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Weight: 306.3 lbs ( 138.9 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Snack: Cashews Lunch: Baked Chicken https://youtu.be/rfHQy-XdDxE Cottage Cheese  Snack: Vienna Sausages Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water,  Sober Year 1 (Day 527) Keto Month 2 (Day 90) (140/365 Days 2026 Keto) I'm pretty sure that this is the longest I've gone Keto (more or less Keto) definitely the longest I've gone sober. Talked to Uncle about 3D printing he had gotten the idea of printing off personalized ammo boxes and gun cases for people. I do feel like that is an interesting idea and more than likely a market for such items. The trick is that he was wanting estimates on how long it would take to print items of certain sizes and shapes. I have no idea, but I'm guessing that it would take about an hour or so to print off the things that he would want to print. Had time thi...

Weight: 306.4 lbs ( 139.0 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin, Cottage Cheese Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Seltzer Sober Year 1 (Day 526) Keto Month 2 (Day 89) (139/365 Days 2026 Keto) Good progress this morning as I'm finally back down the weight of the beginning of the month. Kind of just sat around before work. I did record the General Update Vlog that I'm planning posting on Monday the 1st of June as I do want to do the General Update the First Monday of each month. I was able to get breakfast cooked this morning and have the coffee to go with. One of my uncles texted me to let me know that he has some questions about 3D Printing. I haven't printed anything in about a year, and I have never messed with the printers enough to know much, but I'd be willing to answer what I can. He said that he'll call me tomorrow before work. Poor pupp...

Weight: 306.9 lbs ( 139.2 kg) BMI: 39.4 Waist: 53.5 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin, Cottage Cheese Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs, Cheddar Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Red Bull, Powerade Sober Year 1 (Day 525) Keto Month 2 (Day 88) (138/365 Days 2026 Keto) Not bad down on the scale, but waist being up is annoying that it is up to the measurement that it was at the beginning of the year. Woke up with a Text Message from the Storage Company asking if I would accept messages from them. Then a bit later I got a call from them letting me know that the bill was due and they would be willing to take the payment over the phone. But the storage place is literally the direction I drive to get to work. I have to drive by the storage place to get to work so I stopped by. Also I wanted to get a paper receipt to show the payment. I'm not sure why I'm keeping the paper rece...

Weight: 307.3 lbs ( 139.4 kg) BMI: 39.5 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bar-S Hot Dogs Snack: Cashews Lunch: Jonsonville Double Cheddar Smoked Sausages, Pork Rinds Snack: Savage Slim Jim Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Monster, Sparkling Water, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 524) Keto Month 2 (Day 87) (137/365 Days 2026 Keto) Good drop on the scale this morning. Dropping under the average for the month. Still up for the month, but under the average. And a reminder why one shouldn't really sweat too much on the daily fluctuations. I had to work at 9am and unfortunately I pulled myself out of bed at around 8. So I had to pretty much do the wake up and run out of the door kind of wake up that I was trying to avoid the last couple of times I was scheduled to work the 9 to 6 shift. And as I had to jump out of bed and then out of the door I didn't have time to have the proper breakfast with the coffee. So as the day got started a headache started developing. When I got t...

Weight: 312.8 lbs ( 141.9 kg) BMI: 40.2 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Cheeseburger Patties and onions Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 523) Keto Month 2 (Day 86) (136/365 Days 2026 Keto) Really disappointed in the weigh in this morning. It hasn't been this high since March. Being up 5.7lbs (2.6 kg) in two days kind of makes me wonder if I'm doing something wrong. The salad for lunch yesterday was rather large and I did have the nearly pound of bratwursts right before bed last night. Spent a while recording and editing the Store Story for this week. I'm starting to see what kind of challenge it will be to make a weekly scripted video series. I did think that should have been scripting out videos for months. Sure at the old place I really didn't have many opportunities to record videos, but that shouldn't have stopped me from scripting out ...

Weight: 310.0 lbs ( 140.6 kg) BMI: 39.8 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Salad Bar Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 522) Keto Month 2 (Day 85) (135/365 Days 2026 Keto) Had a hard time getting going again today. Stayed up too late last night. I really do need to work on getting to bed. The sleep tracking app on my phone/watch says that I didn't fall asleep until about half past 2 am and woke up around a quarter to 8am. And even then it was closer to 10 by the time I got up and going. I'm going to have to start getting up out of bed when I wake up. I've been laying around too much. I did eventually get up and started doing laundry while breakfast cooked. As it has been two weeks between the last time I washed the bedding I went ahead and washed my blanket, sheet, and pillowcases. It kind of makes me nervous when the bedding is in the wash as it does make some...

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: 305.6 lbs ( 138.6 kg) BMI: 39.2 Waist: 52.5 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausages Dinner: Chicken Wings with Homemade Ranch Dressing Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 519) Keto Month 2 (Day 82) (132/365 Days 2026 Keto) I didn't get to make the post yesterday as it took WAY too long to edit that video. There is really no way that it should have taken 9 hours to edit a 8 minute video. It wasn't even a complicated video it was just me talking to the camera. The store story yesterday was about a guy who suggested that I had diabetes in my feet because my feet hurt. I was thinking that my feet hurt back then was because I was walking around all day on cheap shoes, eating crappy food, while being morbidly obese. But he insisted that I had “Diabetes in the Feet” because “people who have diabetes have their feet fall off.” I honestly don't know muc...

Weight: 311.2 lbs ( 141.1 kg) BMI: 40 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Snack: Cashews Lunch: Cottage Cheese, Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausages Snack: Pickle Chips Dinner: Baked Chicken https://youtu.be/rfHQy-XdDxE Drinks: Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 517) Keto Month 2 (Day 80) (130/365 Days 2026 Keto) Really annoyed that BMI is back up to Morbidly Obese. I thought I had beaten that goal. Happiness isn't a number on the scale, but progress is a great motivator. I didn't get the post done last night as I closed the service desk and it was close to 10 by the time I got home and after baking a pork loin it would have just been a “Mark Whines About Work” Post. And I worked earlier today than I normally do so I was trying to get to bed. It was still well after midnight by the time I fell asleep. Which sucked because I had set my alarms for the six o'clock hour. I worked 9 to 6 today and ...

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: 307.4 lbs ( 139.4 kg) BMI: 39.5 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin Garlic Herb, cottage cheese Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Red Bull, Sober Year 1 (Day 512) Keto Month 2 (Day 75) (125/365 Days 2026 Keto) That's the direction that I'm wanting the scale to go in. I guess it takes the better part of a week to “recover” from going to a buffet. I don't think it was all fat, but I doubt that it took that long to digest the food that I ate on Sunday. Research is required in that area. Before work I baked a pork loin that Step-Dad bought for me while I cooked breakfast. Got home from work and just got slammed with writers block. It was more satisfying playing the Jewel Sorting Game (not sponsored) on my phone than it was to think about the day. Not that it was a bad or frustrating day. Honestly it's hard to think of anything worth...

Weight: 308.6 lbs ( 140.0 kg) BMI: 39.6 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Johnnsonville Double Cheddar Smoked Sausages Snack: Cashews Dinner: Rib-Eye Drinks: Monster, Sparkling Water,  Sober Year 1 (Day 511) Keto Month 2 (Day 74) (124/365 Days 2026 Keto) Wow, now that's going in the right direction. And it's nice that both the scale and waistline is measuring down. Typically lately when the scale is down the waist is up. Happiness is not a number on the scale/tape measure, but it is nice to have progress again. Not quite progress as I'm still up 1.8 lbs for the month, but down 12.9 lbs for the year. I didn't get around to making the post for Thursday night (Thursnight? hmm) as I did get off of work earlier than I normally would have, but I spent a lot of the evening editing the video that I posted today as I really am wanting to post the Friday Store Stories video on YouTube. Again I doubt that I'll ever get higher than a...

Weight: 310.8 lbs ( 141.0 kg) BMI: 39.9 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Cashews, Vienna Sausages Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin Garlic Herb Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Seltzer, 1.25 L Coke Zero Sober Year 1 (Day 509) Keto Month 2 (Day 72) (122/365 Days 2026 Keto) Seriously how long does it take to recover from a buffet? I kind of wonder if I should have restarted the Keto Kount when I went to the buffet on Sunday for Mother's Day. Oh well, still down 10.7 lbs since the beginning of the year and 21.6 lbs since this day last year. So still making rocking progress, but I would like it if that progress continued, or at the very least not go backwards. Woke up at pretty close to 8am like I normally do. Actually woke up before the alarm. I thought since I work an hour later than I normally do I'd just go ahead and just lay there. But the dogs had a different idea as they thought it'd be ...

Weight: 310.6 lbs ( 140.9 kg) BMI: 39.9 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Baked Chicken https://youtu.be/rfHQy-XdDxE Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Seltzer Sober Year 1 (Day 508) Keto Month 2 (Day 71) (121/365 Days 2026 Keto) A bit disappointed in the weight for today. Getting close to getting back up to Morbidly Obese. Trying to think of anything to write for the day. I really did just sit here in the room. I did do the laundry for the week. But I forgot to do the inventory of the garage freezer. I know that there is plenty of food out there, but I would like to keep count of it. I also managed to avoid going out to buy any more food which is something that I need to do for a bit as that freezer is quite full. Baked chicken for lunch. And had some of the salad Mom offered me last night with her homemade Ranch Dressing. I recorded the proverb for the month and the ...

Weight: 309.9 lbs ( 140.6 kg) BMI: 39.8 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Sausage Patties Eggs and Cheese Snack: Cashews, Vienna Sausages Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin Garlic Herb Snack: Cashews Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 507) Keto Month 2 (Day 70) (120/365 Days 2026 Keto) So eating at three restaurants in four days might not be great for weight loss. Kind of giggled at having “Sausage Egg and Cheese” for breakfast as that's a meal from McDonald's. Just their breakfast comes on a biscuit and I skipped the biscuit. I wasn't eager to go back to work as today was the first day back from vacation. I left a few minutes early to return some of the snack food that I bought for last weeks road trip as I didn't open the trail mix or the 2 bags of Pork Rinds. Of course I could have snacked on those over the next several days. But I really didn't want the nuts that was...

Weight: 306.7 lbs ( 139.1 kg) BMI: 39.4 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Airport Steakhouse Lunch Buffet Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Monster, Seltzer, Sparkling Water, Dt Dr Pepper Sober Year 1 (Day 506) Keto Month 2 (Day 69) (119/365 Days 2026 Keto) Phone battery was dead this morning which was odd as I'm pretty sure that I had charged it to full yesterday afternoon. But since it takes 3 hours to charge I didn't have the time to record the part of the weekly weigh in where I actually step on the scale. Of course the phone doesn't have to be charged to 100% to record a video, but it was only up to 20% by the time I left with Mom to go to Church. Step-Dad cooked us all breakfast, but I didn't have time to have any coffee. I don't typically go to church, but as I was scheduled to be off today and it was Mothers Day I decided to go to church with Mom and Grandma. On the way to church Mom stopped by Walmart (...

Weight: 304.2 lbs ( 138.0 kg) BMI: 39.1 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Dinner: The Barn Sirloin, Green Beans, Side Salad, a few fried shrimp Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Monster, Seltzer, Sparkling Water Sober Year 1 (Day 505) Keto Month 2 (Day 68) (118/365 Days 2026 Keto) Computer froze while I was writing this out the first time. Kind of hoping that's not an indication for the next year as today's my birthday. Glad to see the scale go back down to the record weight for the year. But tomorrow I'll be doing a weigh in video which requires me to wear some clothes while recording the weigh in. Stomach was still a bit upset when I woke up this morning. I wasn't sure if it was a belch or a barf sitting right at the top of my gut. I held off on having breakfast for a bit as I didn't think that it'd be a good idea to eat the greasy food with an already upset stomach. But I decid...

Weight: 305.7 lbs ( 138.6 kg) BMI: 39.2 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch (Kind of) : Mixed Nuts Dinner: X Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 504) Keto Month 2 (Day 67) (117/365 Days 2026 Keto) I was going to wake up really early to take the road trip, but when I woke up the phone wasn't plugged in right so it had to charge for a while as I didn't want to head out to a place that I've never been with a phone that wasn't charged up all of the way. I left the house right around 8am. I had to go back in to grab the USB cable to the phone because the Bluetooth in my car isn't connecting anymore. But the annoying thing is that when I plugged the phone into the car the car just flashed “Unrecognized USB Device” and it would charge for a second or two, but then the plug would fall out. I am glad that I let the phone charge before heading out as the car's GPS wouldn't recognize Castle Ro...

Weight: 306.2 lbs ( 138.9 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Anchor Inn Buffet Dinner: Sausage Patties and Eggs Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water Sober Year 1 (Day 503) Keto Month 2 (Day 66) (116/365 Days 2026 Keto) Slow waking up again this morning. Again not feeling sick, just really comfortable laying there. Weight was a bit up this morning. But not in an amount that would cause concern. Mom and Grandma went into town. I'm pretty sure that they were paying their property taxes or something, I wasn't sure as I had to run to the restroom and I was doing my business as they were doing theirs. After that we went to a local Mexican Restaurant. That place has a really good buffet, but I had to be careful on it to keep to the diet. I did have an enchilada or two so I wasn't perfect, but perfection is the enemy of progress. I mainly had salad with some of ...

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...