My experience is exactly the same. A couple of points: 1) I don't think of this as a diet any longer. a) What I was eating before was crazy. No cooked food, all processed food or restaurant food with a sugar soda (usually coke). In retrospect, this is an INSANE way to eat. All this does is push your hormone feedback loops to crazy levels the way cocaine must because your body is going crazy from the high sugar and high starch levels at each meal. b) Eating home cooked food once a day with little to no sugars and starches now seems like a normal way to live. I cannot even fathom this being something i am trying. It's just the way I eat. 2) One exception, I'm stuck behind a computer all day long. I have no idea what I will crave if I start excercising. So, I could be full of shit and lying to my self. 3) The tea thing is pure lazyness. I used to have it hot with monkfruit sweetener. Then I started making a huge pot of it because I got tired of making it 8 times a day and let it sit on the counter so I can refill all day long and make it only a few times a day. Again, sweetened with monkfruit for my tastes, but I found out that I CANNOT drink water at room temperature at all. I don't know what it is, water has to be dead cold. Sweetened tea at room temp? No problem, it tastes "round" to me, cold water tastes "sharp". Then I ran out of Lakonta monkfruit sweetener and I have been drinking just plain room temp tea without sweetener the last month or so because I was too lazyto buysome. I now only make like one bigger pot of tea for the whole day, I don't even drink much all day long. I literally stumbled into this by accident after I discovered cooking as a replacement for fast food and tea as a replacement for pop.