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Weight: 305.2 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: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Monster, Seltzer, Member's Mark Sparkling Water Sober Year 1 (Day 501) Keto Month 2 (Day 64) (114/365 Days 2026 Keto) Slow to wake up this morning. I didn't sleep very bad, it was just hard to fight the momentum of laying there.  I recorded the General Update video as it was the first Monday of the month. The first Monday of each month I want to record a video of just me talking to the camera about what is going on in my life. It was kind of mind blowing that this was the first General Update I've done since November 2023. Kind of brain breaking to kind of deal with all of the stuff for the last two and a half years. But this update I talked about how I got worn out by my former roommate and why I moved back in with Mom. After I recorded that...

Weight: 304.2 lbs ( 138.0 kg) BMI: 39.1 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Pork Steak and Eggs Lunch: Chuck Roast with Mushroom Gravy Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Monster, Seltzer, Red Bull, Member's Mark Sparkling Water Sober Year 1 (Day 499) Keto Month 2 (Day 62) (111/365 Days 2026 Keto) Computer took a while to turn on this morning. I don't know if it was doing updates or something, but it was starting to make me nervous. I'm making the antivirus do a system scan to make sure there isn't anything just in case. It is a free antivirus so who knows if it'll actually catch anything. Record low again today. Actually beats the record low for 2015 of 304.7 (138.2 kg) the next record is for the record low for 2014 which is 287.0 lbs (130.2 kg) which is the record low of all time. And that was back when I first started tracking my weight. My sister was selling meal replacement shakes and bars and I started that diet, ...

Weight: 306.0 lbs ( 138.8 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Pork Steak and Eggs Snack: Cashews Lunch: Chuck Roast with Mushroom Gravy Snack: Cashews Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Red Bull, Monster, Member's Mark Sparkling Water, Powerade Sober Year 1 (Day 496) Keto Month 1 (Day 59) (109/365 Days 2026 Keto) When I packaged the pork steaks, as usual, there were a couple of the bits that were a bit too small to be significant dinners so I set them aside to have for breakfast. Slept alright last night, but just couldn't convince myself to get out of bed this morning. I knew that there were things that I wanted to do. But I just wanted to lay there more than get things done. I wasn't sick or feeling bad. I just kind of wanted to lay there. I still hadn't received any notification of a bill from the Storage place. I was going to stop by there to ask if there was some kind of miscommunication or misun...

Weight: 309.0 lbs ( 140.2 kg) BMI: 39.7 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Sausage Patties and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Seltzer, Monster, Member's Mark Sparkling Water Sober Year 1 (Day 495) Keto Month 1 (Day 58) (108/365 Days 2026 Keto) Weight is up, but that might be because of the Ham Steak I had last night and the drinks I had afterwords as the saltiness made me thirsty. It really is kind of funny to be frustrated at a weight that's under 310 lbs (140.6 kg) There is a couple strips of bacon left in the fridge, but Step-Dad had told me about some sausage patties in the fridge that I could check out. I have to say that those turned out pretty nice. Nice and crispy. I went to the store to pick up some Pork Butts that were BOGO this week (Not sponsored) I also picked up some chicken thighs that were Buy One Get 2 Free (honestly not sponsored) and some chuck roasts that had digital coupons. I had...

Weight: 309.5 lbs ( 140.4 kg) BMI: 39.7 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Pork Steak Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Seltzer, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 489) Keto Month 1 (Day 52) (96/365 Days 2026 Keto) Trying to not get too caught up with the daily fluctuations, but the weight is getting pretty close to the “morbid obese” level again. This morning after breakfast I put a pork steak in the oven for lunch. Mom was working on cleaning the kitchen and I thought I'd be clever and stay out of her way so after the pork steak was done baking I turned off the oven and waited while she cleaned the kitchen as I kind of felt bad that I was cooking while she was trying to clean. She brushed it off, but I still felt bad for making a mess while she was cleaning up a mess. The thing is that after the steak was done baking I had just left it in the hot oven for a while. So yeah, it was quite cooked...

Weight: 307.9 lbs ( 139.7 kg) BMI: 39.5 Waist: 51.5 in ( 130.8 cm) WtHr: 69.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Peanuts Lunch: Johnsonville Double Cheddar Smoked Sausages Snack: Peanuts Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 486) Keto Month 1 (Day 49) (93/365 Days 2026 Keto) Had a hard time falling asleep again last night. Brain and body just weren't as tired as my mind. Weight is up, but not going to worry too much about 0.1 lbs Baked a pork loin before work for lunch. That might be two lunches in that lunchbox. Mom offered to take a pork steak out of the freezer for me. She said that she and Step-Dad will be done eating long before I get home so I can grill it myself. I was a bit annoyed by my phone as it wasn't perfectly on the charge plate last night so when I woke up this at 7am morning it was only 45% charged. When I put it on the charge plate it said that it'd take just over three to charge....

Weight: 307.8 lbs ( 139.6 kg) BMI: 39.5 Waist: 51.5 in ( 130.8 cm) WtHr: 69.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Pork Steak Snack: Cashews Dinner: Crust-less Turkey Pot Pie Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 485) Keto Month 1 (Day 48) (92/365 Days 2026 Keto) Up this morning, but only up to what it was a couple of days ago. Still down 13.7 pounds for the year. Busy this morning helping Mom putting things away since the floor is all done. I was able bake a pork steak for lunch before work. Was a really running day today. There was a forecast of possible storms coming through today so everybody freaked out and ran to the store. I heard that a really good line of storms developed south of town. Mom said that Wichita got hit pretty hard. But as for our town it was just some dark clouds that developed and moved through. I do have to say that the weather that we got here was absolutely beautiful. It w...

Weight: 306.8 lbs ( 139.2 kg) BMI: 39.4 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Powerade Zero Strawberry Sober Year 1 (Day 480) Keto Month 1 (Day 44) (88/365 Days 2026 Keto) (Huh, lots of fours in today's numbers) Impressively the chicken that was in the fridge was still frozen so I just grabbed some hot dogs that were in the fridge. When writing that out I always triple check that I'm calling them the right thing as Member's Mark is a Sam's Club brand (not sponsored) and Maker's Mark is a brand of whiskey (not sponsored). Not great for a sobriety blog if I'm making posts saying that I'm having whiskey hot dogs for lunch. I'm off tomorrow so I'll go ahead and bake one batch of chicken tomorrow for lunch. I'll be off all day so I'll have the time to bake it. The other day I ...

Weight: 307.9 lbs ( 139.7 kg) BMI: 39.5 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Snack: Cashews Lunch: Pork Steak Snack: Cashews Dinner: Pork Steak with onions peppers and tomatoes Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 477) Keto Month 1 (Day 41) (85/365 Days 2026 Keto) I didn't get the post done last night as I had opened a new savings account for “House Savings” and since I got off late last night I spent all night before bed re-balancing budgets and spreadsheets as I personally am not a member of congress so I can't just blame an opposing party for all of my financial problems. (That was a joke) Mom did tease me about staying in my room all of the time. “Mark you did move into the entire house, not just the bedroom” Well, that's just where the computer is. And it's not like I'm just staring at the wall. I am actually working on things. Not quite as much as I would have liked to have gotten done, but I do feel li...

Weight: 315.0 lbs ( 142.9 kg) BMI: 40.4 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Snack: 2x Cashews Lunch: Italian Sausage Soup Snack: Cashews Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 466) Keto Week 4 (Day 29) (73/365 Days 2026 Keto) Had a hard time waking up today. Spent most of the morning fighting the autopilot. I did manage to drink the pot of coffee before work, but even then I was just kind of barely above flat line on brain power. The Customer Service Manager was telling me about how a lot of people are due to do their yearly re-certifications on their computer training and names and terms were just kind of going through one ear and out through the other. I'm pretty sure that I got most of the people to do most of the training that they were supposed to do (I think). They do have a list so I'm sure that in a week or so they'll release a new list of who sti...

Weight: 313.5 lbs ( 142.2 kg) BMI: 40.2 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Snack: Cashews Lunch: Paleo Keto Gumbo   Snack: Cashews Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Apple Cider Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster Sober Year 1 (Day 459) Keto Week 3 (Day 22) (66/365 Days 2026 Keto) That is crazy having multiple days under the “progress goal” I haven't seen numbers like these in over 10 years. Wow that makes me think of all of the stuff that has happened in the last 10 years. And these last 10 years have been crazy. Wind is blowing like crazy today. But I guess that should be expected with it going from 98 degrees yesterday to 65 degrees today. I guess I should be glad that there weren't massive storms that came through with the cold front that usually happens when that happens. Brain is not working this morning. I was just sitting here listening to the wind howl and counting down how much time I had left before I had to go to work. Kind of...

Weight: 319.0 lbs ( 144.7 kg) BMI: 41.0 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Low Carb Jambalaya https://youtu.be/zVHiY9DJVjI Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 450) Keto Week 1 (Day 13) (57/365 Days 2026 Keto) Good drop on the scale this morning. Strangely dumping most of the up from yesterday. It's nice to be back under 320 lbs (145 kg). Not a very productive day before work. I am working 3:30 to 10 this evening. But today before work I just didn't have the “get it done” to find anything to do. Another day when I'd blink and it's an hour or so later. I was low on bacon so I had to run to the store before I had breakfast. I had a half hour lunch again today so I brought my lunch with me as I didn't have time to go all of the way home and back for lunch. This is going to be a short post as I was the closing cashier this evening. I was checking...

Weight: 324.1 lbs ( 147.0 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Rib-Eye Steak and Eggs Lunch: Mom's Chili Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 425) Keto Day 1 (39/365 Days 2026 Keto) That was a big steak this morning. It was almost too big for my cast iron skillet. And left the heat up too high when I switched to cook the eggs so accidentally overcooked the eggs. I didn't get the chance to finish the pot of coffee this morning. But did have a bit more than yesterday.  I was going to finally get around to editing one of the videos I had recorded, but when I tried to connect my phone to the computer the computer just didn't want to load the connection to the phone. And when I did get the phone to show up on the explorer the video only played the sound of the video but not the VIDEO of the video so I'm going to have to re-record that video. Which to be honest is probably for the best, that ...

Weight: 321.5 lbs ( 145.8 kg) BMI: 41.3 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Pork Steak and Eggs Lunch: Stuffed Bell Pepper soup   Dinner: Keto Cheeseburger Helper  Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 417) Keto Week 1 (Day 11) (34/365 Days 2026 Keto) I was able to wake up early enough to have the pork steak and eggs. I do say that Beef and Eggs>Pork and Eggs. But it is always nice to cook eggs in butter. Not sure why eggs and butter work so well, but I'm not complaining. Today was a really busy but smooth day. There was another “Store Walk” when the big wigs come through the store making sure that we're doing everything right. They were kind of obvious when they came through so I really made sure that I kept acknowledging the lady at the front of the store as in a previous store walk I was called out on because I wasn't standing in front of the registers where the supervisor is “supposed” to stand. It was ...

Weight: 323.1 lbs ( 146.6 kg) BMI: 41.5 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Strip Steak and Eggs Lunch: Stuffed Bell Pepper soup   Snack: BBQ Pork Rinds  Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 416) Keto Week 1 (Day 10) (33/365 Days 2026 Keto) I was able to wake up just in time to cook that strip steak and eggs. But was only able to get half of the pot of coffee before I had to run off to work. When I got to work there was a bit of confusion of what I was supposed to be doing as my schedule online said that I was in the service desk for just about the entire day so I wore my apron, but when I got to the front of the store and saw the paper showing the list of where everybody was supposed to be it was showing that I was supervisor the entire day so I went back to my locker to grab my supervisor vest however when I got back up to the front the list was showing that I was in the service desk all day. It turn...

Weight: 321.3 lbs ( 145.7 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 53.5 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Snack: Mozzarella Cheese Sticks Lunch: X Dinner: Pork Steak Fried in flour, Homemade Bread Dressing Snack: Kroger Sour Cream Cheddar Potato Chips Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Dr Pepper Zero Sugar Sober Year 1 (Day 406) Keto Day 0 (23/365 Days 2026 Keto) Yeah, that's the direction that I'm wanting the scale to go in. I'm a little annoyed at the tape measure, but fluctuations happen. I was going to do a couple of video shorts while Roommate was at his appointment, but I needed to run by Walmart to grab a Blue T-shirt as I have been wanting to do some political opinion videos with me wearing Red, White, And Blue shirts to represent various opinions that I am wanting to mock. But strangely when I went by Walmart there weren't any just plain blue T-shirts. I did come by some darker blue s...

Weight: 327.9 lbs ( 148.7 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: AI Pizza Casserole with Garlic Cream Sauce Dinner: Pork steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 404) Keto Day 5 (22/365 Days 2026 Keto) The nerd in me is chuckling at the number of days sober. Error 404 is what you get if a website is broken or if you type in a website address wrong. Weight's been tracking up in the last couple of days. More than a bit annoyed by that. Chat GPT says that it's just water weight from the Spaghetti I ate Tuesday. But it's just that I was 4lbs (1.8 kg) away from one of the major goals and then, oops never mind weight goes back up again. The AI is saying that the waist staying the same is a good sign and what I should focus on while the weight goes up and down. The first half of the day was quite quiet. Not a lot of people out after the “great blizzard of '26”. The roads are snow-p...

Weight: 322.6 lbs ( 146.3 kg) BMI: 41.4 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Pork Steak and Eggs Lunch: AI Pizza Casserole with Garlic Cream Sauce Dinner: Bacon Cheeseburger Soup https://youtu.be/YAlxm-rdAe8 Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 402) Keto Day 3 (20/365 Days 2026 Keto) It is kind of strange to wake up “disappointed” at the weight being at 322.6 lbs (146.3 kg) Was able to cook the pork "steak" chunk this morning. It took a while to cook because there was a lot of fat in that chunk and it didn't feel like it was cooked properly. And to be honest there was a lot of it that was under-cooked.  I'm not sure if it's a good idea to eat pork steak medium rare, but that's what breakfast was this morning.  Today was a runner. Feet feel considerably better with the new shoes. Left heel is still a little sore when I'm not careful walking around. But at least I'm not limping and screwing up my bac...

Weight: 320.5 lbs ( 145.4 kg) BMI: 41.1 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup   Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 394) Keto Week 1 (Day 10) (13/365 Days 2026 Keto) Was woken up in the middle of the night to Roommate screaming in the bathroom. An up today, but ups and downs happen. And it is in the kind of pattern of two or three downs and then an up. Again not sure if that's really a pattern or if just random noise that my brain is seeing as a pattern. It is up from yesterday, but still down for the year so most of the projections are showing it go down. I was going to set up the slow cooker with a roast but as I was about to do that Roommate came downstairs complaining about how his stomach hurts. So I didn't feel like it was very polite to set up a slow cooker to smell all day while he had a stomach ache. I'm trying to think about what happened to...

Weight: 320.9 lbs ( 145.6 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken Drumsticks  Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 392) Keto Week 1 (Day 8) (11/365 Days 2026 Keto) Woo-hoo Finally have a day where I'm back under the start of the year! Of course happiness is not a number on the scale, but at least this makes (almost) all of my projections go down. That last projection won't go down until I get under 314.8 lbs (142.8 kg) where I was back in 2014 when I started this whole project. But at least that goal finally looks like it's within possibility. It was fun to mark where the “Lowest Last Year”, “Progress Goal”, “Morbidly Obese”, and “Short Goal” will be on the yearly projection. “Over Weight” and “Target Weight” are still too far away to show on the projection, but time will tell. And I shouldn't get too excited for one day under the start weight. When...