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Weight: 331 lbs (151.8 kg) BMI: 43 Waist: 55 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Instant Pot Chili with Cottage Cheese Dinner: Baked Bratwursts Drinks: Sugar Free Rockstar Energy Sliver Ice, Kroger Energy Shot, Several Cans of Kroger Seltzer Cranberry Lime and Mandarin Orange Sober Day 3 YMCA: Weights I got the hours and days mixed up in yesterday's post so I was able to get to the YMCA this morning. And I'm wanting to do swimming next week so I spent a few minutes in the weight room I had to struggle with the thought that I was doing everything wrong and I was just wasting time. I tried to use the counter thought of “Doing something is always better than doing nothing” but I really couldn't bring myself to do much in the weight room. I did feel a lot more confident and sure of myself when I was using the treadmill. But then again that's just walking. If I can't figure out how to walk by now I'm going to have a lot of questions with mys

Weight: 328.8 lbs (149.1 kg) BMI: 42.2 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Nathans Hot Dogs and Cottage Cheese Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Pot of coffee Black, Sugar Free Rockstar Sliver Ice, Kroger Energy Shot, Kroger Seltzer Water Mango x7 Sober Week 2 (Day 15) Had a laugh that might have messed up the measurement of last nights meditative session. I wasn't paying attention to what the voice was saying because they started the session by saying, “Sit up straight in your chair, your head straight up, and let the stress of your day flow down. Let the stress of the day flow down into the part of the chair where your chair is touching your body” And I couldn't help but interpret that as, “Let the stress of the day flow down, let the stress of the day flow down, and out of your ass” The rest of the meditative session was lost to me because I couldn't help but to bust out laughing about the idea of forcing the daily stress out the ass. I think i

W eight: 334.2 lbs (151.6 kg) BMI: 42.9 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Mexican Ground Beef and Zucchini with Cottage Cheese Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: 2x cups of Coffee Black, 500ml Bottled Water x4, Kroger Energy Shot x2, Kroger Seltzer Water Lemon Lime x5 Sober Week 1 (Day 9) Having a hard time the last couple of days getting up and going. Soreness in my lower right back. But it's more mentally struggling. I just couldn't get enough “Go” to go yesterday, but I did feel a considerable difference in the Mental and Physical energy yesterday. People were dumb AF but I'm starting to feel more “UP” on the days that I'm able to work out in the morning. Had Bacon and Eggs for breakfast after I got home from the YMCA. This is a very satisfying habit to get into. But I had used up the last of my bacon this morning and I forgot to pick up more bacon after work this evening. But I do have a Strip Steak in the fridge that I can have breakf

Weight: 340.8 lbs (154.6 kg) BMI: 43.8 Waist: 57.0 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Lunch: Cottage Cheese with pepper and garlic powder Dinner: Rib eye and butter Drinks: Pot of coffee with cream, 1800 ml water Days Without Beer 3 Felt 1,000% better today than I've felt this entire weekend. This is purely speculative but I really stopped feeling good after eating the Nathan's Hot Dogs two days in a row and then a rack of the Kansas City Style Bake in Bag Ribs. And I'm sure that the Michelob Ultra didn't help much. My guess is that I had a reaction to the processed meat in the hot dogs and the “seasonings” on the “Bake in Bag” ribs might have stuff in them that break ketosis. Sure a “Serving” of those ribs might be fine, but I didn't eat “a serving” of that rack of ribs.” and had a hell of a lot more than “a serving” of the Michelob Ultra on Friday. So let's see according to the can there's 2.6 grams of carbohydrates per 12oz can of Mich

Weight: 342.8 lbs (156.9 kg) BMI: 44 Waist: 57.0 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: X Lunch: Cottage Cheese with chicken bits and ham left over from the super salad from the other day Dinner: Baked Chicken Drinks: Sugar Free Rockstar, Kroger Energy Shot, 2L Big K Caffeine Free Diet Cola Days Without Beer 2 Going to be a short post not because the “down” I've been feeling lately. I've actually started feeling better after work this evening. I'm not sure if the feeling better is just the alcohol from last week's beer wearing off or what. But this is going to be a short post because I had to put so much creative energy into the weight loss video that I just made and the only thing that I would do is just repeat what I put into that video. That and the computer has been acting a bit wonky today. So it's getting pretty close to midnight and I want this to be a daily blog. I had recorded the Weigh In Vlog this morning, but it recorded from the wrong microphone so I ha

Weight: 341.4 lbs (154.9kg) BMI: 43.3 Waist: 58 in (146 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: X Lunch: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Sausages, Cottage Cheese Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Couple cups of coffee, Kroger Energy Shot, Sugar Free Rockstar Energy                Canned Soda:                                         Diet Dr Pepper: 2                                 Diet Mt Dew: 2                                 Diet Pepsi: 3                                 Pepsi Zero: 3 Days Without Beer: 6 Put a lot of effort into making the Store Story today. So this might not be a very long post. It's a bit concerning that I am up 4.4 pounds compared to yesterday. I do realize that there will be daily fluctuations, but it does make me wonder for an explanation. I don't think I ate four pounds of cheese last night when I had the Queso Soup. Could it be the Cheesy Ramen that I had for dinner on Wednesday? Would that have broken my Ketosis and have me

Weight: 338 lbs (153.3 kg) BMI: 43.6 Waist: 58 in (147.3 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Cottage Cheese with ranch dressing and hot dogs Dinner: Baked Bratwursts Drinks: Couple cups of coffee with cream, Sugar Free Rockstar Energy, sugar free Red Bull, ~1500 ml water      Woke up a little easier this morning. I did lay around for a bit, but not as long as I have been doing. I am excited that I got the phone bill paid. I usually get it paid by the end of the month, but if I don't pay it on the first there is a fee. So that is one fee that I'm going to avoid for October. I would like to pay all of my bills on the first if I can, but again this month I'm going to have to spread out the bills for the next couple of weeks. I'm still a little shaken from them shutting off the water a couple of days ago. But that was just an error on my part, which should not happen again. (I thought I had paid it after the due date and I had thought the warning was sent a

Weight: 341.4 lbs ( 153.4 kg) BMI: 43.4 Waist: 58 in ( 144.8 cm) WtHr: 78.4% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Cottage Cheese and Lasagna Soup Dinner: Grilled Bratwursts Drinks: Couple cups of Coffee, Kroger Energy Shot, Sugar Free Rockstar Energy, ~1000ml water, 12pk Bud Light Next The first Monday of the month I want to record a General Update video where I just turn on the camera and Vlog for a bit. But didn't get a chance to edit it before I had to leave. Again I'm not feeling all that confident in it. Yesterday and Today I had wanted to get videos done before work so they were rush jobs and every time I turned on the camera my mind went completely blank on everything I was wanting to say. So the General Update I made today was me talking about one idea that I had and then, “Oh, yeah I was going to mention this other thing.” So I talk about the other thing. Oh, wait I wasn't done talking about the first thing so I go back to talking about the other thing. So the vid

Weight: 338.2 lbs (153.4 kg) BMI: 43.4 Waist: 57 in (144.8 cm) WtHr: 77% Breakfast: X Lunch: Cottage Cheese Dinner: Queso Soup Drinks: Couple cups of Coffee, Powerade Zero, Kroger Energy Shot. ~4200ml water Took too long on getting the Weekly Weigh In video done to cook breakfast. I don't feel that it was a very good video. But at least I got the video done. I don't think that I put much energy into the video this morning. But I had a blast of energy as I was going into work. Which is not something that I get to say very often. I still didn't want to be there, but at least I didn't feel like a zombie the entire time. I had so much energy that I was actually outpacing everybody around me. More than one person chuckled at me because I was pounding the buttons on the register and waving my hand at the drawer because it wasn't opening up fast enough. At lunch I picked up some cottage cheese to go with the Lasagna soup that I had planned out. But the microwave w

Weight: 338 lbs ( 151.9 kg) BMI: 43.2 Waist: 56 in ( 142.2 cm) WtHr: 76.4% Breakfast: No Time Lunch: Cottage Cheese Dinner: Baked Chicken with Mac and cheese Drinks: Scooters Peanut Butter Crunch Coffee, a couple bottles of water, 2x Kroger Energy Shots Days Sober: 2      I don't know why the thumbnails for my blog on Facebook are showing the thumbnail for a weekly weigh in video I did a couple of weeks ago. I even posted a picture of myself in another post to try to get it to show that picture as the thumbnail. I'm going to have to do some research on how to select a lasting thumbnail.      The weigh in this morning was a bit disconcerting. I'm guessing that it was up because of how late I ate dinner. And how much pasta I ate and the amount of water I drank yesterday      Roommate woke me up this morning with a call. He was back in town for the week so I didn't have time for breakfast. He did have us go through Scooters for some coffee, I've never had Scoo

Weight: 332.6 lbs ( 150.9 kg) BMI: 42.7 Waist: 55 in ( 139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon Lunch: Pizza Soup with cottage cheese Dinner: Queso Soup Drinks: cup of coffee with cream, 4500ml water, Kroger energy shot      Had a hard time getting going this morning. Just slept so well last night I didn't want to get up. Not depressed, just “a body at rest stays at rest” Something else that's been throwing me off this last week is that I keep feeling like it's the next day. (Wednesday felt like Thursday, Friday felt like Saturday etc.) So waking up this morning I had a struggle convincing myself that it was Sunday and I needed to get up and get the video done. Stood on the scale enough to get the weigh in clip. But I'll have to try to get the video done after work. I was going to do it at lunch, but got distracted. It'd suck if I missed a weekly weigh in just because I was too chill to do what I want to be doing.     At Work today body feels extremely relax

Weight: 335.4 lbs ( 152.1 kg) BMI: 43.1 Waist: 56 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 75.7% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Lunch: Cottage cheese with ranch, salt, and pepper Dinner: Velveeta Cheeseburger Skillet Dinner Drinks: Cup of coffee with cream, 2x Kroger energy shots, 2L Big K Caffeine free Diet Cola      Today was a very clumsy day. It seemed like everything I touched I was knocking something else over. Every thing I typed out was misspelled or worded wrong or said it in the right way. Brain and body is just kind of floppy today. I have a guess that it has something to do with how much stress I had this last week at work.      I did take the time to do a Weekly Weigh In video. When I was making it I wasn't very confident that I had made a very good video. But when I got home this evening and looked over it again it doesn't seem that bad. But this afternoon when I was uploading it I had a hard time getting set up like it should be, tags attached, correct play lists etc. But I'

Weight: 334.4 lbs ( 151.6 kg) BMI: 42.9 Waist: 56 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 75.6% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Lunch: Cottage cheese with ranch, salt, and pepper Dinner: Baked Chicken Drinks: Cup of coffee with cream, 2x Kroger energy shots, ~2700ml water      Not a very productive morning. I really just spent it counting down until I have to get ready for work. That is a frustration that I have in my life. I never take the time to do anything, I just count down how much time I have left before I have to do something else. I do the same thing with money. I never save any, I just average out how much I have and how much I could spend each day to make it last until the next thing I have to pay for. But then it becomes more of a spending goal instead of a savings goal.      Another “fun” day at work. But at least I remembered that I was wanting cottage cheese for lunch. I added a bit of ranch dressing into the cottage cheese with the epic amounts of salt and pepper that I like in the cheese

Weight: 337.0 lbs ( 152.9 kg) BMI: 43.3 Waist: 56 in ( 142.2 cm) WtHr: 75.7% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Lunch: Cottage Cheese with pepper Dinner: Queso Soup Drinks: Pot of coffee,    Again I was hesitant to make this post. Standing on the scale to see such an increase on the scale really is disheartening. And I spent most of the first half of the day kind of sitting here pouting that my weight has gone up. I did manage go record and upload a Store Story. It'll go live this Friday.      The corned beef that I had last night for dinner really messed up my stomach today. I could get into some TMI material, but lets say my bathroom smelt extremely bad most of the day.      I was getting frustrated sitting around the house. I kept pacing around the house thinking, “I'm not a prisoner here” but I couldn't think of anything to do. I thought about trying to work on the 3D printers again, but I didn't want to feel that level of frustration again. This evening my roommate c

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 phone at home

Weight: 334.8bs ( 151.9 kg) BMI: 43.3 Waist: 55 in ( 141 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Lunch: Cottage Cheese with salt and pepper Dinner: Baked Chicken Drinks: Pot of coffee with cream, Kroger energy shot, ~2700ml water      Got breakfast done and a store story video recorded before getting ready for work. It was a three part video of people that I had to deal with in one day that really set off my “Fight or Flight” instincts. The unedited video was pretty close to an entire hour long video, so we'll see how long it'll be once I edit all of the “um's” and “uh's” and looking at the script out of it. I'll try to post it tomorrow (Thursday)      Coming home for lunch to work on editing the video I saw a school bus up ahead of the street and I saw its stop sign and lights were on. I was pretty sure that this was my mother. She drives a school bus and I've seen her drive this route before. As she drove closer I saw that it was my mother and I was

Weight: 336.8 lbs ( 153.1 kg) BMI: 43.3 Waist: 56 in ( 142.2 cm) WtHr: 75.7% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Lunch: Cottage Cheese with salt and pepper Dinner: BBQ Beef Chuck Roast Drinks: Pot of coffee with cream, ~1800ml water      Spent the morning this morning convening myself that I needed to get up. I wasn't feeling bad, in fact I was feeling a bit too good. A bit of a body at rest staying at rest. I did manage to get a good chunk of the general update video script done. I did think about recording that video when I went home for lunch. But someone made me angry on the way home and if I made a video right after that the entire video would be about that idiot. I thought about doing it after work, but I would be listening to Radio Dead Air and probably not have the energy to make a very good video. I'll try to post it tomorrow (Tuesday). So I'm trying to get the General Update Vlog done and posted and then I have a store story scripted and ready to go so I'll try

Weight: 332.6 lbs ( 150.9 kg) BMI: 42.7 Waist: 55.5in ( 141 cm) WtHr: 75% Breakfast: Village Inn Denver omelet, Unsweetened Ice Tea, hash browns, pancakes with syrup Lunch: Chili with cottage cheese Dinner: Baked chicken Drinks: 2x Kroger energy shots, ~3600ml water      My roommate, who is a trucker, is on home time this week. And we went to Village Inn for breakfast. I had the Denver Omelet meal. Again not very Keto. I didn't see the A La Carte section on the menu until after I ordered. I'm used to just ordering a meal from the menu. And lately I've been seeing that is getting more and more popular online to order from the A La Carte section off of menus. It looks like it's cheaper and easier to follow the Keto diet when eating out by doing this. And yeah the omelet is good on Keto, but the Hash Browns and Syrup covered Pancakes were definitely not. I do have to say that the pancakes at Village Inn were better than the ones at the Truck Stop that I had last week

Weight: 328.8lbs ( 149.1 kg) BMI: 42.2 Waist: 54.5in ( 138.4 cm) WtHr: 73.6% Breakfast: Bacon and eggs Lunch: Cottage Cheese with salt and pepper Dinner: Deconstructed Pizza Casserole Drinks: Couple of cups of coffee, ~2800ml water      Woke up this morning with a doozy of a hangover. It is true what they say about the Keto diet and hangovers. And that was after drinking an entire 24 pack of Michelob. I wasn't queasy or anything but again I woke up tired and my head felt like it was exploding. Had weird popping feelings in my feet that did NOT feel good. If I ever get around to seeing a doctor I'm definitely going to have them look at my feet. I'm fairly confident that walking around this long with more than double my supposedly "ideal" weight has caused some issues that ignoring is just making worse.      I actually had two days off this week. The last couple of weeks I've only had one day off, it was nice to have two this week. It kind of a mixed ble