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Weight: 310.8 lbs ( 141.0 kg) BMI: 39.9 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Cashews, Vienna Sausages Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin Garlic Herb Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Seltzer, 1.25 L Coke Zero Sober Year 1 (Day 509) Keto Month 2 (Day 72) (122/365 Days 2026 Keto) Seriously how long does it take to recover from a buffet? I kind of wonder if I should have restarted the Keto Kount when I went to the buffet on Sunday for Mother's Day. Oh well, still down 10.7 lbs since the beginning of the year and 21.6 lbs since this day last year. So still making rocking progress, but I would like it if that progress continued, or at the very least not go backwards. Woke up at pretty close to 8am like I normally do. Actually woke up before the alarm. I thought since I work an hour later than I normally do I'd just go ahead and just lay there. But the dogs had a different idea as they thought it'd be ...

Weight: 310.6 lbs ( 140.9 kg) BMI: 39.9 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Baked Chicken https://youtu.be/rfHQy-XdDxE Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Seltzer Sober Year 1 (Day 508) Keto Month 2 (Day 71) (121/365 Days 2026 Keto) A bit disappointed in the weight for today. Getting close to getting back up to Morbidly Obese. Trying to think of anything to write for the day. I really did just sit here in the room. I did do the laundry for the week. But I forgot to do the inventory of the garage freezer. I know that there is plenty of food out there, but I would like to keep count of it. I also managed to avoid going out to buy any more food which is something that I need to do for a bit as that freezer is quite full. Baked chicken for lunch. And had some of the salad Mom offered me last night with her homemade Ranch Dressing. I recorded the proverb for the month and the ...

Weight: 309.9 lbs ( 140.6 kg) BMI: 39.8 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Sausage Patties Eggs and Cheese Snack: Cashews, Vienna Sausages Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin Garlic Herb Snack: Cashews Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 507) Keto Month 2 (Day 70) (120/365 Days 2026 Keto) So eating at three restaurants in four days might not be great for weight loss. Kind of giggled at having “Sausage Egg and Cheese” for breakfast as that's a meal from McDonald's. Just their breakfast comes on a biscuit and I skipped the biscuit. I wasn't eager to go back to work as today was the first day back from vacation. I left a few minutes early to return some of the snack food that I bought for last weeks road trip as I didn't open the trail mix or the 2 bags of Pork Rinds. Of course I could have snacked on those over the next several days. But I really didn't want the nuts that was...

Weight: 306.7 lbs ( 139.1 kg) BMI: 39.4 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Airport Steakhouse Lunch Buffet Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Monster, Seltzer, Sparkling Water, Dt Dr Pepper Sober Year 1 (Day 506) Keto Month 2 (Day 69) (119/365 Days 2026 Keto) Phone battery was dead this morning which was odd as I'm pretty sure that I had charged it to full yesterday afternoon. But since it takes 3 hours to charge I didn't have the time to record the part of the weekly weigh in where I actually step on the scale. Of course the phone doesn't have to be charged to 100% to record a video, but it was only up to 20% by the time I left with Mom to go to Church. Step-Dad cooked us all breakfast, but I didn't have time to have any coffee. I don't typically go to church, but as I was scheduled to be off today and it was Mothers Day I decided to go to church with Mom and Grandma. On the way to church Mom stopped by Walmart (...

Weight: 304.2 lbs ( 138.0 kg) BMI: 39.1 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Dinner: The Barn Sirloin, Green Beans, Side Salad, a few fried shrimp Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Monster, Seltzer, Sparkling Water Sober Year 1 (Day 505) Keto Month 2 (Day 68) (118/365 Days 2026 Keto) Computer froze while I was writing this out the first time. Kind of hoping that's not an indication for the next year as today's my birthday. Glad to see the scale go back down to the record weight for the year. But tomorrow I'll be doing a weigh in video which requires me to wear some clothes while recording the weigh in. Stomach was still a bit upset when I woke up this morning. I wasn't sure if it was a belch or a barf sitting right at the top of my gut. I held off on having breakfast for a bit as I didn't think that it'd be a good idea to eat the greasy food with an already upset stomach. But I decid...

Weight: 305.7 lbs ( 138.6 kg) BMI: 39.2 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch (Kind of) : Mixed Nuts Dinner: X Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 504) Keto Month 2 (Day 67) (117/365 Days 2026 Keto) I was going to wake up really early to take the road trip, but when I woke up the phone wasn't plugged in right so it had to charge for a while as I didn't want to head out to a place that I've never been with a phone that wasn't charged up all of the way. I left the house right around 8am. I had to go back in to grab the USB cable to the phone because the Bluetooth in my car isn't connecting anymore. But the annoying thing is that when I plugged the phone into the car the car just flashed “Unrecognized USB Device” and it would charge for a second or two, but then the plug would fall out. I am glad that I let the phone charge before heading out as the car's GPS wouldn't recognize Castle Ro...

Weight: 307.7 lbs ( 139.6 kg) BMI: 39.5 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: AI Pizza Casserole Dinner: Strip Steak Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 473) Keto Month 1 (Day 37) (81/365 Days 2026 Keto) Whoohoo another record down for the year. I wasn't able to upload last night as it was a bit late already when I got home last night and I had yet to assemble my computer after the move. I slept considerably better last night than I did the night before. The night of Saturday going into Sunday I just couldn't fall asleep. I'm not sure what the issue was, new pillows? New bed? New Room? But I was flopping around without sleep. The bed is King Sized, but I kept finding the edge of the bed and had to keep pushing myself back from the edge and kept getting tangled up in the blanket. Slept better last night, but was still really tired. I'm guessing that I'm sti...

Weight: 308.8 lbs (140.0 kg) BMI: 39.6 Waist: 53 in (134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6 Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs  Lunch: Bar-S Hot Dogs Dinner: pepperoni mozzarella wraps Sober Year 1 (Day 471) Keto Month 1 (Day 34) (78/365 Days 2026 Keto) Woke up this morning to a surprise. I had a notification from PayPal. Roommate had sent me the usual amount to cover his half of the rent and "help" with the bills. In the note that I left to announce my intention to move out I told him that I'd leave the decision of rent reimbursement to his discretion I guess that was what he decided to do. I did think of sending a text thanking him. But thought that might come across as sarcastic or harsh. Also had a surprise on the scale. Three days on a row below the Morbidly Obese level! These numbers are crazy.  I was also surprised to see Roommate wake up before I had to go to work. I was busy running around getting things ready to move out tomorrow night. I did try to stay out of his way, but he did seem to...

Weight: 312.0 lbs ( 141.5 kg) BMI: 40.1 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Bar-S Hot Dogs Dinner: X Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Celsius Astro Vibe, Sober Year 1 (Day 467) (the number 467 feels like it has some sort of significance, but I can't think of what, perhaps it's the 67 meme) Keto Week 4 (Day 30) (74/365 Days 2026 Keto) When I got up this morning I wrote a note. All it had was a list of the utilities. (Internet, Electricity, Gas, and Water.) The totals and then halved that added in the half of the rent and left it on Roommates Table. When he got up this afternoon I expected a reaction. He was absolutely incensed. He refused to have any sort of conversation at all about it. He asked why he should pay anything. I tried to ask why I should be paying for everything. I don't know I might have considered some sort of compromise. But no as soon as he saw his half of the bills he asked how he was supposed to p...

Weight: 315.0 lbs ( 142.9 kg) BMI: 40.4 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Snack: 2x Cashews Lunch: Italian Sausage Soup Snack: Cashews Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 466) Keto Week 4 (Day 29) (73/365 Days 2026 Keto) Had a hard time waking up today. Spent most of the morning fighting the autopilot. I did manage to drink the pot of coffee before work, but even then I was just kind of barely above flat line on brain power. The Customer Service Manager was telling me about how a lot of people are due to do their yearly re-certifications on their computer training and names and terms were just kind of going through one ear and out through the other. I'm pretty sure that I got most of the people to do most of the training that they were supposed to do (I think). They do have a list so I'm sure that in a week or so they'll release a new list of who sti...

Weight: 314.2 lbs ( 142.5 kg) BMI: 40.3 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Snack: Cashews Lunch: Paleo Keto Gumbo   Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Apple Cider Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster Sober Year 1 (Day 458) Keto Week 2 (Day 21) (65/365 Days 2026 Keto) Whoohoo! Down under “progress goal” again! Still kind of soon to call that goal “beaten” Waistline is still being stubborn. But that's okay, I'm stubborn too. It is exciting to be under the weight that I haven't been since 2015. And it is really fun to see the “Average Change” on the “Full Weight Tracking and Projection” spreadsheet to be in the red. I think today is going to hurt. I am scheduled to work 10 am to 8 pm. Lunch is at 3pm which is 5 hours into the day then I come back for four more hours. I'm sure that it'll go smoothly and I'm trying not to amp myself up for the negative, but today is going to be a LONG day. The CSM and her back up were both there this...

Weight: 316.1 lbs ( 143.4 kg) BMI: 40.6 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Paleo Keto Gumbo   Dinner: Baked Chicken Drumsticks   Drinks: Salted Apple Cider Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster Sober Year 1 (Day 457) Keto Week 2 (Day 20) (64/365 Days 2026 Keto) Good down on the scale this morning. Would have been nice if the waistline was down as well, but I'm sure that will happen on it's own. I think I saw the police confronting some copper thieves that were working on a unit across from my apartment. I heard some people talking outside and when I looked outside there were a pair of police officers talking to some guys and there was a bunch of copper wire laying everywhere. But I guess they passed their speech checks because after a while the police left and the guys went back to working on the AC unit. It was strange that the guy was wrapping the copper wire around his arm and not a spool or anything. But if the police are convin...

Weight: 317.5 lbs ( 144.0 kg) BMI: 40.8 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Paleo Keto Gumbo   Dinner: Hormel Pork Loin Lemon Garlic Drinks: Salted Apple Cider Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster Sober Year 1 (Day 456) (heh, 456) Keto Week 2 (Day 19) (63/365 Days 2026 Keto) I was able to record a video before work. And I spent a lot of the evening after work editing it. So a lot of the mental energy went into that. It's not a lot of editing to do it's just getting rid of the “um's and uh's” throughout the video. My videos are really just me talking to the camera. I should be able to upload it tomorrow before work if not then it'll be up after work. I was eager to try to get that video done because I had received an email from Patreon saying that since my account had been idle for so long it is about to be “unpublished” I have yet to get anybody to sign up for my Patreon and I doubt that I ever will, but it definitely won't ...

Weight: 318.3 lbs ( 144.4 kg) BMI: 40.9 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Paleo Keto Gumbo   Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Apple Cider Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster Sober Year 1 (Day 455) Keto Week 2 (Day 18) (62/365 Days 2026 Keto) As last night was St Patrick's Day Roommate had me take him over to the liquor store so he could pick up a bottle of whiskey. Has he was quite intoxicated he went to bed before I did. I saw his bottle of Jack sitting on the counter top. It did take quite a bit of self control to not snag a drink or two. The voice in the back of the mind saying, “Go ahead. You don't have to tell anybody. Just fill up the bottom half of a small glass. He wouldn't miss a small glass full.” But I knew that if I had some I wouldn't just have some. That's not how I drink. If there is any left, there wouldn't be any left. As he went to bed before I did yesterday he woke up before I did this morning so no vi...

Weight: 315.1 lbs ( 142.9 kg) BMI: 40.5 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Low Carb Jambalaya Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Apple Cider Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 452) Keto Week 2 (Day 16) (60/365 Days 2026 Keto) Whoa, 7.4 pounds (3.4 kg) in 4 days. I don't know if that's because of the tablespoon of Apple Cider Vinegar that I've been putting in the morning coffee, but it is an interesting correlation that after putting vinegar in the coffee I've started dropping weight like crazy. Waist is up a bit, but the gut does feel like it's sagging more in the front. Lowest weight since 2015, and the lowest ever recorded on here. It would be fun to get under the 314.8 lbs that I started at back in 2014. So lowest weight in 10 years.  Got the oil changed today. I was thinking of going to do the grocery shopping after doing that, but while I was waiting on them to do the oil change a technician ca...

Weight: 319.1 lbs ( 144.7 kg) BMI: 41.0 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Instant Pot Chili   Dinner: Basic Chili   Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Red Bull, Sober Year 1 (Day 446) Keto Week 1 (Day 9) (53/365 Days 2026 Keto) I was going to put my entire statement to management on this post, but it had taken up the entire spot and I don't know if anybody would read all of that and read about today. Then again I don't know who would be interested these posts anyway. The short version of it was a guy came into the store yesterday and asked about the Buy 2 Get 2 Free deal that we have on soda. I had explained to him that some of the sodas are Buy 2 Get 2 Free and other brands are Buy 2 Get 1 Free. He demanded to know what would happen if he were to buy a 24 case of soda. Well, the 24 cases of soda are on sale for $15.99 (This post is not sponsored or an advertisement) He insisted that he should be able to buy a 24 case of ...

Weight: 320.2 lbs ( 145.2 kg) BMI: 41.1 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Instant Pot Chili   Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 445) Keto Week 1 (Day 8) (52/365 Days 2026 Keto) Daylight Savings Time threw off the timing of this post and spent a while writing up a statement for something that happened at work. Will write a post tomorrow about what happened, but don't have time to write it out tonight.

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 a...

Weight: 321.5 lbs ( 145.8 kg) BMI: 41.3 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Instant Pot Chili Dogs Dinner: Hormel Pork Loin Garlic Herb Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 443) Keto Day 6 (50/365 Days 2026 Keto) This morning when I woke up the wind was going crazy. I was really more woken up by the screen door slamming more than it really being time to wake up. The wind was coming out of the south-southwest and the way that my apartment building is lined up the wind was blowing exactly in the way the door would catch the wind and SLAM open and then the wind would switch and then SLAM closed. I was expecting Roommate to wake up yelling about the wind banging the screen door. Yelling at the wind here in Kansas can really keep one busy. But when he came downstairs he seemed to be in a better than normal mood. I was really mentally energized today. The energy really mellowed out during the day so this ...

Weight: 324.1 lbs ( 147.0 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Instant Pot Chili   Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 442) Keto Day 5 (49/365 Days 2026 Keto) So eating corned beef is good for Ketovore, but eating the entire brisket of corned beef in a sitting might not be good for trying to lose weight. Or at least in matter of mass. And after I ate dinner last night I was really thirsty from eating the salty meat so I was drinking a lot of seltzer water after dinner. So I'm pretty sure that's why the scale is up today compared to yesterday. Still down 12.7 lbs (5.8 kg) from this day last year. Then again trying to explain day to day fluctuations can be a fools errand Getting up this morning I was in a bit better mood and legs and feet didn't hurt nearly as much as previously. A couple of hours into the day a guy working in customer service noticed that I was li...