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Weight: 342.8 lbs (156.9 kg) BMI: 44 Waist: 57.0 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: X Lunch: Cottage Cheese with chicken bits and ham left over from the super salad from the other day Dinner: Baked Chicken Drinks: Sugar Free Rockstar, Kroger Energy Shot, 2L Big K Caffeine Free Diet Cola Days Without Beer 2 Going to be a short post not because the “down” I've been feeling lately. I've actually started feeling better after work this evening. I'm not sure if the feeling better is just the alcohol from last week's beer wearing off or what. But this is going to be a short post because I had to put so much creative energy into the weight loss video that I just made and the only thing that I would do is just repeat what I put into that video. That and the computer has been acting a bit wonky today. So it's getting pretty close to midnight and I want this to be a daily blog. I had recorded the Weigh In Vlog this morning, but it recorded from the wrong microphone so I ha

Weight: 347.4 lbs (157.6 kg) BMI: 44.6 Waist: 58.0 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: Leftover Queso Soup Lunch: Mega Salad Dinner: Pan Seared Rib Eye and Salad with shredded cheddar and ranch dressing Drinks: 2x 5 hour energy shots, 2L Big K Cherry Cola Zero, 2L Big K Caffeine Free Diet Cola,1900ml water Days Without Beer 2      I had to work early this morning. The lady who was scheduled to work 7 to 4 today had a funeral to go to so I traded her Monday for my Friday. I'm not crazy about waking up early (And yes waking up at 6am to get ready for work is early for me) but I was able to get up and get ready for work. I do want to start waking up earlier, but haven't been very good at it. I am kind of proud that I was able to get up at my second alarm. Usually I have five alarms on my phone and two on my alarm clock, even then it's a bit of a coin flip if I get up before the store calls me to ask where I am. Didn't have time to get breakfast before I had to get to

Weight: 348.2lbs (157.9 kg) BMI: 44.7 Waist: 57.5 in (146.0 cm) WtHr: 77.7% Breakfast: Sausage patties and eggs Lunch: Instant Pot Chili with cheese and sour cream Dinner: Bratwursts with G Hughes Sugar Free BBQ sauce, mustard, and Ranch Dressing for dipping Drinks: Pot of coffee with cream, Kroger Energy shot, ~16oz water, 2L Big K Caffeine Free Diet Cola Days Without Beer: 1      Quite proud of myself that I was able to wake up so early today. Today was the first day back to work from last weeks PTO and I was wanting to wake up early enough to get the Weekly Weigh In done before work. And I was frustrated all of last week as I woke up after 10am almost every day last week. I know that PTO is supposed to be time off to sit down, but it was frustrating that it was almost noon by the time I got up and going to do anything. But today I was up at the first alarm and up and going by the third. I was in an amazing mood... until I stood on the scale for the weigh in. That hurt.      W

  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: 335.4 lbs ( 152.1 kg) BMI: 43.1 Waist: 56 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 75.7% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Lunch: Cottage cheese with ranch, salt, and pepper Dinner: Velveeta Cheeseburger Skillet Dinner Drinks: Cup of coffee with cream, 2x Kroger energy shots, 2L Big K Caffeine free Diet Cola      Today was a very clumsy day. It seemed like everything I touched I was knocking something else over. Every thing I typed out was misspelled or worded wrong or said it in the right way. Brain and body is just kind of floppy today. I have a guess that it has something to do with how much stress I had this last week at work.      I did take the time to do a Weekly Weigh In video. When I was making it I wasn't very confident that I had made a very good video. But when I got home this evening and looked over it again it doesn't seem that bad. But this afternoon when I was uploading it I had a hard time getting set up like it should be, tags attached, correct play lists etc. But I'

Weight: 333.2 lbs ( 151.1 kg) BMI: 42.8 Waist: 55 in ( 139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Lunch: Hot Dogs Dinner: Baked Chicken Drinks: Pot of coffee, 3x Kroger Energy shot, ~1400 ml water, 2 L Dt Caffeine free Big K Cola      I did wake up early enough to get the weigh in video done; just barely. I had a lot of alarms set for the 5am hour, but just rolled through them And I did get breakfast done as well. Which was nice. There's been a couple of weeks where I've had to decide between breakfast and weigh in video. LOL That makes it sound dramatic, but I am proud that I have yet to skip out on a weigh in video this year so far.      Today was first day back from PTO, can't really call it “Vacation” I didn't go anywhere. The first day back is always a day that takes a lot of self control. With how I have to repeat myself, repeat myself, repeat myself. And deal with people that can't seem to see the very obvious solutions right in front of their damn

Weight: 337.6 lbs ( 153.1 kg) BMI: 43.3 Waist: 56 in ( 142.2 cm) WtHr: 75.7% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Lunch: Hot Dogs Dinner: Spaghetti Squash with ground beef and mushroom onion pasta sauce Drinks: Kroger energy shot, 2 L Big K Decaffeinated Cola, 900ml Water      Got the weigh in done this morning. Quite proud of myself that I got all 10 weigh ins and all the daily blogs done so far this year. I have more 2023 weigh ins done by the start of March than I did the entirety of 2022. If I keep it up, by the end of March I'll have more posts on here than I did all of last year.      I came home from work for lunch. For the last several days I've been wanting to set up the slow cooker with a chuck roast that I bought a couple of weeks ago with a digital coupon. It was in the freezer for most of that time so it's still good. But I keep forgetting to set it up before I head back to work. What I didn't forget to do was pick up a pack of hot dogs on the way out of the

Weight: 331.4 lbs ( 150.3 kg) BMI: 43.3 Waist: 55 in ( 139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Lunch: St. Louis Style Ribs Dinner: X Drinks: Pot of coffee with cream, 12 pk Bud Light Next, couple cans of Caffeine Free Diet Big K cola      Spent all day working on a spreadsheet tracking my daily weigh ins and comparing them to goals. I love working on spreadsheets, they are quite satisfying to get working. If I could choose my dream job, I think it would be a 9 to 5, Monday to Friday, data entry job. But I think that might be a dream of a dream job, it sounds like something that could easily be replaced by AI. And I have to say It is a lot funner working out the spreadsheet tracking my weight loss over the year than it is to be cleaning my house like I'm supposed to be doing. It took me considerably longer than I expected to get all of the formulas on the spreadsheet sorted out. But at least for the rest of the year all I have to do is stand on the scale and measure my

Weight: 331.6 lbs ( 150.4 kg) BMI: 42.6 Waist: 55 in ( 139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Lunch: Instant Pot Beef and Turnip Stew Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Cup of Coffee, couple cans of Caffeine Free Diet Big K Cola      Hard time waking up today. Bed was nice, warm, and cozy. The heater in my house is working just fine, but it was warmer in the bed. Did get up with enough time to eat breakfast and drink a cup of coffee, but didn't get much else done.      Had a strange dream as I was waking up. I had dreamed that my mother had bought the local Village Inn, but had named all of the meals after my younger sister. She had named the meals after my sister because she was her business partner. My sister is a very business oriented person and it'd make sense that they'd work together on that. And my mom did used to own a restaurant that sadly went under. So there was hope that working together they'd see success, but I remember in the dream I was trying

Weight: 332.6 lbs ( 150.9 kg) BMI: 42.7 Waist: 55 in ( 139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Sausages Dinner: Baked Chicken Drinks: Couple cups of Coffee with cream, Kroger Energy Shot, Sparkling Water, Some cans of Caffeine free Diet Big K soda    Kind of exciting to get the Sunday MORNING weigh in done in the MORNING. And the weight is trending upwards over the last couple of days. Trying not to worry about the daily fluctuations, but it does seem to be tracking up lately. The weigh in video this morning had the same weight as last weeks weigh in. I have lost 14 lbs (6.3 kg) this month, so the trending up might just be a bit of body recovering from the loss of that much and getting used to the new diet. So yes, it might bounce up a bit more, but I wont get too upset unless it bumps back up over 340 lbs (154.2 kg)      Google says that the size of eggs doesn't matter when you're frying eggs. But these medium eggs seem to fr