come out tomorrow and work on the floor. Mom doesn't think that he can finish tomorrow so he might have to come out Thursday as well. I'm sure that he'll get a good chunk of it done. Most of the dining room and kitchen is just open area. There is a bit of detailing around the kitchen floor and I'm not sure how he'll get around the shelving where Mom kept her Food Jars as th...