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Weight: 334.2 lbs ( 151.6 kg) BMI: 42.9 Waist: 55.5 in (142.2 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Jonsonville Queso Blano Jalapeno Smoked Sausages Dinner: Instant Pot Chili Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Kroger Energy Shot, Sober Month 4 (Day 149) Keto Day 5 Came across some headlines that redoubled my intentions to try to avoid energy drinks. A major ingredient in most of the energy drinks is known as Taurine. TL;DR They're linking Taurine to Leukemia. Okay, this next part is biased on my understanding and Google searches and suffers from many rewrites to get “right”. The caffeine in the energy drinks doesn't as much give you energy. Brains are weird as it doesn't feel tired until it receives a chemical (adenosine) in a receptor. And Caffeine blocks those receptors so it isn't that you have more energy, you just don't feel the tired. That explains the “caffeine crash” that people have when it fades off. You didn't have more energy, t...

Weight: 334.4 lbs ( 151.7 kg) BMI: 42.9 Waist: 56 in (142.2 cm) WtHr: 75.7% Breakfast: Steak and Eggs Lunch: Fajita Soup Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Keto Day 5 Sober Month 3 (Day 100) YMCA: No Woot, triple digits on the sobritety. Still can't seem to spell sobriety properly. I don't think that I've gone 100 days without alcohol since I was 21. Not that I've been struggling with it for that long. I printed out the front half of the left forearm of the costume I'm working on. When it finished it was quite satisfying how well it matched up with the back half of the forearm that I printed several years ago. I had to cut the part up a little more because the new printer isn't big enough to print it off in one piece. But a bit of duct tape is holding it together right now. The back half was printed in black filament and the front half is in white filament so there a bit of “yin and yang” going...

Weight: 335.8 lbs ( 152.3 kg) BMI: 43.1 Waist: 56 in (142.2 cm) WtHr: 75.7% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Cheesy Chicken Chili Dinner: Pollock Drinks: Coffee with Cream and Salt, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Keto Day 5 Sober Month 3 (Day 94) YMCA: No When I woke up this morning I felt both of my calves feel like they were tingeing up into charlie horse cramps. I'm not sure if I'm explaining this right, but when I feel that type of cramp coming on I keep my feet straight and walk around for a moment and it usually keeps the cramp from coming on. But I did remember to take my potassium and magnesium supplements when I got up and going. I'll be honest I forgot to go to the Y this morning. It was later in the afternoon and, Oh, yeah. I was going to do something. It is kind of disappointing. When I started the week I was thinking as I am on vacation this week there isn't any excuses against going. But I only went once. I did get some help from Reddit. One ...

Weight: 344.2 lbs ( 156.1 kg) BMI: 44.2 Waist: 57.5 in (146.1 cm) WtHr: 77.7% Breakfast: Strip Steak and Eggs Lunch: Cordon Bleu Soup and Bar-S Hot Dogs Dinner: BBQ Chuck Roast Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Powerade Zero Orange, Kroger Energy Shot, Keto Day 5 Sober Month 2 (Day 66) Yesterday when I said I was expecting a drop in weight this morning I was hoping for more than 0.6lbs (272 g) When I got up this morning my feet were really stiff and sore. Not sure what's going on there. They haven't been hurting much this week, but now they feel like I'm back to what it was like when I started the year.  I had steak and eggs for breakfast because I'm going to try to stretch out the bacon if I can.   My smartwatch has a feature that scans the Muscle/Fat/Water content of the body when I weigh in each morning. I wasn't sure how accurate the scan is because if I look at the things that it said my body contains the watch scan says I have 1...

Weight: 341.8 lbs ( 155 kg) BMI: 43.9 Waist: 57 in (144.8 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Italian Sausage Spinach Soup Dinner: Garlic Melody Seasoned Pork Chops Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Celsius Energy Mango Lemonade Keto Day 5 Sober Month 1 (Day 60) Trying really hard to write today. Not feeling bad, or “down” just really, really tired. I'm blaming the weather. It was pretty dark and gloomy today. Heck if it were about 50 degrees (10 C) warmer it would be my favorite kind of weather. But this weather where even just going outside hurts just sucks. I was feeling Okay before lunch, but when I came home and sat down, I sat all of the way down. I really just wanted to go to bed. My sister came by the store to get my tax documents shes going to help me and file my Tax Returns for me. It's fun to think of all of the fun things that I could buy when the returns...er...return. But honestly I just need to build up my savings acco...

Weight: 349 lbs ( 158.3 kg) BMI: 44.8 Waist: 58 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Bar-S Jumbo Jumbos Cheese Mustard Snack: Savage Slim Jim Dinner: Bacon Cheeseburger Soup Drinks: Salted Coffee,Powerade Zero Orange, Gatorade Zero Orange, Kroger Energy Shot, Sugar Free Monster, Keto Day 5 Sober Month 1 (Day 44) Had a hard time falling asleep last night. I posted at 11pm and then went to strait to bed. I was going to read for a while, but laid right down. The sleep tracker says that I didn't sleep until 2:15am, and I believe it. I'm not sure why it was so hard to fall asleep. I didn't have very many energy drinks yesterday. I tried to avoid energy drinks today to see if I would sleep better tonight. I did have a monster at lunch, but that's not as many as I'd normally have. And I thought I'd try the Gatorade, Powerade is cheaper so I had one of those later in the day. And I did have an energy shot later in the afternoon. But not becaus...