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Weight: 339.8 lbs ( 154.1 kg) BMI: 43.6 Waist: 57 in (144.8 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Italian Sausage Spinach Soup Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Red Bull, Kroger Energy Shot Keto Week 1 (Day 12) Sober Month 3 (Day 106) YMCA: No The weight was up a bit today. Yeah, I was annoyed a bit because as it's so early in the month it throws off the stats for the month. But I'm thinking that as I had mixed nuts for lunch yesterday I'm retaining a lot of water because of all of the salt in those nuts. And also I tend to weigh more the day after I have those jalapeno cheddar sausages. I don't expect the higher weight will last very long. I didn't print anything today as I've already printed all of the parts that I have already scaled to my size. It'll be a bit before I've re-scaled more pieces. As I am quite out of practice scaling parts. And I can't seem to find time or energy to work on them. ...

Weight: 339.6lbs ( 154.0 kg) BMI: 43.6 Waist: 57 in (144.8 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Steak and Eggs Lunch: AI Lemon Chicken Parmesan Dinner: Corned Beef Brisket Drinks: Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Keto Day 7 Sober Month 3 (Day 102) YMCA: No I'm not going to lie, disappointed in today's weight. It's back above the average of the month and the long list. It's still under the average for the year and the last two months. It's great to be down 7.1 lbs (3.2 kg) for the year, but kinda sucks to be up 5.2 lbs (2.4 kg) for the week. And yeah, fluctuations happen, but it would be nice to be fluctuating in the other direction. Steak and eggs for breakfast was great for a while, but that's really getting expensive. I think once I'm out of the steaks that I have I'll just stick to bacon and eggs for breakfast. I set the printer to print the left bicep of the cosplay. It printed the lower half while I was at work and after work I s...

Weight: 340.0 lbs ( 154.2 kg) BMI: 43.6 Waist: 57 in (144.8 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Taco Mix Dinner: Cook in Bag Kansas City Style Ribs Drinks: Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Keto Day 0 Sober Month 2 (Day 89) YMCA: No Day 1 of Vacation. Yesterday I had the inevitable question of, “Oh, where are you going?” I'd tell people the various nicknames of our town. But nobody would get the joke until I tell them that I'm too poor to go anywhere I am just staying home, I'm just taking the time off because if I don't use the time off I'll loose the time off. And I'm not too upset about being paid for NOT working. I haven't told Roommate that I'm off this week, I think it'll be fun to see how long it takes him to figure it out. He figured it out when I didn't go to work today at the regular time and we had talked about one of his cousins coming over tomorrow to play board games and with the fact that I have Tuesdays off it ...

Weight: 339.5 lbs (154.0 kg) BMI: 43.6 Waist: 57 in (144.8 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Steak and Eggs Snack: Savage Slim Jim Lunch: Creepy Cauldron Dinner: Kielbasa Penne Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Powerade Zero Orange, Celsius Mango Lemonade Keto Day 0 Sober Month 2 (Day 61) Exciting progress over the last couple of days. 9.3 lbs (4.2 kg) in 5 days is exciting. That is 4.5 lbs (2 kg) down for the month. I'm sure a good chunk of that is just water weight. But losing water weight is still getting weight off of my feet. Roommate was a little irritated at me this morning. I'm running low on bacon so I decided to have a strip steak and eggs for breakfast this morning. I have to say that eggs fried in bacon and steak drippings is a good combination. But he uses a CPAP machine and I guess that the smell of the steak cooking in the seasonings was going into the machine and basically punching him in the face. The back of my hands look like lizard s...

Weight: 339.6 lbs ( 154.0 kg) BMI: 43.6 Waist: 56.5 in (143.5 cm) WtHr: 76.4% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Pepperoni and Mozzarella Rolls with ranch dressing Dinner: Keto “Hamburger Helper” Drinks: pot of coffee with cream, Kroger Energy shot, Sugar Free Rockstar 12pk Kroger Seltzer Water Lemon Days Without Beer 5 Woke up with what felt like a hangover. Headache, stiff neck and muscles, foggy head. “Dr Google” says that “Phantom Hangovers” can happen days to months after quitting drinking. Then again it might just be that I need to buy a new pillow, the one I have now is quite old. Not quite as down today as I was yesterday. But still a little slow this morning. Wasn't looking forward to going to work. I am seriously getting tired of working with these “children” and everyday is just waiting for the day to get over with. Today was better emotionally for me than yesterday was, but going to work just feels so empty. Roommate is home this week. He was telling me about his ne...

Weight: 340.0 lbs (154.5 kg) BMI: 43.6 Waist: 57.5 in (146.1 cm) WtHr: 77.7% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Lunch: Low Carb Goulash Dinner: Slapdash Chili Drinks: Pot of coffee, 3600ml water  Weeks Without Beer 1 (10 Days)      Yeah, today's weight is up compared to yesterday's post, but I'm trying to tell myself that's just because daily fluctuations. Many places online say that a daily weigh in is just not a good thing to do. But I'm just such a data junkie I hate to see any gaps in the data. I'm going to guess the up for today is just water weight, I drank a lot of water last night. And I was forcing myself to eat those pork rinds last night.      Didn't have a headache this morning, but feet and calves are sore whenever I stand up. I think I've been spending too much time at my desk over the last couple of days. Today I did get the recipe video for Tuesday edited and uploaded. And an inventory for the meal plan for the next seven days. I've also be...

Weight: 339.6lbs (154 kg) BMI: 43.6 Waist: 57.5 in (146.1 cm) WtHr: 77.7% Breakfast: X Lunch: Johnsonville Beddar with Cheddar Sausages with mustard Dinner: X Drinks: ~1000ml water, 2x Kroger Energy Shots, Sugar Free Red Bull, and Orange Powerade Zero      I need to get myself out of bed earlier. I wake up around 8 every morning and I just lay around waiting until I have to get ready for work. I know I have things that I want to do, need to do, but I'm just laying there, waiting until I have to go to work. I don't feel depressed (well I'm not all that excited to go back to work) I just feel so comfortable laying there.      Didn't take the time for breakfast again today. But it didn't effect me much today. Perhaps it was because of how busy it was for the first couple of hours of work. Today started out just as busy as it was yesterday, but it eventually faded off. I've, ironically, always worked on Labor Day, so I'm not sure what people ar...

Weight: 340 lbs (154.2 kg) BMI: 43.6 Waist: 58 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: Hot Dogs, Powerade Zero Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Sausages, Sugar Free Rockstar Dinner: Baked Chicken Drinks: I need to drink more water      I woke up around 8ish, but just could not get going. Kept telling myself that I need to get up, but body just liked how the bed felt in the morning. This has been the case for a while. I really need to find a way to convince myself that I need to get up and going when I wake up, but I lay in bed all morning long telling myself of all of the cool things that I want to be doing, if I ever get up and going. But then I lay there until I have to get ready for work. When I did get up and moving this morning my legs were extremely stiff, and it felt like something took a bite out of the back of my left leg. I'm going to guess it's an electrolyte issue. As any time someone on Reddit says something about not feeling well the general respon...

Weight: 339.8 lbs ( 154.1 kg) BMI: 43.6 Waist: 58 in ( 147.3 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: X Dinner: Rack of Pork Loin Ribs, Kroger Stadium Style Mild Cheese Dip Drinks: Pot of Coffee with cream, ~1892ml water, 24 pk Michelob Ultra      Wow, I have not been up on this for far too long. I've been doing the daily weigh in and tracking that on (probably way too many) spreadsheets, but I just haven't been doing pretty much anything else. Not really sure why I stopped doing anything. I didn't WANT to stop doing stuff. I just kept telling myself, “I wasn't very 'Keto' today, I'll just do it tomorrow”. The beer wasn't helping in that area at all. The last several months the large cans of Natural ICE beer have been on sale for $0.99 per can. (It's not a good beer it's just cheep) And I have been taking advantage of this sale. And I have been drinking much more beer than that. As when the store is sold out of the Natural ICE beer I...

  Weight: 339.8 lbs ( 154.1 kg) BMI: 43.6 Waist: 55 in ( 139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon Lunch: Broccoli Hamburger Sausage Alfredo Dinner: Pork Steak, Boxed Mac and cheese Drinks: Coffee, Mango Seltzer Water      Just bacon and coffee for breakfast today, ran out of eggs I'll have to pick up some tomorrow when I do my grocery shopping. The price of eggs are starting to become a meme. My sister-in-law had some chickens and I was going to get the guts to ask her if I could buy some eggs from her, but Mom told me that a raccoon got into her chicken coop and enjoyed some “Chicken tartare”      I didn't have to work until 1pm that's two extra hours to get house cleaned up to do another recipe video tomorrow after I get groceries. That is if I ever get up and doing anything. Got most of the dishes done, I'll try to convince myself to finish them when I get home from work. (spoiler alert, no)      While I was doing dishes I had...

Weight: 339.8 lbs ( 154.1 kg) BMI: 43.6 Waist: 56 in ( 142.2 cm) WtHr: 76% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs (scrambled) Lunch: Fathead Lasagna Dinner: Bacon Jalapeno “Mac” and cheese Drinks: Pot of coffee Woohoo under 340 pounds (154.2 kg)! Last time I was under 340 was before the pandemic. And the pandemic would be an easy excuse for weight gain; quite a few people had seen changes in their lives that would cause them to gain weight. But to be honestly not much of my life had changed in the pandemic. Stress levels gained substantially and that does cause weight gain, but so does not eating correctly. Bacon and eggs again for breakfast, but pan was too hot and poured off too much of the bacon grease before I cooked the eggs so I accidentally made scrambled eggs. The annoying kind of scrambled eggs that just kind of move out of the way as the fork comes by to try to pick them up. Got a bit too much Tabasco on them as well. Trying to get kitchen cleaned up to get a recipe video done...

Weight: 339.2 lbs (153.86 kg) Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) BMI: 43.6 Mood: Energetic Breakfast: Chuck Arm Steak. American Blend Salad, Bacon Ranch Dressing, Broccoli Lunch: BLT Salad with homemade ranch dressing Dinner: grilled Sirloin Steak, topped with shredded cheese and bacon ranch dressing American Blend Salad Bud light Notes: I did make a meal plan for the week, but now we'll see if I can stick to it. It was my day off, and lately on my day off for the week I go over to Mom's to do laundry. She invited me to have lunch with her and we had a BLT Salad that was AMAZING. I'm not going to list my calories for today because I'm not sure she tracks calories for her recipes (and it seemed rude to ask) but her BLT Salad was American Blend Salad, mixed with some chopped bacon, diced cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, green bell pepper, green onions, and perhaps other items. And this was topped with her homemade Ranch dressing. And I have to say, tha...