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Weight: 301.5 lbs ( 136.8 kg) BMI: 38.7 Waist: 51.0 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Sausage Eggs Cheese Lunch: Johnsonville Double Cheddar Smoked Sausages Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 592) Keto Month 5 (Day 158) (203/365 Days 2026 Keto) Didn't sleep very well last night. There was a strange muscle soreness on my front left lower belly. And had a hard time finding a position to lay that didn't aggravate that soreness. It hurt less today than it did yesterday, but I woke up this morning with a headache and a lot of general muscle soreness. I wonder if that general unwellness that I had this morning was dehydration as after having coffee and some of the sparkling water I felt better. That was a really good weight this morning. Only 1.1 lbs (0.5 kg) away from the lowest so far this year. And the waist is down. Pretty sure that this matches the record for the year.  Had sausage patties with the eg...

Weight: 303.4 lbs ( 137.6 kg) BMI: 39.0 Waist: 51.5 in ( 130.8 cm) WtHr: 69.8% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Hormel Pork Loin Mesquite BBQ, Cottage Cheese Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Celsius Energy Sober Year 1 (Day 590) Keto Month 5 (Day 156) (201/365 Days 2026 Keto) Spent the last couple of days redoing the numbers on the Keto Count I noticed something a bit odd about the numbers. I know that it isn't extremely important to keep 100% right. But it is something that I'm tracking so might as well keep it on track. Had a hard time falling asleep last night. I think I had too many energy drinks yesterday. I did wake up alright this morning though. It was really peaceful this morning while I had the bacon and eggs. I figured that tomorrow (Tuesday) I'll finally have to go to the DMV and the Tag office to go ahead and update my address on those. If I gave a reason it would be a lie. But on the Credit Card ap...

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...

July 28, 2026  Weight: 302.6 lbs ( 137.3 kg) BMI: 38.8 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Air Fryer Hormel Pork Loin Garlic herb, Cottage Cheese Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 584) Keto Month 4 (Day 145) (195/365 Days 2026 Keto) Starting this post late as after work I tried to beat the DLC mission in Fallout New Vegas. I'm really getting tired of this mission, but I can't get back to the rest of the game until I beat that mission. I went ahead and had breakfast this morning as I was feeling better with the bacon and eggs. Work was frustrating as I was supposed to be scheduled to be a carryout for most of the day and the service desk for a good chunk of the day, but I was informed that the guy who walked out the other day was the guy who was supposed to be in the online pick up so I was shoved into the position. Also was expected to be a carryout and run the servi...

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: 306.3 lbs ( 138.9 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: X Lunch: Bar-s Hot Dogs, Cottage Cheese Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 578) Keto Month 4 (Day 139) (189/365 Days 2026 Keto) Probably shouldn't have had that jumbo steak last night. Computer is acting weird this morning. I was sitting around when I noticed that it was just after 10 am and I had to work at 11 and I thought I was going to cook the chicken in the air fryer. Well if I was going to do that I needed to hurry to figure out how to do that. So I was going to look up a video on how to cook the chicken in the air fryer. But the video seemed to take forever to load so I was going to write in the writing program to talk about it, however the video stated playing really quickly and the programs started switching around so it would write one sentence in one program, switch to to one of the spreadsheets write a senten...

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: 309.2 lbs ( 140.3 kg) BMI: 39.7 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: X Lunch: Baked Chicken   Snack: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Dinner: Papa Murphy's Keto Pizza Drinks: Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 572) Keto Month 4 (Day 133) (183/365 Days 2026 Keto) Skipped the coffee this morning as I was going to the dentist.   So I went to the dentist this morning. After the X-Rays, scans, and poking the doctor had determined that the teeth are a complete loss. The only way foreword would be dentures or implants. It's hard to say that they railroaded me into making a decision right away. But the implants sounded like a good idea at the time and they talked about financing and it looked like it was going to be $620/month for 75 months. Then they said that before the first surgery to remove the teeth would require a payment of $11,000 and then after I healed six months later I would have to pay another $11,200 for the implanting of false teeth. It seem...

Weight: 309.3 lbs ( 140.3 kg) BMI: 39.7 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Bratwursts Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 564) Keto Month 4 (Day 124) (174/365 Days 2026 Keto) Good drop for today, but still up for the month. Very down for the year. But could still be better. Still debating on doing TMAD. Two Meals a Day. If I choose to do that should I skip Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner. Does it matter which one I choose to skip? How important is consistency in that? Is the idea of skipping meals to try to lose weight a eating disorder? This morning before work I started working on editing the General Update video that I'm wanting to upload tomorrow (Monday) I was glad I worked noon to 9 today so I had a bit of time to work on that. Didn't get it completed just yet. Not sure if I'll get it done in time to post it on the Fist Monday like I w...

Weight: 308.8 lbs ( 140.0 kg) BMI: 39.8 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Celsius Energy Sober Year 1 (Day 560) Keto Month 3 (Day 120) (170/365 Days 2026 Keto) I had to laugh last night I was rushing to get the post posted I want to get it up before midnight. And I was excited as I had shared the link right at 11:59pm and then there was a little bit of a brownout. Power dipped just enough to turn off the computer. If it had happened 30 seconds earlier It would have missed the deadline for uploading the post. Sure it's an artificial deadline, but it was just funny that right after I beat it the computer got taken out. Not sure what caused the power to blink. I assumed that there was a storm coming through. But when the computer came back up the closest storm was several counties away. On the town's Facebook gossip page somebody said that a power...

Weight: 309.0 lbs ( 140.2 kg) BMI: 39.7 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Bratwursts Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 558) Keto Month 3 (Day 118) (168/365 Days 2026 Keto) I did NOT sleep well last night. I was hyper energized all day yesterday. Had a bit of a crash out when it was time to go to bed. Then at about 3am my brain and body were like, “Okay, we've slept enough.” The sleep tracking app said I fell asleep at around 1:15 and I woke up at 3am with the energy level that I usually have at 8am. I knew that this wasn't going to work so I really did try to get back to sleep. I put ASMR Historian, Astrum, and other relaxing science videos and really took the effort to try to get to sleep but ended up flopping around all night. Really taking the effort to wrap the blanket around me to get nice and warm. Then at about 6am when the light started coming through the heavy c...

Weight: 307.0 lbs ( 139.3 kg) BMI: 39.4 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Bar-S Hot Dogs, Cottage Cheese Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Celsius Energy Sober Year 1 (Day 557) Keto Month 3 (Day 117) (167/365 Days 2026 Keto) Another one of those mornings when I could have been productive, I could have done something, but all I did was count down the time I had left before going back to work. I had plenty of time to cook the bacon and eggs for breakfast. I could have baked the bratwursts for lunch. But again I just sat around counting down how much time I had left before work until it was too late to do anything. Step-Dad asked how my mouth felt this morning. Thankfully the teeth didn't hurt this morning. He said that tends to happen with some dental issues. It will feel like fire for a night, a week or so it'll feel fine, then in the middle of the night it'll flare up again. Work to...

Weight: 308.0 lbs ( 139.7 kg) BMI: 39.5 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Dinner: Boneless Rib-Eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 556) Keto Month 3 (Day 116) (166/365 Days 2026 Keto) I didn't get the post done last night as Thursday into Friday I didn't sleep very well. My jaw had a low ache to it all night. Not strong enough to do much other than keep me awake doing the rotisserie chicken all night trying to find the comfortable position. Over the day yesterday it didn't hurt that much more, but it was manageable during the day. It didn't really hurt when I had the sausage patties yesterday for breakfast or Bratwursts for lunch yesterday. But when Mom prepared Pork Steak it felt like fire going through my jaw. I had to keep grabbing bottles of water as cool water felt good on the left side of my mouth, but as it warmed in my mouth it lo...

Weight: 305.4 lbs ( 138.5 kg) BMI: 39.2 Waist: 53 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs, American Blend Salad, Ranch Dressing and Salsa Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 551) Keto Month 3 (Day 114) (164/365 Days 2026 Keto) Good weight drop for today. Waist is still stagnant though. When I woke up this morning I was excited to pay off the car insurance. That paid up the car insurance for the next six months. And paid the phone bill for the month. So with paying the storage fee yesterday the bills for July are now caught up. It was particularly satisfying paying off the car insurance as it is extremely rare to pay off the car insurance all in one go. It's usually when the Tax Return comes in I pay off the last of the insurance (forgot the term) for that term and then when the bill comes due again I usually find myself having to pay the monthly stipend. It is cheaper to pay...

Weight: 306.8 lbs ( 139.2 kg) BMI: 39.4 Waist: 53 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 550) Keto Month 3 (Day 113) (163/365 Days 2026 Keto) I got distracted by working on the latest store story video to work much on this post. It is exciting that I am three weeks advanced on that project. Again I'll have to be careful to not get complacent and just wait for those weeks to go by before I get more videos done. I did get the Bacon and Eggs done for breakfast. I ran by the storage place to put a payment on my storage unit. I did have to drive around for a while before I made the payment though. Just as I was driving up I saw the guy who manages the place locking the door and walking out to his car. It was just before noon so I'm assuming he went to lunch. I could have ran up to him and paid real quick, but I thought that was rud...

Weight: 309.4 lbs ( 140.3 kg) BMI: 39.7 Waist: 53 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Bar-S Hot Dogs Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 548) Keto Month 3 (Day 111) (161/365 Days 2026 Keto) WTF is that weight this morning? The weight this month really seems to crawl down for a couple of days and then JUMP back up. It's still lower than the other times that it had jumped up, the frustration is that it's down, it's down, I'm making progress, I'm...oops never mind. Today was the Solstice. The longest day of the year. Technically the beginning of summer, although the days do get shorter after today. As the store I work at faces south I thought it would be interesting to see if the north side of the store ever gets sunlight. A simple point I'm sure. But I had noticed that at this latitude the sun never really gets all of the way to the top of the sky. That happens closer to the equato...

Weight: 305.2 lbs ( 138.4 kg) BMI: 39.2 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Sausage Patties Eggs and Cheese Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausages, Pork Rinds Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Celsius, Sparkling Water, 1.25L Coke Zero Sober Year 1 (Day 547) Keto Month 3 (Day 110) (160/365 Days 2026 Keto) Weight is up a little bit again today. But well under the average for the year so the average is going down. Or at least I'm sure that's how averages work. And it is up, but not enough to get all that wokred up about When I woke up Mom was melting some beeswax to make some of her homemade ointments. As she cooked that she told me that all of the bacon in the fridge was frozen as when I used the last package I didn't take any bacon out of the freezer so I had some sausage patties with eggs this morning. I didn't take the time to cook the lunch before I left for work. I could have as I worked Noon to 9 ...

Weight: 311.6 lbs ( 141.3 kg) BMI: 40 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Sausage Patties and Eggs Lunch: Rib-Eye Steak Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 543) Keto Month 3 (Day 106) (156/365 Days 2026 Keto) Kind of had a hard time building momentum this morning. Just kind of laid in bed for an extra hour, kept telling myself that I needed to get up and get going. I just was kind of lazy this morning. Annoyed that the BMI is still above the “Morbidly Obese” level. Today I wore another one of the new pairs of pants that I had ordered last week. These are pretty conformable as well. They are a lot quieter than the “Tactical Police Pants” I was glad to note that these pant's phone pocket was able to hold my phone as previous pairs of pants the phone pocket was too small for my phone. It was kind of funny on the “tactical pants” there was a warning that you are “required to remove packaging to wear ...

Weight: 311.7 lbs ( 141.4 kg) BMI: 40 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Pork Steak, Cottage Cheese Snack: Cashews Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 542) Keto Month 3 (Day 105) (155/365 Days 2026 Keto) Happiness is not a number on the scale, but it is irritating to be back up to “Morbidly Obese” That does seem to be a pattern the day after I eat a Ham Steak. I speculate that the salt in the ham makes me retain water so I will probably be peeing all day long today. Worked 12 to 8 today so I had plenty of time to cook bacon and eggs for breakfast and bake the pork steak for lunch. I really didn't do much else before work other than wait and count down to the time I had to go to work. I had forgotten that I was going to do Monday weekly weigh in videos until that I had already started eating breakfast. Maybe I'll get one done next week. I wor...

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...