day: four

second rest day. i was overly tired this morning. after waking up and making my breakfast, i ended up going back to bed until almost 12:30. i just couldn't pull myself out of bed. i'm not sure if it was from the workout, the diet, or both. i missed my 10 o'clock meal, but i don't think i burned my first two meals off in time anyway since i was sleeping.

when i got home, i began looking into ways to tweak my nutition plan. i went back to the book and began reading the nutrition section and comparing it with the sample meals. i feel as if i might have mis-stepped myself when starting this plan. i was having WAY too many carbs. the first two weeks are supposed to have a significant drop in carbohydrates in order to level off insulin levels and jump start the fat burning. it's not a no carb, but it's supposed to be around 25-40 carbs per day.

essentially, i scrapped my previous meal plans and started over from the 2 week plan in the book. slightly less calories and carbohydrates, more healthy fats, and a bit less protein. tomorrow, i'm going to start this new plan and continue it until october 20 in order to correctly get my body burning fat and building muscle.

i don't look at the first four days as a loss, but more as an easing of my body into the nutrition change.

for the next two weeks, i'm going to be extremely strict on following the above plan, i want to make sure things start correctly this time :)