Day 4

Gah! Another day of 5 hour sleep. Why, body? Why! Haha it’s okay, I feel alive and ready to get the day started. The only difficult task to do on rest days like these is to NOT WORK OUT. I’m so used to waking up this early and going straight to the gym, but I’m going to use the next thirty minutes or so to read some MCAT stuff.

Woke up: 117.4 lbs

Meal 1

3 oz of Turkey Sausage

1 cup of Baby Spinach

Since today is a rest day, meal 1 doesn’t get any carbs. It’s okay, I can do this! Any who, I’m off to work with a cup of coffee and I’m anticipating meal 2’s arrival!

So meal 2 was a little late as far as it being 3-5 hours post meal 1. I had meal 2 nearly around 1130AM which was about 6 hours after meal 1. I wasn’t very hungry anyway, but I’ll be honest it’s very hard to eat food that early in the morning without getting some stares from some co-workers.

3 oz. of chicken

2 oz of broccoli

15g of Cashews

(Totally forgot to put my carbs in😭)

Don’t fret though, I made sure to distribute the carbs in my remaining meals. Quite frankly, I’m amazed I forgot the most important and delicious part of every meal! Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaarbs!

I don’t have any pictures for meal 3 because the instant I got home from work, I raided the kitchen and got the quickest thing I could eat. Knowing days like these may come, I made sure not to have any junk food in the apartment. I made myself a peanut butter toast and a bowl of Greek yogurt, which covered a bit of my carb from meal 1, and then the carbs, protein and fats from this meal.

113.5g of Greek Yogurt

1 piece of whole wheat bread

1 tbsp of peanut butter

For those of you that are getting acclimated with the RP Diet: I know RP recommends to stay away from dairy products (or foods not on the template) if you want dieting to be a breeze, but you can totally do it if you put in the math work. All you have to do is count all the macros listed on the nutrition fact label! Thus, the Greek yogurt I ate covered the protein I’m allowed for my meal 3 and the additional 5g carbscovered a portion of the carbs I was supposed to consume in the previous meal. I still had 10g carbs so that was added on a later meal! This brings me to meal 4.

3 oz of ground beef

1 cup of baby spinach

1 multi grain wrap

20g of white rice

Because I didn’t time my carbs adequately, I had the most absurd sugar craving an hour after meal 4. I don’t know why but I couldn’t stop thinking about ice cream!! Fortunately, I still had meal 5 – my casein “mud” that I literally adore. So that helped with my sugar craving ! 🤗🙏🏽

Meal 5

20g of Casein

1 tbsp of peanut butter

That’s it for today! Not too many meal pictures today. Sorry!