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Weight: 330.4 lbs ( 149.8 kg) BMI: 42.4 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Keto Paleo Gumbo Dinner: Unshelled Taco Drinks: Salted Coffee with Cream, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Unsweetened Tea Sober Month 7 (Day 232) Keto Week 2 (Day 15) I woke up this morning thinking, “Okay, I have the day off I have plenty of time to do that...thing. What was that thing?” I'm sitting here thinking that there's this one thing that was wanting to do, but my brain is blank. I'm sure that it isn't anything very important, but I'm pretty sure that I'm going to be kicking myself Wednesday (I have Monday and Tuesday off this week) because I didn't get that one thing done. Ended up playing Minecraft and Oblivion for the majority of the day. I really didn't make much progress in either video game. In Minecraft I kept getting lost digging underground and then spend a lot of time trying to dig myself back up to the surface. I was loo...

Weight: 329.6 lbs ( 149.5 kg) BMI: 42.3 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Keto Paleo Gumbo Dinner: Pork Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee with Cream, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull Sober Month 7 (Day 231) Keto Week 1 (Day 14) Okay, spent WAY too much time with the spreadsheets over the last couple of days I used the spreadsheet titled “Full Weight Tracking and Projection” that has weigh in data over the last 10 years to generate an average daily weight. And trust me that I've had to learn to save my work several times over the last couple of days. 2025 looks like it's going to be a fascinating year. This year started with highest weights ever recorded, and if the projection holds true (fingers crossed) it'll have some of the lowest weights recorded. I haven't had a year where I've averaged a weight lower than 330 lbs (150 kg) since 2015 and since 2025 started with such a high weight it's unlikely that the a...

Weight: 331.8 lbs ( 150.5 kg) BMI: 42.6 Waist: 54 in (137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken   Dinner: Rib Eye Drinks: Salted Coffee with Cream, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Sober Month 7 (Day 226) Keto Week 1 (Day 9) I keep getting distracted from writing on this today. I keep staring at the Financial program like something is going to jump out at me. I'm experimenting with a “transfer” into the “Cash” account. I'm going to record an “allowance” that is going to be expressed as a “transfer” into the Cash account each week and as I spend money over the week I'll subtract the amount spent from the transfer for next week. I'm kind of tired to explain the thought process very well, and the attempt went on for way too much of a ramble. I had some ingredients left from the last time I made the Paleo Keto Gumbo  and some other ingredients had digital coupons on them so I took that as a sign to make another batch for the lunch this wee...

Weight: ? lbs ( ? kg) BMI: ? Waist: 53.5 in (135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Zuppa Toscana Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee with Cream, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster, Diet Arizona Lemonade Tea Sober Month 7 (Day 225) Keto Week 1 (Day 8) The batteries on this new scale didn't last very long. Thankfully they are AAA batteries which are pretty cheep, unfortunately I won't be able to afford new batteries for the scale until I do the grocery shopping tomorrow. Something I am concerned about is that there seems to be a strange corrosion all over the batteries that were in the scale. And it seems to have infected the springs in the battery container..hole..I'm not sure the name for the area where the batteries go, but I am kind of surprised to see actual coil springs in modern technology. I'm really hoping that I don't have to buy another scale so soon after buying this one. There will be a couple of days where I can't weigh in fo...

Weight: 331.0 lbs ( 150.1 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm) WtHr: 74.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Zuppa Toscana   Dinner: Grilled Ham Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee with Cream, Kroger Seltzer, Sugar Free Monster Sober Month 7 (Day 222) Keto Day 5 I just said some bad words.  I forgot to post yesterday as I had gotten distracted by an idea of a new spreadsheet. I was going to stack up the data from one of them to get an idea of what an average weight per day was and maybe get a projection of the future weights. I had worked on that spreadsheet for the better part of two days...without saving. I really need to start remembering to save projects. I had all three original spreadsheets and the Daily Blog open and they all decided to crash just scrapping the data from the last two days. I'm going to pass on making that new spreadsheet it was just coming out as just a bunch of noisy data and the graphs on that spreadsheet just didn't want to work out. I'll just stick wi...

Weight: 330.4 lbs ( 149.9 kg) BMI: 42.4 Waist: 54.5 in (138.4 cm) WtHr: 73.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Pizza Soup   Dinner: Chuck Roast Mushroom Gravy Drinks: Salted Coffee with Cream, Kroger Seltzer, Powerade Zero Orange Sober Month 7 (Day 220) Keto Day 3 Woke up with some itchy fingers this morning. Not in the greedy sort of way, but in the something bit me kind of way. There's a bright red spot on the base of my thumb and on the top of my right pointer finger whenever I wash my hands. Over the day the level of itch was low enough that it wasn't really that distracting. But if I was standing around not doing anything I would catch myself picking at my finger. Kind of surprised to see the weight progress over the last couple of days. Almost seems to be back on track. There's been a bit of a weight loss plateau over the last couple of months. Not sure if that's because I'm not following the diet as well as I would have liked, or some other issue. Yes...

Weight: 331.4 lbs ( 150.3 kg) BMI: 42.5 Waist: 54.5 in (138.4 cm) WtHr: 73.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs Lunch: Baked Chicken   Dinner: Baked Boneless Rib Eye Drinks: Salted Coffee with Cream, Kroger Seltzer Sober Month 7 (Day 219) Keto Day 2 Spent all day yesterday playing Minecraft. Spent a lot of time of it just respawning. Getting started in that game is pretty brutal. Thankfully one of the Mods Roommate installed was “Tombstones” where when your character is killed it leaves a tombstone where all of your in game items are stored and when you respawn you're given a note showing the coordinates of where all of your items are. The frustration there was another Mod that Roommate installed was for a specific enemy mob that would be swarms of this wizard that you're supposedly supposed to find the “real” one, but there will be swarms of clones running around attacking you. So I would go looking to find my last tombstone, and run into another swarm of wizards and end up droppi...