I have been dieting, successfully, most of my life. I say diet but really it was just my lifestyle. I would exercise 5-7 days a week and kept a strict low calorie diet. All of that changed slightly when I got married and then drastically when I had two children only 15 months apart. I gained 60 lbs. by the end of my second pregnancy and that child is now 15 months old. I am still active 5 days a week but my diet was awful. Maybe not awful but not as strict as I was and not as strict as I was comfortable being. The best “side effect” of the diet has been a complete sense of well being on my “normal eating” days. I did not realize until I started this diet, four weeks ago,how stressful it was to me when my meal didn’t happen as I had planned. Now if it doesn’t work out I don’t stress about it and that is such a relief. I used to become anxious if I could not have my planned meal. I have also lost 9 lbs. in four weeks so I will keep going. But even when the weight loss slows down, and I know it will, the benefit of no anxiety about what I eat has been a godsend to me. I will be eating this way for life. I didn’t know if anyone else experienced this unexpected, at least to me, side effect.