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When intermittent fasting becomes obsessive eating control

I started intermittent fasting to lose weight but now I feel like I cannot eat without calculating hours and I am terrified of breaking my eating window even when I am genuinely hungry.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A weight loss tool has transformed into a rigid system of control that overrides natural hunger signals and creates anxiety around normal eating.

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