I was already doing the exercise program from Go Sleeveless, and I start week 6 tomorrow. After that I plan to do the 'Results Booster' and 'Toning Accelerator' plans, each of which goes for 4 weeks, so they should take me through to the end of the contest.
For my diet I think I will try carb cycling. I got the 'Carb Cycling Basics' ebook by Isaac Wilkins as part of the 12 Days of Fitness in 2008 (if I remember correctly).
I've been trying carb cycling for the last two days, with yesterday being a no-carb day. I had been planning to have some fish for dinner - hoki fillets, steamed with lemon and pepper and garlic, then fried in coconut oil - but my father cooked the most fragrant beef roast. I went into my eating plan and looked at how a swap would work. I had been counting on the low fat and very high protein content of the fish, and in order to get the same protein from the beef I would have to consume too much fat for the day. So I did something foolish. I just got enough beef to equal the calories of the fish, disregarding the ratios of fat to protein. (you have to understand, the whole house smelled delicious from this roast!) I was not hungry when I went to bed (early, because of Earth Hour), but in the middle of the night I woke up ravenous. I was hoping it would be just before dawn, but it was half-past one (!) and I couldn't wait for breakfast; so I got up, went to the kitchen, and ate my first ever midnight snack: half a pear and weetbix with milk. Then I went back upstairs and slept like a baby for another eight hours. I'm counting the calories from the snack as belonging to today's allowance, and I'll certainly be more careful in future about having too little protein on a no-carb day.
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