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Weight: 314.8 lbs ( 142.8 kg) BMI: 40.4 Waist: 52.5 in ( 133.4 cm) WtHr: 70.9% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Johnsonville Irish O'Garlic Bratwursts Dinner: Corned Beef Lentil Stew Drinks: Salted Apple Cider Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Red Bull, Sober Year 1 (Day 454) Keto Week 2 (Day 17) (61/365 Days 2026 Keto) I was a little emotional when I saw the weight on the scale this morning. 314.8 lbs (142.8 kg) is the weight I was when I started tracking my weight back in 2014. So that was the weight that I had labeled the “Progress Goal” as that is the weight that I started with so any weight lower than that is finally making progress. It is kind of funny that the Spreadsheet titled “Full Weight Loss and Projection” shows a completely flat line for the projection for the rest of the year as the weight is the exact weight as the beginning back in 2014. Sat around for a bit waiting for Roommate to say that he was ready to go to his *usually* weekly appointment. Then I noticed that h...

Weight: 320.7 lbs ( 145.4 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: Mom's Chili Dinner: Corned Beef Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Year 1 (Day 441) Keto Day 4 (48/365 Days 2026 Keto) Trying to get back to this. I've been sober, but haven't been very Ketogenic. Spending way too much mental energy re-balancing my budget. A couple of weeks ago Roommate was screeching about how bad the internet was and he seemingly figured that the modem was starting to go bad. But it was hard to tell the difference between that screeching and all of the other screeching. But I eventually ran by Cox (not sponsored) to get a new modem. While I was there their associates were really rather excitedly tried to get me to sign up for their mobile phone service. I had to tell them several times that I was just there to switch out modems, I wasn't looking to sign up for any other services. But th...

Weight: 329.8 lbs ( 149.6 kg) BMI: 42.3 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Instant Pot Chili https://youtu.be/-Nryw-eEfDI Dinner: Corned Beef Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Month 10 (Day 319) Spent a good chunk of the morning arguing with the AI. It did finally seem to get the hint of what I was trying to do. It was trying to do a lot of programming code and it finally gave me a widget in the code so I could just input my daily spending so it doesn't have to regenerate the entire code every time I spend anything. I'm going to try to avoid buying anything, but I might pick up an energy drink or two. But I think the savings plan is going to work out just fine. What's really fun is that according to the projection I might be adding to General Savings by the end of January. What's fun about that is that if my Bills and Project savings accounts are full that means that when I g...

Weight: 330.4 lbs ( 149.8 kg) BMI: 42.4 Waist: 54.0 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Keto Goulash https://youtu.be/-RcxiXu4zLM Dinner: Corned Beef Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Sober Month 9 (Day 285) Keto Day 4 I really need to work on a bad habit. I've been going to bed at around midnight, but then I keep playing with my phone for another hour or so. I need to go to bed and go to bed and go to sleep and not play with the games on the phone, or scroll social media. Wow, the scale really doesn't like it when I'm under 330 lbs (149.7 kg) lol I was excited to see the notification on my phone that Roommate sent me his half of the rent and some money for bills. A bit annoyed that it'll take two business days for it to go from PayPal to my bank, but at least I know that it's on it's way. I could have had it instantly transfer, but that would have had a fee, a...

Weight: 339.6lbs ( 154.0 kg) BMI: 43.6 Waist: 57 in (144.8 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Steak and Eggs Lunch: AI Lemon Chicken Parmesan Dinner: Corned Beef Brisket Drinks: Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Keto Day 7 Sober Month 3 (Day 102) YMCA: No I'm not going to lie, disappointed in today's weight. It's back above the average of the month and the long list. It's still under the average for the year and the last two months. It's great to be down 7.1 lbs (3.2 kg) for the year, but kinda sucks to be up 5.2 lbs (2.4 kg) for the week. And yeah, fluctuations happen, but it would be nice to be fluctuating in the other direction. Steak and eggs for breakfast was great for a while, but that's really getting expensive. I think once I'm out of the steaks that I have I'll just stick to bacon and eggs for breakfast. I set the printer to print the left bicep of the cosplay. It printed the lower half while I was at work and after work I s...

Weight: 338.8 lbs ( 153.7 kg) BMI: 43.5 Waist: 57 in (144.8 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Steak and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken Thighs Dinner: Corned Beef Drinks: Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Keto Day 1 Sober Month 2 (Day 90) YMCA: Weights and Cardio When I got up I debated with myself if I wanted to go to the YMCA this morning. I was reminding myself of how well I felt on the days that I did go last year. But I'm on vacation, I could just sit at my computer playing Oblivion. I've gained a bit of weight over the last couple of days as I've been off of my diet, and last year when I was going to the Y I was making amazing progress. But I've heard that 80% of weight loss happens in the kitchen. You're only delaying going because it's new and different. Hard to argue against that. I didn't last very long in the weight room as I'm just wanting to build the habit right now. It was a bit freaky because there was a guy in the weight room yelling about ...

Weight: 338.9 lbs (154.5 kg) BMI: 43.5 Waist: 57 in (146.1 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Savage Slim Jim Lunch: Enchilada Soup Snack: 4x Bar S Classic Smoked Sausages Dinner: Corned Beef Drinks: 5 Hour Energy Shot, 2x Sugar Free Rockstar, 9x 12oz cans Diet Big K Cola Weeks Without Beer 1 (11 Days)      Day started early there was a “Leadership Meeting” this morning at the store. Just once it'd be nice to go to a store meeting and learn something new. The only thing that seems to have changed was that the “Front End Supervisor” is now the “Customer Assistance Leader” and they've came up with another acronym for us to learn. It must be nice to work in an office where all you do is come up with these things. But on the other hand it is kind of good that they stage kind of “reminder” meetings to remind the people in charge of what the expectations of what we're supposedly supposed to be doing are. But I do agree with the CSM that these really are mostly a waist of time. Especia...

Weight: 330.4 lbs ( 151.2 kg) BMI: 42.4 Waist: 55.5 in ( 141 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Lunch: Taco Casserole Dinner: Corned Beef With Mac and Cheese Drinks: Pot of Coffee, 2L Big K Dr K zero,      I was really exited when I first stood on the scale this morning, the first glance weigh in showed 325 lbs (147.4 kg) but the display was flickering again. That usually means that there was something caught under the foot pads of the scale.     Today was another day where I just could not get anything done. I did get the third recipe video edited and scheduled for release. But it was one of those days where I find myself just sitting here at the computer realizing that it was several hours since I last caught myself just sitting here at the computer.      I did manage to get some clarified butter done like I've been wanting to do for a while. But that's hardly worth mentioning as getting something done. I was able to find a ...

Weight: 333.4 lbs ( 151.2 kg) BMI: 42.8 Waist: 56 in ( 142.2 cm) WtHr: 75.7% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Lunch: Kroger Cheddar Bratwursts Dinner: Corned Beef Drinks: Pot of coffee Spent most of last night like a rotisserie chicken, just spinning around in bed. I'm pretty sure that it was close to 4am before I got to sleep. The three energy shots yesterday was probably to blame. I was going to try to get the 3D printers working, but it was almost noon before I even got out of bed. And I do realize that it is a strange complaint to sleep in until noon. But that really kinds of messes up your day. I did realize that I did a carnivore day as I set up the slow cooker. I did kick myself for running to the store to pick up some more bratwursts and bacon. I really didn't need to spend more money today. I have two 3D printers one I call Big Guy, and the other I call little bro. Big guy is the bigger of the printers it is a Creality Cr10s printer it has a build volume of 500mm cu...

Weight: 335.8 lbs ( 150.3 kg) BMI: 43.1 Waist: 55 in ( 138.4 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Mac and Cheese with Corned beef brisket Dinner: Taco Salad Drinks: Pot of coffee      Woke up later than I want to today. I'm still guessing that Daylight savings time is throwing me off. It really did mess me up yesterday. It was about noon before I even got breakfast done. And even though I set up the slow cooker for the corned beef it was almost midnight before it was done so I had some of the mac and cheese that I had bought the other day (Had a coupon and you have to buy the stuff you have a coupon for right?)      Today I did start off on my diet pretty good with the Bacon and eggs. I had a late lunch because even though it was four almost five in the afternoon it still felt like early in the morning. Lunch today was the corned beef brisket that I had in the slow cooker yesterday. I set up the slow cooker yesterday because the corned be...