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When couples have conflicting histories with food restriction and fasting

My partner and I both want to try a month-long intermittent fasting protocol but we have completely different relationships with food restriction - mine comes from diet culture trauma and theirs from athletic training. We keep triggering each other's stuff around control and discipline.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Different personal histories with restriction create incompatible approaches to what should be shared practice.

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“Where Are You with Fasting — all traditions and the evidence?”

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