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Weight: 320.7 lbs ( 145.5 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup   Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 396) Keto Week 1 (Day 12) (15/365 Days 2026 Keto) Late to work this morning. I was awake and moving around. I had finished breakfast and was watching a video interview on YouTube between Laura Spath and Dr Eric Westman. I noticed that it was 10:08 and I had to work 10 to 7. So I went from just sitting here kind of chilling to running out the door calling the store to tell them I'm on my way. I was glad that I was supervisor and wasn't taking over for somebody's lunch or something. First half of the day was pretty active. That wind is cold and blustery. It was sunny, but the wind was holding a grudge. There were some times when it was starting to get busy, but the Customer Service Manager really didn't seem to want me to be on a register....

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: Smithfield Pork Loin Apple-wood Smoked Bacon Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 395) Keto Week 1 (Day 11) (14/365 Days 2026 Keto) There's something that's seriously annoying about being the same weight as the day before. I know that you're not supposed to get hung up on the day to day weights, but that's just an irritation. It was so very satisfying this morning when I checked by bank balances and the rent check had came through and it left me with the amount that I'm wanting to keep for the weekly allowance. Or close enough, it was off by $5, but that's how much I had transferred to the various accounts yesterday. Today was hopping busy at the store. There was a rumor that tomorrow is going to be, shock, gasp, horror, going to be the average normal temperature for January...

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: 321.8 lbs ( 145.9 kg) BMI: 41.3 Waist: 53 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup   Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 390) Keto Day 6 (9/365 Days 2026 Keto) I noticed that when I woke up this morning my legs weren't stiff and sore like they have been in the past. There have been days in the past when I woke up I would have to wobble around like I was walking on fiery stilts until my legs loosened up. This morning I wasn't exactly dancing around, I was able to get up and get going quite easily and there wasn't any pain. I'm sure that I'll be limping by the end of the evening. It was nice to get up and not have to sit back down with a painful gasp. It was exciting to see the down on the scale again and seeing that it's only 0.3 lbs (~5oz <136 g>) from the weight at the beginning of the year. If it gets down below the beginning of the year al...

Weight: 324.3 lbs ( 147.1 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 53.5 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup   Dinner: Grilled Pork Chops, American Blend Salad, Ranch Dressing Drinks: Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 389) Keto Day 5 (8/365 Days 2026 Keto) Brain is just scattered today. I worked 10am to 7 today. And even two hours after I got off my brain is still just bounding around like crazy. I just seem can't get a single sentence together. (Doesn't help that I forgot my note in my apron in my locker at work.) I was kind of slow waking up. Not really in a struggling way, just kind of slow plodding wake up. I did start rushing as I noticed it was coming up on 9:30 and I had to work at 10 and I was just starting to cook breakfast. So I was able to gulp down the bacon and eggs and a can of Low Carb Monster before work, but that was about all I was able to do before rushing off to work. Thankfully the snow from yesterday had...

Weight: 322.8 lbs ( 146.4 kg) BMI: 41.4 Waist: 53.5 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup   Snack: Savage Slim Jim Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 388) Keto Day 4 (7/365 Days 2026 Keto) I tried to do meditation last night but I don't remember how it went because the last thing I remember is thinking to myself that I'm starting to meditate and then I woke up this morning. I don't remember any dreams last night. But I also don't remember getting up to go to the bathroom, but my watch said I had 22 steps and that would be how many steps I would have had between my room and the bathroom and back. The sleep record said I had a good sleep score, but I didn't fall asleep until 1:25 and I didn't get much deep sleep. Another down on the scale today. It's only down 0.2 lbs (3oz or 90 grams) but a down is a down. And it's only 1.3 lbs (0.6 k...

Weight: 323.0 lbs ( 146.5 kg) BMI: 41.5 Waist: 53.5 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup https://youtu.be/9q5K-GH0250 Dinner: Bratwurst  Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 387) Keto Day 3 (6/365 Days 2026 Keto) I don't know if the meditation last night did anything to help sleep come sooner or better. But I did have a really strange dream. Strange to have dreams at all, but this was a weird one. For some reason I was walking to work and somebody said that they knew a short cut, but I had lost them as they ran behind a warehouse which was odd because there aren't any warehouses between my house and the store. But when I came from behind the warehouse I noticed that I was in the mountains. I figured that it was the Rocky Mountains as it was rocky and snowy up on the top of the mountains. I looked down and saw a city, I figured that was Denver because that is a...

Weight: 324.6 lbs ( 147.2 kg) BMI: 41.7 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup   Dinner: Smithfield Pork Loin Apple-Wood Smoked Bacon Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 386) Keto Day 2 (5/365 Days 2026 Keto) Weight is up 1 pound (~0.5 kg) I'm not too worried about the day to day ups and downs. I see an up weight like a opposing team in football getting a touchdown. Yeah, it kind of sucks, but the game isn't over yet. Mom made a Facebook post saying that she's not going to weigh in outside of her doctor's visits. And I understand and respect that as she's focusing on “Non Scale Victories” And I respect that, but I personally like to see the line move over time.  This morning my feet weren't hurting as much as previous days. I'm not sure if that's because I've been off of my feet for the last couple of days or if something else. Legs were stiff and sor...

Weight: 331.6 lbs ( 150.4 kg) BMI: 42.6 Waist: 55.5 in (141 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Egg Stuff Lunch: Southwestern Style Detox Soup Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Keto Month 1 (Day 44) Sober Month 4 (Day 138) I downloaded Pokemon Sleep last night and this morning it went through the introduction of all of the data and how it “gamifies” sleep. But I was looking at it as I was waking up and I can't honestly say I understood half of what it was trying to say. I'm just praying that it isn't full of micro-transactions When I did get around to waking up I had a rather unnerving email. It was the “meeting notes for review” of a PayPal transaction of a bitcoin purchase. I'm not seeing any activity on my PayPal account or on my bank account. The most I can tell is that this is some sort of phishing attempt. Yeah, I would NEVER buy bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency. The email said call the 800 number to dispute the charge, but ...

Weight: 332 lbs ( 150.1 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 55.5 in (141 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup Dinner: Rib Eye Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Keto Month 1 (Day 32) Sober Month 4 (Day 126) I wasn't scheduled to work until 11:30 this morning. I normally work at 11:00. but they had scheduled to close on Sunday and they scheduled me late today so if I would have gotten out late on Sunday I wouldn't get any overtime for the week. As I was leaving for work there was a National Weather Alert tone that went off on the car radio announcing that there was a severe thunderstorm in the area. And then on the way to work the Classic Rock Station played ACDC Thunderstruck. I got a good chuckle out of that there was no way that was planned. I had saw the storm coming in so I had went in a few minutes early so I wouldn't be walking through the rain. And that rain came down hard. I could hear it coming down in the break r...

Weight: 335.2 lbs ( 152 kg) BMI: 43 Waist: 56 in (142.2 cm) WtHr: 75.7% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Detox Soup Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Red Bull, Keto Week 2 (Day 19) Sober Month 3 (Day 113) YMCA: No The weight was up today. But still down for the month and amazing progress for the year. The bacon was looking a bit rough when I cooked it this morning. It was just kind of gray while it cooked. I don't know if it's going bad on me, but I'm hoping it can stick it out until Tuesday. I did get around to getting the guts to share my opinion on what is probably going to happen when/if President Trump gets his way with the tariffs  Amazing weather outside today. It was nice enough to open up the windows and turn off the heater. When I came home for lunch Roommate was taking a nap, but I heard a strange banging coming from upstairs. It sounded like he kept slamming his door. But then I remembered that I had my wind...

Weight: 340.4 lbs ( 154.4 kg) BMI: 43.7 Waist: 57 in (144.8 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwestern Style Detox Soup Dinner: Chuck Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Keto Week 1 (Day 13) Sober Month 2 (Day 74) Really good trend on the weight loss. A little annoyed by the waist being up an inch for the day. As today is the first of the month it kind of throws off the average for the month. I got into a bit of a rant that went on for a bit too long that was distracted by the waist being up. But everything is going down. Body water is going up. Again I'm thinking that fat is breaking down into water weight. I did some rough math and made some goals for the body composition chart according to my phone's app. It looks like the body muscle weight should be about 71.5 lbs (32.4 kg) I'm currently at 103.3 lbs (46.9 kg) But I'm not sure if having too much muscle is a bad thing though. It looks like the Fat Weight should be...

Weight: 336.8 lbs (152.8 kg) BMI: 43.2 Waist: 56 in (142.2 cm) WtHr: 75.7% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwest Detox Chicken Soup Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Pot of Coffee, Kroger energy shot, Sugar Free Rockstar Energy Days Without Beer 7      I went to bed early last night. The store closed at 5 last night because of Thanksgiving. And when I got home I just kind of shut down. I really couldn't write anything on the blog or work on any of the many things I want to be working on. An idea that I came up with was because I got off early and mind and body was just feeling like “hey, it's the end of the day were done now” even though I got off early and had a short day. The counter to that thought is on a normal day I do most of the writing on these blog posts after work (writing this first part before work though). The other thought it is probably Holiday Depression. I did feel like I was missing out on something, which is odd because my family going to have the fam...

Weight: 341.2 lbs (154.8kg) BMI: 43.8 Waist: 57.0 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwest Style Detox Soup Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Coffee with cream, Sugar Free Rockstar, Kroger Energy Shot Days Without Beer 1      Hangovers suck. Woke up today with a desire to get going, but brain was throbbing in my head. And the in the concept of “Mind, Spirit, and body” In my mind I was wanting to get going, but in my body my brain was throbbing, and by shins and ankles hurt, and spiritually I just feel...flat for a lack of a better term. Is this what depression is? I woke up with a lot of mental energy, but low emotional and physical energy. The physical energy kind of built up as I got moving around, but the emotional energy just makes me want to lay down. I am kind of curious as to how depression is treated, as I think I've mentioned before, do they just hand you a “Happy pill” and tell you, “Have fun and good luck?” or is there more to it than that?...

Weight: 338.2 lbs (154.4 kg) BMI: 43.4 Waist: 57.5 in (146.1 cm) WtHr: 77.7% Breakfast: Sausage Patties and eggs Lunch: Pork Steak Dinner: Southwest Chicken Detox Soup Snack: Original Flavor Pork Rinds, Thick and Chunky Medium Salsa Drinks: Pot of coffee, 3600ml water                Canned Soda:                     Diet Dr Pepper: 4                     Diet Mt Dew: 1                     Diet Pepsi: 2 Weeks Without Beer 1 (9 Days)      Finished off the last of the diet canned diet soda and threw away all of the old cans that were piling up on my desk. I don't know why I keep all of the cans of drinks that I am drinking I did this both wi...

Weight: 330.2 lbs ( 150.4 kg) BMI: 42.4 Waist: 55 in ( 141 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Cottage Cheese with pepper Lunch: Southwest Detox Chicken Soup Dinner: Baked Pork Steak Drinks: 2x Kroger energy shots, ~2700ml water Whoop, back down to 330lbs! Let's go get pizza!      I have plenty of eggs, but I am out of bacon. This is sad, this makes me sad. (joke) When I bought the eggs I had got the big 60 pack of eggs and I got two of the big things of bacon. And the container of eggs lasted longer than the bacon. I chose to eat the cottage cheese that I bought yesterday for lunch. A lot of people on Keto skip breakfast, but I feel if I were to try that off the cuff I'd be obsessing over food for the rest of the day. I will probably still be doing that since today's breakfast was so different from normal. And I didn't get coffee started this morning before work, so I guess how that'll effect me as well.      Came home for lunch. I had forgotten my phon...

Weight: 327.6 lbs ( 148.6 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 54 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwest Style Chicken “Detox” Soup Dinner: Pork Steaks with ranch dressing Drinks: Pot of Coffee,~3600ml water      Grrr ½ pound (0.2 kg) away from the lowest weight so far this year. And that's just switching from diet soda and sparkling water to coffee and tap water. Oh and getting the hell away from beer. Even the “”Low Carb”” stuff. I think my body is getting used to the extra water that I'm drinking, or I got most of that water weight out. Woke up with a bit of a headache and stiff muscles this morning, but it went away as I got up and moving. Wondering if it's more “Keto Flu” or maybe time to invest in a new bedding. The box springs is kind of broken down. Or maybe it's because I'm 36 years old and that's just what mornings are like for someone in their mid 30's      Tried a new flavor of coffee, I usually buy the “Breakfast Blend” ...

Weight: 336.4 lbs ( 152.5 kg) BMI: 43.2 Waist: 55 in ( 139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Southwest style Chicken “Detox” soup Dinner: Baked Chicken Drinks: Couple cups of Coffee, 1800ml Water      Happiness isn't a number on the scale but nobody ever says that when they're actually losing weight. But I'm really not sure what's going on with my weight. I'm trying to not beat myself up too much, fluctuations happen but almost every weigh in so far this month has been an up. It's still down for the year and it's still lower than the average weight for last month. So overall progress, but a rough week. I don't know if it was the mac and cheese that I ate a few nights ago but somehow I doubt that something I ate three days ago will still be effecting me.      I was able to get a weekly weigh in video done. It's a rough weigh in considering that this is the first weigh in for February and the first weigh in video that showed an...