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Weight: 343.6 lbs (154.9kg) BMI: 44.1 Waist: 58 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: X Lunch: Tootn' Chili Dinner: Baked Chicken Thighs Drinks: Kroger Energy Shot,           Canned Soda:                     Diet Dr Pepper: 3                     Diet Mt Dew: 4                     Diet Pepsi: 2                     Pepsi Zero: 2 Days Without Beer: 7      Today is the 7th day that I'll have gone without alcohol, but strangely the first day that I've woken up with what feels like a hangover (headache, sore eyes, dry mouth with a nasty taste) who knows, maybe it's keto flu I did have a pack of ramen the other night, or maybe it's just dehydration, I didn't drink much water the last several days. I'm wanting to get through the soda that I have now. And I think this will be the last soda that I buy for a while.     

Weight: 341.4 lbs (154.9kg) BMI: 43.3 Waist: 58 in (146 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: X Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Sausages, Cottage Cheese Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Couple cups of coffee, Kroger Energy Shot, Sugar Free Rockstar Energy                Canned Soda:                                         Diet Dr Pepper: 2                                 Diet Mt Dew: 2                                 Diet Pepsi: 3                                 Pepsi Zero: 3 Days Without Beer: 6 Put a lot of effort into making the Store Story today. So this might not be a very long post. It's a bit concerning that I am up 4.4 pounds compared to yesterday. I do realize that there will be daily fluctuations, but it does make me wonder for an explanation. I don't think I ate four pounds of cheese last night when I had the Queso Soup. Could it be the Cheesy Ramen that I had for dinner on Wednesday? Would that have broken my Ketosis and have me

Weight: 337.0 lbs (152.9kg) BMI: 43.3 Waist: 58 in (146 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: Sausage Patties and eggs Lunch: Low Carb Goulash Dinner: Queso Soup Drinks: 2x Kroger Energy Shots,            Canned Soda:                                  Diet Dr Pepper: 2                                  Diet Mt Dew: 2                                  Diet Pepsi: 3                                  Pepsi Zero: 2 Days Without Beer: 5      The weight has been on a hell of a streak for the last couple of days, but that's probably water weight. It would be nice if that streak continued but three to four pounds a day just isn't going to be something that I see as something that will continue to happen. But being down 11 pounds since Sunday is definitely something to “Woot” about      I am also kind of proud of myself that I didn't spend any money yesterday (Wednesday). I'm really trying to get my spending under control. That's one of the reasons I'm trying to get a meal plan goi

Weight: 340.8 lbs (156.1 kg) BMI: 43.8 Waist: 58 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Millionaire Chicken Casserole Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: couple cups of coffee with cream, 900ml water Days Without Beer: 2      Didn't sleep well last night this seems to happen when I drink the caffeine free soda before bed. Makes me wonder if there are other stimulants in them. Also woke up with a nasty stinging headache, it wore off as I got up and started moving around.      Seems almost blasphemous, but I'm kinda getting tired of having bacon and eggs for breakfast everyday. I think next time I get groceries I'll pick up some sausages instead of more bacon. There is the option of skipping breakfast, but intentionally skipping breakfast just makes me obsess about food all day. (Well, even more than I already do)      I did take my water bottle with me to work, but I was running Self Checkout until I was running the Customer Service desk. Neither of those po

  Weight: 344.2 lbs (156.1 kg) BMI: 44.2 Waist: 58 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: The Meat and Cheese out of a Deli Italian Style Sandwich Lunch: Mushroom Soup Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Kroger energy shot, 2L Caffeine Free Big K Diet Cola Days Without Beer: 1 (Technically)      Might be after midnight by the time I get this uploaded, but F-it, things are not going start happening unless I start doing them. I was also kind of nervous about posting a blog post because it took me too long to get the Weekly Weigh In before work, so it was one of those days when I recorded before work, edited at lunch, and posted after work. I think this might be a sustainable work plan, but had a hard time getting going this morning. The hang up is I shared the video on Facebook, and when I'm getting this done I'm also going to share it on Facebook and I don't want to annoy people with multiple notifications of "Mark Shared a Link" notifications. Or if I share too many links

Weight: 338 lbs (153.3 kg) BMI: 43.6 Waist: 58 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Cottage Cheese with ranch dressing and hot dogs Dinner: Baked Bratwursts Drinks: Couple cups of coffee with cream, Sugar Free Rockstar Energy, sugar free Red Bull, ~1500 ml water      Woke up a little easier this morning. I did lay around for a bit, but not as long as I have been doing. I am excited that I got the phone bill paid. I usually get it paid by the end of the month, but if I don't pay it on the first there is a fee. So that is one fee that I'm going to avoid for October. I would like to pay all of my bills on the first if I can, but again this month I'm going to have to spread out the bills for the next couple of weeks. I'm still a little shaken from them shutting off the water a couple of days ago. But that was just an error on my part, which should not happen again. (I thought I had paid it after the due date and I had thought the warning was sent a

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 response is "

Weight: 341.4 lbs ( 153.4 kg) BMI: 43.4 Waist: 58 in ( 144.8 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Cottage Cheese and Lasagna Soup Dinner: Grilled Bratwursts Drinks: Couple cups of Coffee, Kroger Energy Shot, Sugar Free Rockstar Energy, ~1000ml water, 12pk Bud Light Next The first Monday of the month I want to record a General Update video where I just turn on the camera and Vlog for a bit. But didn't get a chance to edit it before I had to leave. Again I'm not feeling all that confident in it. Yesterday and Today I had wanted to get videos done before work so they were rush jobs and every time I turned on the camera my mind went completely blank on everything I was wanting to say. So the General Update I made today was me talking about one idea that I had and then, “Oh, yeah I was going to mention this other thing.” So I talk about the other thing. Oh, wait I wasn't done talking about the first thing so I go back to talking about the other thing. So the vid

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: 351 lbs (159.2 kg) BMI: 45.1 Waist: 58 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: Bacon Lunch: X Dinner: Bratwursts Has it really been almost an entire month since I last payed attention to what I ate? I didn't wake up planning on starting up this blog again. But I was talking to my Mom on the phone about helping her setting up the house that she just moved to and she mentioned my beer habit. And that's when I noticed that I hadn't had any for a while. I just kept looking at the price of the beer and that kept me dry. After I got off the phone with her I thought I might as well start this up again as well. It might keep me on the right path once my fiances clear up.   Anyway I was going to have bacon and eggs for breakfast, but I am all out of eggs. My sister-in-law sells the eggs that her chickens lay, I might check in with her to see if I can buy some from her. Sunday night I finally got around to counting out the meals that I have in my freezer and making a meal p

Weight: 354 lbs ( 160.6 kg) BMI: 45.4 Waist: 58 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: X Lunch: Leftover Nachos Dinner: X Snacks: Doritos, munched on for most of the afternoon Drinks: 5x Milwaukee's Best Ice 24oz beer mood: stable Again I wasn't very productive today. I did buy a few more ingredients for making the Keto recipes that I want to make. but then just sat around not doing anything. I did thaw out my freezer to keep the stuff in my refrigerator from rotting. But by the time I had the freezer thawed out it was too late in the evening to eat anything so I didn't eat anything for dinner.

Weight: 354.8 lbs (160.9 kg) BMI: 45.5 Waist: 58 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: X Lunch: Lamb Shoulder Steak Dinner: Nachos Drinks: 12 pk Samuel Adams Octoberfest mood: hopeful      Skipped breakfast again. I did not sleep well last night, not well at all. I went to bed at a reasonable time, but just flopped like a fish the entire night. And when I did wake up properly in the morning I took a while to lay there and enjoy that I had a day off, and day off with a day off to follow. I did get some dishes cleaned      September is technically the start of autumn even though it is still getting up into the 90's F (30's C) Thinking of that I was in the mood for some Chili so I went to the store to buy the ingredients for Instant Pot Chili. That is my favorite chili recipe that I have came across so far.      I grabbed some other things that I wasn't planning for as well. In example I picked up a Lamb Shoulder steak, thinking that I've never tried Lamb before. Lamb i

Weight: 353.6 lbs (160.4 kg) BMI: 45.4 Waist: 58 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: 2x breakfast burritos Lunch: Spangles Jalapeno Bacon Cheeseburger meal Dinner: Pork steak with sugar free BBQ Sauce Drinks: 2x Sparkling water, 5 hour energy shot mood: relived      Claritin is freaking awesome! Eyes and head is still a bit tender, but at least I don't feel like the living dead. Voice still sounds rough, but I sound more rough than I feel. Still didn't get anything done before work. I just justified it by telling myself that I'm off Friday and Saturday this week. So I have the next two days off. That is a nice thing to say. That is not something that I get so say very often. Even the weeks that I get two days off in a week they are very rarely together. The trick is to do the stuff tomorrow that I've been meaning to do all week.      I felt a bit floaty at work. But that might have been the combination of the allergy medicine and the leftover allergy symptoms. But it

  Weight: 353.2 lbs (160.2 kg) BMI: 45.3 Waist: 58 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: x Lunch: Bar S Hot Dogs, sugar free Rockstar energy Dinner: Hamburger Helper Cheesy Lasagna Drinks: 2x sparkling water, 2x 5 hour energy shot mood: not well      Allergies are banging again. Didn't have breakfast. Had hot dogs for lunch. Hamburger helper for dinner. My head hurts, my eyes hurt, my ears hurt. I am not in a good state right now. I really am hoping that it is just allergies.       Ducked out of work again. This sinus headache was just too much. Had a real fun moment when I told one guy that his total was $47 and some odd cents. And the dude exploded! He started screaming hooping and hollering. He was hoping to have an order under $50. Dude is damn near doing jumping jacks and I'm just clutching my head in pain.