I pretty much eat similar to DP diet all year round, but with more fats in solid meals and more carbs peri-workout. So when I began the diet, I dropped about 75g of carbs and about 50g fat per day from my off season diet, so about 750cal less, that only would have been enough to make a difference.

When I started, the first day, I was a bit hungry, I even woke up in the night because too hungry, on the second day, I was not hungry anymore, I was feeling normal.

Now I just dropped the carbs and some fat (I replaced the milk I was having with shakes with 50g avocado, so from 18g to 7g fat) and I feel hungry since yesterday (so 2 days in a row), last night I woke-up hungry again.

From how I actually feel, it's going to work well for this week IMO.

For beef, I'm eating steaks and was eating ground beef 2-3 times a week, but I dropped it since the batch I have seems high in fat. Now I introduced bison also, about twice a week.

Yes I'm very meticulous and use a scale. Been doing this for a long time.

As far as the cheat meal, I do not go overboard, I eat until I'm satisfied and it doesn't take long, I'm not used to eat bad, so if I do too much I feel sick. To give an idea, a cheat meal for me is a few (5-6) organic cookies (the size of oreos) and a portion of home made sweet potatoes fries shape bake in oven with some coconut oil, the size of a medium fries at McDo, those have been 2 of my last cheat meals.

Last cheat meal was the biggest one, 52g pro, 40g fat and 140g carbs, so 1128cal.

Eric