Weight loss continues! Hoping to see <220 before June 11th (when I started dieting at 291.6lbs). Still even if I say I'm only 6'1 now, i'm only overweight with a BMI of 29.2 (>29.9 is obese). To be fair, I still feel like I've got a belly, but it's weird fitting into 36" waist jeans. At my heaviest, I was wearing 44's
Honestly, I wasn't expecting such a low weigh-in today (was 222.9 yesterday), but I think because I took it a little easy the last couple of days, my body let go of the water it retains when I'm training harder. AND, I've been eating sourdough bread. Yay!
Enough of the weight loss crud! Lets talk truck stuff.
This week, I rotated my truck tires (including the 5th wheel spare). Because I added a cast iron rear diff cover, I can jack up the rear axle via the rear diff and drop the rear axle down onto jack stands easily. Then, I jack up via the frame behind each front tire separately as I move tires around. I have a nice wide driveway, a cordless heavy duty 1/2" Dewalt impact wrench gun, and a good floorjack. I bet it takes me half the time to rotate tires myself versus driving to the tire shop and sitting in the waiting room, and I know the tires were rotated correctly. The nice thing with my Ford Ranger, after you drive a couple miles the computer automatically updates the tire locations so when I'm on the tire pressure screen, the tire pressures are accurate, no need to update the truck's computer manually. For weight reasons, I run my rear tires at 39-40psi, and the fronts at 35-36psi, so I use the onboard air compressor on the truck to fix that after rotating too. Something the shops won't do.
I also changed the oil, but I didn't bother changing the oil filter for the first time. I'm changing the oil every 5,000 miles (earlier than needed) and I'm using Mobil 1 oil filters rated for 20,000 miles. On the Ranger, you have to remove the driver side tire and remove some of the wheel well flap to get to the sideways mounted oil filter. When you remove the filter, it always leaks some oil. There's even a drip tray for that, but I can't use it properly anymore after adding a skid plate to protect my transmission transfer case. That skid plate also has some wing extensions so the crackheads can't steal my catalytic convertor with a sawzall. So because I can't use the drip tray, I have to use paper towels to catch the drips, and it's even more of a PITA. I figure if the filter is good for 20,000 miles, I can safely leave it on for 2-3 oil changes (up to 15,000 miles).
In the truck bed camper area, I also upgraded some usb charging outlets to new ones that include usb c . Usb C charges faster than the old USA A outlets, and the usb C plugs go in either way. These still have a USB A slot for my older gadgets. https://a.co/d/00buJZGS Easy change out.
First two bags for my kitchen drawer are complete. See left image below. I already had a bag for my induction burner, but as you can see the drawer will look way cleaner with everything in bags
First bag is what I'll call my Eat bag. Likely to get the most use. It holds everything I need to reheat or eat my food, but not stuff I need for proper meal prepping/cooking.
In theory, I could have made my Eat bag into two separate bags, but I'm planning ahead for when I'm hanging bags on the rear bumper swing arm. Attaching the lower bag holding the plates, bowls, cups means it'll take up less room horizontally when I hang stuff on the rear bump arms. Should have photos of that by next Sunday. I'm hoping I can hang my eat, cooking, and spices bags side by side on the tire arm.
Inside my Eat bag, I did re-use the pvc railings and post sleeves to help keep the cutlery organized and separated. Lots of riveting to the aluminum framing I adding to the inside of the bag. I'm probably going to add some of the smaller pvc railing pieces in the lower tray of the upper bag too. For longer knives and scissors and stuff. For the upper row, I back-cut them at a 60 degree angle, so I'm not storing forks, spoons knives straight up and down. I didn't want them blocked by the top of the bag
the plate, bowl, cup/mug lower bag is open at the top when hanging open, but it inverts and threatens to dump everything out when I fold up the bag to put it away in the drawer. So I added extra straps to keep stuff from spilling out, but I'm not 100% sure they're needed, I can cut them off in the future if I end up not needing them. I also sewed the black mesh front panel on so I can put them in wet after washing. I figure they can air dry in the bag. I may also add a couple half inch grommets in the bottom to let excess water drain. In retrospect I should have probably made then entire lower part of the bag out of mesh, maybe I'll do that in the future.
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