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its not my ankle, it's the top of my foot, but where the arch is.. so above the arch if that makes sense. curling my toes upward causes extreme pain

Injured my foot a few days ago at Disneyland.. not sure what I did to injure it, but can't walk or stand very well for more than 5 minutes without some sharp pain, lol. I am angry at my foot today and tried to just pony up and proceed normally, but just made it worse Going to stick to upper body and stay off of it for a bit. On a lighter note, new weights are here! Got the bowflex dumbbels 552, so cool. I'm using 22.5lb - 30lb for now, reps of 8 to 12. for forearms I go with lighter 15lb ones and just rotate my wrists and forearms seated

squats, shoulders, arms, core! I didn't write down how many reps I did total, but I broke a sweat and felt the burn! Also upgrading to interchangeable dumbbells tommorrow, so I no longer have to grip two big metal ones in one hand haha. been eating a lot of avacado, kale, mushrooms, snacking on almonds. I'm addicted to making veggie nori rolls with cucumber, avacado and bell pepper. Haven't had any beans for a few days, might cook some black ones tommorrow maybe in a soup. Mornings I usually have a fruit and veggie smoothie, or a banana apple and almonds.

awesome, man! *highfive*

I get that way with circumcision LOL.

I already watched it last month, remember? lol

Today was more active, did my forearms, shoulders, legs and core/abs. Not a heavy workout, just a few reps of 10 to 20. Enough to feel the burn. Still eating just plants and I feel pretty good.

was very physically lazy today and yesterday, did morning pushups and stretching but otherwise no exercising really. I have noticed today that I fit back into pants that were getting tight around the waist from when I let go for a year.

Ouch! Speedy healing to you. And lol @ rescue hunter pets.

rested thurs, friday I worked my calves and forearms mainly, didn't sleep much last night and have no energy so will pick it back up tommorrow!

Yar, thanks for the forum jump start. Don't want to lose momentum! In hindsight, today should haveh been more of a rest day. Still worn out from the past few days, but once I started I kept going for a bit. Chasing toddlers around in a squatting monster pose did my legs in, though lol. Wednesday Feb 8th! CRUNCHES 50 WEIGHTED SQUATS 10 (yeah by the time I got to these my thighs were done) JACKKNIFE SITUPS 20 (with 30lbs of wriggling human flesh clinging to shins) PUSHUPS 20 10 SHOULDER PRESS 10 5 (30lb dumbbells.. need to downgrade to 20-25lb range for other dumbbell exercises still, will interchangeable weights soon!) CURLS 8 5 TRICEP THINGS 20 LATERAL RAISE 10 QUICK FISTS 120 FOREARM CURLS 20 meal 1 : smoothie and half an oatmeal cookie meal 2: burrito meal 3: veggie pizza w/ daiya mozzerella, which is pretty tasty.

I'm gone less than a week and you lose your thread, lol.

I am alive! Need to remember how to subscribe to a thread. Grats on finding a jogging parter, sort of haha. Beginning to feel the MMO itch, but I don't have time to play much. If I do play it again, I will actually play the game manually.

I am, but it's not emailing me thread updates for some reason. I made a little excel document to keep track of what I'm doing so I can observe improvement easier. First week of February I've been basically doing daily pushups,situps,squats and some dumbell exercises.. starting yesterday, though, I am keeping track with my cheat sheet. TUES FEB 7 PLANK: front 1:20, right side 52 seconds, left side 58 seconds CRUNCHES: 60 SITUPS: 20 WEIGHTED SQUATS: 20 (30lbs of added iron) LEG LIFTS: 20 PUSH UPS: 20 I wanted to do 3 sets of these, but ended up just doing 1.. it was 1am or so and I was tired haha. I also did some shoulder presses, curls, forearm warm-ups and butterflies. meal 1: a smoothie. Had all kinds of good stuff in it. meal 2: had a banana for a snack, then a big bowl of misc. veggies and rice meal 3: made some mushroom potato soup, threw half an avacado in it

Mina has been a very positive influence in my life, so thank you again for that and inviting me to this challenge, my friend! If we meet up some day I will buy you a protein shake. Less pain is good! When you get buff calves it will match your perma-swell.

Tyvm Karen, I would like to continue this journal to keep myself on track. I have not jogged in the past few stays, keeping limber with stretching still and the 30lb dumbells still feel heavy haha. Feels good to be sore.

Yeah I have also regained that ability in the past month lol.

I bet there are tons to go through. I sent the email again, mens medium is my size. Thank you!

Hey Kareno, tyvm for the reminder I thought I sent that email as well, but will re-send it.

Wow, thank you so much! I'm looking forward to reading and being vegan for life!

I just might! Feels good to see improvement doesn't it?! Our bodies are amazing.

Teaching knowledge to others helps reinforce it, sounds like your supplement studies are going very well. I will do my best to keep pestering you about vitamins TUES JAN 31 meal 1: fruit and veggie smoothie and orange, some almonds meal 2: burrito w brown rice and beans, avacado and veggies meal 3: nori rolls with tofu, carrots, cucumber, avacado and cabbage Forgot what else I munched on throughout the day, probably some more almonds and a banana started out focused on my lower body for this day, but also did a shoulder dumbell workout, 30lb weights in reps of 5, which is heavy for me to lift with one arm. I can't do lateral raise/butterflies with this much weight yet so do 15lb for those, I CAN do the deltoid knee bent raise with the 30's, though, and curls and shoulder press. It's difficult but manageable. Started and ended with planks again, did two sets of 20 pushups and 30 situps, 10 squats, then one legged jumping squats which were fun and kicked my ass haha. Got the calves worked out too, they are nice and sore. Also when I am doing curls/forearm/shoulder dumbell reps I remain in a bent leg/squat position as long as I can to get more butt strength. Today my arms are not sore at all, so I think I'll do more upper body dumbells in a little bit, my legs got a nice workout though. Oh, and I found a few pair of boxing gloves in storage yesterday. Going to snag some mouthpieces at the store and pester someone to spar with me for extra cardio. Might end up with a partner twice my bodyweight, which is even more fun! =D

I'll stick with sunlight for now, lol. Thanks for sharing all the info, you sound like a pro!

I was reading about all the health benefits of vitamin D and figured it couldn't hurt, haha. After checking the label of the B-12 I have it is "Nature Made" brand and full of the supposedly useless one that starts with a C. Well shit.. they taste horrible anyway. I'll look for the Meth one next time I go shopping. Thanks a bunch for the health lesson lol , feel free to check my labels anytime!

What did you enjoy most about this online fitness challenge experience? The sense of obligation to upkeep a journal really helped keep me motivated, but the best part was seeing so many other people who are vegan from all walks of fitness post. I lurked the heck out of these forums and got some nice meal ideas, haha. Thanks for hosting this, I will keep up with my exercise routine and push it even further next month!