The last week of contest prep can be approached in many ways, but generally you do a carb depletion Sun - Wed, then start your carb up coinciding w/ a water depletion from Thurs - Sat. Previous experimentation brought us to the conclusion that plain old white potatos would be my carb up material of choice. So startign on Thurs, I had 2 protein + veggie meals, alternating w/ about 2 oz potato every hour until around dinner time. I checked in w/ my trainer every couple of hours from Fri - Sat to see how I looked and adjust the food intake as needed.
On Fri nite, I was down to just the potatos, had missed 2 feedings already while we were organizing to get to the restaurant - so I'm starving and also worried that I'm not going to fill out enough from lack of carbs. So yea, I went balistic on the lack of potatos once we got to the restaurant.
At this point, I've eaten a religiously clean diet and screwing up my carb-up could've delayed my fill-out and eating any alternatives or something like the "puree'd potatos" they said they had, had the chance that they put something else in the mix besides just plain potato that I wouldn't be able to process, would "back me up" or just plain old make me sick. No f'n way was I going to chance that. And on top of it, I couldn't wait any longer to eat without gettign sick from no food.
So it was rather critical to not screw up 3 months of planning.