Current status: obsessed

I've become quite fixated on this low carb diet I'm doing. There seems to be a stage on every diet where I become absolutely obsessed with reading everything I can about it, reading online forums, planning meals, and calculating my potential weight loss. It's like I'm completely uninterested in anything else, which has made it fairly easy to stay on plan, but I'm also worried it will burn itself out too quickly.

We also have to go out for lunch on Saturday at a meat based restaurant (good for the diet) at their "endless French fries" brunch (not good for the diet). Hopefully I'll be strong enough to refuse. Part of my anxiety about refusing, to be honest, is the scrutiny it will inevitably draw from my dining companions. I HATE disclosing to people I'm on a diet. The idea that someone knows I want to lose weight is horrifying to me. The idea that I will lose weight is, although welcome, in some ways also terrifying because then PEOPLE MIGHT NOTICE IT. Honestly, that idea makes me shudder. I do desperately want to lose a significant amount of weight, but I want everyone around me not to notice it happen. Too much to ask?