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Weight: 335.4 lbs ( 152.1 kg) BMI: 43.1 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Low Carb Jambalaya   Dinner: Hormel Pork Loin Garlic Ginger Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Month 10 (Day 303) Woke up in a pretty good mood. It's kind of a dark cloudy morning, but I feel like I'm coming out of a dark tunnel. (It might help that I love this kind of weather) But it really does feel like I've been hunkered down sheltered in and tiptoeing between landmines, and now it feels like that's coming to an end. It was kind of fun to look at the spending comparison and right now I'm only $54 overspent compared to last year and the money that I'm going to save on beer over the rest over the rest of the month I think I'm going to finally beat that. Of course the bills next week might make that a challenge. The last couple of days I took advantage of the Buy Two Get One sale on Monster Energy (not sponsored) so...

Weight: 336.4 lbs ( 152.6 kg) BMI: 43.2 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Low Carb Jambalaya   Dinner: Hamburger Helper Cheesy Italian Shells Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Month 10 (Day 302) Today is going to feel weird. I'm scheduled 10:30 to 7:30. But what is really strange is that they have me scheduled to work five and half hours and before lunch and then two and a half hours after lunch. It's nice to have a long first half, but coming back to work for basically the length of a feature film seems pointless. Transferring Money into the savings accounts this morning because today is payday. I have to say that was kind of exciting. I did debate wither to go ahead and leave myself the weekly allowance this morning or wait until after work to transfer and just spend what I like today and just save the rest. But I figured it would be wiser to go ahead and do the transfer in the morning so I don't over s...

Weight: 337.2 lbs ( 139.7 kg) BMI: 43.3 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Taco Chili Cheese Curl Chips Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Month 10 (Day 301) Dang that was a jump on the scale. I'm thinking about getting back into Keto. I'm not going to jump immediately back into it as I still have several boxes of Hamburger Helper (not sponsored) and some other Non-Keto meals that are going to be the cheaper options. I don't think that I'll start up the Keto Count until Roommate goes back to work, but I am going to try to buy and eat more meat biased meals. I'm just going to have to research some cheaper dinners. Of course I say that and then at lunch I buy some cheese curls The weight is still 13.8 lbs (6.3 kg) down from last year and 8.27 lbs (3.75 kg) down from average, but still it is frustrating that all of that progress over the last couple of months was wiped out so quickly...

Weight: 335 lbs ( 152 kg) BMI: 43 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Taco Chili Mac Snack: Kroger Sour Cream Cheddar Chips Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Month 9 (Day 300) I didn't take the chance to make the blog post yesterday's as I had gotten distracted by a word matching game on my phone. I am not exaggerating when I say that I just played that game the entire day. It has a “daily challenge” that lets you play the previous days challenges. I wanted to get caught up so I just played the daily challenges for all of October and got a bit into September. It was about midnight when I had realized that I hadn't made any effort to make the post. I did the weekly grocery shopping while Roommate was at his appointment like usual. I was able to keep the bill close to the $100 like I was hoping that I'd keep it to. I was adding it up as I was going along and it looked like it was going ...

Weight: 331.4 lbs ( 150.3 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Bacon Cheddar Member's Mark Hot Dogs Lunch:  Lasagna Soup   Dinner: Tilapia Fillets Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Month 8 (Day 270) Keto Week 3 (Day 25) Growling at the scale this morning. But fluctuations happen. I was wanting to find something to do. So I thought of coming up with a spreadsheet to show and compare my spending this year compared to this time last year. Because I know that I had a pretty expensive car repair earlier this year, but I wanted to figure out why I can't get ahead any further than treading water. And looking at the spending categories I am spending less on Food and Dining, not as less as I would like. By this time last year I had spent $2,625.73 on beer. Disappointingly so far this year I've spent $514.12 on Nonalcoholic Beer which is $2,111.61 down from last year. I really could have used that $514. It...

Weight: 329.0 lbs ( 149.2 kg) BMI: 42.2 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Bacon Cheddar Member's Mark Hot Dogs Lunch: Lasagna Soup   Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Month 8 (Day 269 Nice) Keto Week 3 (Day 24) Today went by really quickly. I'm not even sure what happened. I would blink and it would be several hours later. I really need to find something to do. I really am getting frustrated that I'm not seeming to be doing anything. I'm just sitting here zombie scrolling social media. I played some Minecraft. But honestly all I was able to do was rebuild the stuff that I lost the last time I played and the game glitched and lost all of the stuff I had. I was able to lead some sheep and cows back to my home base to have a bit of a farm. But when I tried to go out to fill out the map I ended up dying and now my gravestone is on the other side of the map. I'm going to see if Roomma...

Weight: 329 lbs ( 149.2 kg) BMI: 42.2 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken Quarters  Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Unsweetened Tea Sober Month 8 (Day 267) Keto Week 3 (Day 22) The last couple of days I've noticed that my feet hasn't hurt in the morning. Not sure if that's because I've been off and not walking around all of the time or because I'm back to the Keto. Last week my feet were hurting so I'm not sure that it's completely because of the diet. Here are some things that I had forgotten to mention yesterday because the evening caught up with me quite quickly: I had gotten a new Debit card in the mail and I was out of seltzer so I ran over to the store to activate the card and get more water. Out of habit I had used the store's app to pay for the water and I was heading out of the store when I caught myself and went to the ATM and activated my card.  And...

Weight: 332.8 lbs ( 151 kg) BMI: 42.7 Waist: 55.5 in (141.0 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Instant Pot Chili Dinner: Baked Rib Eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Powerade Zero Orange,  Low Carb Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 7 (Day 213) Keto Day 2 Struggled before work today to get the Instant Pot Chili set up. It took a while for the Instant Pot to get up to pressure, and that was after the rushing around to get it in the pot itself. The plan was to get the instant pot chili set up for the lunch for the week. Well, I was going to do that yesterday, but I needed to do laundry yesterday. And as it only takes 35 minutes at pressure to cook this chili and I was scheduled to work at 11:30 instead of 11am I figured that it would be fine to get that pot done before work. It was taking so long for it to get to pressure I looked it up on Reddit, and apparently the larger recipes take longer to pressurize because the entire pot has to get up to boiling ...

Weight: 335 lbs ( 152 kg) BMI: 42.8 Waist: 56 in (142.2 cm) WtHr: 75.7% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Fried Chicken, Kroger BBQ Flavored Chips Dinner: BBQ Chuck Roast Drinks: Salted Coffee, Sugar Free Red Bull, Low Carb Monster, Kroger Seltzer, Unsweetened Tea Sober Month 4 (Day 144) I shouldn't have had finished off the pitcher of Tea last night. Had a hard time falling asleep after posting the blog last night. Body was tired, mind was tired, brain WAS WIRED FOR SOUND. I made another pitcher of tea this morning, but I didn't have any of it after work. I'm not going to go full caffeine free, but I'm going to try to avoid it in the evening. I'll see if that helps me sleep better.  A little disappointed at the weight tracking over the last couple of day, sure I haven't been on the diet, but does it collapse so quickly if you're not that close to the diet 100% of the time? The first day back from vacation always really pisses me off. It's always a mi...