So I was forced to take a bit of a break on my exercising this week. I worked out Tuesday and then Wednesday afternoon I started having a gout attack that got really bad into Wednesday evening in my ankle, blowing it up and making me unable to put weight on it. It was pretty excruciating pain, if anyone ever had gout before would know. High uric acid levels in my blood is hereditary from my father's side of the family. I've been dealing with it for quite awhile now, essentially I just limit my beer and red meat intake and consume lots of water with a daily cherry tart pill (natural anti-inflammatory). It works, however, since I started my diet/exercise I've had a few minor attacks before this major one. So to go back to the problem with a 1k daily calorie diet, I'm definitely not getting the nutrition I need, specifically vitamin C which I need with fiber to help keep gout attacks down. So I had been thinking about this for awhile, but always forgot when at the store to get a daily multivitamin. I finally got some, and vitamin C specifically, and went hard on that Thursday which cleared up the gout by last night. Wasn't until today I got back to working out. My ankle is still swollen but doesn't hurt at all. Did my work out, no issues today. I kept my diet though while not working out so I think that alone is shredding some weight. I say that, because today, I have officially become too small around the waist for my belt. AKA, the last belt buckle is too loose and I need a new one, along with new pants/shorts as they are all ridiculously too big. I tried on and was able to fit into a bunch of my old Iron Maiden shirts that I had decommed because I was too big for them. I'm really happy about that. Thinking for progpower, I will wear 4 different Iron Maiden shirts that I was unable to fit into until just this week. (actually 3, one I just bought last weekend and I might have fucked up buying an XL (better than the XXL I was buying) since a L might just have fit fine)