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Weight: 323.0 lbs ( 146.5 kg) BMI: 41.5 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Smoked Sausages Dinner: Hormel Pork Loin Lemon Garlic Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 371) Keto Day 1 Spent quite a bit of the morning updating the weigh in Spreadsheets for 2026. That was a really good weight this morning. Bit of a frustration with the waist, but still down 3.5 inches (2.5 cm) for the year. As Christmas Day is on Thursday this year I'm getting paid on Wednesday so I did the grocery shopping yesterday so the check will clear tomorrow. So I usually do the grocery shopping while Roommate is at his weekly medical appointment, but as I already did my grocery shopping yesterday I just came home and waited for him to call. I was going to do laundry this afternoon so I was going to gather up my laundry while Roommate was at his appointment, but I got distracted by a “50 Facts about K...

Weight: 325.4 lbs ( 147.6 kg) BMI: 41.8 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Smithfield Pork Loin Apple-wood Smoked Bacon Dinner: Taco Velveeta Dinner Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 369) Keto Day 0 Hooray Happy Solstice Day. True it is technically the first day of Winter, but today is the day that the sun starts coming back and it starts to have more light during the day. A couple of days ago Grandma had messaged me telling me that some of her lights had started to come off of her house so I went over this morning to put her lights back up. Well, it was technically morning, but I had a bit of a hard time getting the momentum going this morning. And it was noon by the time I got the single line of lights back up. While I was in the neighborhood I went over to say hi to Mom. While I was there she gave me a couple of vials of homemade lotion for my hands. We also talked about the delay of Christmas. The o...

Weight: 325.6 lbs ( 147.7 kg) BMI: 41.8 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: AI Chili Dinner: Cheeseburger Patties Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 368) Keto Day 7 I worked 10am to 7pm a little earlier than I normally do so I had to eat breakfast in a bit of a hurry. I had woke up slowly and was just kind of puttering around I noticed that it was getting on a little past 9am while I was cooking breakfast and that would have been a little more than an hour before I started getting really ready for work as I had already showered. And then I realized that, “Oh yeah, I work early today!” I'm glad that I figured that out at 9:23 and not 10:05 when they would have been calling me asking where I was. I did have time to eat breakfast properly, but I didn't have time to drink all of the coffee that I would have. A couple of the doctors that I follow online are saying that drinking too much coffee is a really b...

Weight: 327.3 lbs ( 148.4 kg) BMI: 42 Waist: 55.5 in (141.0 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: AI Chili Hot Dogs Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 367) Keto Day 6 Elbows, wrists, knees, and ankles are popping and snapping like crazy today. There was a strange stabbing pain in my lower left back that seemed to go down to my left foot. It felt like if I could just stretch right it would work itself out. It is kind of fun when I shift in the chair my entire spinal column seems to crackle and pop. That was quite a jump in the scale this morning. It was strange that the waist was also that far up from yesterday. I'm writing this after work. And I'm trying really hard to keep this from becoming another “Mark Whines About Work Blog” post. As it is the Friday before Christmas, that's going to be a challenge. Another day when I'm not sure it's something wrong with ...

Weight: 324.1 lbs ( 147.0 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 54 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: AI Chili https://youtu.be/t-PM8kMmu10 Dinner: Smithfield Pork Loin Apple-wood Smoked Bacon Bagged Salad Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Sober Year 1 (Day 366?) Keto Day 5 If you're following along, no you didn't skip 12 days. I was thinking that it was getting pretty close to the yearly mark, but something wasn't lining up correctly so I went back and looked at the date where I started this last attempt at sobriety and it was (more or less) the day that Roommate came home and looking back I had started this Sobriety Streak on December 17, 2024. (Got a bit distracted looking over the notes for the year) I haven't been perfect at uploading or even making an entry on the writing program. So Happy S oberversary to me. And good God, this year has been the shortest longest year of all tim...

Weight: 326.5 lbs ( 148.1 kg) BMI: 41.9 Waist: 54 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: AI Chili Dinner: Chuck Roast Green Beans Bagged Salad Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Kroger Energy Shot Sober Month 11 (Day 355) Keto Day 4 Weight was a little up from yesterday, but down compared to the day before I was looking over the receipt from yesterday's shopping again just to see if that $17 off of a $170 order was on there and it just wasn't there. I thought I was going in a few minutes early to get that coupon situation corrected. Thankfully the lady working customer service this morning was the cashier who rang me up yesterday. I doubt that she remembered that exact coupon but she remembered that I used coupons and that none of the coupons that I used had any errors. I'm sure that it helps that she knew who I am and I have a good reputation so she went ahead and gave me credit for the coupon. What was f...

Weight: 324.2 lbs ( 147.1 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Brunch: Egg Stuff https://youtu.be/d8KFD4Ub5kU Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 11 (Day 354) Keto Day 3 I was going to have the regular Bacon and Eggs for breakfast, but when I went to cook breakfast I was reminded that I had used the last of the bacon yesterday. By the time roommate had to go to his appointment and I did the grocery shopping it was close to 1 in the afternoon by the time I was able to eat so I decided to combine breakfast and lunch together and made the “Egg Stuff” scrambled eggs as I had six eggs left from the eggs Mom gave me back on Thanksgiving. I picked up some eggs and bacon when I got groceries this afternoon. That was a really good drop on the scale this morning. A frustration when I got groceries I had a coupon for $17 off of a $170 order and some other coupons (not sponsored) so I bought more than I...

Weight: 327.3 lbs ( 148.4 kg) BMI: 42 Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Hormel Pork Loin Mesquite BBQ Dinner: St Louis Style Pork Ribs Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Month 11 (Day 353) Keto Day 2 Last night I went to bed with socks and vegetable shorting on my hands as I have been getting really dry skin on my hands over the last couple of days and last year it got so bad the skin started cracking and bleeding. So I wanted to cut that off before it got that bad. I did wake up in the middle of the night and had to take the socks off of my hands because my hands were getting uncomfortably hot. I did think about getting some cloth gloves some time in the next couple of days or weeks. Just so I could wear something over my hands, but be able to use my hands as the socks over my hands kind of restricts what I am able to do and they're really just not very comfortable on the hands. Not a fantastic number on the...

Weight: 324.7 lbs ( 147.3 kg) BMI: 41.7 Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Bar-S Jumbo Jumbo Hot Dogs Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Sober Month 11 (Day 352) Keto Day 1 Good numbers this morning.  There was a strange story from a coworker. She said that her boyfriend was in town so she was staying with him. And her back hurt as she had slept on the concrete floor. She said that she and her boyfriend had deiced to stay at one of his friends house. But they didn't want to bother his friend so they stayed in their garage. She said that he had a cot that he slept on, but the cot wasn't big enough for the both of them so her boyfriend forced her to sleep on the garage floor. I have to say, that doesn't sound very manly. If you have a cot that only holds one and a girlfriend, your girlfriend is sleeping on the cot and you're sleeping on the ground. But also she has a ho...

Weight: 325.6 lbs ( 147.7 kg) BMI: 41.8 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Bar-S Jumbo Jumbo Hot Dogs Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Busch NA Sober Month 11 (Day 351) Keto Day 0 Got home from work last night and my brain just kind of turned off. I was scheduled to work 12 to 9pm last night and when I got home I just kind of sat down and shut down for a while. By the time I recovered and started writing the blog out it was too late to post. Of course there's nothing to say that I couldn't post after Midnight. But it just doesn't feel right. I've been in a really negative mood recently. Not even in the “Mark Whines About Work” way. Not sure how to explain it, I was in a really heavy “don't wanna to” mood over the last couple of days. I've recovered from that sinus crap that I had last week. But mentally I just really DON'T WANT to do anything. Do I want ...

Weight: ? lbs ( ? kg) BMI: ? Waist: 53 in (134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Tater Tot Casserole Dinner: Ham Steak, Jalapeno Poppers Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Kroger Energy Shot, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 11 (Day 348) The scale and the HVAC filters did come in this morning but it was after breakfast and the pot of coffee so I didn't bother weighing in. And the filter isn't due to be changed until the end of the year, but it's good to have those in on time. I bought a four pack so the entire year's filters are bought and paid for, for the next year. Brain was kind of autopilot today. I was scheduled Noon to 9pm this afternoon/evening. I covered the Self Checkout for an hour, then I was a carryout for an hour, I was supposed to be Supervisor for three hours, but the guy running the online pickup had me cover his lunch break for an hour. I was kind of concerned because there was a compilation of orders that...

Weight: ? lbs ( ? kg) BMI: ? Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Tater Tot Casserole Dinner: Mississippi Roast Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Month 11 (Day 347) I woke up yesterday with a heavy case of the “don't wanna to's” I was just had no momentum to do anything. I did start getting things done later in the evening, but I didn't realize that it was that close to midnight when I was wrapping up the post for yesterday and it was 11:59 when I was done writing in the writing program that I use on my computer so I didn't have the time to post it. I'm not sure if it was because I was still recovering from the sinus issues that I was suffering from last week. I did manage to finish and schedule the upload of the Archive video that I'm planning on for the January Archive video. My second YouTube channel is focused on Recipe Videos and I'm re-uploading the old videos from my first channel to...

Weight: ? lbs ( ? kg) BMI: ? Waist: 53.5 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Tater Tot Casserole Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 11 (Day 345) heh Three Four Five  Like the common joke goes, the weather went from 55 to 25 like it saw a cop. I am really glad that I got Grandmas lights and decorations set up over the last couple of days as it was really dark and cold today. I would like to say if it's going to be dark cold and clammy like this we might as well have snow. But then again it would suck to deal with the ice and crap. And that's not mentioning dealing with people flipping their shit because, “ICE FALL FROM SKY, ICE FALL FROM SKY!” Despite the cold cloudy weather people were really chill and relaxed for most of the day. Which was nice. There was one lady who freaked out at me because we can't sell beer on Sunday. She held up a twelve pack for me to scan. But...

Weight: ? lbs ( ? kg) BMI: ? Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Prime Rib Thanksgiving @ Mom's Dinner: Macaroni Salad Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 11 (Day 344) Sinuses were really grumpy this morning. But whatever was going on with my sinuses seems to have started cleareding up early this afternoon. Which was a fascinating feeling. It felt like my head just kind of opened up. I still don't smell very good, but at least my head doesn't feel like it's splitting open. Had Thanksgiving round two at Mom's house this afternoon. But first I stopped by Grandma's house to swap out the burnt out bulbs on her Christmas lights. Last night she suggested that in the future she might invest in some light projectors so I wouldn't have to climb on top (strange that “ontop” isn't one word) of her house. Hanging out with the family reminds me how blessed we are that we...

Weight: ? lbs ( ? kg) BMI: ? Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: X Dinner: Hormel Pork Loin Lemon Garlic Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Michelob Ultra Zero Sober Month 11 (Day 343) Woke up this morning still having heavy allergy symptoms. I don't quite feel sick, it's just that whenever I bend down to pick anything up it feels like somebody smacked me with a 2x4 in the front of my face. When I woke up this morning and saw the weather I realized that there would be no better day to help Grandma setting up her Christmas decorations. I grabbed some Cold and Flu medicine on the way to Grandma's. Before I left the house I looked up the medicine on the store's website to see prices. I had to chuckle because there's only one review on that double pack of medicine. It's about half of the price as the name brand with the same active ingredients. What was funny about the review was that the medicine worked, but it tasted b...

Weight: ? lbs ( ? kg) BMI: ? Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Pork Steak and Eggs Lunch: Deli Fried Chicken, Pringles Sour Cream Cheddar  Dinner: Chuck Roast with Onion Mushroom Gravy Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Sober Month 11 (Day 334) Scale is dead this morning. No “Low Battery” no error message, nothing to indicate that it has any issue. I just step on it and it has no reaction. I opened the battery compartment to see if it just needs new batteries and the entire battery compartment is just corroded away. There's a lot of corrosion on both ends of each of the three batteries as well, so I'm not sure if the corrosion came from the batteries or from something wrong with the scale. But either way, the scale is dead and it'll be a week or so until I'll be able to get a new one. They don't cost very much, but I don't want to spend that much of my weekly allowance on a bathroom scale. I typicall...

Weight: 323.2 lbs ( 147.4 kg) BMI: 41.5 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken   Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Month 11 (Day 334) Great number on the scale this morning. Especially since I had Chicken Alfredo for lunch the entire week last week. And the scale gave me the same number three times in a row, so it wasn't glitching. I was debating on whether to or not to try to go back to the AI to try to get it to do the financial projection again. But I looked over the code...none of the bills listed in the code that it generated were the bills that I had told it. I had listed the various bills I expect during the year four times over the last three weeks and it eventually just forgets the bills that I have in the projection and just makes up new bills. I figured that I was just trying to build a more flexible version of the Quicken program that I already have on my computer. (Not spo...

Weight: 325.6 lbs ( 147.7 kg) BMI: 41.8 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Mexican Chicken Alfredo   Dinner: Spaghetti Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 11 (Day 331) Trying to remember what I had written before as the program had crashed erasing what I had written before. I had spent the last couple of days with the Absolute Idiot trying to get it to do the projection correctly. It would look like it was doing the thing correctly and then I would notice that it didn't have the bills in the projection. And including the bills into the projection just broke everything. The main frustration was that I am using the free version of the site so I would have to do as much as it would let me do and then I would have to wait for the timer to reset, which would take several hours. It was starting to get kind of annoying as I would ask it to do something, it would ask for guidance on how it would ...

Weight: 323.2 lbs ( 146.6 kg) BMI: 41.5 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer,Sugar Free Monster, Large Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 10 (Day 328) It was exciting to weigh in this morning as this is the lowest weight in the last two years. Heck, it's the lowest weight of the 2020's decade if I'm looking at my numbers right. And this time over 2024 and 2023 I was gaining considerably amounts of weight. Kind of blows my theory that the reason that I was gaining weight this time of year my body was getting ready for winter. I know that humans don't hibernate, but I would have assumed that we do have some of feature that would add some insulation in the winter. But no I was just eating and drinking too much in the previous years. (definitely drinking too much) It was exciting to do the grocery shopping as the total came to $92 when I usually budget for $150. It'...

Weight: 323.8 lbs ( 146.9 kg) BMI: 41.6 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Cabbage Soup  Dinner: Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 10 (Day 327) I feel like I slept a lot better last night than I have previous nights. Sleep tracker still says that I didn't fall asleep until close to 3am even though I went to bed around midnight. I do remember waking up in the night to run to the restroom so that might have reset the sleep counter so when I got up to use the restroom and went back to bed it thought the second half was the sleep for the night. The scale was nice. I mean it is frustrating to have the exact same number as it was yesterday. But that still is the lowest weight of this year and last. I went to bed last night before the AI finished the download file for the Financial Projection. This morning it kept having a hard time coming up with that file. It also offered to make tha...