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Weight: 304.1 lbs ( 137.9 kg) BMI: 39.0 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Pork Steak, Queso, Pork Rinds Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 588) Keto Month 4 (Day 149) (199/365 Days 2026 Keto) I worked 10am to8 pm today so I didn't have much time to do anything before work. I woke up two hours before I had to be there, but I just couldn't build momentum to do anything. I did have breakfast this morning. When I did leave for work I was running just barely enough time to get in. I was a carryout for the first chunk of the day and then in the desk for another good chunk of the day. Today was the last Friday of the month and it also happened to be the last day of the month so a lot of people were running into the store to use up their monthly benefits before they reset for the month (I'm assuming that's how that works) I did kind of get into an argument with a lady...

Weight: 305.1 lbs ( 138.4 kg) BMI: 39.2 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Pork Steak, Cottage Cheese Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Red Bull, Celsius Energy Sober Year 1 (Day 587) Keto Month 4 (Day 148) (198/365 Days 2026 Keto) I didn't get a chance to get yesterdays post done as although I did get off earlier than I normally do I spent the evening trying to beat the “Dead Money” DLC for Fallout New Vegas. I have to say that has a really unsatisfying ending. The story is that a guy is trying to use you to break into a casino vault so he can use the technology left behind from before the apocalyptic nuclear war that happened in that game's timeline. And there is a way to lock him in the vault and steal all of the gold in the vault. But it takes some finesse as if you're carrying all of the gold your character is “overburdened” and can't walk very fast. So I spent all evening trying t...

Weight: 302.1 lbs ( 137.0 kg) BMI: 38.8 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Pork Steak Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 585) Keto Month 4 (Day 146) (196/365 Days 2026 Keto) Progress is a hell of a motivator. Happiness is not a number on the scale, but it is exciting to see such progress over the year. I'm down 19.4 lbs since the beginning of the year and down 30.5 pounds since this day last year. The average this year is at 313.23 which is only 1.04 lbs up from the average for 2015 of 312.19. So unless something goes seriously wrong I should be able to have the average for 2026 beat the average for 2015. I don't think I'll be able to beat the average for 2014 as that is 294.13. I don't think I could make the average for this year go down that far without cutting something off. I went to the bank today to ask them about credit building loans and the like. Mom asked i...

Weight: 302.4 lbs ( 137.2 kg) BMI: 38.8 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Air Fryer Hormel Pork Loin Garlic herb, Cottage Cheese Snack: Savage Slim Jim Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 583) Keto Month 4 (Day 144) (194/365 Days 2026 Keto) After posting last night and updating the word document for the next day I noticed that the last digit of the “Sober” count and the Keto Count are off by one number. (One ends in a 3 and the other ends in a 4) kind of makes me think that on this next New Year's Eve I should get absolutely hammered and have a pizza, just to get synced up. (joking) Spent yesterday playing Fallout New Vegas. I decided to play one of the DLC Stories. And that took entirely way too Goddamned long. The story there was that Fallout takes place 200 years after a nuclear war and there is this casino that some people have came up with the idea of breaking into for a big...

Weight: 302.9 lbs ( 137.4 kg) BMI: 38.9 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Savage Slim Jim, Vienna Sausages Lunch: Air Fryer Pork Steak Snack: Savage Slim Jim Dinner: Pan Fried Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 581) Keto Month 4 (Day 142) (192/365 Days 2026 Keto) Down in wight this morning, but not by enough to get that excited about. I was still curious about the air fryer so I thought of cooking a pork steak for lunch. I do have to say that is a quick and convenient way to cook that steak. I was excited that the issue with the phone plugging in has seemed to clear with that cleaning I did a while back. I was trying to get the phone to connect to the car. But it still doesn't seem to want to connect. The blue tooth hasn't worked for a while, but I was hoping that the wired connection would work, but the screen just says “Can't Read Device” I'm not sure if that's an issue with the phone, the car, or...

Weight: 303.2 lbs ( 137.5 kg) BMI: 38.9 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Savage Slim Jim Vienna Sausages Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin Garlic Herb, Pork Rinds, Queso Blanco Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Snack: Cashews Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Powerade Orange Sober Year 1 (Day 580) Keto Month 4 (Day 141) (191/365 Days 2026 Keto) It's kind of funny to be frustrated by a weight of 303.2 lbs. I was so close to the “Short Goal” yesterday and it's been so very long since I had weighed less than 300lbs (136 kg) but no today had to be up 2.8lbs (1.3 kg) I'm still down 5.6 lbs (2.5 kg) for the year and the two or three pounds is within daily fluctuations, but it would have been exciting to beat that goal. But then again if I did have a weight under 300 lbs (136 kg) I would wait for a bit to consider that goal “beaten” for a bit just because the weight fluctuates like that. The morning before work really snuck by me. I woke up at the usu...

Weight: 306.1 lbs ( 138.8 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: X Lunch: Bratwursts, Pork Rinds, Queso Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, 20oz Diet Dr Pepper Sober Year 1 (Day 575) Keto Month 4 (Day 136) (186/365 Days 2026 Keto) Weight was up a little bit this morning, but within the normal fluctuation range. Kind of to be expected with the amount of salty food and drink I consumed yesterday. I forgot to mention in yesterday's post a customer noticed that I was losing weight and asked me for my secret. I told her that I was focusing on Keto, pretty close to carnivore as I don't expect people to recognize the term “Ketovore” and she sneered at the idea of doing carnivore because supposedly her ex-husband was doing carnivore and he was just going around drinking glasses of blood. I don't know of any vampiric tendencies in the carnivore community, but for me I just stick to the meat. She just shutdown any...

Weight: 304.0 lbs ( 137.9 kg) BMI: 39 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: X Lunch: Bar-S Hot Dogs, Pork Rinds, Queso Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 574) Keto Month 4 (Day 135) (185/365 Days 2026 Keto) Got distracted by Fallout New Vegas. So won't be able to say much in this post. But good to see the weight finally go in the right direction. Didn't track time very well this morning so I didn't have time to cook anything for lunch today. So I grabbed some hot dogs, pork rinds, and queso for lunch. I don't know why it took so long for me to try the combination of pork rinds and queso. There was a crazy lady at the store. She spent about four hours shopping up two whole cart loads of groceries with two little children I feel bad for the kids trapped in the cart with the crazy lady. People were saying that her children were running around throwing stuff into her cart. When she finally ...

Weight: 305.8 lbs ( 138.7 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Sausage Egg and Cheese Lunch: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Dinner: Roast Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Seltzer Sober Year 1 (Day 539) Keto Month 3 (Day 102) (152/365 Days 2026 Keto) Weight is down from yesterday. Not in any amount to get overly excited about, but I'll take a down. Was kind of wanting something different for breakfast this morning so I had some sausage patties and eggs as the sausage box was already opened. I added salt to the coffee this morning and it did taste better than plain I recorded the current Store Story Video. But I had a hard time finding the desire to edit it. I did get it done and I should have gone ahead and post it for the algorithm (consistency is supposedly King on YouTube success) But I just wasn't feeling like it. Again not a great attitude to have if I'm ever going to find success on the platform. All afternoon I had a hard...

Weight: 309.0 lbs ( 140.2 kg) BMI: 39.7 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Cashews Lunch: Swedish Meatballs Snack: Cashews Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Kroger Energy Shot Sober Year 1 (Day 533) Keto Month 3 (Day 96) (146/365 Days 2026 Keto) Yeah, the weight this morning is higher than it was yesterday, but that's within normal fluctuations. Yesterday's up almost five pounds is ridiculous I don't know what that was about. I worked 10am-8pm today and as I was scheduled to work earlier than I usually do I set some alarms to try to wake up earlier, to no avail as I still got up at the usual 8am. I decided to have bacon and eggs for breakfast as I was kind of rushed to cook before work and I'm more used to cook bacon and eggs. Was supervisor all day. It was surprisingly smooth all day. Particularly for the first Saturday of the month. It was quite busy, but still smooth...

Weight: 308.4 lbs ( 139.9 kg) BMI: 39.6 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Sausage Patties Cheese and Eggs Lunch: Bratwursts Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, 1.25 L Dt Pepsi Sober Year 1 (Day 532) Keto Month 3 (Day 95) (145/365 Days 2026 Keto) That weight is really disappointing. Every time I have a new record low it jumps up the next day. So it's up 4.9 lbs for the day, but I'm still down 13.1 lbs from the beginning of the year. And only 0.7 lbs up from the beginning of the Month. Still haven't found the newer tape measure, but the old tape measure was under the bed. I could tell the difference between the old and new because the older one has one of the ends coming off. Finally got the sausage box open for breakfast. But I got the feeling that I was only getting the sausages because it was fighting back. I didn't get much coffee before work though. I was in the desk all day again today, howe...

Weight: 306.9 lbs ( 139.2 kg) BMI: 39.4 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Top Loin Steak Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 529) Keto Month 3 (Day 92) (142/365 Days 2026 Keto) Heh, Tuesday is the second day. I was able to wake up early enough to get breakfast coked and get to the mechanic to get the oil changed. I was kind of nervous as they were expecting me to be there at 9am. And sure I work at the store from time to time at 9am, but there's a difference between being late for work and being late for an appointment. I was a little annoyed that I was five minutes early, but it was 25 minutes into the hour that they finally got the car into the bay. I had them rotate the tires. I had never had this done before because I was worried about additional charges, but as Mom and Step-Dad had bought the tires for me as a Christmas gift a couple of years ago there the t...

Weight: 307.1 lbs ( 139.3 kg) BMI: 39.4 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Cashews Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Sausages, Cottage Cheese Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 521) Keto Month 2 (Day 84) (134/365 Days 2026 Keto) Woke up early enough to cook the bacon and eggs for breakfast, but didn't have time to cook the pork loin that I was going to have for lunch. It wasn't that busy at work in matters of numbers of people coming through, but in the way that people came through. People just spent all day seemingly in panic mode. Of course I had to work on a Holiday. At least everybody else showed up for work. Had the same awkward conversation about five times today as people asked me if I was planning on going out to the lake. Nope, I have to work all day. “You're not going to do anything?” No I have to work all day. “Have any plans for the hol...

Weight: 307.9 lbs ( 139.6 kg) BMI: 39.5 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Sausage Eggs and Cheese Lunch: Pork Steak Dinner: Rib Eye Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Kroger Energy Shot Sober Year 1 (Day 520) Keto Month 2 (Day 83) (133/365 Days 2026 Keto) I didn't get the Weight Loss Update Video done for the week. I recorded the moment of standing on the scale, but didn't get the vlog part of it done. I did think about doing it after work this evening. But considering the store story video took about 9 hours to edit a 8 minute video I didn't think that I would have time to get it done. And I definitely wouldn't have time to do a video and a blog post. Mom cooked sausage patties with some eggs and cheese this morning for breakfast. She cooks the sausage patties better than I do. I imagine that she has a bit more practice than I do. I did get the pork steak baked for the lunch break, it was pretty close to the time I had t...

Weight: 306.9 lbs ( 139.2 kg) BMI: 39.4 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Cashews Lunch: Bratwursts Snack: Savage Slim Jim Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Seltzer, Sober Year 1 (Day 514) Keto Month 2 (Day 77) (126/365 Days 2026 Keto) I didn't get around to making the post yesterday. I didn't get either of the uploads done. I had plenty of time before work as I worked 12p to 9pm on Sunday. After work I did have a bit of time, but turns out that listening to a video of Hearts of Space isn't conductive to get anything done after running around for 9 hours. I closed the Service Desk last night, I was feeling good when I left work as all of the closing reports came out balanced. All of the registers were working. The people working weren't exactly the smartest people, but they were pretty street smart kinds of people. But then I got a call at 5am from Assistant Custome...

Weight: 305.1 lbs ( 138.4 kg) BMI: 39.2 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin Apple-wood Smoked Bacon Snack: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Dinner: Beef Roast Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Monster, Seltzer, Sparkling Water Sober Year 1 (Day 503) Keto Month 2 (Day 66) (116/365 Days 2026 Keto) Brain is flat-lined today. Trying to fight the dozing at the computer, but having a hard time thinking of anything to do. I did spend some time cleaning the cabinet doors in the kitchen. Reheated the other half of the pork loin that I had for lunch yesterday. Mom doesn't have a microwave so I tried to reheat it in the oven, it didn't turn out that well. It was still lukewarm and it was really tough. I really just sat here all day playing the Jewel Coloring Game (Not sponsored) It would be easy to blame the weather as today was cool dark and cloudy, but I really never did go outside and the cu...

Weight: 305.2 lbs ( 138.4 kg) BMI: 39.2 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Monster, Seltzer, Member's Mark Sparkling Water Sober Year 1 (Day 501) Keto Month 2 (Day 64) (114/365 Days 2026 Keto) Slow to wake up this morning. I didn't sleep very bad, it was just hard to fight the momentum of laying there.  I recorded the General Update video as it was the first Monday of the month. The first Monday of each month I want to record a video of just me talking to the camera about what is going on in my life. It was kind of mind blowing that this was the first General Update I've done since November 2023. Kind of brain breaking to kind of deal with all of the stuff for the last two and a half years. But this update I talked about how I got worn out by my former roommate and why I moved back in with Mom. After I recorded that...

Weight: 306.8 lbs ( 139.2 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Sausage Patties and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken   Dinner: Chuck Roast Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Monster, Seltzer, Red Bull, Member's Mark Sparkling Water Sober Year 1 (Day 498) Keto Month 2 (Day 61) (110/365 Days 2026 Keto) I didn't get around to making a post yesterday. I got off at 7:30pm, but by the time I had finished updating the budget it was well after midnight. I did get around to talking to the guy at the storage place yesterday before work. I told him that I was a little concerned that I hadn't received a bill. He looked up the unit that I had and the bill was due. It had just happened to come due the day that I went into the office and ask about when it was due. I thought that was kind of convenient. I went the rest of the day thinking that was suspiciously convenient that I asked about when it was due and it happened to be due when I asked when it was du...

Weight: 306.0 lbs ( 138.8 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Pork Steak and Eggs Snack: Cashews Lunch: Chuck Roast with Mushroom Gravy Snack: Cashews Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Red Bull, Monster, Member's Mark Sparkling Water, Powerade Sober Year 1 (Day 496) Keto Month 1 (Day 59) (109/365 Days 2026 Keto) When I packaged the pork steaks, as usual, there were a couple of the bits that were a bit too small to be significant dinners so I set them aside to have for breakfast. Slept alright last night, but just couldn't convince myself to get out of bed this morning. I knew that there were things that I wanted to do. But I just wanted to lay there more than get things done. I wasn't sick or feeling bad. I just kind of wanted to lay there. I still hadn't received any notification of a bill from the Storage place. I was going to stop by there to ask if there was some kind of miscommunication or misun...

Weight: 309.0 lbs ( 140.2 kg) BMI: 39.7 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Sausage Patties and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Seltzer, Monster, Member's Mark Sparkling Water Sober Year 1 (Day 495) Keto Month 1 (Day 58) (108/365 Days 2026 Keto) Weight is up, but that might be because of the Ham Steak I had last night and the drinks I had afterwords as the saltiness made me thirsty. It really is kind of funny to be frustrated at a weight that's under 310 lbs (140.6 kg) There is a couple strips of bacon left in the fridge, but Step-Dad had told me about some sausage patties in the fridge that I could check out. I have to say that those turned out pretty nice. Nice and crispy. I went to the store to pick up some Pork Butts that were BOGO this week (Not sponsored) I also picked up some chicken thighs that were Buy One Get 2 Free (honestly not sponsored) and some chuck roasts that had digital coupons. I had...