Cat wants nothing more than to beat Matt McKinney at the annual science fair in the spring. They have both signed up for a rigorous Special Topics in Research Science class and it the class itself is legendary. Cat and Matt used to be friends, until the science fair in seventh grade, when Matt stabbed Cat in the heart and she has never forgiven him.
Cat's 7-month long research project is to research the effects a hominin diet can have on a modern homo sapien. Cat determines to eschew all modern conveniences like TV, cell phones, and cars (with a few logical exceptions--after dark, for safety purposes), and to begin eating a diet as close as possible to what hominins would have eaten. Cat goes from a diet that consisted mainly of Diet Coke and junk food to a cleaner, mostly vegetarian diet and adds daily walking to and from school and work to her routine. The only people who know about the details of her experiment are her parents, her best friend, Amanda, and her teacher, Mr. Fizer.
Over the course of her experiment, the weight starts to drop off, but Cat still thinks about herself as "Fat Cat". When boys she has never really spoken to start to pay attention to the new Cat, she adds another dimension to her experiment--how do guys react to the new Cat?
Through it all, Amanda (and her boyfriend Jordan) are supportive of Cat--but Jordan doesn't know the truth behind the animosity between Cat and Matt. And the animosity keeps growing....
Will Cat beat Matt? Will they ever be friends again?
Loved this book!! Cat had some great points with her research. I have often wished that I enjoyed cooking enough to attempt to eat a more "clean" diet like the one Cat follows....maybe one of these days it'll happen. In the meantime, I'll be running off my meals. :)
Happy Reading!!
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