My wife and I have been following the Keto way of eating for around a month now and have lost almost 50lbs between us. I'm eating 1 or 2 meals a day, not feeling hungry and have more energy than ever before. I've always been heavy (i'm now the lightest i've been in about 10 years) and ate for the sake of eating. My body was genuinely addicted to carbs and other complex sugars in processed foods. It's not been an easy month as the cravings are still there for things like pasta, bread and chocolate but the benefits are really making it worthwhile. I'm not planning on being on this way of eating long term but would like to think that reducing my meals and portion control that i've learned on it can help me maintain when I switch back to a less restrictive way of eating. Things like a share bar of chocolate would be gone within the day in our house along with big bags of crisps and cans of fizzy juice. Nowadays we've just finished a bar of dark chocolate that we got a month ago to keep the sweet tooth at bay, I'm drinking more diluting juice and water than ever before and haven't touched crisps since. I hope it doesn't come across that I'm trying to preach but the talk of addiction made me think about how addicted me and the mrs were to, not just food but, shite food. It's taken a radical change for us to break that and I'm hoping I can carry the learning on. Does anyone else have any experience of coming off a restrictive diet and going back to a more "normal" way of eating?