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Weight: 301.6 lbs ( 136.8 kg) BMI: 38.7 Waist: 51 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Snack: Peanuts Lunch: Bratwursts, Pork Rinds, Queso Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Celsius, Kroger Energy Shot, 20oz Dt Dr Pepper Sober Year 1 (Day 596) Keto Month 5 (Day 162) (207/365 Days 2026 Keto) I didn't get the post done yesterday. I was in a really heavy, “What am I doing with my life” mood. It was hard to put that into a post without making it so somebody who read it pretty concerned about me. The post as I wrote it kept coming out heavier than what I was feeling. It wasn't a very productive thought, but it was a hard one to shake. Was in a lot better mood today though. Very encouraging number on the scale this morning. Happiness isn't a number on the scale, but it would be fun to beat three "Short Goals" in one year.  Still was a bit slow waking up this morning. I did get up early enough to cook breakfast a...

Weight: 302.5 lbs ( 137.2 kg) BMI: 38.8 Waist: 50.5 in ( 128.3 cm) WtHr: 68.2% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Air Fried Chicken, Cottage Cheese Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Celsius Sober Year 1 (Day 594) Keto Month 5 (Day 160) (205/365 Days 2026 Keto) I haven't kept track of my waistline as well as I have of my weight so I'm not sure when the last time it was this low. But I'm sure that it has been a while. I cooked bacon and eggs for breakfast and ran the Air fryer to cook the chicken for lunch. I noticed that Mom was trying to get the kitchen cleaned up so I took the effort to clean up after the air fryer and put it away. A habit that I need to work on.  On the way to work I had an errant thought. All of the reading online seemed to say that the cause of a low credit score is the result of irresponsible spending. But I have very little to no debt spending. Sure I had a car loan about 10 years ago, but that...

Weight: 302.8 lbs ( 137.3 kg) BMI: 38.9 Waist: 51.0 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Sausage Eggs Cheese Lunch: Bratwursts Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Celsius Sober Year 1 (Day 593) Keto Month 5 (Day 159) (204/365 Days 2026 Keto) Slept a lot better last night than I did the night before. Whatever was causing that soreness in my belly seems to have started healing. Still not sure what caused it, but I did notice the soreness after I was at the DMV. So maybe I sat down too long and jumped up to harshly and pulled something? IDK, but it feels a lot better this evening. Probably because I got to bed last night pretty early I woke up earlier than usual this morning. The watch gave me a pretty low “Sleep Score” because it said that I woke up at 3am and for awhile after that. I don't remember waking up. I'm guessing that there was a system update and since it couldn't track my sleep it didn't think that I was asleep. I'm...

Weight: 301.5 lbs ( 136.8 kg) BMI: 38.7 Waist: 51.0 in ( 129.5 cm) WtHr: 68.9% Breakfast: Sausage Eggs Cheese Lunch: Johnsonville Double Cheddar Smoked Sausages Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 592) Keto Month 5 (Day 158) (203/365 Days 2026 Keto) Didn't sleep very well last night. There was a strange muscle soreness on my front left lower belly. And had a hard time finding a position to lay that didn't aggravate that soreness. It hurt less today than it did yesterday, but I woke up this morning with a headache and a lot of general muscle soreness. I wonder if that general unwellness that I had this morning was dehydration as after having coffee and some of the sparkling water I felt better. That was a really good weight this morning. Only 1.1 lbs (0.5 kg) away from the lowest so far this year. And the waist is down. Pretty sure that this matches the record for the year.  Had sausage patties with the eg...

Weight: 303.4 lbs ( 137.6 kg) BMI: 39.0 Waist: 51.5 in ( 130.8 cm) WtHr: 69.8% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Hormel Pork Loin Mesquite BBQ, Cottage Cheese Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Celsius Energy Sober Year 1 (Day 590) Keto Month 5 (Day 156) (201/365 Days 2026 Keto) Spent the last couple of days redoing the numbers on the Keto Count I noticed something a bit odd about the numbers. I know that it isn't extremely important to keep 100% right. But it is something that I'm tracking so might as well keep it on track. Had a hard time falling asleep last night. I think I had too many energy drinks yesterday. I did wake up alright this morning though. It was really peaceful this morning while I had the bacon and eggs. I figured that tomorrow (Tuesday) I'll finally have to go to the DMV and the Tag office to go ahead and update my address on those. If I gave a reason it would be a lie. But on the Credit Card ap...

Weight: 304.1 lbs ( 137.9 kg) BMI: 39.0 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Pork Steak, Queso, Pork Rinds Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 588) Keto Month 4 (Day 149) (199/365 Days 2026 Keto) I worked 10am to8 pm today so I didn't have much time to do anything before work. I woke up two hours before I had to be there, but I just couldn't build momentum to do anything. I did have breakfast this morning. When I did leave for work I was running just barely enough time to get in. I was a carryout for the first chunk of the day and then in the desk for another good chunk of the day. Today was the last Friday of the month and it also happened to be the last day of the month so a lot of people were running into the store to use up their monthly benefits before they reset for the month (I'm assuming that's how that works) I did kind of get into an argument with a lady...

Weight: 305.1 lbs ( 138.4 kg) BMI: 39.2 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Pork Steak, Cottage Cheese Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Red Bull, Celsius Energy Sober Year 1 (Day 587) Keto Month 4 (Day 148) (198/365 Days 2026 Keto) I didn't get a chance to get yesterdays post done as although I did get off earlier than I normally do I spent the evening trying to beat the “Dead Money” DLC for Fallout New Vegas. I have to say that has a really unsatisfying ending. The story is that a guy is trying to use you to break into a casino vault so he can use the technology left behind from before the apocalyptic nuclear war that happened in that game's timeline. And there is a way to lock him in the vault and steal all of the gold in the vault. But it takes some finesse as if you're carrying all of the gold your character is “overburdened” and can't walk very fast. So I spent all evening trying t...

Weight: 302.1 lbs ( 137.0 kg) BMI: 38.8 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Pork Steak Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 585) Keto Month 4 (Day 146) (196/365 Days 2026 Keto) Progress is a hell of a motivator. Happiness is not a number on the scale, but it is exciting to see such progress over the year. I'm down 19.4 lbs since the beginning of the year and down 30.5 pounds since this day last year. The average this year is at 313.23 which is only 1.04 lbs up from the average for 2015 of 312.19. So unless something goes seriously wrong I should be able to have the average for 2026 beat the average for 2015. I don't think I'll be able to beat the average for 2014 as that is 294.13. I don't think I could make the average for this year go down that far without cutting something off. I went to the bank today to ask them about credit building loans and the like. Mom asked i...

July 28, 2026  Weight: 302.6 lbs ( 137.3 kg) BMI: 38.8 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Air Fryer Hormel Pork Loin Garlic herb, Cottage Cheese Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 584) Keto Month 4 (Day 145) (195/365 Days 2026 Keto) Starting this post late as after work I tried to beat the DLC mission in Fallout New Vegas. I'm really getting tired of this mission, but I can't get back to the rest of the game until I beat that mission. I went ahead and had breakfast this morning as I was feeling better with the bacon and eggs. Work was frustrating as I was supposed to be scheduled to be a carryout for most of the day and the service desk for a good chunk of the day, but I was informed that the guy who walked out the other day was the guy who was supposed to be in the online pick up so I was shoved into the position. Also was expected to be a carryout and run the servi...

Weight: 302.4 lbs ( 137.2 kg) BMI: 38.8 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Air Fryer Hormel Pork Loin Garlic herb, Cottage Cheese Snack: Savage Slim Jim Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 583) Keto Month 4 (Day 144) (194/365 Days 2026 Keto) After posting last night and updating the word document for the next day I noticed that the last digit of the “Sober” count and the Keto Count are off by one number. (One ends in a 3 and the other ends in a 4) kind of makes me think that on this next New Year's Eve I should get absolutely hammered and have a pizza, just to get synced up. (joking) Spent yesterday playing Fallout New Vegas. I decided to play one of the DLC Stories. And that took entirely way too Goddamned long. The story there was that Fallout takes place 200 years after a nuclear war and there is this casino that some people have came up with the idea of breaking into for a big...

Weight: 302.9 lbs ( 137.4 kg) BMI: 38.9 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Savage Slim Jim, Vienna Sausages Lunch: Air Fryer Pork Steak Snack: Savage Slim Jim Dinner: Pan Fried Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 581) Keto Month 4 (Day 142) (192/365 Days 2026 Keto) Down in wight this morning, but not by enough to get that excited about. I was still curious about the air fryer so I thought of cooking a pork steak for lunch. I do have to say that is a quick and convenient way to cook that steak. I was excited that the issue with the phone plugging in has seemed to clear with that cleaning I did a while back. I was trying to get the phone to connect to the car. But it still doesn't seem to want to connect. The blue tooth hasn't worked for a while, but I was hoping that the wired connection would work, but the screen just says “Can't Read Device” I'm not sure if that's an issue with the phone, the car, or...

Weight: 303.2 lbs ( 137.5 kg) BMI: 38.9 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: Savage Slim Jim Vienna Sausages Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin Garlic Herb, Pork Rinds, Queso Blanco Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Snack: Cashews Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Powerade Orange Sober Year 1 (Day 580) Keto Month 4 (Day 141) (191/365 Days 2026 Keto) It's kind of funny to be frustrated by a weight of 303.2 lbs. I was so close to the “Short Goal” yesterday and it's been so very long since I had weighed less than 300lbs (136 kg) but no today had to be up 2.8lbs (1.3 kg) I'm still down 5.6 lbs (2.5 kg) for the year and the two or three pounds is within daily fluctuations, but it would have been exciting to beat that goal. But then again if I did have a weight under 300 lbs (136 kg) I would wait for a bit to consider that goal “beaten” for a bit just because the weight fluctuates like that. The morning before work really snuck by me. I woke up at the usu...

Weight: 306.3 lbs ( 138.9 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: X Lunch: Bar-s Hot Dogs, Cottage Cheese Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 578) Keto Month 4 (Day 139) (189/365 Days 2026 Keto) Probably shouldn't have had that jumbo steak last night. Computer is acting weird this morning. I was sitting around when I noticed that it was just after 10 am and I had to work at 11 and I thought I was going to cook the chicken in the air fryer. Well if I was going to do that I needed to hurry to figure out how to do that. So I was going to look up a video on how to cook the chicken in the air fryer. But the video seemed to take forever to load so I was going to write in the writing program to talk about it, however the video stated playing really quickly and the programs started switching around so it would write one sentence in one program, switch to to one of the spreadsheets write a senten...

Weight: 303.7 lbs ( 137.7 kg) BMI: 39.0 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: X Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin Dinner: KC Strip Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 577) Keto Month 4 (Day 138) (188/365 Days 2026 Keto) That's a good drop in the weight today. Almost back to making progress for the year. I really didn't do anything before work this morning. I got the feeling that I was supposed to be doing something. But I couldn't figure out what it was. I did think about having breakfast. It is kind of funny as I was thinking that there was a quite a long time when I was doing TMAD, but back then I wasn't doing Keto as I was having Fried Chicken for lunch and Hamburger Helper (not sponsored) for dinner and then skipping breakfast. When I learned about Keto and was trying that diet I started having Bacon and Eggs for breakfast each day and then had a recipe for lunch, and then for dinner. That eventually evolved into havi...

Weight: 307.1 lbs ( 139.3 kg) BMI: 39.4 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: X Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 576) Keto Month 4 (Day 137) (187/365 Days 2026 Keto) My phone didn't want to recognize that it was plugged in when I went to bed. When I kept trying to plug it in it eventually said that there was moisture or a foreign object in the charge port. Thankfully I have a charge pad that lets it charge wirelessly. It is slow as balls charging that way. I might just have to go in and upgrade the phone. I'm sure the payment for the new phone won't be much, when I payed off this phone it was only about $30/month cheaper without the plan. Just really freaking annoyed that I had just payed this phone off back in February (How the hell was that six months ago) and now I'm looking at having to get a new one. It'll be a lot cheaper than the dentures that they're...

Weight: 306.1 lbs ( 138.8 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: X Lunch: Bratwursts, Pork Rinds, Queso Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, 20oz Diet Dr Pepper Sober Year 1 (Day 575) Keto Month 4 (Day 136) (186/365 Days 2026 Keto) Weight was up a little bit this morning, but within the normal fluctuation range. Kind of to be expected with the amount of salty food and drink I consumed yesterday. I forgot to mention in yesterday's post a customer noticed that I was losing weight and asked me for my secret. I told her that I was focusing on Keto, pretty close to carnivore as I don't expect people to recognize the term “Ketovore” and she sneered at the idea of doing carnivore because supposedly her ex-husband was doing carnivore and he was just going around drinking glasses of blood. I don't know of any vampiric tendencies in the carnivore community, but for me I just stick to the meat. She just shutdown any...

Weight: 304.0 lbs ( 137.9 kg) BMI: 39 Waist: 52 in ( 132.1 cm) WtHr: 70.3% Breakfast: X Lunch: Bar-S Hot Dogs, Pork Rinds, Queso Dinner: Member's Mark Hot Dogs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 574) Keto Month 4 (Day 135) (185/365 Days 2026 Keto) Got distracted by Fallout New Vegas. So won't be able to say much in this post. But good to see the weight finally go in the right direction. Didn't track time very well this morning so I didn't have time to cook anything for lunch today. So I grabbed some hot dogs, pork rinds, and queso for lunch. I don't know why it took so long for me to try the combination of pork rinds and queso. There was a crazy lady at the store. She spent about four hours shopping up two whole cart loads of groceries with two little children I feel bad for the kids trapped in the cart with the crazy lady. People were saying that her children were running around throwing stuff into her cart. When she finally ...

Weight: 306.4 lbs ( 139.0 kg) BMI: 39.3 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: X Lunch: Rib-Eye Steak Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 573) Keto Month 4 (Day 134) (184/365 Days 2026 Keto) Finally a day that had a weight that was lower than the beginning of the month. Sure the weight has been under the start of the year for most of the year. But for most of this month the wight has tracked upwards. I think it might be a bit soon to tell if today's weight was the result of the TMAD diet finally taking hold. I was dreading trying to come up with the courage to call the dentist to cancel the plan for the implants as throwing around numbers all day yesterday just didn't make it look like I was able to afford the two $11,000 payments and I wasn't sure how the $620 payment plan that we discussed fit into everything. But they had called me this morning to tell me that they needed a couple more X-Ray sca...

Weight: 311.0 lbs ( 141.0 kg) BMI: 39.9 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: X Lunch: Bratwursts, Pork Rinds, Queso Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Monster, Sparkling Water, Sober Year 1 (Day 571) Keto Month 4 (Day 132) (182/365 Days 2026 Keto) Had a hard time falling asleep last night. Once I fell asleep I was down, but flopped around quite a bit. Had a strange dream this morning. I don't remember much about it as I didn't have time to write it down this morning before work. I do remember that it took place in the house that I grew up in my teens. I remember yelling at Roommate about how he was having other people were moving in without consulting me. I remember yelling in the dream and jumping awake hoping that I wasn't yelling out in my sleep as soon as I woke up I realized it was a dream. I worked 10:30 to 7:30 so that was two hours after I woke up to do anything, but I just couldn't wake up. I had psyched myself against doing ...

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...