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Waist: 57in (144.8 cm) Weight: 358.4 lbs (162.6 kg) Breakfast: Bacon Lunch: Bottom Roast Steaks Dinner Beef and Broccoli I didn't have any eggs for breakfast, and I think my bacon had started going south on me. For Lunch I tried to fry up some bottom roast steaks. They were buy one get one free when I bought them. However the steaks were a lot like eating flip flop sandals. Flavor was fine. Ate them with some Sriracha Ranch Dressing. But mouthfeel was just horrible. They were just missing some toe straps for dinner I had some Slow Cooker Beef and Broccoli that I made several weeks ago for my YouTube video series. And again I'm not sure if this was a good idea. The meat really didn't turn out right. I used flat iron steak for the meat and it went all stringy on me. And the Coconut Aminos really overpowers any other flavor. I've been trying to do the Keto Diet for quite some time. I just keep falling off of it. And every “reason” that I come up with

Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: was going to have pork chops, but they went bad on me Dinner: Chili Snack: Chicken Tenders, Sugar free Rockstar Energy I've also drank a lot of soda today. I didn't keep track. I've been wanting to quit drinking soda. But I've been falling for the sales recently. I think I'm going to start leaving my debit card at home when I go to work. For someone who wants to be a Blogger/Vlogger I don't seem to put much effort into my desired profession. I don't know what has gotten a hold of me lately I just can't seem to get moving on anything. It is probably depression. I was meaning to visit a doctor earlier this year. Not exactly for depression itself. More because the last time I've even had a checkup was back when I was in middle school when I was joining the track team. But then the GREAT PESTILENCE decided to hit. So yeah, sorry. I keep saying that I want to do the Keto diet, and I do follow it for a b

Weight: 342.0 lbs Waist: 56 in Mood: Middle Breakfast: Fruit smoothie, chocolate Vega shake Lunch: 4cheese/4 meat pizza flavored hot pockets 20oz Dr pepper Dinner: Chicken Breast, Parisian noodles with sauce, peas Snack: pot of coffee, sleeve of thin mint girl scout cookies, Kroger and Goody Energy shots Notes: Although I did manage to get a meal plan out and I did plan out a lunch for today, I forgot to bring the lunch to work with me toady so I had to eat hot pockets for lunch. And I did slip on the Dr Pepper temptation. But the only soda I had today (that is if you don't count the coffee that I had this morning which I do have with quite a bit of sugar in it)

Weight: 347.4 Waist: 57 Mood: frustrated and disappointed Breakfast: Vanilla Vega Shake with 1 cup milk Lunch: Mexican Alfredo, 20oz Dr pepper, Reese's Chocolate egg, goody's energy shot Dinner: Pork Chops, mac and cheese Snack: 1.25 L Dr Pepper, Kroger energy shot Notes: fell to the temptation of some energy shots. And drank some soda. Which is frustrating because back in February I went an entire 2 weeks without any caffeine, but now here in March I just cannot break bad habits. I'm sure that now that I have a meal plan going I'll be able to do better.

Weight: 345.8 Waist: Mood: Satisfied Breakfast: none Lunch: Ramen Dinner: Hamburger Velveeta skillet dinner with salsa and sour cream Notes: I finally managed to take inventory of my freezer and make a meal plan for the week. And it is a good thing that I did manage to do so. I just barely had enough for a full week of 14 meals. I have a few more servings of fruit for morning smoothies. I'm debating wither or not to continue the full fruit smoothies. Fruit can be quite expensive. Perhaps I should just have the Vega shakes alone. I forgot to take breakfast this morning. I did start drinking more water. I have long heard that drinking at least a gallon a day will help loose weight. And I have to say that I have been feeling a lot better this evening after I started drinking more, but it probably help with this evening's weigh in. I slept in a bit more than I should have again. I want to start waking up around 5am, but I just haven'

Weight: 344.0 Waist: 56 in Mood: good Breakfast: Taco Bake Lunch: Chocolate vega shake Avocado, Banana, Kale, Orange smoothie. Dinner: Mac and cheese with jalapeno hot dogs Can of fosters Snack: Notes: I am starting the day determined to go without caffeine. That's the whole point of this blog anyway. I didn't start the day today with the glowing attitude that I started yesterday with, but I was still doing pretty good. I finished recording recipe videos. The second Monday of every month I want to upload a video of a recipe that I've came across. I didn't exactly manage to get a weekly meal plan together, but I do have a couple of meals out of the freezer for tomorrow. I did avoid caffeine today. It is a lot easier in customer service where I am literally locked away from the energy shots and had a work day that was too short get get a break.  I am curious as to who is reading these.  I am sharing these to Facebook, but I'm ge

Weight: 347.0 Waist: 57 in Mood: Positive Brunch: Fried Chicken, Flavored water, energy shot Dinner: KC Strip Steak (it was on sale), Knorr Beef Stroganoff noodles Snack: Girl Scout Thin Mints Cookies, 1.25 L Coke, energy shot. Notes: I woke up early this morning, early enough to get a weekly weigh in video done. But I didn't manage to get my fruit smoothie made. I did manage to get a couple of meal servings out of the freezer last night, but they were still frozen when I had to leave for work this morning. So I had fried chicken for lunch today. It's a very cost effective meal, but not very healthy. I am glad that I'll have a meal ready for tomorrow though. And starting tomorrow I'm going to go back to a hard quit on caffeine again. I really can't call this blog series “quitting soda” if I keep drinking soda like I have been. Sure my soda intake has dropped considerably since I started this blog, but I need to just stop altogeth

Weight: 343.0 lbs Waist: 56 in Mood: Toasty Breakfast: none Lunch: Corned Beef Brisket, Mac and cheese Dinner: None Snack: 2L Mt Dew, 2 L Cherry Dr pepper, Gentlemen Jack Notes: Celebrated St. Patrick's day. I don't have any Irish heritage, but I do enjoy Gentleman Jack. I don't get drunk very often, but hey, It's St. Patrick's Day. I didn't eat much today because the corned beef was a whole 3 pound brisket. So I am well fed and glad I'm home because I am not good to drive right now. I am a bit nervous about tomorrow. I work at seven am tomorrow morning I'm not worried about hangover. I have yet to ever get a hangover (that I've noticed) {knock on wood} But tomorrow is going to be my first day back from a weekly vacation and I am scheduled to work at 7am tomorrow. Had another earthquake as I was typing this. It felt like the person next door was celebrating St Patrick's day a little more than they c

Weight: 346.2 lbs Waist:55in Mood:meh Brunch: Eggs, 1.25 L Pepsi Dinner: taco bake Snack: Cheesy Ramen Notes: Kind of slept in this morning so I really didn't get a breakfast, so I just combined breakfast and lunch and had scrambled eggs for brunch. I still didn't manage to get inventory done yet, but what I did manage to do was cook a few new recipes. Not only did I get more recipes cooked I also recorded them for my YouTube channel. The second Monday of each month I want to upload a recipe video. It's been a while since I recorded any new material for this playlist. This vacation has been affecting me mentally. And not in a good way. I need to get up and moving. It's just that I have so much “Don't wanna to.” It's going to get better soon though. I have so many ideas that I want to work on.

Weight: 350.4 lbs Waist: 55 inches Mood: hopeful Breakfast: Avocado, Banana, Kale, Orange, vanilla Vega shake Lunch: Campbell chunky minstrone soup bologna sandwich Dinner:Velveeta skillet dinner, 1.25 Liter Dr Pepper Snack: Taco Johns #8 meal (meat burrito, soft shell taco, tater tots small Dr pepper) Yeah, really didn't do well over the last couple of days on the whole “quitting soda” thing. But I have avoided soda a lot more than I normally would have. But yeah, I had Velveeta dinner tonight because all of my food is frozen. But I'll getting on the meal plan tomorrow. I didn't get the meal's counted out today, I got laundry done, and I was distracted by the Master Chief Collection that I redownloaded for my Xbox 1. But I'm going to get up early tomorrow and (hopefully) get things done.

Quitting Soda Day 4 March 14 2018 Weight: 355.2 Waist: 57in Mood: tired Breakfast: pizza pasta Lunch: Cheesy Ramen Dinner: mac and cheese pork roast Snack: Sandwich, beer I did manage to avoid soda today. But I didn't really pay attention to what I ate today. I did manage to get some recipes together and go to the store. Still need to take inventory and get a meal plan together. I really want to start making progress on this. Gaining 10 lbs in five days is NOT acceptable

Weight: 354.2 Waist: 57in Mood: disappointed Breakfast: Burger King Eggnormus meal with Dr pepper Lunch: KC strip steak and Mac and Cheese Dinner: Nachos Snack: 2 litter Dr pepper, last of the coke I'm going to call this a cheat day. Because I failed hard today. I really didn't get ANYTHING done today. I was doing really well today I was pretty active this morning and afternoon. Than I ran to the store to get dinner. Than I started munching on nachos and drinking Dr pepper. I've just been sitting here at the computer binging on YouTube. The excuse I'm going with is that it is Tuesday and Tuesday is my sabbath, my day off. But the bad thing is that I didn't plan on today being a “Day off” technically I am on vacation. So it is good to take off a day to just sit around not doing anything. But I have so much that I need to get done.

Weight: 349.4 lbs Waist: 55in Mood: good Breakfast: Imperial Garden Sesame Chicken with rice Lunch: Cheesy Ramen Dinner: Slow cooked pot roast with potatoes and mushroom gravy Snacks: Can of Pringles chips. Energy shot. Bologna Sandwich I wonder, does drinking sweet tea count as soda? It is basically caffeinated sugar water. I have been drinking a lot of this gallon sweet tea. And it has been making my teeth hurt. I do admit that I did take an energy shot today. I'm not going to reset the daily count because that's going to get tedious if every time I slip on energy shots or soda I have to reset the count and think of a new title on the blog. I did manage to avoid fast food (for the most part) I still need to take inventory of my freezer to see what food I already have I have been coming up with a list of recipes for grocery shopping tomorrow. I admit that I ate the snack sandwich more because I was bored than because I was hungry

Weight: 348.0 lbs Waist: 55 in Mood: relaxed I don't know if it's daylight savings time change messing with me, but I just could not wake up today. I spent all day at my computer just kind of dozing. I did manage to get quite a bit of the cyberman helmet built. I realize that I am eating a lot of fast food recently. This isn't going to be a regular thing. A friend of mine is in town and we have been eating out a lot this week. I've been having Ice tea with my meals, somehow I don't think that's making much of a difference if I'm going out to eat for almost every meal. Sometime tomorrow or the next day I'll be getting a meal plan together Breakfast: Carl's Bar Boxcar burger (a double bacon cheeseburger with ham) and onion rings with ice tea Lunch: Taco Bake Dinner: Spangles Jalapeno double cheeseburger meal. Snacks: Box of Thin Mints cookies, Sweet tea