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Sassy69
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That's what I was going to say -- I'd need to go back into my notes & check at what point I switched from a consistent (same meal plan each day with the exception of a post-workout shake) diet to carb-rotation for competition. This "carb rotation" involved not cycling through high / med / low days of carbs where the total cals changes based on high / med / low carbs, but rather the same total cals was kept but the content of those cals changed on a cycle - as carbs were removed on med & low days, the same amount of cals were replaced w/ fats.
I did this at the midpoint of a 16 week prep period. As I got closer I also did things like replace my oatmeal serving + protein mix in the mornign with just the protein mix, so more carbs were dropped there as well. And also remember that cardio is probably going to go up and your strength in general is going to drop. But this far out don't cut cals so that when you make the changes closer, you haven't already stalled out and to increase or decrease will only screw up your schedule to hit your date.
I did this at the midpoint of a 16 week prep period. As I got closer I also did things like replace my oatmeal serving + protein mix in the mornign with just the protein mix, so more carbs were dropped there as well. And also remember that cardio is probably going to go up and your strength in general is going to drop. But this far out don't cut cals so that when you make the changes closer, you haven't already stalled out and to increase or decrease will only screw up your schedule to hit your date.
... still reading a ton just to try to understand what I should have when and why... 
