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EARLY ON
If your body loses weight the first no-carb day, continue on until through you complete the next no-carb day. Then, if you've lost weight two days in a row, and you're about to go lower than 2 lbs from your LIW, you'll need to proceed with upping your carbs and calories (but not before then!). If you're losing weight the first two days, but you aren't in danger of going 2 lbs below your LIW, it stands to reason that your body is adjusting itself to get back there, and you should ...

RE-INTRODUCTION SCHEDULE
The first two days will have absolutely NO carbs in them. Then, you'll slooowwwlllyyy work in carbs after that.

+The Correction Day
+Post-Correction Day 1: NO CARBS
+Post-Correction Day 2: NO CARBS
+Post-Correction Day 3: 1-3% carbs
+Post-Correction Day 4: 1-3% carbs
+Post-Correction Day 5: 3-5% carbs
+Post-Correction Day 6: 3-5% carbs
+Post-Correction Day 7: 5-7% carbs
+Post-Correction Day 8: 5-7% carbs ...

NO CARBOHYDRATES EATEN THE FIRST TWO DAYS
In this Post-Correction Day strategy, calories from fat grams will always need to be higher than calories from protein grams, and calories from protein grams will always need to be higher than calories from carbohydrate grams. Keep this in mind as you use a tracker.

LISTING OF RATIOS AND THE ORDER OF IMPORTANCE
Note: many trackers display their ratios in the order of fat/carbs/protein. So don't get this mixed up with your order ...

TRANSITIONING TO NO-CARB EATING
For some people, eating no carbs at all is quite a switch. When I first did this, on the first day, I could feel my stomach increasing its acid to break down the fat and protein in my meals. As someone who has healed 6 peptic (that's "stomach") ulcers in her life, with two of them requiring hospitalization to do so, it was somewhat of a "uh oh" moment for me to feel the acid level in my stomach rising. Thing is, if I'd taken an antacid, ...

THE IDEAL RATIO
In the beginning you will need to keep your calories from fat highest (58-65%), with no carbs eaten (0%), and then some calories from protein (42-35%). This is the Ideal Ratio.

So when you start to re-introduce carbs after the first two days, the percentages of calories from fat grams and from protein grams will decrease slightly, because carbs will be taking up a little room in your diet previously filled by some fat and some protein calories. BUT, remember: ...

HOW MANY CALORIES TO EAT AT EACH MEAL
Once you've calculated your Post-Correction Day Daily Caloric Limit, which is your new calorie limit, you'll also need to calculate how many calories (a percentage) of your total calories will be eaten at each meal. In short, it's eating very little in the morning, more at lunch, much more at an afternoon snack, then easing back at dinner.

Breakfast will be lowest, because you want to not flood it with calories in the morning. This is ...

HOW TO CALCULATE YOUR NEW DAILY CALORIC LIMIT
My previous calorie load that I'd been stabilizing at just fine during the first week of P3 was 1900 to 2000 calories. That was before I ate too late, ate WAY to much protein, and didn't drink enough water and caffeine -- it was a bad day. That's why I gained, and had to do a correction day. Unfortunately, I chose to do a Steak Day first, and it was a disaster. But, the good news: out of that horrible day, and my body's seemingly endless quest ...

WHY I NO LONGER DO STEAK DAYS
Because a Steak Day (SD) requires someone to starve themselves all day until dinner, there will always be the potential for that person to get stuck in starvation mode. This can range anywhere from one day afterwards to a couple weeks afterwards. Or, potentially longer.

On the Steak Day I did during this round, I lost very little, then gained back double the next day -- the same pattern my body had when I did a Steak Day in my last round. This ...

I lost exactly what I needed to lose to be back at my LIW -- an amazing 2.6 lbs!!! I've discovered how others may be able to use this correction day method, known as the "Chicken Thigh Day" (or, "CTD" for short). A Steak Day (SD) didn't work for me; I lost only .8 lbs, then gained back double that amount the very next day. So I wound up searching for an alternative to doing another Steak Day, and searched the web for answers. Someone else invented the Chicken Thigh Day; they ...