Caine
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Just looking back to @Caine 's OP, some suggestions I got from a nutrition pro that really made a difference for me:
Timing of food generally -- eat three meals a day. This one surprised me. I had been eating healthily, but throughout the day, including fruit as a snack, which supposedly would result in an insulin roller coaster. Solution was to abandon even healthy grazing and eat three meals a day.
Timing of carbs -- only in my post workout meal, and that includes no more fruit as a snack during the day. If no training that day, then no high-carb food that day.
Quality of carbs -- good natural stuff with lots of nutrition benefit like sweet potatoes. A serving of fruit is fine. Ezekiel bread mentioned above also fine. Again, only in the post-workout meal. (Half a baked sweet potato topped with some chili may be unconventional but it's good!)
Sleep -- do it.
Sleep is definitely something I struggle with between working at 3:30 AM - 8/9 AM everyday and going to school from 10 AM - 9 PM three days out of the week. My sleep schedule is so irregular that I find it difficult to go directly to sleep when I should most nights.