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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: 308.8 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: 304.6 lbs ( 138.1 kg) BMI: 39.1 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Pork Tenderloin Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Celsius Energy, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 546) Keto Month 3 (Day 109) (159/365 Days 2026 Keto) Another really rushed post. I was trying to get the Store Story video posted after work as I had forgotten to post it before work. But the computer was just crawling along. I don't know why everything is taking so long for it to do everything. Trying to think of what happened today. Before work Mom was suffering from a sinus headache. She's been having sinus issues lately and it's been giving her a funky mood as this is usually her favorite time of year. Can't really think of anything to talk about that happened today. It was pretty active because it was a Friday. But nothing really happened over the day. For lunch I had the other pork tenderloin that I b...

Weight: 304.6 lbs ( 138.2 kg) BMI: 39.1 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Sausage Patties and Eggs Lunch: Pork Tenderloin Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Celsius Energy, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 545) Keto Month 3 (Day 108) (158/365 Days 2026 Keto) Kind of hitting a writer's block this evening after work. I was scheduled to work a little bit of everywhere on the front end today. Tomorrow I'll be doing the same thing. I'm guessing that's because there are so many people on vacation so they need me to do a lot of different jobs. So this is going to be a shorter post as it took a while to recover from work. Another really good drop on the scale this morning. Probably has something to do with the fact that I had to wake up in the middle of the night to go pee. The scale difference of today from yesterday was about three pounds (1.3 kg), and I'm sure most of that was from about 3:30 am. I don't think I really ...

Weight: 306.1 lbs ( 138.8 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin Garlic Herb, Cottage Cheese Snack: Cashews Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 538) Keto Month 3 (Day 101) (151/365 Days 2026 Keto) Really good drop on the scale this morning. It would be nice if that continued. Didn't really do much before work. I worked 10:30 to 7:30. So it was a bit early for me to work. Not early enough to effect me much other than counting down how much time was left before I had to go to work. Mom prepared Breakfast this morning. She told me that she felt guilty for not cooking dinner last night, but she wasn't feeling well. She's been having some serious sinus issues lately. As I had threw away the last of the Apple Cider Vinegar yesterday I just had the coffee straight this morning. It tasted quite bitter. I'm used to having the sourness of th...

Weight: 310.7 lbs ( 140.9 kg) BMI: 39.9 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Cashews Lunch: Bratwursts Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 536) Keto Month 3 (Day 99) (149/365 Days 2026 Keto) Not surprised that the weight is up from yesterday. Yesterday was Grandma's birthday so Mom treated her to a lunch at a local steakhouse. I went along, buying my own lunch. I had the Club Salad. It did seem Ketogenic, but it was a rather large salad. And then had Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausages and cottage cheese for “lunch” at work then had Member's Mark Hot dogs for dinner when I got home. So I really did eat too much yesterday (Monday). Since I got off late last night I just didn't have the time or mental energy to get yesterday's post done. I was mentally fried from work, but it was still a quarter to 4am before I got to sleep, according to my ...

Weight: 309.0 lbs ( 140.2 kg) BMI: 39.7 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Cashews Lunch: Swedish Meatballs Snack: Cashews Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Kroger Energy Shot Sober Year 1 (Day 533) Keto Month 3 (Day 96) (146/365 Days 2026 Keto) Yeah, the weight this morning is higher than it was yesterday, but that's within normal fluctuations. Yesterday's up almost five pounds is ridiculous I don't know what that was about. I worked 10am-8pm today and as I was scheduled to work earlier than I usually do I set some alarms to try to wake up earlier, to no avail as I still got up at the usual 8am. I decided to have bacon and eggs for breakfast as I was kind of rushed to cook before work and I'm more used to cook bacon and eggs. Was supervisor all day. It was surprisingly smooth all day. Particularly for the first Saturday of the month. It was quite busy, but still smooth...

Weight: 308.4 lbs ( 139.9 kg) BMI: 39.6 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Sausage Patties Cheese and Eggs Lunch: Bratwursts Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, 1.25 L Dt Pepsi Sober Year 1 (Day 532) Keto Month 3 (Day 95) (145/365 Days 2026 Keto) That weight is really disappointing. Every time I have a new record low it jumps up the next day. So it's up 4.9 lbs for the day, but I'm still down 13.1 lbs from the beginning of the year. And only 0.7 lbs up from the beginning of the Month. Still haven't found the newer tape measure, but the old tape measure was under the bed. I could tell the difference between the old and new because the older one has one of the ends coming off. Finally got the sausage box open for breakfast. But I got the feeling that I was only getting the sausages because it was fighting back. I didn't get much coffee before work though. I was in the desk all day again today, howe...

Weight: 306.3 lbs ( 138.9 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Snack: Cashews Lunch: Baked Chicken https://youtu.be/rfHQy-XdDxE Cottage Cheese  Snack: Vienna Sausages Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water,  Sober Year 1 (Day 527) Keto Month 2 (Day 90) (140/365 Days 2026 Keto) I'm pretty sure that this is the longest I've gone Keto (more or less Keto) definitely the longest I've gone sober. Talked to Uncle about 3D printing he had gotten the idea of printing off personalized ammo boxes and gun cases for people. I do feel like that is an interesting idea and more than likely a market for such items. The trick is that he was wanting estimates on how long it would take to print items of certain sizes and shapes. I have no idea, but I'm guessing that it would take about an hour or so to print off the things that he would want to print. Had time thi...

Weight: 312.8 lbs ( 141.9 kg) BMI: 40.2 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Cheeseburger Patties and onions Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 523) Keto Month 2 (Day 86) (136/365 Days 2026 Keto) Really disappointed in the weigh in this morning. It hasn't been this high since March. Being up 5.7lbs (2.6 kg) in two days kind of makes me wonder if I'm doing something wrong. The salad for lunch yesterday was rather large and I did have the nearly pound of bratwursts right before bed last night. Spent a while recording and editing the Store Story for this week. I'm starting to see what kind of challenge it will be to make a weekly scripted video series. I did think that should have been scripting out videos for months. Sure at the old place I really didn't have many opportunities to record videos, but that shouldn't have stopped me from scripting out ...

Weight: 307.1 lbs ( 139.3 kg) BMI: 39.4 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Cashews Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Sausages, Cottage Cheese Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 521) Keto Month 2 (Day 84) (134/365 Days 2026 Keto) Woke up early enough to cook the bacon and eggs for breakfast, but didn't have time to cook the pork loin that I was going to have for lunch. It wasn't that busy at work in matters of numbers of people coming through, but in the way that people came through. People just spent all day seemingly in panic mode. Of course I had to work on a Holiday. At least everybody else showed up for work. Had the same awkward conversation about five times today as people asked me if I was planning on going out to the lake. Nope, I have to work all day. “You're not going to do anything?” No I have to work all day. “Have any plans for the hol...

Weight: 306.9 lbs ( 139.2 kg) BMI: 39.4 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Cashews Lunch: Bratwursts Snack: Savage Slim Jim Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Seltzer, Sober Year 1 (Day 514) Keto Month 2 (Day 77) (126/365 Days 2026 Keto) I didn't get around to making the post yesterday. I didn't get either of the uploads done. I had plenty of time before work as I worked 12p to 9pm on Sunday. After work I did have a bit of time, but turns out that listening to a video of Hearts of Space isn't conductive to get anything done after running around for 9 hours. I closed the Service Desk last night, I was feeling good when I left work as all of the closing reports came out balanced. All of the registers were working. The people working weren't exactly the smartest people, but they were pretty street smart kinds of people. But then I got a call at 5am from Assistant Custome...

Weight: 309.9 lbs ( 140.6 kg) BMI: 39.8 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Sausage Patties Eggs and Cheese Snack: Cashews, Vienna Sausages Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin Garlic Herb Snack: Cashews Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 507) Keto Month 2 (Day 70) (120/365 Days 2026 Keto) So eating at three restaurants in four days might not be great for weight loss. Kind of giggled at having “Sausage Egg and Cheese” for breakfast as that's a meal from McDonald's. Just their breakfast comes on a biscuit and I skipped the biscuit. I wasn't eager to go back to work as today was the first day back from vacation. I left a few minutes early to return some of the snack food that I bought for last weeks road trip as I didn't open the trail mix or the 2 bags of Pork Rinds. Of course I could have snacked on those over the next several days. But I really didn't want the nuts that was...

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: 305.8 lbs ( 138.7 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Strip Steak Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Vinegar Salted Coffee, Seltzer, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 493) Keto Month 1 (Day 56) (100/365 Days 2026 Keto) Had a hard time falling asleep as I had spent all day yesterday (Saturday) chugging energy drinks. The headache that I was struggling with over the last couple of days seems to have dissipated. I do kind of wonder if the headache was a caffeine withdraw as I had less than the normal amount of caffeine in the previous days and then when I had energy drinks and coffee the headache went away. After cooking breakfast I went ahead and cooked a strip steak for lunch. I was a bit nervous as to how it would turn out after microwaving it at lunch. When I cooked it it was bit rarer than I would have normally had cooked it, but I was in a bit of a rush. But at lunch when I microwaved it the steak cooked a bit mo...

Weight: 307.8 lbs ( 139.6 kg) BMI: 39.5 Waist: 51.5 in ( 130.8 cm) WtHr: 69.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Spicy Peanuts Lunch: Hormel Pork Loin Lemon Garlic Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 487) Keto Month 1 (Day 50) (94/365 Days 2026 Keto) Slept better last night...once I fell asleep. A little annoyed by the scale. Yesterday was up 0.1 lbs, today is down 0.1 lbs. Kinda makes you wonder the point. A “stall” is four weeks to several months. It was nice when the weight was dropping quickly, not sure if that stage is over for a bit. Who knows perhaps that time when it was dropping like crazy was the easy part and now is when Dr Berry's “Vitamin P” comes into play. Step-Dad was nice enough to cook breakfast this morning. Was surprised to see that all of the eggs were double yolked. Going to buy a lottery ticket. Trying to think of things to do before I go to work. But really couldn'...

Weight: 306.3 lbs ( 138.9 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 51 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Bratwursts Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 484) Keto Month 1 (Day 47) (91/365 Days 2026 Keto) Had a hard time falling asleep last night (Wednesday into Thursday) Just couldn't convince my body and mind that I was tired. Really good weight this morning. Not quite a record for the year, but not far off. Spent a lot of time this morning re-balancing the budget as General Savings had reached the “Full” goal. It's really exciting to reach “Full” on any of the savings accounts without it needing to immediately be needed. I needed to balance things out as since it was full and I don't need to add or remove anything from General Savings I deleted all of the reminders in Quicken of the transfers into General Savings. Now if I can only get Bill Savings and ...

Weight: 309.0 lbs ( 140.2 kg) BMI: 39.7 Waist: 51 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Baked Chicken   Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 481) Keto Month 1 (Day 45) (89/365 Days 2026 Keto) Fascinating that whenever I have a new record low waist measurement it comes with an up on the scale. The weight is still way down for the year. Kind of found myself dozing off a couple of times over the course of the day. We were supposed to be cleaning out the dinning room and kitchen so the floor guy can come out tomorrow and work on the floor. Mom doesn't think that he can finish tomorrow so he might have to come out Thursday as well. I'm sure that he'll get a good chunk of it done. Most of the dining room and kitchen is just open area. There is a bit of detailing around the kitchen floor and I'm not sure how he'll get around the shelving where Mom kept her Food Jars as th...

Weight: 306.2 lbs ( 138.9 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Snack: Cashews Lunch: Johnsonville Double Cheddar Smoked Sausages Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 478) Keto Month 1 (Day 42) (86/365 Days 2026 Keto) Another record low weight for the year. Only 1.5 lbs (0.7 kg) away from the lowest weight of 2015, which was the second lowest weight recorded. The good news is that Mom's refrigerator is working. The frustrating news is that it's working a bit too well as the chicken I pulled out of the freezer last night was still frozen and didn't have time to bake it before I had to go to work. It should be thawed out by tomorrow I'll try to bake it tomorrow before work. I took another pack of chicken out of the freezer I'm planning on that being thawed by Monday Morning when I will try to bake that before work.  The phone still wasn't...

Weight: 310.7 lbs ( 140.9 kg) BMI: 39.9 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Hormel Pork Loin Garlic Herb Dinner: Grilled Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Apple Cider Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 474) Keto Month 1 (Day 38) (82/365 Days 2026 Keto) Grrr, up three pounds from yesterday. Sill under the “Morbid Obese” so still making progress. What was exciting was that my waist was at 52 inches (132.1 cm) I'm pretty sure that's the lowest waistline that I've recorded on here. In Mom's Laundry room there is a rack of stuff that blocked off the breaker panel and as the plumber was scheduled to come out this morning we had to get the stuff off of the rack to move that rack so he could turn off the breaker to the water well. Right after we moved everything off of the rack and she cleaned the laundry room the plumber called and said that he had a family emergency and will try to come out tomorrow. While Mom was...