Just an update for today. After 7 days in I am now down 15.8 pounds. From my maintaining/losing weight experiments on the way down I have learned it's possible (at least for me) during the day to have a couple large, stomach filling salads with ranch and a couple cans of soup and even a couple 12 oz cans of tuna fish in water and still lose weight (pound a day). With those I am also drinking anywhere from a gallon to a gallon and a half of water every day. Not really sure why that 8 oz of steak per day only was causing a weight gain. That's not logical since it's only about 500 calories. Does not make any sense.