Has anyone had any success switching things around in Phase I. I think I would be less likely to cheat if I brought my protein to eat at work at lunchtime. Then I wouldn't be tempted to put other stuff with it. I am having a hard time giving up mayo.

Each coach is definitely different, but mine told me that as long as I eat everything on the sheet I could eat it whenever I want. I have been having my protein at lunch and a packet w/ veggies for dinner since I started. I may switch it back around if I don't see good losses, but I'm so hungry at lunch.

GO FOR IT! I usually have about 1/4 of my protein at lunch, the rest at dinner. It helps me get through the afternoon, which sometimes seems like a long stretch without a snack... I have a bit of steak, chicken (whatever I had for dinner the night before) on a spinach salad with other veggies and oil/vinegar dressing.

Yup! I switch things around all the time depending on what is going on in my life. Most days I eat my protein at lunch and my restricted for dinner. In both instances, I have a large salad because that is how I like to get my veggies in.

However, sometimes on the weekend we will go out to eat, so I will save my protein for dinner and have a packet with lunch.

Also, if you were going to go out to breakfast one morning, you could do your protein for breakfast and get a veggie omlette and then do packets for lunch and dinner.

It doesn't really matter when you eat your protein, as long as you are following the protocol, it can be at bfast, lunch or dinner. Make it work for your schedule.

Personally, I like having my protein at lunch, especially during the work week because I feel like I am having a substantial lunch and I workout in the morning, so I am more hungry for lunch than I am for dinner.

I fairly consistently had the protein at lunch in phase 1.
If you skim Dr Tran's book, you might find the passage where the protein at dinner was more based on having a social meal to help stay on the diet than on any particular scientific reason.

By Phase 4, the "heavier" meal between lunch and dinner is really lunch, the typical meal that includes fats but no carbs. So, in a way, you would be practicing.

I never felt it impacted weight loss.

I switch up my protein times all the time! I generally have about 1/2 or my protein at lunch, then 1/2 at dinner. Also, I usually push my second packet of the day to dinner time.

I'm a bartender, though, so when I work 6pm-3am, it's usually pretty difficult to get dinner in. Then I usually turn my other half of my protein into something easy like a hardboiled egg, or take a restricted and eat it then. Or I may just eat all 8oz of protein right before work, so I'm not usually too hungry while working.

My work and college schedule doesn't allow for a lot of consistency in my food eating times, and what kinds of food I eat.

I just started switching up this week and I am WAY happier. I do 1/2 of my protein for lunch and 1/2 with dinner. I then have my lunch packet as an afternoon "snack" and I am able to make it until dinner. That saves my snack packet for an after dinner dessert (which I missed bfore). So far, this has been a good approach for me.

Have you considered making your own mayo and redistributing your other fats/proteins around so that you are not exceeding the plan's limitations but you are getting your mayo in? Really, mayo is just eggs, vinegar and oil. You get one or two "freebie" egg whites a day, so maybe use those in your mayo format, and use your oil allotment for the day in the mayo, and reduce your protein a bit to make up for the egg yolk. Just a thought...

Have you every tried vegginase. It tastes just like mayo and the one made with grape seed oil gets all it fat from the oil with is approved on IP. Then as said earlier you can cut back on the oil you use at other parts of the day.