Intermittent fasting

[Angrboda]

What makes you think we can't get addicted to food? I thought that was a big factor in people becoming obese. Because they eat all the time, even if they're not really hungry, since you don't need to eat constantly to survive. Yet some people do.

Also the ketosis thing does explain why sometimes I'll try to shed some pounds, and drop 8+ in a week, but after that it's a struggle just to drop 1.

Fine. Let me clarify then. There is a difference between unhealthy eating behaviors resulting from psychological addiction to the pleasurable feelings associated with eating and ordinary eating in which one responds to a normal feeling of hunger provoked by the body's need for nutrition. The former may be an addiction, but the latter is not. Since the OP was speaking without qualification, I assume he was speaking about the latter. Do you think that normal eating is an addictive behavior or that it regularly becomes addictive such that a general proscription of fasting with the intent to counteract such addictions is necessary?