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Weight: 322.3 lbs ( 146.2 kg) BMI: 41.4 Waist: 54.0 in ( 137.2 cm) WtHr: 73% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: Fathead Lasagna https://youtu.be/Bd4KXuuh9yw Dinner:  Bratwurst Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 407) Keto Day 1 (24/365 Days 2026 Keto) Scale and waist is both up for the day, but not by much. Annoyed that the numbers are above the start of the year so all of the projections are showing up. At least the weight is still under the average for the year so far. The apartment complexes around here all have metal roofs (odd spelling on the word roofs, you'd think that it'd be “rooves”) so as it's starting to get above freezing outside and the snow starts melting on top of the roof the snow slides off in a kind of avalanche. So this morning I was sitting here listening to videos and then hear a “Slooumph” as snow and ice slides off of the building. It keeps sounding like something fell down, but...

Weight: 321.3 lbs ( 145.7 kg) BMI: 41.2 Waist: 53.5 in ( 135.9 cm) WtHr: 72.3% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Snack: Mozzarella Cheese Sticks Lunch: X Dinner: Pork Steak Fried in flour, Homemade Bread Dressing Snack: Kroger Sour Cream Cheddar Potato Chips Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sugar Free Red Bull, Dr Pepper Zero Sugar Sober Year 1 (Day 406) Keto Day 0 (23/365 Days 2026 Keto) Yeah, that's the direction that I'm wanting the scale to go in. I'm a little annoyed at the tape measure, but fluctuations happen. I was going to do a couple of video shorts while Roommate was at his appointment, but I needed to run by Walmart to grab a Blue T-shirt as I have been wanting to do some political opinion videos with me wearing Red, White, And Blue shirts to represent various opinions that I am wanting to mock. But strangely when I went by Walmart there weren't any just plain blue T-shirts. I did come by some darker blue s...

Weight: 322.9 lbs ( 146.5 kg) BMI: 41.5 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs https://youtu.be/l5bQ0Y0FXWQ Lunch: AI Pizza Casserole with Garlic Cream Sauce Dinner: Strip Steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 405) Keto Day 6 (23/365 Days 2026 Keto) Was just about to make an early post, but then the writing program decided to crash and wiped out everything I wrote, and took out all of the spreadsheets as well. So I'll have to try to rewrite everything that I had written before. I really need to learn to save more often. Thankfully I had put the weight for the day into my phone's health tracking app. And it is kind of exciting to lose 5 lbs (-2.3 kg) in one day. Not sure if that's going to happen very often, but I'll take it when it does. I did the grocery shopping for the day today as I'm planning on doing laundry tomorrow. It's still strange to use the debit card to pay for groceries. ...

Weight: 327.9 lbs ( 148.7 kg) BMI: 42.1 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Lunch: AI Pizza Casserole with Garlic Cream Sauce Dinner: Pork steak Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 404) Keto Day 5 (22/365 Days 2026 Keto) The nerd in me is chuckling at the number of days sober. Error 404 is what you get if a website is broken or if you type in a website address wrong. Weight's been tracking up in the last couple of days. More than a bit annoyed by that. Chat GPT says that it's just water weight from the Spaghetti I ate Tuesday. But it's just that I was 4lbs (1.8 kg) away from one of the major goals and then, oops never mind weight goes back up again. The AI is saying that the waist staying the same is a good sign and what I should focus on while the weight goes up and down. The first half of the day was quite quiet. Not a lot of people out after the “great blizzard of '26”. The roads are snow-p...

Weight: 325.1 lbs ( 147.5 kg) BMI: 41.7 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs   Snack: Johnsonville Jalapeno Cheddar Sausages Lunch: AI Pizza Casserole with Garlic Cream Sauce Dinner: Basic Chili   Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 403) Keto Day 4 (21/365 Days 2026 Keto) Rushed post as I was closing cashier this evening. I got off at 10pm, but it takes a while to recover from working. I set up the chili before heading off to work. I took my lunch with me to work today as the snow finally came in and it looks like we did get several inches (about a couple dozen centimeters ). I was scheduled to work 2pm to 10pm but I left for work quite early to give plenty of time to drive through the snowy roads. I was being careful driving to work, but other drivers were irritating me as I was being careful, however other drivers seemed to be fearful. The speed limit is 30 mph (48 kph) on most streets on the way to w...

Weight: 322.6 lbs ( 146.3 kg) BMI: 41.4 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Pork Steak and Eggs Lunch: AI Pizza Casserole with Garlic Cream Sauce Dinner: Bacon Cheeseburger Soup https://youtu.be/YAlxm-rdAe8 Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 402) Keto Day 3 (20/365 Days 2026 Keto) It is kind of strange to wake up “disappointed” at the weight being at 322.6 lbs (146.3 kg) Was able to cook the pork "steak" chunk this morning. It took a while to cook because there was a lot of fat in that chunk and it didn't feel like it was cooked properly. And to be honest there was a lot of it that was under-cooked.  I'm not sure if it's a good idea to eat pork steak medium rare, but that's what breakfast was this morning.  Today was a runner. Feet feel considerably better with the new shoes. Left heel is still a little sore when I'm not careful walking around. But at least I'm not limping and screwing up my bac...

Weight: 320.0 lbs ( 145.1 kg) BMI: 41.1 Waist: 53 in ( 134.6 cm) WtHr: 71.6% Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs cooked in butter Lunch: AI Pizza Casserole with Garlic Cream Sauce Dinner: Bratwursts Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster, Sober Year 1 (Day 401) Keto Day 2 (19/365 Days 2026 Keto) I was going to go buy new shoes before work this morning. But I was scheduled to work 10:30 to 7:30 and slept in a bit this morning. I was able to finish eating the bacon and eggs for breakfast, but I wasn't able to finish the coffee. This morning I was planning on cooking a pork steak for breakfast as when I was doing the meal planning for the week I noticed that one of the pork "steaks" was the kind of knobby end of the pork butt that I had cut into steaks. But when I got it out of the fridge it was still frozen from Tuesday. I should be glad that the fridge is keeping things cold, but I had already melted the butter in the pan in preparation for the steak. So I jus...