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Weight: 320.7 lbs ( 145.4 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 53.5 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Egg Stuff   Lunch: Fathead Lasagna   Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 412) Keto Day 6 (29/365 Days 2026 Keto) Scale was down this morning. Not by much, but down is down. And waist is also down. Err downish, annoyingly enough it is at the same measurement it was at the beginning of the year so the projection is completely flat. When I got to making breakfast there were only three eggs. When I cook bacon and eggs I eat 4 eggs and 4 strips of bacon. There's nothing saying that I'm required to have 4 eggs and 4 strips of bacon. But I feel like it would have thrown things off to only have 3 eggs. But it was an excuse to run to the store and grab the stuff to make Egg Stuff. It's been a while since I've had the egg scramble. I do have to say that my stomach really didn't like my breakfast decision. I swea...

Weight: 321.3 lbs ( 145.7 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 53.5 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Snack: Mozzarella Cheese Sticks Lunch: X Dinner: Pork Steak Fried in flour, Homemade Bread Dressing Snack: Kroger Sour Cream Cheddar Potato Chips Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Dr Pepper Zero Sugar Sober Year 1 (Day 406) Keto Day 0 (23/365 Days 2026 Keto) Yeah, that's the direction that I'm wanting the scale to go in. I'm a little annoyed at the tape measure, but fluctuations happen. I was going to do a couple of video shorts while Roommate was at his appointment, but I needed to run by Walmart to grab a Blue T-shirt as I have been wanting to do some political opinion videos with me wearing Red, White, And Blue shirts to represent various opinions that I am wanting to mock. But strangely when I went by Walmart there weren't any just plain blue T-shirts. I did come by some darker blue s...

Weight: 321.2 lbs ( 145.7 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 53.5 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: AI Pizza Casserole with Garlic Cream Sauce Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee with cream, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 400) Keto Day 1 (18/365 Days 2026 Keto) Disappointing jump on the scale this morning, but I did have a lot of spaghetti last night. Even if I wasn't trying to do Keto, two full plates of pasta really isn't good for trying to lose weight. Still down for the year so most of the projections are going down. Belly was up .5 inches on the measurement, however was surprising that it wasn't up more. My stomach felt like it was really bloated this morning. Again, not sure how much of that is because of the two big plates of pasta I had last night. I work 2pm to 10 today. The time before work today wasn't very productive as I'm used to waiting around until I have to go to wor...

Weight: 320.0 lbs ( 145.1 kg) BMI: 41.1 Waist: 53.5 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup   Snack: Savage Slim Jim Dinner: Bottom Round Roast Mushroom Onion Gravy Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 397) Keto Week 1 (Day 13) (16/365 Days 2026 Keto) Was woken up at 4 in the morning to Roommate screaming in the bathroom again. Really reinforcing my savings plan. But was able to go back to sleep until the proper 8am. I was able to have breakfast. And was excited to see the “down” on the scale. The back of my hands felt like sandpaper this morning. I put some of the lotions that Mom gave me a couple of months ago. For a while I was doing a bit of an experiment with them doing the “Healing Lotion” on my right hand and the “Moisturizing Lotion” on my left hand. But clumsiness and cross-contamination made that impossible. So today I just put both of the lotions on both of my hands. I like how t...

Weight: 321.8 lbs ( 145.9 kg) BMI: 41.3 Waist: 53 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup   Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 390) Keto Day 6 (9/365 Days 2026 Keto) I noticed that when I woke up this morning my legs weren't stiff and sore like they have been in the past. There have been days in the past when I woke up I would have to wobble around like I was walking on fiery stilts until my legs loosened up. This morning I wasn't exactly dancing around, I was able to get up and get going quite easily and there wasn't any pain. I'm sure that I'll be limping by the end of the evening. It was nice to get up and not have to sit back down with a painful gasp. It was exciting to see the down on the scale again and seeing that it's only 0.3 lbs (~5oz <136 g>) from the weight at the beginning of the year. If it gets down below the beginning of the year al...

Weight: 324.3 lbs ( 147.1 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 53.5 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup   Dinner: Grilled Pork Chops, American Blend Salad, Ranch Dressing Drinks: Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 389) Keto Day 5 (8/365 Days 2026 Keto) Brain is just scattered today. I worked 10am to 7 today. And even two hours after I got off my brain is still just bounding around like crazy. I just seem can't get a single sentence together. (Doesn't help that I forgot my note in my apron in my locker at work.) I was kind of slow waking up. Not really in a struggling way, just kind of slow plodding wake up. I did start rushing as I noticed it was coming up on 9:30 and I had to work at 10 and I was just starting to cook breakfast. So I was able to gulp down the bacon and eggs and a can of Low Carb Monster before work, but that was about all I was able to do before rushing off to work. Thankfully the snow from yesterday had...

Weight: 322.8 lbs ( 146.4 kg) BMI: 41.4 Waist: 53.5 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup   Snack: Savage Slim Jim Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 388) Keto Day 4 (7/365 Days 2026 Keto) I tried to do meditation last night but I don't remember how it went because the last thing I remember is thinking to myself that I'm starting to meditate and then I woke up this morning. I don't remember any dreams last night. But I also don't remember getting up to go to the bathroom, but my watch said I had 22 steps and that would be how many steps I would have had between my room and the bathroom and back. The sleep record said I had a good sleep score, but I didn't fall asleep until 1:25 and I didn't get much deep sleep. Another down on the scale today. It's only down 0.2 lbs (3oz or 90 grams) but a down is a down. And it's only 1.3 lbs (0.6 k...

Weight: 323.0 lbs ( 146.5 kg) BMI: 41.5 Waist: 53.5 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup https://youtu.be/9q5K-GH0250 Dinner: Bratwurst  Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 387) Keto Day 3 (6/365 Days 2026 Keto) I don't know if the meditation last night did anything to help sleep come sooner or better. But I did have a really strange dream. Strange to have dreams at all, but this was a weird one. For some reason I was walking to work and somebody said that they knew a short cut, but I had lost them as they ran behind a warehouse which was odd because there aren't any warehouses between my house and the store. But when I came from behind the warehouse I noticed that I was in the mountains. I figured that it was the Rocky Mountains as it was rocky and snowy up on the top of the mountains. I looked down and saw a city, I figured that was Denver because that is a...

Weight: 328.5 lbs ( 149.0 kg) BMI: 42.2 Waist: 54 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Enchilada Soup   Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 382) Keto Day 2 (2/365 Days 2026 Keto) Weight was up again today, at least it was only up 0.1 pounds today unlike the 6.9 lbs yesterday. That really was unsettling seeing that jump yesterday. The projection on the spreadsheets still look silly. Of course it's not going to start showing the charts going down until I start having weights below the start of the year. 2026 is still the third lowest year average so far. Left foot is still really cranky at me. I'm thinking that it's because of how close I am to 330 lbs (150 kg) when the weight goes this high it really starts hurting my feet. It might just be time for some new shoes. The ones I have now are a full year old. As my left foot was hurting I had to walk strangely and it was s...

Weight: 328.4 lbs ( 148.9 kg) BMI: 42.2 Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Rib-Eye Snack: Enchilada Soup   Dinner: Taco Salad Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 381) Keto Day 1 (1/2 days 2026 Keto) It's a little annoying to reset the Keto Kount, but it is kind of fun that the days sober and the days Keto have the same “ones” number. A bit irritating that the day of the year is 2 though. That's a pretty big jump on the scale this morning. I don't think that I ate 7 pounds (3.1 kg) of food yesterday. But when I got home from Grandma's house last night eating a lot of not very keto food I was REALLY thirsty and drank quite a few cans of seltzer. But that's about 9 cans of seltzer, not counting now much I would have peed out. Oh well, it's not a good idea to try to overanalyze the day to day fluctuations. Strange that Google recognizes the word “overanalyze” but spellcheck flags it...

Weight: 321.5 lbs ( 145.8 kg) BMI: 41.3 Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Snack: Black Eye Peas Breakfast: Members Mark Hot Dogs Lunch: Johnsonville Beddar with Cheddar double cheddar smoked sausages Snack: Bar-S Jumbo Jumbo Hot Dogs Dinner: Christmas at Grandmas Drinks: Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 380) Keto Day 0 Had a hard time falling asleep last night, but was still able to wake up and get to work on time. Really good drop on the scale this morning. I haven't started a year under 330 (149.7 kg) since 2015. I've been lower in weight a couple of times last year. But I haven't been this constantly low for quite some time. I went ahead and updated my current goal to 310 (140.6 kg) as it's so close to the 320lb (145.2 kg) goal that it seemed silly to set that goal for the new month.  Roommate had started a tradition of eating a can of black eyed peas right at midnight. And eating an entire can of beans right before made me wake up with...

Weight: 324.1 lbs ( 147 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Enchilada Soup   Dinner: Grilled Bone In Rib-eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 379) Keto Day 2 The store was too busy to take many notes during the day and I spent, probably, too much time this evening getting the weigh in spreadsheets ready for the new year. Roommate was up all night last night screaming in pain. I'm a bit nervous to ask him what's wrong, only because I'm pretty sure that I already know. I'm willing to bet that his problems are something to do with his “Werther's Original Meal Replacement Plan” he's never been a big fan of the Keto/carnivore diets (The Proper Human Diet as Dr Berry calls them). He came up with the idea of whenever he gets hungry, instead of eating he'll have a piece of candy instead of eating real food. Kind of like how when people try to quit smoking they suck...

Weight: 324.1 lbs ( 147.0 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 54 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: AI Chili https://youtu.be/t-PM8kMmu10 Dinner: Smithfield Pork Loin Apple-wood Smoked Bacon Bagged Salad Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Sober Year 1 (Day 366?) Keto Day 5 If you're following along, no you didn't skip 12 days. I was thinking that it was getting pretty close to the yearly mark, but something wasn't lining up correctly so I went back and looked at the date where I started this last attempt at sobriety and it was (more or less) the day that Roommate came home and looking back I had started this Sobriety Streak on December 17, 2024. (Got a bit distracted looking over the notes for the year) I haven't been perfect at uploading or even making an entry on the writing program. So Happy S oberversary to me. And good God, this year has been the shortest longest year of all tim...

Weight: 326.5 lbs ( 148.1 kg) BMI: 41.9 Waist: 54 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: AI Chili Dinner: Chuck Roast Green Beans Bagged Salad Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Kroger Energy Shot Sober Month 11 (Day 355) Keto Day 4 Weight was a little up from yesterday, but down compared to the day before I was looking over the receipt from yesterday's shopping again just to see if that $17 off of a $170 order was on there and it just wasn't there. I thought I was going in a few minutes early to get that coupon situation corrected. Thankfully the lady working customer service this morning was the cashier who rang me up yesterday. I doubt that she remembered that exact coupon but she remembered that I used coupons and that none of the coupons that I used had any errors. I'm sure that it helps that she knew who I am and I have a good reputation so she went ahead and gave me credit for the coupon. What was f...

Weight: 324.2 lbs ( 147.1 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Brunch: Egg Stuff https://youtu.be/d8KFD4Ub5kU Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 11 (Day 354) Keto Day 3 I was going to have the regular Bacon and Eggs for breakfast, but when I went to cook breakfast I was reminded that I had used the last of the bacon yesterday. By the time roommate had to go to his appointment and I did the grocery shopping it was close to 1 in the afternoon by the time I was able to eat so I decided to combine breakfast and lunch together and made the “Egg Stuff” scrambled eggs as I had six eggs left from the eggs Mom gave me back on Thanksgiving. I picked up some eggs and bacon when I got groceries this afternoon. That was a really good drop on the scale this morning. A frustration when I got groceries I had a coupon for $17 off of a $170 order and some other coupons (not sponsored) so I bought more than I...

Weight: 327.3 lbs ( 148.4 kg) BMI: 42 Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Hormel Pork Loin Mesquite BBQ Dinner: St Louis Style Pork Ribs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Month 11 (Day 353) Keto Day 2 Last night I went to bed with socks and vegetable shorting on my hands as I have been getting really dry skin on my hands over the last couple of days and last year it got so bad the skin started cracking and bleeding. So I wanted to cut that off before it got that bad. I did wake up in the middle of the night and had to take the socks off of my hands because my hands were getting uncomfortably hot. I did think about getting some cloth gloves some time in the next couple of days or weeks. Just so I could wear something over my hands, but be able to use my hands as the socks over my hands kind of restricts what I am able to do and they're really just not very comfortable on the hands. Not a fantastic number on the...

Weight: 324.7 lbs ( 147.3 kg) BMI: 41.7 Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Bar-S Jumbo Jumbo Hot Dogs Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Sober Month 11 (Day 352) Keto Day 1 Good numbers this morning.  There was a strange story from a coworker. She said that her boyfriend was in town so she was staying with him. And her back hurt as she had slept on the concrete floor. She said that she and her boyfriend had deiced to stay at one of his friends house. But they didn't want to bother his friend so they stayed in their garage. She said that he had a cot that he slept on, but the cot wasn't big enough for the both of them so her boyfriend forced her to sleep on the garage floor. I have to say, that doesn't sound very manly. If you have a cot that only holds one and a girlfriend, your girlfriend is sleeping on the cot and you're sleeping on the ground. But also she has a ho...

Weight: ? lbs ( ? kg) BMI: ? Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Prime Rib Thanksgiving @ Mom's Dinner: Macaroni Salad Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 11 (Day 344) Sinuses were really grumpy this morning. But whatever was going on with my sinuses seems to have started cleareding up early this afternoon. Which was a fascinating feeling. It felt like my head just kind of opened up. I still don't smell very good, but at least my head doesn't feel like it's splitting open. Had Thanksgiving round two at Mom's house this afternoon. But first I stopped by Grandma's house to swap out the burnt out bulbs on her Christmas lights. Last night she suggested that in the future she might invest in some light projectors so I wouldn't have to climb on top (strange that “ontop” isn't one word) of her house. Hanging out with the family reminds me how blessed we are that we...

Weight: ? lbs ( ? kg) BMI: ? Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: X Dinner: Hormel Pork Loin Lemon Garlic Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Michelob Ultra Zero Sober Month 11 (Day 343) Woke up this morning still having heavy allergy symptoms. I don't quite feel sick, it's just that whenever I bend down to pick anything up it feels like somebody smacked me with a 2x4 in the front of my face. When I woke up this morning and saw the weather I realized that there would be no better day to help Grandma setting up her Christmas decorations. I grabbed some Cold and Flu medicine on the way to Grandma's. Before I left the house I looked up the medicine on the store's website to see prices. I had to chuckle because there's only one review on that double pack of medicine. It's about half of the price as the name brand with the same active ingredients. What was funny about the review was that the medicine worked, but it tasted b...

Weight: 328.4 lbs ( 148.9 kg) BMI: 42.2 Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Bologna Sandwiches Pringles Cheddar Sour Cream Chips Dinner: Chuck Roast with mushroom gravy Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 9 (Day 289) I was surprised to see the lower number on the scale this morning. I was thinking that the scale was glitching again. But it gave a consistent number over the several times I stepped on it. I didn't do much before work again today. I've just been having a hard time gauging the passage of time. I was sitting here at the computer playing with the spending spreadsheet and weigh in spreadsheets thinking, “oh, it's coming up on 10:30 I should probably get ready for work. OH CRAP IT'S 10:30 I NEED TO GET READY FOR WORK!” The rent check still hasn't gone through. But at least it's now in a time that I have the funds for it to go through. I only worked a hal...