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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: 343.2 lbs ( 155.7 kg) BMI: 44.1 Waist: 58 in (149.9 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Taco Soup Dinner: Slow Cooker Bottom Round Roast Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Keto Day 4 Sober Month 1 (Day 59) There are not a whole lot of polite words to describe that wind out there. I am so ready for spring, it's not even funny. They are talking about more snow this weekend. It did warm up a little later in the afternoon, but that wind was going bananas all day long. I slept with the latex gloves on. The hands still look rough, but at least the skin doesn't hurt. The sleep tracker app is saying that I didn't fall asleep until 2:45, which is a bit of a surprise as I didn't think that I had a hard time falling asleep. And I did wake up really easily this morning and I felt well rested at 7:30. Roommate asked me if the smell of weed had woke me up as he could smell it coming through the wall. I personally didn't smell i...

Weight: 343.4 lbs ( 155.7 kg) BMI: 44.1 Waist: 57 in (149.9 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Bacon Cheeseburger Soup Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Keto Day 3 Sober Month 1 (Day 58) Last night when I went to bed I felt strangely hungry. I had just ate a pretty good sized Pork Steak. That's all I had, but I was satisfied after dinner. But a couple of hours later my stomach was kind of rumbly Today started off AMAZINGLY I woke up and today was down 4.8 lbs (2.1 kg) waist is down 2in (5 cm) and the Rent and Grocery Checks came through on the same day that the Pay Check came in. I'm always holding my breath for the week or two it takes for the Rent Check to come through. So it is always a massive relief when it comes in. The challenge for today is not to spend any money. And I made it through the day without spending anything. This is one of my goals. Sure I didn't spend as much on soda as I did on beer, b...

Weight: 348.2 lbs ( 157.9 kg) BMI: 44.7 Waist: 59 in (149.9 cm) WtHr: 79.7% Breakfast: Strip Steak and Eggs Lunch: Cheesy Broccoli Soup Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Cup of Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Celsius Energy Mango Lemonade Keto Day 2 Sober Month 1 (Day 57) It is a bit disturbing that in the two days that I didn't stick to the diet I was up 3.6 lbs (1.6 kg) sure there are daily fluctuations, and when I was doing good on the diet there were ups and downs, but not the ups that I've had this week. Kind of reminds me of the idea that the only way that a diet will work is if you treat it more than just a “diet” it should be a “lifestyle” It is interesting that over the last couple of days the “Body Composition Scan” on my watch has marked a notable increase in “Body Water” I'm not sure how much to trust this scan as it is just a watch scanning my wrist and the two fingers on the other hand. I think that it supposedly sends a pulse through my torso ...

Weight: 348.8 lbs ( 158.2 kg) BMI: 44.8 Waist: 59 in (149.9 cm) WtHr: 79.7% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausages Dinner: Fathead Lasagna Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Keto Day 1 Sober Month 1 (Day 56) Today was surprisingly busy for an off day. I was a bit slow to the start. But once I had breakfast I thawed out the freezer. For as dry as my hands have been lately it's surprising how much ice had built up in my freezer. Probably because I keep opening up the freezer. I don't know why I keep opening up and looking into the freezer, I make a meal plan each week. I could have been a bit better on the plan for the last couple of days but there's no reason to open up the freezer and stare like I've been doing. I decided to get back to the diet today. I did think about waiting for a “good day” to reset. (Wait for Sunday, waiting for an even day on the Sober Day Count, etc.) But like back in Decemb...

Weight: 347 lbs ( 157.4 kg) BMI: 44.5 Waist: 59 in (149.9 cm) WtHr: 79.7% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Deli Fried Chicken, Pringles Cheddar Dinner: Shrimp Alfredo Drinks: Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, 20oz Dr Pepper, Kroger Energy Shot, Powerade Lemon Lime Keto Day 0 Sober Month 1 (Day 55) Grandma was nice enough to give me some money yesterday for taking down her Christmas lights so I ran by the bank to deposit it. And while I was there I transferred money from my savings accounts as I am expecting the rent check to come through this week. The lady at the bank told me that since my savings accounts are below $100 each all three of them are going to have the minimum amount fee. I know, every month they charge my savings accounts $3 each if the balance ever goes below $100 during the month. It kinda sucks, but what can I do, I haven't been able to save up like I've been wanting to. But apparently there's a different kind of savings ...

Weight: 345.4 lbs ( 156.7 kg) BMI: 44.3 Waist: 57.5 in (146.1 cm) WtHr: 77.7% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Taco Meat Mix Dinner: Papa Johns Pizza Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Keto Day 0 Sober Month 1 (Day 54) Struggling with writers block on this one. I'm sitting here at my computer just kind of drifting off. It will always be Christmas in our hearts, but it's February on the calendar and my Grandma was wanting me to take down her Nativity Scene. I normally would have taken it down a lot earlier, but every time I had a day off we've been having snow storms. There were some days that it was really nice outside, but then I had to work. She told me that I didn't have to bother with taking down her lights today and I could come out and take those down some other day. But I don't like leaving things half done. And honestly taking down her lights are the easiest part. After taking Grandma's decorations down I talked with Mom for a bit as she li...

Weight: 345.8 lbs ( 156.7 kg) BMI: 44.4 Waist: 58 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: AI Cheesy Spinach Sausage Bake Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Sugar Free Monster, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Red Bull Keto Week 1 (Day 14) Sober Month 1 (Day 53) I was scheduled to work 10-7 today. But there is a new lady who was scheduled to close the desk this evening and she's been having a hard time getting it done correctly and today is Saturday so if things are off tonight they'll be off for Sunday and that could throw off things for all of next week. I was a bit confused when they called me from the store to ask me to stay late because they asked me to come in “an hour later and stay until 9” Well if I'm scheduled to come in at 10 and I come in an hour later and stay until 9 that would mean that I would be working from 11 to 9pm. And no thanks. I usually work 11-8 so that must have confused them.  Roommate did some grocery shopping this mornin...

Weight: 345.8 lbs ( 156.8 kg) BMI: 44.4 Waist: 58 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: AI Chili Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Sugar Free Monster, Kroger Seltzer, Propel Kiwi Strawberry, Propel Berry Keto Week 1 (Day 13) Sober Month 1 (Day 52) This week might not look like it, but my sinuses are telling me that spring is on its way. Today is up 2.4lbs (1 kg) but I'm pretty sure that is mostly snot in my head. I'm also a bit frustrated that the waist is up also. But fluctuations happen. I didn't have coffee again today as just as I was finishing the bacon and eggs Roommate came downstairs and announced that his nurse was on the way. I helped him wrangle his dog into his room but then I had to go to work. And good gravy everybody else came into the store also. I am so glad that nobody complained to me about it being busy. There's a promotion for 4x Fuel Points on Friday, the Super Bowl is this weekend, and they're talking about snow next wee...

Weight: 342.6 lbs ( 155.4 kg) BMI: 44.3 Waist: 57 in (144.8 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs  Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Sausages, Queso Pork Rinds Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Kroger Energy Shot, Powerade Zero Orange, Propel Water Berry Keto Week 1 (Day 12) Sober Month 1 (Day 51) Slow start this morning. Didn't have time to make coffee. I am curious as to if there are any other chemicals in Coffee that make you feel good. Sure there is caffeine, but it's not like Coffee is just caffeine and water. That might go onto the Research “To Do List” I was fine when I got to work, but when I got to work I grabbed a can of Sugar Free Monster and I had one at lunch. But later in the evening I was dragging hard . I had an energy shot and a Powerade, and then a Propel. But still by the end of the night I was just no other description, but down. I also wonder if the “Down” later in the second half of the day was due to lunch. The l...

Weight: 345 lbs ( 156.5 kg) BMI: 44.3 Waist: 57 in (144.8 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Italian Wedding Soup Dinner: Rib-eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Keto Week 1 (Day 11) Sober Month 1 (Day 50) Back on Sunday I was taking a cart that had a squeaky wheel around to the back of the store where damaged carts go. There are several carts that have screws sticking out of the side of the wheel that when they roll around they squeak as it goes by the wheel brace. I swear that they just glance at the cart, see that it has four wheels that go around and bring it back up to the front. Oh well, at least it will be a week or two without that “Squeak, squeak, squeak” that drives everybody in the store insane. But as I was coming back up to the front I wasn't paying attention to where I was walking and I caught the stores gas meter right against my left thigh. There's a pretty good sized bruise there now. A bruise that I'm constantly poking at. Of cours...

Weight: 345.4 lbs ( 156.6 kg) BMI: 44.3 Waist: 57 in (144.8 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Strip Steak Dinner: Basic Chili (No Beans) Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Dr Pepper Keto Week 1 (Day 10) Sober Month 1 (Day 49) Slept surprisingly well last night considering that I was drinking caffeinated Sugar Free Dr Pepper last night before bed. I still stayed up too late last night. Still wanting to work on getting to bed on time. Maybe tonight. My left foot was kind of sore all day. It was like a residual soreness. I'm sure that losing weight is going to be massively beneficial to helping with foot pain. But I can't help but be paranoid about it. Also I'm still peeing like a horse. I'm pretty sure that getting into the ketosis makes people drop a lot of water weight the first week or two of the diet. Urine isn't dark so I'm not sure if it's me getting into Ketosis and dumping water weight, or just because I'm drinki...

Weight: 343.8 lbs ( 155.9 kg) BMI: 44.1 Waist: 57.5 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 77.7% Breakfast: Rib-eye and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken Dinner: Bratwurst Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Keto Week 1 (Day 9) Sober Month 1 (Day 48) Last night I had baked two steaks, but Roommate was too drunk to eat his steak. So I had that steak with my eggs this morning as he went to a doctors appointment. It was a very Ketogenic meal, but not sure if it was a very hygienic meal. The steak was left out all night and I reheated it in the cast iron skillet that had leftover bacon grease in it that had also been sitting out. So I had a leftover rib eye reheated in bacon grease and fried some eggs in the drippings. Very, very Keto friendly, but all of that meat was left out. So very...um Probiotic? Got around to messing with the printers again. The big one still has a stripped screw. I'm trying the super glue method again, but waiting for longer for the glue to set in the screw head before trying to ...

Weight: 345 lbs ( 156.5 kg) BMI: 44.3 Waist: 57.5 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 77.7% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Savage Slim Jim Lunch: AI Cheesy Sausage Spinach Bake Dinner: Rib Eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Propel Berry, Sugar Free Red Bull Keto Week 1 (Day 8) Sober Month 1 (Day 47) I was a Rotisserie Chicken again until about 4am. Sleep just didn't happen. Google says that Keto Insomnia is a known phenomenon that can last up to four weeks. That would suck. I really don't want to flop around until March. Today was higher than yesterday's, but still considerably lower than the average for the year. I was down 5.4 lbs (2.4 kg) yesterday compared to the day before, I'm not going to be bothered by being up one pound (0.45 kg) today. Since I didn't wake up very well before work I only had a single cup of salted coffee. I was able to have the regular Bacon and Eggs. I worked a 3/5 split today as well so my lunch was at 4pm instead of the usual 3pm. As t...

Weight: 344 lbs ( 156 kg) BMI: 44.2 Waist: 57.5 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 77.7% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Italian Sausage Spinach Soup Bar-S Hot Dogs Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Kroger Energy Shot, Powerade Zero Orange, Core Hydration Cucumber Keto Day 7 Sober Month 1 (Day 46) That's a good start to the month. Again happiness is not a number on the scale, but I'd be lying if I said that I wouldn't have been in quite the mood that I was in yesterday morning if I had the numbers I had today. Not sure if it's the lighting in the Men's restroom at work but the last couple of days when I get to work I still have to pee a lot. And the pee looks quite dark in the urinal. Dark pee is a sign of dehydration. But, as usual, I had just finished off a pot of coffee. I think that I've heard that coffee dehydrates you. Can you drink a half a gallon of fluid and then be dehydrated? I really can't wait until spring c...

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...

Weight: 345.6 lbs ( 156.8 kg) BMI: 44.4 Waist: 58 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: Strip Steak and Eggs Lunch: Bar-S Jumbo Jumbos Garlic Mustard Dinner: Bratwursts Garlic Mustard Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Celsius Energy Mango Lemonade, Powerade Zero Orange, Keto Day 4 Sober Month 1 (Day 43) Roommate had a doctors appointment this morning. He asked me if the Seltzer water had a lot of sodium in it because the doctor told him that he was retaining a lot of water. The seltzer cans say “Low Sodium” Roommate said that he's going to quit drinking my seltzer water. Which works for me because I was buying those to quit drinking beer. Looking at the Keto Day count and the Sober Day counts kind of makes me go on a bender to reset both numbers and sync them up. I know that this is an unwise idea. But ever since I got the idea I can't shake it. “Oh, come on. One day wouldn't hurt” “It's not like you'll go back to buying cases of beer a day” But I do know ...

Weight: 346.6 lbs ( 157.2 kg) BMI: 44.5 Waist: 58.5 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 79.7% Breakfast: Bacon, Chuck Steak, and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster Keto Day 3 Sober Month 1 (Day 42) Woke up in the middle of the night last night just DRENCHED in sweat. I thought I had woken up peeing the bed, but the wetness in the bed was only in the top half of the bed. I really had to pee several times during the night. And I had really low energy all morning. A google search says that this could be a range of issues ranging from certain STI's (probably not) High Stress (I haven't been that stressed lately) Changes in hormones (maybe from changing diet?) Certain Cancers (that's unnerving) Low Blood Sugar (I'm guessing on this one) I'm guessing hypoglycemia as I did wake up again today with a hangover like headache, muscle weakness, and tired all day. I was really zapped for energy all day. Even while drinking...

Weight: 347.8 lbs ( 157.8 kg) BMI: 44.7 Waist: 59 in (149.9 cm) WtHr: 79.7% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken Snack: Bar-S Hot Dogs Dinner: Baked Rib Eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Keto Day 2 Sober Month 1 (Day 41) YMCA: X Feet didn't hurt this morning, but I felt like I woke up with a hangover style headache. Not sure what that's about.  A bit annoyed by the measurements this morning. Reminding myself that daily fluctuations happen. I think I might have had a bit too much meatloaf last night. Then again justifying daily fluctuations is a shortcut to insanity. And one of the reasons they say to avoid doing daily weigh ins. The Amazon order finally charged my account. It still says that it's going to be delivered tomorrow. And the site says that it was shipped, but the only update on the “See all updates” is “Package left the shipper facility” it doesn't say where it's coming from, but it does say that it's still scheduled to be ...

Weight: 346.6 lbs ( 157.2 kg) BMI: 44.5 Waist: 57.5 in (146.1 cm) WtHr: 77.7% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Sausages, Cottage Cheese, Dinner: Stuffed Meatloaf, Green Beans, Salad Drinks: Salted Coffee with Cream, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Celsius Energy Keto Day 1 Sober Month 1 (Day 40) YMCA: X The moment I stood up this morning there was like a wave of fire that swept through my feet, but it didn't last long as I got up and moved around. However sitting at the computer my knees and elbows are snapping and popping like crazy. I stepped on the scale to do a weekly weigh in, but Roommate woke up before I could do the video. It is kind of exciting to be down to the level of making progress for the year again. Again, happiness is not a number on the scale, but progress really is the best motivation. Last night Roommate said that he was going to do laundry this morning before I had to go to work so I was goi...