My apartment setup.
For my friends I did a video to show my friends how I have my apartment setup, because I did some changes to the living room and the bedroom. Here is the video
An updated picture of before and After
Posting a new updated before and after picture. First one was taken in 2021, the second picture Just this last weekend.
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Today is the 1 year anniversery of the start of my weight loss journy
March 31, 2022 was the day I hit 300 pounds and decided to loss weight, today I weigh in at 135 pounds. To date I have lost 165 pounds. My goal still remains 125 pounds, so I only have 10 more pounds to go. I feel so much better, later on I will post a before and a current photo.
Meal prep for the week
Today I did some meal preping for this week. Cooking both in slow cookers.
First dish, is a ham and veggie soup contianing
Ham
Potatos
Celery
Spinish
Carrots
Onions
Veggie Stock
With the amount of stuff and what I put in it, the whole slow cooker has about 1200 cals in it, this should make enouph for serveral meals. I put it on tonight so it will be ready for lunch tomorrow.
Next on the Menu that I preped A Chicken Curry
1 pound of Skinless Chicken Breast
Onion
Celery
Potato
Curry paste
With those ingrediants the whole slow cooker pot has about 1800 cals in it. Again several meals in there, I figure I can steam up 1/8 cup of rice (the rice I have says 1/4 cup is 160 cals) I will be putting this on tomorrow morning when I wake up so it will be ready for dinner tomorrow.
I am thinking I can get 4 to 5 days of food out of these 2 slow cookers pots.
Man I love slow cookers, they make cooking a large amount of food at once, that gives you a good meal and lots of left overs to enjoy over a period of days.
Weight loss continues
Today I did my daily steping on the scale this morning, it read 140 now. So since I started my diet last March, I have lost a total of 160 pounds, and only 15 more pounds to go, till I can start working on keeping the weight off. But I been feeling a lot better since I have lost all this weight.
Weight loss continues
Today, when I did my morning weight in my scale read 143 pounds, so to date I have lost 157 pounds. And now I have only 18 more pounds to go.
My Backup internet.
In the past I have used a 4G T-Mobile hotspot, that was costing me about 50 a month for 10GB of data. But for that same 50 I could get T-Mobiles home internet. So I cancled the hotspot line and added the Home Internet for my backup internet. First they say there is no data cap like my 4g hotspot and it is 5G instead of 4G. I have tested it, my old 4G hotpost would only get to about 40 or 50 Mbit on speed tests, the 5g gets between 150 to 200 Mbit. So while my main internet (Verizon) is 1Gbit and works well, there are times when any ISP does go down, and it nice to have a backup internet. My router has both a WAN1 and WAN2 port, and can be setup for fail over. The router will auto switch over from the main internet to the failover internet within 30 seconds of the main internet going down.
I did not really expect to test it out so soon, but on Friday I did loss connection to my main internet, but I did not notice till I looked over to my router and saw the WAN1 port not flashing, while the WAN2 port was flashing. So it nice to know that it works so well I did not notice it till I looked at the router and saw the backup internet activity light was going off. This saved me from having to go into the office when my internet went down, I was able to continue to work from home since the backup internet picked right up with no problem (I went though 6GB in the time till the router switched back over, that would have taken 60% of my data on my old 4G hotspot if I had stayed on it, and it would have cut my productivity down since it would not have had the speed to do what I needed it to do)
So for the same price, I get a much better backup internet.
Just setup a local Plex server
So in my journy of cutting the cable. I just setup a Plex server for my local network. I have a lot of mp3 still that I ripped from my CD years ago. Now I wonder if I can rip my DVD to the Plex server, not to replace them but to have them accessable faster over my local network.
Cancled my Cable TV (again)
For about 3 years I have had Cable TV (FiOS) but I been considering getting rid of it to save some money. About a week ago Verizon sent out a notice that they were raising the rates. So that put me over the line of considering it to pulling the trigger. For TV here what I have setup now. First years ago I signed up for google music, now defunct but google moved the subscription to youtube and they had the deal for as long as you keep the subscription you keep the intro price, so I have youtube premium. I also had Funimation and Crunchy roll even when I had the cable. To replace the cable, I picked up an indoor antenna (can not do an outside one as I live in an apartment) and it can pick up 11 local channels. I also picked up a Tablo Over the Air(OTA) DVR. Next I picked up a subscription to Sling Blue, and T-Mobile gave me a year of Parimount Plus.
To go with those subscriptions, I have a good sized DVD/BlueRay collection of both general shows/movies, and anima. I also still have my old VHS deck and my old VHS tapes, to watch too.
Along with all of those, I do enjoy watching twitch.
All in all, instead of having to pay more per month on the cable TV, I will be cutting my TV bill by 50 (this is after the free year of paramont plus is over, so for the first year it will be more saved)
Also over on the core cutting subredit, someone suggested pluto tv (a free service) and they have shows I would like to watch too. So I will not be with out TV entertaiment if I want. Plus since I play video games, read Sci-Fi books (have a nice sized collection) and Menga (I also have a good sized collection of this too) I should not be left wanting any entertainment. I also have other hobbies I can do, for other down time activities.
Along with all of this, since I have amazon prime for the shipping, they also throw in Prime Video, as service I have never used, but that option is also there for more shows/movies to watch.
Nice thing on the Tablo OTA DVR, I can access it over the netwrok so all 3 of my TVs can pull in the OTA TV via my home network, so I just plugged the attanna into the DVR, and plug it into my network and all 3 TVs have OTA TV via the Tablo app on my TVs.
Hit a big milestone on my weight loss yesterday
Yesterday was a major milestone in my weight loss journy. As of yesterday I weigh half the weight I was when I started my weight loss journy. I have lost 150 pounds, and now weight 150 pounds. I still have only 25 more pounds to go till I reach my goal and then the journy really begins as once I get to 125 the journy to keep it off starts.
Images of my weight loss journey
Before
While i am still working on weight loss. This is what i look like now
The weight loss journy continues
Today I hit an important mile stone on my weight lost journy. Today I hit 154 pounds, why is this number an important one, it is because given my hight of 5 foot 6, that puts me at a BMI of 24.9, or stated otherwise I am no longer medicly over weight now, I hit the normal weight for my hight. My goal is still 125 pounds so I have 29 more pounds to go. But I am no longer over weight medicly. It been a long journy so far, as I started out at 300 pounds. So to date I have lost 146 pounds.
Tired of the incompantancy of bge
Well last night we had the monthy power failer from bge, I am so tired of the constant power failures. Yet another device of mine has been damaged beause of it. I call and complain constantly about the constant power failures yet they don’t seem to care one bit. I hate that I live in a region that has power worse then most 3rd world nations.
Last week work sent me to training for Angular
First about a month ago where I work sent me to training for React, at that time after class I wrote up a a web site for my streaming stuff. While I did get it up, I was not fully happy with it, I don’t like the language of React it felt clunky and I don’t like how you have to put the HTML code inside the ES code area. Well last week they sent me to training in Angular. One thing I really liked was that the HTML and ES code are split between the files, so the code does not get ugly. So I fully rewrote the site in Angular. True there is more code then the React version, it a lot cleaner looking and more readable. And it feels it will be easier to update and implent more features for the site in the future, and it will be easy to add it to the site.
While I still prefure a language in the C family, between React and Angular I much more prefur Angular over React.
Weight lost journy continues
Well as of today, I weighed in at 175 pounds, so as of today I have lost 125 pounds in this indever. I still have 21 pounds till I reach my goal. I will also say medicly once I loss another 25 pounds I will TECHNICLY no longer be over weight (according to the NIH for the US I should be between 114 to 154 pounds to be a healthy weight. I am only 5 foot 6 inch.)
Yesterday I tried on a pair of 36″ waist pants and while they were a bit tight, they did fit.
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