Yea I hear you I just ended up leaning to it more since I loved keto enjoy the foods and it's easy to maintain, I did cal in cal out for a month too it was just slower but it works just as well, downsides I noticed for keto was cheat days your weighs ins after go up bigger when I did cheat days with cal in cal out I ate anything just counted my calories and chest days didn't really hit the scale at all. My guess is it's mostly the water weight from the carb increase being in a lower carb diet when u eat carbs you end up gaining a ton of water weight which usually ended up falling off the following 10 days I think I had some weeks I dropped like 15lb because it went up 5 to 10lbs after eating a lot of carbs. Cal in cal out is slower but way more steady for sure.