I have successfully used the ketogenic diet (low-carb, moderate-fat and high-protein) diet to lose loads of weight in the past. When I am in this way of eating, then I also find myself hitting the gym and training hard 5 to 6 days a week and push myself quite a bit. During this phase (which is the longest has lasted over 8 months), I am generally in an elevated mood.

Whenever I break the routine and start eating junk or normal carby food, then I give up on exercise and don't work-out either. And it's the complete opposite, I just give up on exercise and don't bother at all and become sedentary, binge eat, binge drink, binge watch tv and lie in bed all the time I am at home and am depressed.

It's like my mind telling me, you have anyway eaten junk, what is the point in exercising now? might as well lie in bed and chill.

Whereas, when I have eaten clean (in a ketogenic diet), then my mind telling me, go to the gym and train as this will now maximise results, which is what I do.

This totally puzzles me and the near and dear ones around me. I am like this "All or nothing" person, cannot ever do anything in moderation or half-baked. I go all the way through, whatever it may be I get involved in.

Likewise, if I am drinking alcohol, I find it hard to stop with 2 or 3 drinks when I having a slight-buzz and having a good time. I drink hard and late into the night/early morning. And then during the ketogenic diet phase, I can go up to 8 months without drinking any alcohol at all. It's like I don't crave or need it, I could live without it forever.

Now one may ask, why then not stick to the keto way of eating forever? I have tried and had to break due to various external pressures one of which, the more recent one was due to being unable to sit down as a family for a meal. Wife and son aren't keto and son is a fussy eater and it was getting complicated that I was eating different and my wife and him were eating different and it was confusing him.

So, I decided to go back to 'normal' way of eating and consuming everything in moderation and BANG, 6 months later, here I am 50 lbs heavier and depressed to have everything that I worked so hard in achieving physically.

Are any of you here like this? and struggle to strike a balance in the normal way of eating? like All or nothing kind of person ?