I was thinking the same as Karen. Actually, your Fat Fast Day 2 was way off as well. For the study to be meaningful, ALL participants must be following the program exactly as outlined. There are a few other members who are planning to do their own version of this regimen, but will keep track in their own journal in the Bootcamp section instead of "officially" joining. There are a few things you could do.

The study is open to new participants until midnight Wednesday 23 August. So, if you like, you can take a day or two to "regroup", learn exactly how the Study is to be carried out, and then restart officially at Day 1 by Wednesday ..

I suggest that you PRINT out the instructions in the thread titled "Sticky: The Low Carb Project v.1.2" .. http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthre...&threadid=16104 ... How to do that????? At the bottom of every single thread of messages, you'll see " Show a Printable Version" next to a printer icon. That will give you a neat page, minus all the pictures and ads and stuff ... Then, click on "File" at the top left corner of your browser window. Select "Print ..." and away you go.

It would be a good idea for you to ALSO print out the "Stillman (lean protein) recipes" thread .. http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthre...&threadid=15937 .. and the "Fat Fast recipes" thread .. http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthre...&threadid=15934 .. As well, keep your eye on those topics, as I have no doubt that more recipes and ideas will be appearing over time.

OR .......

You may choose to follow along at your own pace and not be officially in the Study. There are a number of other members who have chosen to do that. If you like, we can move your journal that you've started here into the Bootcamp forum under "J", and you can journal away to your heart's content ..

I think that journalling is a good idea for you Joe, as it's already proving helpful for you and others to see some areas where changes could be made. This is such a bad time for you, with your kitchen reno. going on ... and this Study regimen really, really requires planning .... and a lot of advance preparation work. There's no way that I could do the Fat Fast day correctly without writing out a menu in advance. Folks need to do that for themselves, since not everybody has the same food likes and dislikes, and some folks are choosing to not eat dairy fats and heavy cream.

So, think about what you'd like to do .... it's very simple to move your journal to the Bootcamp forum, and then you can follow along at your own pace.

All the best to you,

Doreen