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Carb-cycling and Countdown to Competition

Alright, what's Nicole doing next??? Well, you gotta keep moving forward to go somewhere right?  My next goal is to move past my mindset that I can eat whatever I want and still maintain my weight. While that's true, I have goals that push me further than where I'm at currently.  In order to do that, I've decided to give the Countdown to Competition track of the 21 Day Fix Extreme a shot. It lasts for 21 days but I'm not stressing out about that. I'm simply taking it one day at a time, and one workout at a time (as Autumn would say!).  This track has the challenger carb-cycle. I have looked into carb cycling before but tracking my macros had always been a little challenging for me and I was looking for something easier. Basically you have two super low carb days and then a re-feed day. This is a day when you are eating more carbs and fruit is added in too. But don't confuse this with a cheat day; meals are still clean and portions are controlled (we don'