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Weight: 321.1 lbs ( 145.6 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 54.0 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Snack: Cashews Lunch: Fathead Lasagna   Snack: Pistachios Dinner: Rib-eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 411) Keto Day 5 (28/365 Days 2026 Keto) Wasn't able to post in the last couple of days as I worked until close and by the time I recovered after work I didn't have time to write out a blog post. And I've slept in a day or two so I didn't have time before work to do much either. So it kind of felt like I was waking up and going to work, then going back to bed.  I have been having a hard time cooking over the last couple of days. On Thursday I was happy that I had paid all of the bills that morning so I baked a Fathead Pizza. But the crust had completely carbonized to the baking sheet. Not sure what happened there. I've cooked Fathead Pizza before and had burnt it more than once, but never that badly before. And...

Weight: 322.3 lbs ( 146.2 kg) BMI: 41.4 Waist: 54.0 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Fathead Lasagna https://youtu.be/Bd4KXuuh9yw Dinner:  Bratwurst Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 407) Keto Day 1 (24/365 Days 2026 Keto) Scale and waist is both up for the day, but not by much. Annoyed that the numbers are above the start of the year so all of the projections are showing up. At least the weight is still under the average for the year so far. The apartment complexes around here all have metal roofs (odd spelling on the word roofs, you'd think that it'd be “rooves”) so as it's starting to get above freezing outside and the snow starts melting on top of the roof the snow slides off in a kind of avalanche. So this morning I was sitting here listening to videos and then hear a “Slooumph” as snow and ice slides off of the building. It keeps sounding like something fell down, but...

Weight: 320.7 lbs ( 145.5 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup   Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 396) Keto Week 1 (Day 12) (15/365 Days 2026 Keto) Late to work this morning. I was awake and moving around. I had finished breakfast and was watching a video interview on YouTube between Laura Spath and Dr Eric Westman. I noticed that it was 10:08 and I had to work 10 to 7. So I went from just sitting here kind of chilling to running out the door calling the store to tell them I'm on my way. I was glad that I was supervisor and wasn't taking over for somebody's lunch or something. First half of the day was pretty active. That wind is cold and blustery. It was sunny, but the wind was holding a grudge. There were some times when it was starting to get busy, but the Customer Service Manager really didn't seem to want me to be on a register....

Weight: 320.5 lbs ( 145.4 kg) BMI: 41.1 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup   Dinner: Smithfield Pork Loin Apple-wood Smoked Bacon Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 395) Keto Week 1 (Day 11) (14/365 Days 2026 Keto) There's something that's seriously annoying about being the same weight as the day before. I know that you're not supposed to get hung up on the day to day weights, but that's just an irritation. It was so very satisfying this morning when I checked by bank balances and the rent check had came through and it left me with the amount that I'm wanting to keep for the weekly allowance. Or close enough, it was off by $5, but that's how much I had transferred to the various accounts yesterday. Today was hopping busy at the store. There was a rumor that tomorrow is going to be, shock, gasp, horror, going to be the average normal temperature for January...

Weight: 320.5 lbs ( 145.4 kg) BMI: 41.1 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup   Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 394) Keto Week 1 (Day 10) (13/365 Days 2026 Keto) Was woken up in the middle of the night to Roommate screaming in the bathroom. An up today, but ups and downs happen. And it is in the kind of pattern of two or three downs and then an up. Again not sure if that's really a pattern or if just random noise that my brain is seeing as a pattern. It is up from yesterday, but still down for the year so most of the projections are showing it go down. I was going to set up the slow cooker with a roast but as I was about to do that Roommate came downstairs complaining about how his stomach hurts. So I didn't feel like it was very polite to set up a slow cooker to smell all day while he had a stomach ache. I'm trying to think about what happened to...

Weight: 319.1 lbs ( 144.7 kg) BMI: 41.0 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausages Dinner: Strip Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 393) Keto Week 1 (Day 9) (12/365 Days 2026 Keto) Exciting that today was another down day on the scale. It makes it look like I'm actually making progress and yesterday wasn't just a glitch or one off. I'm not sure if that trend will continue, but it is exciting to “beat” the lowest weight of last year so early in this year. Started out the morning cleaning out the oven. I do have to say that worked out a lot easier than I was expecting to. It was kind of hard as the oven door doesn't come off like in a lot of ovens referenced online in the “how to” videos, or at least I couldn't figure out how to take it off and the positioning of the shelving unit in the corner across the oven made it hard to reach the back left...

Weight: 320.9 lbs ( 145.6 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken Drumsticks  Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 392) Keto Week 1 (Day 8) (11/365 Days 2026 Keto) Woo-hoo Finally have a day where I'm back under the start of the year! Of course happiness is not a number on the scale, but at least this makes (almost) all of my projections go down. That last projection won't go down until I get under 314.8 lbs (142.8 kg) where I was back in 2014 when I started this whole project. But at least that goal finally looks like it's within possibility. It was fun to mark where the “Lowest Last Year”, “Progress Goal”, “Morbidly Obese”, and “Short Goal” will be on the yearly projection. “Over Weight” and “Target Weight” are still too far away to show on the projection, but time will tell. And I shouldn't get too excited for one day under the start weight. When...

Weight: 324.4 lbs ( 147.1 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Pork Spare Ribs Dinner: Pork Spare Ribs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 391) Keto Day 7 (10/365 Days 2026 Keto) Weight is up today, but it goes up and down. There is an interesting pattern of two down days, and then an up day. But I'm not sure if that's an actual pattern, or just happens to be so in the randomness so far. I'm sitting here at the computer thinking that I should be doing something. But whenever I try to think of anything that I'm supposed to be doing my brain just flat lines. I'm sure that I'll be frustrated on Wednesday when I go to work that I didn't get that “one thing” done, but I just can't think of anything that I'm supposed to be doing. I was talking with Chat GPT and it seems to want me to set up a scheduled transfer for a specific amount. I think I like my “Flowing Cu...

Weight: 324.6 lbs ( 147.2 kg) BMI: 41.7 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup   Dinner: Smithfield Pork Loin Apple-Wood Smoked Bacon Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 386) Keto Day 2 (5/365 Days 2026 Keto) Weight is up 1 pound (~0.5 kg) I'm not too worried about the day to day ups and downs. I see an up weight like a opposing team in football getting a touchdown. Yeah, it kind of sucks, but the game isn't over yet. Mom made a Facebook post saying that she's not going to weigh in outside of her doctor's visits. And I understand and respect that as she's focusing on “Non Scale Victories” And I respect that, but I personally like to see the line move over time.  This morning my feet weren't hurting as much as previous days. I'm not sure if that's because I've been off of my feet for the last couple of days or if something else. Legs were stiff and sor...

Weight: 323.6 lbs ( 146.8 kg) BMI: 41.5 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Enchilada Soup   Snack: Baked Chicken Drumsticks   Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 385) Keto Day 1 (4/365 Days 2026 Keto) Exciting to see three days in a row of down weights. Still not back to the beginning weight of the year (+2.1 lbs <~1 kg>) so the yearly projection is still saying that I'll be 627.3 lbs (284.5 kg) by the end of next year. A point of excitement is that I'm just 8.8 lbs (~4 kg) away from the 314.8 lbs (142.8 kg) That I started this project back in 2014. And if I get under that weight the Full Projection will start showing the weight going down towards my other targets! Roommate got up early because he had his appointment at 9am. He told me that he tried to sign up for Food Stamps, but apparently he's making too much from his insurance to get the SNAP benefits. I told him b...

Weight: 324.4 lbs ( 147.1 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Enchilada Soup   Dinner: Turkey Taco Mac Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 384) Keto Day 0 (3/365 Days 2026 Keto) Good drop on the scale this morning. It's not down below the beginning of the year so no progress yet. But at least the highest projection so far is under a full ton (849.3 lbs <385.2 kg>) The waist is back down to 54 inches (137.2 cm) so I'm not sure what was going on yesterday. The waist is usually pretty stable, so I'm not sure why it'd be up 2.5 inches (6.4 cm) one day and then down 2.5 inches (6.4) the next. The money Roommate sent me on Friday night for Rent and Bills came through this morning so I went ahead and did the grocery shopping for the week and renewed the YouTube Premium. I didn't tell Roommate that I made those purchases as it would look like I used the money he gave me for ...

Weight: 326.5 lbs ( 148.1 kg) BMI: 41.9 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: X Lunch: AI Chili https://youtu.be/t-PM8kMmu10 Corn Chip Snack: Corn Chips Dinner: Pork Ribs Drinks: Sugar Free Red Bull, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Michelob Ultra Zero Sober Year 1 (Day 370) Keto Day 0 Surprisingly I was able to wake up in time to go to work this morning. This week they're scheduling Supervisors at 7am. The guess is because of the holiday. But even the Customer Service Manager doesn't know why, she just has to schedule what they say that she does. That's why I don't blame her for the scheduling me only 39 hours for most of the year. She can only schedule what they allow her to. I have to laugh I'm writing this later in the evening while playing the word match game that I've been kind of obsessing over lately. And it just played an advertisement for “Glycol Storage Tanks” You know, to deice your airplane! Yeah, they missed their target audience on...

Weight: 325.4 lbs ( 147.6 kg) BMI: 41.8 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin Apple-wood Smoked Bacon Dinner: Taco Velveeta Dinner Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 369) Keto Day 0 Hooray Happy Solstice Day. True it is technically the first day of Winter, but today is the day that the sun starts coming back and it starts to have more light during the day. A couple of days ago Grandma had messaged me telling me that some of her lights had started to come off of her house so I went over this morning to put her lights back up. Well, it was technically morning, but I had a bit of a hard time getting the momentum going this morning. And it was noon by the time I got the single line of lights back up. While I was in the neighborhood I went over to say hi to Mom. While I was there she gave me a couple of vials of homemade lotion for my hands. We also talked about the delay of Christmas. The o...

Weight: 325.6 lbs ( 147.7 kg) BMI: 41.8 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: AI Chili Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 368) Keto Day 7 I worked 10am to 7pm a little earlier than I normally do so I had to eat breakfast in a bit of a hurry. I had woke up slowly and was just kind of puttering around I noticed that it was getting on a little past 9am while I was cooking breakfast and that would have been a little more than an hour before I started getting really ready for work as I had already showered. And then I realized that, “Oh yeah, I work early today!” I'm glad that I figured that out at 9:23 and not 10:05 when they would have been calling me asking where I was. I did have time to eat breakfast properly, but I didn't have time to drink all of the coffee that I would have. A couple of the doctors that I follow online are saying that drinking too much coffee is a really b...

Weight: 325.6 lbs ( 147.7 kg) BMI: 41.8 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Bar-S Jumbo Jumbo Hot Dogs Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Busch NA Sober Month 11 (Day 351) Keto Day 0 Got home from work last night and my brain just kind of turned off. I was scheduled to work 12 to 9pm last night and when I got home I just kind of sat down and shut down for a while. By the time I recovered and started writing the blog out it was too late to post. Of course there's nothing to say that I couldn't post after Midnight. But it just doesn't feel right. I've been in a really negative mood recently. Not even in the “Mark Whines About Work” way. Not sure how to explain it, I was in a really heavy “don't wanna to” mood over the last couple of days. I've recovered from that sinus crap that I had last week. But mentally I just really DON'T WANT to do anything. Do I want ...

Weight: ? lbs ( ? kg) BMI: ? Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Tater Tot Casserole Dinner: Mississippi Roast Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Month 11 (Day 347) I woke up yesterday with a heavy case of the “don't wanna to's” I was just had no momentum to do anything. I did start getting things done later in the evening, but I didn't realize that it was that close to midnight when I was wrapping up the post for yesterday and it was 11:59 when I was done writing in the writing program that I use on my computer so I didn't have the time to post it. I'm not sure if it was because I was still recovering from the sinus issues that I was suffering from last week. I did manage to finish and schedule the upload of the Archive video that I'm planning on for the January Archive video. My second YouTube channel is focused on Recipe Videos and I'm re-uploading the old videos from my first channel to...

Weight: ? lbs ( ? kg) BMI: ? Waist: 53.5 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Tater Tot Casserole Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 11 (Day 345) heh Three Four Five  Like the common joke goes, the weather went from 55 to 25 like it saw a cop. I am really glad that I got Grandmas lights and decorations set up over the last couple of days as it was really dark and cold today. I would like to say if it's going to be dark cold and clammy like this we might as well have snow. But then again it would suck to deal with the ice and crap. And that's not mentioning dealing with people flipping their shit because, “ICE FALL FROM SKY, ICE FALL FROM SKY!” Despite the cold cloudy weather people were really chill and relaxed for most of the day. Which was nice. There was one lady who freaked out at me because we can't sell beer on Sunday. She held up a twelve pack for me to scan. But...

Weight: ? lbs ( ? kg) BMI: ? Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Tater Tot Casserole Dinner: St Louis Style Pork Ribs Drinks: Salted Mocha Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 11 (Day 342) Didn't feel like posting yesterday. I felt physically better by the evening. But people at work were pissing me off. Another instance of “What the hell is going on in our schools” a guy had a digital coupon for 2 litters of soda. (not sponsored) and was angry because he got 14 bottles of soda and they were supposed to be 99 cents with the digital coupon and he couldn't figure out why his total was twenty something dollars. Well, digital coupons are limit 5. And it took off the five bottles. He insisted that he knew it was limit five, that's why he got 14 of them. 14 is more than 5. He knew 14 is more than five, he works at a school. While I was trying to explain what the word “limit” meant to somebody who insisted ...

Weight: ? lbs ( ? kg) BMI: ? Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Pork Steak Lunch: Pizza Pasta Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Mocha Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 11 (Day 340) Slow start to the day. Some gunk in the back of my throat making my throat sore. Along with some sinus congestion. Ran out of bacon a couple of days ago so yesterday and today I had a pork steak for breakfast. I was going to have eggs to go with, but those steaks were pretty sizable so having a plate sized pork steak with four fried eggs seemed like a lot. I had just finished cooking the breakfast steak when Roommate came downstairs and announced that his doctors appointment this week is at 10am instead of the 11am it had been in the last couple of weeks and we needed to leave right then because it was just time to leave to get to his appointment. I put a lid on the skillet and since I have an electric stove the burner was still hot when I got back f...

Weight: ? lbs ( ? kg) BMI: ? Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Pizza Pasta Dinner: Hormel Pork Loin Lemon Garlic Drinks: Salted Mocha Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 11 (Day 338) Trying to think of something to say, but nothing really happened today. It was the “Supervisor Curse” a boring day is a good day, because if nothing is happening nothing is going wrong. The mocha mix of instant hot chocolate and salted coffee tasted a bit better this morning than it did yesterday. Yesterday I added a bit of milk, today I skipped it and it had a stronger flavor. So I think I'll pass on the milk in the future. There was a bit of drama before I got to work. Apparently the Trans person was fired because sometime last week s/he blew up at one of the carryouts because he was sacking next to him/her beside the register. One of the people who was supposed to be a carryout this morning No-showed again . This was t...