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Weight: 310.1 lbs ( 140.6 kg) BMI: 39.8 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: X Lunch: Italian Dressing Marinated Pork Tenderloin, Jar Queso, Pork Rinds Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 570) Keto Month 4 (Day 131) (181/365 Days 2026 Keto) First time in a while when I went to bed and immediately fell asleep and then slept all of the way through the night. Tooth still hurt a little bit, not as bad as previous days. Again I thought about going ahead and skipping that dentist appointment on Tuesday. But that's just being cowardly. Tooth flaring up like that really needs to be addressed. It's just a new thing that I've never done before so I am a little nervous about it. I did sleep well last night, but the sleep just kind of stuck around for a while. I worked 12 to 9 and before work I just kind of sat here not doing much. Not really tired, tired. Just hard to build mental momentum to do an...

Weight: 309.3 lbs ( 140.3 kg) BMI: 39.7 Waist: 53.5 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: X Lunch: Italian Dressing Marinated Pork Tenderloin, Pepper Jack Cheese Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 569) nice Keto Month 4 (Day 130) (180/365 Days 2026 Keto) Good weight this morning compared to the last couple of days. Still up for the month, but sill 12.2 lbs down for the year so far. I've been taking a regimen of Acetaminophen and Ibuprofen to keep tooth pain under control. Probably been taking too much, but will have to work until Tuesday. I'm not sure if it is related to the tooth pain, but I have been really clumsy. I cannot type worth a damn this morning. And was slightly clumsy all day long. I just couldn't point out correct things and push correct buttons. I bounced around a lot at work. I worked 11am to 6:30. When I got to work I was a cashier for half an hour, spent a couple of hours at Self Checkout, lunch, t...

Weight: 313.6 lbs ( 142.2 kg) BMI: 40.2 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: X Lunch: Bratwursts, Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Skipped Breakfast again today. Seemed to react better to that today than I did yesterday. I still felt mentally low all day. It took all day to edit the General Update video that I wanted to have done yesterday. Not that it needed a lot of editing, it was just that I really couldn't watch it. I am not very confident in that video. It was kind of me droning on about some of the events of last month. Baked Bratwursts for lunch. The bratwursts that I cooked yesterday (Monday) were quite burnt so I didn't cook today's for as long. But I didn't let them cool before eating so that was a bit of a challenge because they were quite warm while eating. I did take the time to run into town to restock on Monster Energy drinks (not sponsored) for my locker. And there was a digital coupon on Johnsonvil...

Weight: 312.9 lbs ( 141.9 kg) BMI: 40.2 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: X Snack: Cashews Lunch: Bratwursts, Cottage Cheese Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Powerade Sober Year 1 (Day 565) Keto Month 4 (Day 125) (175/365 Days 2026 Keto) The weight being up 3.6 lbs (1.67 kg) and waistline being up 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) kind of settled me on the idea of trying to do the TMAD diet. I did think about adding that to the title. But I'm still not sure if I'll be sticking to it. And Intermittent Fasting Keto Sobriety Blog seems like a convoluted title.  I baked bratwursts for lunch and had the regular coffee, but I skipped the regular bacon and eggs. I will admit I was seeing some weird flashes this morning. Just out of the corner of my eyes. Not sure if that was because I had skipped breakfast or because I had coffee on an empty stomach. But the flashes were quite distracting. Sometimes they looked like when in a video gam...

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: 311.5 lbs ( 141.3 kg) BMI: 40 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Snack: Cashews Lunch: Baked Chicken https://youtu.be/rfHQy-XdDxE Snack: Cashews Dinner: Bone-In Rib Eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Celsius Energy, Powerade Sober Year 1 (Day 563) Keto Month 4 (Day 123) (173/365 Days 2026 Keto) Power blinked again when I started writing this out, this is strange that this is happening all of the sudden. I hope that it isn't related to the storms that have been coming through lately. And when the power came back up it sounded like a big bunch of fireworks went off. Or at least I hope it was fireworks. :/ The radar was clear and the forecast doesn't show any storms for the next several hours. Trying to not let today's weight effect me too much. But that is a bit of a blow to the morale to be back up to Morbidly Obese. Back of my heels really felt the increase in weight. I did have to ...

Weight: 308.4 lbs ( 139.9 kg) BMI: 39.6 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Johnsonville Double Cheddar Smoked Sausages Dinner: Boneless Rib Eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Celsius Energy Sober Year 1 (Day 562) Keto Month 4 (Day 122) (172/365 Days 2026 Keto) Worked a little earlier than I usually do today so I didn't do much before work. It wasn't much earlier as I was scheduled to work 10 to 5:30, but that did throw me off so all I did was count down how much time I had left before going to work. Since I didn't take the time to cook lunch when I cooked breakfast I had the smoked sausages for lunch. Today I had the Double Cheddar Smoked Sausages as I was wanting to compare how I felt between that flavor and the Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausages that I had yesterday as after lunch yesterday my ankles and knees were sore. Today they didn't hurt as much, but there was still a discomf...

Weight: 307.8 lbs ( 139.6 kg) BMI: 39.5 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausages Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Celsius Energy Sober Year 1 (Day 561) Keto Month 4 (Day 121) (171/365 Days 2026 Keto) Distracted by finances this morning as this morning I had finally filled the three savings accounts and started the house savings in earnest. I have filled the accounts before over the last month or so, but the last time it was full the car insurance was due that next week but now that's payed off I won't have anything that I'll need to pay for that costs more than a paycheck. (knock on wood) Since I spent too long staring at spreadsheets this morning I didn't take time to cook lunch although I did cook breakfast so I was good on that. Today was crazy busy. I guess that's to be expected as it is the beginning of the ...

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: 307.1 lbs ( 139.3 kg) BMI: 39.4 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Bratwursts Dinner: Pork Steak w/Salsa and Taco Seasoning Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 559) Keto Month 3 (Day 119) (169/365 Days 2026 Keto) I didn't get the general update video recorded like I wanted to today. I will be honest, I got distracted by Fallout 3. It is fun to wonder the Capital Wasteland. My current save is rather low leveled so I'm wondering around enjoying the game leveling up my character before I get into the main quest. After playing Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 3 does feel kind of flat. In New Vegas for example there are various gangs and factions of raiders in 3 raiders are all just raiders. Slept considerably better last night than I did the previous night. I was still tired over the day I'm guessing I'm still recovering from the lack of sleep Sunday/Monday night/morning. ...

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: 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: 308.8 lbs ( 140.0 kg) BMI: 39.6 Waist: 53 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Pork Steak and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken https://youtu.be/rfHQy-XdDxE Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 549) Keto Month 3 (Day 112) (162/365 Days 2026 Keto) Rushed post as I had started it quite late. I have been working on getting store story videos done. It is fun that I have two videos recorded so far this week and a third one scripted out. I figured if I get as many store story videos done as possible I could start getting some of the other videos that I want to do done. They say that to become successful on YouTube you have to pick a niche and stick to that one thing and that's the one thing that you do. To me that sounds boring. Although I don't know of any other channels that talk about a variety of things. But I do want to do Book Reports, and Movie Reviews and other Vlog Videos. I want to do more than just complain a...

Weight: 308.1 lbs ( 139.8 kg) BMI: 39.6 Waist: 53 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Bratwursts Dinner: Chuck Roast with Mushroom Onion Gravy, Salad, Green Beans Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Red Bull, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 548) Keto Month 3 (Day 111) (161/365 Days 2026 Keto) When I woke up this morning Mom asked what I was scheduled to work today. I was leading her along saying that I didn't work again today. She noticed that I didn't work yesterday, I didn't work today, do I have to work tomorrow on my regular day off? No I'm off tomorrow also. What's going on? I wanted to come up with something to mess with her, but I had just woke up so I came clean that I was on vacation. I do have to say that she picked up on it quicker than the old roommate did. But being more attentive than him is not a very high bar. Mom has been attending Tai Chi classes so I teased her about her going to Kung Fu martial arts class. While she...

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: 307.2 lbs ( 139.3 kg) BMI: 39.4 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: Pork Steak with Salsa Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 544) Keto Month 3 (Day 107) (157/365 Days 2026 Keto) Had a strange dream last night. All dreams are strange to me as I rarely have dreams. But in the dream I had decided to be an Over-the-Road trucker. I didn't have any training or an actual job as a driver I just decided to go to a warehouse and pick up a truck. I was driving around for a while before realizing that I had left my phone in my car so I had to go back to where I left my car to get my phone, but I couldn't remember which state I left the car in. A strange thing is that in the dream I ran across Roommate and the meeting was rather jovial. He wanted to hang out, but I had to go find my phone so I ran off on him. It kind of makes me wonde...

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...