Super low energy throughout the day. Took a half-a-day at work (I’ll work the hours over the weekend to make up for this). Normally I feel invigorated after every meal I have, but now I just haven’t experienced that the last two or three days. I’m thinking sleep is the main culprit but if this state persists after a good night’s sleep, and if my gym performance continues to be less than expected, I’ll be doing a carb refeed.
If I can, I’d like to hold off such a refeed until Monday, as Sunday is just an active recovery day and I don’t see tremendous value in having extra carbs after my workout tomorrow. That way, I’d hopefully be feeling better intra-day during Monday and have some extra energy come Tuesday’s workout.
I think I’ll follow @danteism’s suggestion to me,
Another idea would be to have some extra carbs Sunday before bed, say 50-100 grams, to aid with sleep and then the remaining 200-250 grams on Monday (some added into my peri-workout nutrition and some in the pre-bed snack maybe - once again, to aid with sleep).
Why am I being so wary of a refeed? Well, primarily because I’m not that many weeks into this diet, this is the 4th week, and I don’t want to get into the habit of adopting the mindset “ugh, feel bad - best eat” as that seems as if it might be a hard habit to break, and I think I should be leaner before refeeds become a frequent/recurring thing.
Having had the body fat stores that I had, I will always have plenty of fat cells that are ready to be filled back up again, and so I have to be a bit more restrictive with how I approach eating in general, I think.
I enjoy weighing, planning, and just having a generally structured approach to both aspects of this (leaning out, gaining mass) as I enjoy the tinkering, the experimentation, and the optimization aspects - but I also want to train myself to intuitively make good choices for the times when I don’t have a scale, when I don’t have the benefit of relying on someone else’s experience, when I’m travelling, etc. so I need to be mindful of how I make my decisions.