Sleepy and adjusting to that, feeling good and ready for a workout though

I should be less sleepy after minor prescription medication’s increase that should subside within a week and it’s impacting my workout schedule. Days are shorter and I like to go to the workout facility before dark, but I can still make it down there today maybe. I definitely can do a couple exercises including the handstands and gluteus medius work. It’s not ideal but I can can some training done. I think I am responding well to training. I can see increases in my muscularity in my shoulders and arms, but it’s subjective of course.

A calorie surplus is at 250-450 daily, which is too much, but that’s ‘on paper’. A lot of times during consumption of a pure plant based diet, the actual calories consumed turns out to be a few hundred less, and it’s not clear why. Tracking is pretty strict, especially with the highest percentage calorie items such as whole wheat pasta and black beans. The discrepancy is apparent through reconciliation with weight change over a pretty long time, such as three months. Weight gain in the past 3-5 weeks has been about 4 pounds, which is too fast, but the 250-450 surplus.

There is some benefit to a slow weight gain, or hyper-caloric state during strength training, but a big goal for me is not to let the waist size creep too far.